‘At Fire Hour’ is a mix of reality and reimagined reality of art and culture during apartheid
In January 1900, a young Russian officer, Yevgeny Avgustus, ‘galvanised by the daring of the Boers to take on imperial Britain’, set off to fight in the Second Boer War. A…
The The Red on the Rainbow is a story many South Africans can relate to as it asks the hard questions of where the rainbow is
‘These Are Not Gentle People’ is an account, by Andrew Harding, the BBC correspondent in South Africa, of a murder in Parys, in the Free State, and what happened next. This…
Saidiya Hartmanilluminates the perspectives of young Black women through a vividly cinematic narrative where we are positioned to view the world through their eyes.
Tsepo Gumbi’s photographs bring a more complex view of a place that has been so singularly defined as to be unknowable
‘Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues’ is published by Tafelberg. This is an excerpt from the book
A novel inspired by Arab Spring activists is brutally honest about what happened — and what keeps happening
A nationalistic, gangster political faction is ready to feed off the crisis created by social inequality
The nation must be delivered from its captors and every citizen has a role to play this Freedom Day
Mxolisi Dukwana ready to topple Ace Magashule’s house of cards at the Zondo commission
Friday’s sitting of the Zondo commission comes amid increased scrutiny of the ANC’s secretary general
Adam Habib reveals the pitfalls of the political chess game that students were playing when they called for free, decolonised education.
Those referred to as "the far-left" in the Wits vice-chancellor’s book raise concerns about its ethics and its implications for academic freedom
And universities in the Eastern Cape have not taken up the challenge of creating knowledge centres to produce solutions
As the US bids farewell to former US President George H.W. Bush, in Africa he is remembered most for his failed bid to stabilise Somalia
The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales
Women, celebrate achievements besides those of marrying and having babies
The American author and journalist was known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing developed in the 1960s and 1970s
A shooting rampage against African migrants in central Italy unveiled the extent to which the debate about migration in Italy is shaped by racism.
