Author: Dougie Oakes

RAMAPHOSA’S DUTY: DELIVER OR GET OUT The contents of the first two volumes of the Zondo report – its investigation

FIGHTING THE PASS LAWS In 1952, South Africa’s apartheid National Party government promulgated the Natives’ Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination

There are no secrets in sport – especially in South African sport when racial politics are involved. So, when rumours

WHEN POLICEMEN HID IN TREES TO CATCH MIXED-RACE COUPLES HAVING SEX In 1949, a lone communist rose up in Parliament

GUNS AND POOR WHITEISM In the end it was guns in white hands that proved decisive in a long, brutal

‘WHEN AFRICANS WERE BETTER FARMERS THAN EUROPEANS’ In many ways, white attitudes towards their African neighbours were shaped by a

Rhodesian-born Hugh Page played cricket for Transvaal during the days of apartheid and rebel tours. He played when white cricket

In the beginning, the plan was that Afrikaner lecturers would turn students at the University College of the Western Cape

Cricket – like all sport in this country – belongs to all people in this country. And the sooner white

‘My issue is that cricket is inherently not a black man’s game in South Africa’ – Daryll Cullinan – August