Sandile Ngidi

The woman often remembered only as the wife of ANC president JL Dube was a music arranger, the cofounder of ‘Ilanga lase Natal’ and a creative pioneer

The talented novelist Nthikeng Mohlele’s debut short-story collection lacks the vitality that makes short stories magical

How can a puppet become a symbol of independence? In the hands of this superb collaboration that restages JM Coetzee’s novel for our turbulent times

With a rich plot full of surprises, Joanne Joseph’s debbut novel is bound together by a poetic turn of phrase

A list compiled by Sandile Ngidi

Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?

Very little is known of the late guitarist, who was a keeper of a stark and foreboding maskandi sound

A genre of distinctive, regional styles, Sandile Ngidi selects a list of some of its most influential players

When we rebel and part ways with the barbarism of the apartheid and the democratic state, we will keep the memory of this historic event alive for current and future generations

After pioneering ‘truth cinema’ and at least 40 documentary films later, British director and producer Dick Fontaine has settled in Durban

Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence

Pleiades: Isilimela, the latest poetry collection by Vusi Mchunu — who writes under his clan name, Macingwane — is a deeply personal meditation