Njabulo Ndebele
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Poems from plunder to pillage
Antjie Krog’s latest collection of poems, which were written in Afrikaans, has been translated by another poet, Karen Press
Sol Plaatje and the antinomies of writing against ‘South Africa’
The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading
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Achmat Dangor: On writing and change
Celebrated author and political activist Achmat Dangor died on Sunday at the age of 71. Here, in a 1990 interview published in Staffrider, he speaks to Andries Walter Oliphant…
JM Coetzee: A fine mind, a formidable intellect
Behind JM Coetzee, the writer lauded for his ‘wonderfully brave, bold mind’ , is John Coetzee, the quiet man
Terror and beauty
In this excerpt from his new book, <i>The Cry of Winnie Mandela</i>, Njabulo Ndebele investigates the formative experiences of the ‘girl of Bizana’.
The new logic of war
This is a war that follows from the driven logic of inventing the ultimate means of destruction. The resulting weapons, accumulated over years of well-funded military research,…