Story of a renaissance man

Zake Mda’s many interests are reflected in this mix of integrity, vanity, irony and satire.

Writers: Penned in or breaking out?

This year has particular significance for Africa’s connection with the written word. Percy Zvomuya reports.

On authorship and originality: A response

Such striking similarities between two books can’t simply be a case of intertextuality.

A charge disputed

Zakes Mda rebuts Stephen Gray’s reports of plagiarism.

A charge disputed

After Stephen Gray savaged me in the pages of the Mail & Guardian a few weeks ago, I immediately responded, thanks to the new age of blogs.

Copy rites and wrongs

After examining the most spectacular instance of the fine line between creativity and cribbing in SA literature, Stephen Gray writes about Zakes Mda.

Uncovering relations between place and space

Shaun de Waal on non-fiction that examines South African senses of space.

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