On the pain of death

Antjie Krog gave the keynote address at the Goethe-Institut's Über(W)unden Art in Troubled Times conference. This is an extract.

Horrors of life and power of art explored

Über(W)unden -- Art in Troubled Times explores the relationship between suffering and healing and the arts, writes Lien Heidenreich.

Questions of connection

Percy Zvomuya talks to Antjie Krog about King Moshoeshoe, belonging and whether the English language can carry the burden of South African experience.

Civil society: Arts and culture

Gwen Ansell, Ntsiki Biyela, Lucilla Booyzen, Simphiwe Dana, Marianne Fassler, Harriet Gavshon, Linda Givon, Nadine Gordimer and more ...

San, Bushmen or Basarwa: What's in a name?

A reader wrote to object to the Mail & Guardian's usage of the term "Bushmen" for Southern Africa's first people. Kobus Faasen quoted at length from a Dutch dictionary published in 1902, which said the word meant "one who lives in the bushes" but had also been applied to apes, particularly the orangutan.

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