Keorapetse Kgositsile

In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for…

It is the ANC as a whole that maintains a bureaucratic view of the arts, failing to afford it its proper place in society

Keorapetse Kgositsile played a vital part in elevating the position of the cultural worker

Judy Seidman responds to Athi Mongelezi Joja’s expanded assessment of her ‘Drawn Lines’ exhibition

The work of acclaimed writer Mongane Wally Serote reveals the point at which poetry meets politics

Siphiwo Mahala talks about his fascination with the 1950s writer and journalist

Though he may be cemented in history as a poet first, Keorapetse Kgositsile was both political dissident and artist.

Jazz and the fight for freedom were central to his life and poetry

The poet fought injustice wherever he found it and became a key figure in the ANC-in-exile’s arts and culture department

The post has become firmly entrenched but times have changed, suggesting new directions and ideas

Remembering the man writers and non-writers alike called Bra Willie was now a literary ancestor.

Keorapetse Kgositsile played a significant role in the emergence of post-1994 poetry

The poet’s biographer on how he brought together the African and diasporic traditions of resistance and art

​Kgositsile’s first interview after he returned to South Africa in 1990

His sharp and progressive pen‚ he contributed in cutting open the oppressive blanket of the apartheid system to keep the liberation spirit burning.