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Magashe Titus Mafolo: A natural and an original South African intellectual. Photo: Kagisho Mafolo

A Tribute to Magashe Titus Mafolo

How I experienced Bro Ti: A natural and an original South African intellectual

President Cyril Ramaphosa.(@PresidencyZA/X)

The President and the Pulpit: What does a social compact even mean?

What constitutes national identity has to be understood against the ways that the social compact in South Africa contrasts with that of Western political theory

School of hard knocks: Jazz drummer Gontse Makhene has a debut album in the pipeline. Photo: Solomon Moremong

A phoenix from the ashes

Jazz percussionist Gontse Makhene is rebuilding his life after a devastating blaze at his home

The urine affair: race reflections through the Stellenbosch incident

Furthermore, each time a black person speaks openly about race it is mistaken for a confrontation. Perhaps black people themselves are not socialised to be confrontational…

Lewis Nkosi at the Drum offices (BAHA/Africamediaonline)

Lewis Nkosi: The physical bearer of the offending word

In his lifetime, Lewis Nkosi arguably saw little effort in terms of intense engagement with his controversial critical inputs. In a review of a new anthology, Unathi Slasha tries…

A negotiation: Nakhane, pictured in their garden in London in October, 2021. (Photos: Nakhane)

Nakhane: ‘Why do they care so much?’

The artist Nakhane is fatigued by the idea that lifestyle choices are ‘other people’s business’

Samuel Fosso. ‘Untitled’ (Kwame Nkrumah) from the series ‘African Spirits’, 2008. Photo. rue du Port (tunnel). Fosso’s participation in neuf-3 was made possible in partnership with the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. (Photo: Gustavo Gelmini, © Riason Naidoo.)

The Portfolio: ‘neuf-3’ — a public art project in Saint-Denis, Paris

The ‘neuf-3’ art project, curated by Riason Naidoo, aims to pay tribute to the African communities of Saint-Denis — and of Paris

A prolific vocalist, Moonga K’s discography takes in R&B, rock and pop. (Rod Taylor/www.rodtaylor.co.za)

Wild seed, wild solace: Moonga K finds his footing

Born in Zambia and raised in Botswana, the songwriter’s career is coming into full bloom in South Africa

We cannot reform ourselves out of the times we are in

To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being…

Engulfed: The Tendele coal mine is on the Somkhele residents’ doorstep. (Delwyn Verasamy)
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Racism in the Cape Town yoga community: One instructor’s story

‘The unrepentant violence of white ignorance has consequences for people of colour that are continually overlooked,’ writes Kopano Maroga

Barack Obama waves as rain falls during a rally for his first presidential term

Eight years of Obama through Coates

The voice of America’s racial conscience has some words regarding Barack Obama’s tenure

Voice of reason: Raoul Peck’s documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ is a portrait of author James Baldwin and his place in race politics and resistance in the turbulent 1960s in the US.

Black, white and Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negro review

Put together from notes, video clips and interviews, the new film narrates America and its dynamics

Voice of reason: Raoul Peck’s documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ is a portrait of author James Baldwin and his place in race politics and resistance in the turbulent 1960s in the US. (Ralph Gatti, AFP)

Baldwin a witness to history

Put together from notes, video clips and interviews, the new film narrates America and its dynamics

Students who enrol next year for the Bachelor of Education degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal will be taught the bulk of their courses in isiZulu

The Lists: James Baldwin and SA jazz icons Abdullah Ibrahim and Moses Molelekwa

The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and contributor Mandisa Mbelu

US lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy

The National Civil Rights Museum sits in what was the Lorraine Motel, just beyond the shadows of Memphis’s skyscrapers and the garish neon glow of Beale Street — the main drag…

How to vanquish literary giants

Take one historic event, add a famous political activist and make it on to the Booker Prize shortlist. Mohsin Hamid speaks to Decca Aitkenhead about his second novel.