A provocative poster by the People Against Race Classification (PARC) ignites a fierce debate on social media, challenging ...

Tyla, a rising South African singer with one of this year’s biggest hits, is known as coloured in her homeland, a term that is widely used to describe people of mixed heritage.

Generations of activists, cadres and civic leaders placed their hopes in the Freedom Charter, seeing in it a roadmap to liberation. But even as it was being drafted, apartheid’s machinery was already ...

"Coloured" (again, with a u), was legally defined as a racial classification during South Africa's apartheid, which lasted from 1948 until the early '90s.

Latest figures show South Africa’s white population is on a steady decline. And it’s not just emigration that’s behind it.

Israel and South Africa’s Jewish communities have a long and ambiguous history of entanglement with race politics. There were admirable moments in this history.