South Africa’s most beloved troubadour on new music, staying rooted in Mamelodi and why peace is worth singing about
South African artists keep dying poor while their work enriches others. The Copyright Amendment Bill could finally change that – if it ever becomes law
Does Putin fully understand its own reasons for its incursion into Ukraine – or does he just not care?
‘Soweto Tea Party’ is a children’s book that tells the story of Dr Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s childhood, growing up with a father under house arrest
The challenges we face in the world of scholarly and leisure reading and writing are not unique to our country but it is crucial to overcome them if we want to be as good as we…
Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels
The history of clubbing in Jo’burg is less about physical space and fading memories, but about the sheer, frightful necessity of dancing
In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches
Siphiwo Mahala talks about his fascination with the 1950s writer and journalist
David Goldblatt has left South African documentary photography incalculably richer, writes Niren Tolsi
The M&G Literary Festival will consider Nadine Gordimer’s notion ‘Being here: in a particular time and place.’
It was 1988, Salman Rushdie had been ‘disinvited’ from the Weekly Mail Book Week and SA literature giants were at loggerheads, recalls Anton Harber.
Gordimer wrote: ‘Vusi Mahlasela sings like a bird does, in total response to being alive. He is a national treasure.’ She was like a mother to him.
Nadine Gordimer asks and answers "the questions journalists don’t ask".
Ilse Wilson, the daughter of Communist Party stalwart Bram Fischer, remembers the era of ‘Burger’s Daughter’ and other times spent with its author.
The past might be another country, but for more than 90 years Gordimer lived in South Africa – and wrote of it with piercing insight.
Nadine Gordimer’s death was a sucker punch for writer and poet Tiisetso Makube.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o pays tribute in prose and poetry to a great African.
Mongane Wally Serote credits Gordimer for influencing his development as a writer while M&G books ed Darryl Accone recalls a rare book she gave him.
Nadine Gordimer observed our convoluted society with a precise and prescient eye and did much to shape our understanding of it, writes David Medalie.
