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Extract: ‘These Are Not Gentle people’ by Andrew Harding

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‘These Are Not Gentle People’ is an account, by Andrew Harding, the BBC correspondent in South Africa, of a murder in Parys, in the Free State, and what happened next. This extract is the book’s first chapter
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Inside the circle: A review of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

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Saidiya Hartmanilluminates the perspectives of young Black women through a vividly cinematic narrative where we are positioned to view the world through their eyes.
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Sharpeville is much more than the site of a massacre

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Tsepo Gumbi’s photographs bring a more complex view of a place that has been so singularly defined as to be unknowable
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​The night McBride and friends blew up Magoo’s Bar

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'Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues' is published by Tafelberg. This is an excerpt from the book
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The city wins — but Egypt loses

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A novel inspired by Arab Spring activists is brutally honest about what happened — and what keeps happening
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Avoid a Modi authoritarian solution for South Africa

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A nationalistic, gangster political faction is ready to feed off the crisis created by social inequality
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Push towards living the South African dream

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The nation must be delivered from its captors and every citizen has a role to play this Freedom Day
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Ex-treasurer promises bombshells

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Mxolisi Dukwana ready to topple Ace Magashule’s house of cards at the Zondo commission
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More Ace allegations set to emerge at Zondo commission

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Friday’s sitting of the Zondo commission comes amid increased scrutiny of the ANC’s secretary general
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Habib on the varsity frontline

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Adam Habib reveals the pitfalls of the political chess game that students were playing when they called for free, decolonised education.
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An open letter to the readers of Adam Habib’s ‘Rebels and Rage’

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Those referred to as "the far-left" in the Wits vice-chancellor's book raise concerns about its ethics and its implications for academic freedom
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Early state capture stalled motor city

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And universities in the Eastern Cape have not taken up the challenge of creating knowledge centres to produce solutions
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How Bush Snr’s failed Somalia intervention shaped US-Africa ties

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As the US bids farewell to former US President George H.W. Bush, in Africa he is remembered most for his failed bid to stabilise Somalia
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Things Fall Apart turns 60

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The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

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Women, celebrate achievements besides those of marrying and having babies
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​No apology or comfort as another Marikana mother dies without justice

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Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

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