Behind JM Coetzee, the writer lauded for his ‘wonderfully brave, bold mind’ , is John Coetzee, the quiet man
If we are to make sense of the present and plan for the future we must understand our past, and so we must preserve our records
Technology is not necessarily the panacea it’s said to be, de-skilling further the under-skilled
Many revered Essop as a beloved teacher of English before he clashed with the apartheid authorities and was barred from teaching
1994 set us on the path to freedom, but much must still be fixed and new problems await us
April 27 1994 set us on the path to freedom; but much must still be undone – and new problems await us
South Africans must fight against those who try to encroach on our hard-won freedoms
Violence and abuse, particularly of women, needs to go beyond expecting the state to end it
The dangerous re-ethnicisation of SA politics must be stopped lest it lead to the same ethnonationalism that caused bloodshed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia
Judging her by long-held patriarchal standards only exposes our society’s misogynistic gaze