Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
nat nakasalatest news & developments
Words: Among SA’s celebrated people is activist, academic and writer Charlotte Maxeke

OPINION| Black writers and publishers are South Africa’s ‘linguistic orphans’

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…

Nat Nakasa’s memorial service on September 11 2014 in Chesterville.

Nat Nakasa, ‘rest well my brother’

Fifty years after Nat Nakasa’s simple funeral in New York, the legendary journalist has been brought home to a memorial service fit for a dignitary.

Hundreds attend Nat Nakasa memorial

Scores of people have arrived at Durban’s city hall for the memorial of anti-apartheid journalist Nat Nakasa, whose remains arrived in SA last month.

Remembering Nat Nakasa

Nat Nakasa, who died in 1965, was one of those who were ground down by the alienation of exile. A friend recalls the time.

Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa’s remains touched down in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday afternoon.

‘Welcome back home’ – The return of Nat Nakasa

Family members, compatriots and government officials have welcomed the return of the remains of exiled journalist Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa.

Five good reads on Nat Nakasa

As the body of South African anti-apartheid journalist Nat Nakasa makes its way home, we remember him in five pieces of writing.

Nat Nakasa: Writing to the beat of a different drum

As Nat Nakasa’s exiled remains head for South Africa’s shores, Tiisetso Makube ponders the journalist’s literary contribution.

Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa’s remains touched down in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday afternoon.

Nat Nakasa remains to be returned to SA

Minister Nathi Mthethwa has reportedly said that a US court has granted SA permission to exhume anti-apartheid journalist Nat Nakasa’s body.

Boxed into dead-end despair

Biography of Nat Nakasa provides an incomplete picture of the maverick Durban-born writer who killed himself in New York at the tender age of 28.

Nat Nakasa: Boxed into dead-end despair

The biography of Nat Nakasa provides an incomplete picture of the maverick Durban-born writer who killed himself in New York at the tender age of 28.

Max Du Preez scoops Nat Nakasa Award

Three decades of journalism by Max Du Preez was recognised on Saturday when he was awarded the prestigious Nat Nakasa Award for fearless writing.