Mark Gevisser was The Nation’s Southern Africa correspondent for many years. His latest book is The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers.
The city and its landscape would not exist were it not for many violations against nature.
The massacre of striking miners marked a tipping point, with the African National Congress moving closer to becoming just another party in power, rather than a liberation movement.
Nothing in modern times has symbolized the scourge of racism–and the potential for overcoming it–more than South Africa’s recent history.