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Book Extracts

Extract: Trying to grasp something unfathomable
Friday
/ 16 July 2020

Extract: Trying to grasp something unfathomable

In ‘A Map to the Door of No Return’ Dionne Brand reads VS Naipaul as a sorrowfully spiteful narrator, full of the despair of exile

By Dionne Brand
You gotta be the morning aftertaste
Article
/ 22 November 2019

You gotta be the morning aftertaste

Drug user, and later dealer, Fig lives in Yeoville in the mid-1990s. Not a novel for the faint-hearted

By Graeme Feltham
On always being the other
Article
/ 13 September 2019

On always being the other

For Asian South Africans it’s difficult to find our way between two different cultures

By Ming Cheau and Lin 1
The doctor and his ‘subversive surgery’
Article
/ 1 June 2018

The doctor and his ‘subversive surgery’

‘Chota Motala: A Biography of Political Activism in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands’ recounts the doctor’s role in shaping politics

By Staff Reporter
Liberation politics from the excluded
Article
/ 17 March 2017

Liberation politics from the excluded

Here is an edited extract from Michael Neocosmos’ book Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics (Wits University Press)

By Staff Reporter
Uproot, plant seeds of change
Article
/ 3 March 2017

Uproot, plant seeds of change

An edited extract from South Africa’s Corporatised Liberation — A critical analysis of the ANC in power (Jacana) by Dale T McKinley.

By Dale T McKinley
Book extract: Bedknobs and Broomsticks – a dossier of credible lies
Analysis
/ 4 November 2016

Book extract: Bedknobs and Broomsticks – a dossier of credible lies

Edited extract from ‘Rogue: The Inside Story of Sars’s Elite Crime-busting Unit’, by Johann van Loggerenberg with Adrian Lackay..

By Staff Reporter
​Phiyega’s war on Booysen led to an unlikely – and surprising – alliance with McBride
Analysis
/ 15 September 2016

​Phiyega’s war on Booysen led to an unlikely – and surprising – alliance with McBride

Initially suspicious, the major general discovered another side to the tenacious IPID director — which in turn would lead to McBride’s suspension

By Staff Reporter
Born-free to fight Biko’s war
Article
/ 24 April 2014

Born-free to fight Biko’s war

Liberation Diaries, which brings together essays by 50 South Africans, is billed as ‘the state of the nation address, by the people’. Here’s a sample.

By Staff Reporter
Book extract: After apartheid comes ordinary
Article
/ 24 May 2013

Book extract: After apartheid comes ordinary

Achmat Dangor re-examines the ‘struggle years’ and their aftermath in a brand new collection of short stories, Strange Pilgrimages.

By Dangor Guest
Book extract: Workers know what oppresses them
Article
/ 28 September 2012

Book extract: Workers know what oppresses them

Michael Burawoy and Karl Von Holdt’s "Conversations with Bourdieu: The Johannesburg Moment" examines ways to structure power.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 9 March 2012

Language and life in the time of darkness

Nadine Gordimer charts South Africa’s journey into an uncertain landscape in her new novel. We publish two extracts from the novel.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 14 October 2011

How Diederick Kleynhans found his (mis)fortune in the big city

On the 60th anniversary of Herman Charles
Bosman’s death, we publish ‘Homecoming’
from <i>The ­Complete Voorkamer Stories</i>.

By Staff Reporter
Book extract: Tutu’s voice vital for humanity
Article
/ 7 October 2011

Book extract: Tutu’s voice vital for humanity

His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about Archbishop Desmond Tutu in this edited extract from <i>Tutu: The Authorised Portrait</i>.

By Staff Reporter

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