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Setting the scene: Dancers, choreographed by Luyanda Sidiya, in Dancing the Death Drill. Photos: Joburg Theatre

Dancing the Death Drill: A Resurrection of forgotten spirits

Dancing the Death Drill is more than theatre — it is a resurrection, a requiem and a haunting reminder of forgotten African history

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Joburg Theatre Presents the Stage Adaptation of Fred Khumalo’s  Dancing the Death Drill, Coming This September.

Joburg Theatre proudly announces its latest theatrical triumph, a stirring adaptation of Fred Khumalo’s acclaimed novel, brought to life by a stellar South African creative team.…

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Farewell to Azania’s everyman literary icon Don Mattera

The poet, writer, artist and activist, who made rubbish of race, left his mark on all aspects of our lives

Written and published under 50 days, the Corona Chronicles feature the work of more than 40 contributors. (Melinda Books)

Writers on lockdown

Melinda Ferguson has gathered essays and stories from 40-plus contributors for Corona Chronicles

The various components of the books value chain — spanning writers, publishers, printers, booksellers and distributors — are having to get by using the digital sphere.

How a pandemic took the book industry online

Writers, publishers and bookshops are trying to keep afloat during the extended lockdown with digital and virtual offerings

Siphiwo Mahala – author of Red Apple Dreams & Other Stories – with his grandmother, Shinana Thembani, whom he describes as ‘an exceptional storyteller‘. (Supplied)

History begins in her stories

Like the tales told by my grandmother, the short story invites us to take part in its telling

Khumalo uses fictional characters to illuminate a real, historical situation

New vision of a historical moment

The reader navigates themes such as migration, black masculinity, displacement, aspirations, racial identity and sexuality

Khumalo uses fictional characters to illuminate a real, historical situation

New vision of a historical moment

The reader navigates themes such as migration, black masculinity, displacement, aspirations, racial identity and sexuality before wokeness

Masterful: Fred Khumalo’s new collection of short stories in ‘Talk of the Town’ explore African identity politics, xenophobia and criminality, among other things. (Madelene Cronjé/M&G)

Blowtorch prose hits the spot

Filled with great skill and craftsmanship, Fred Khumalo’s short stories are exceptional

It is no accident that the majority of South Africans are black and poor; it will still take many years for this to change.

No ‘darkie’ sarcasm in the class struggle

Race still defines our social classes, and remains the elephant in the room, writes Fred Khumalo.

President Nelson Mandela elevated Jean-Yves Ollivier to the grade of Grand Officer of the Order of Good Hope for his peacemaking efforts.

Angola’s Ollivier: He sold cereals, then he sold peace

The war in Angola was disrupting Jean-Yves Ollivier’s life, so he took steps to put an end to it.

Arsenal of bloggers

Fred Khumalo has proudly evolved from dinosaur to blogger. He shares some insights into the blogosphere that he discovered at the recent Highway Africa conference at Rhodes…

From typewriter to blog

Fred Khumalo reminisces about the good old days of typewriters and wonders he should bow to pressure to start his own blog. <

Roberts’ book disappoints

Suresh Roberts’ latest book falls flat on its face and becomes an angry racial, ideological, personal invective against those who might have crossed the president’s path, writes…

Abusing media freedom

The proposed amendments to the Film and Publications Act have created an impression, and justifiably so, that government is trying to sneak censorship in through the back door,…

Power to the Zulu Press

Fred Khumalo takes us back to the days when a journalist could expect a hiding for working for the ‘wrong’ Zulu newspaper at the wrong time. He tracks the development of Zulu…