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Editorial: Why Sol Plaatje still matters
Marking 150 years since the birth of Sol Plaatje, we reflect on the enduring legacy of the pioneering author, journalist, and ANC founder whose work continues to illuminate South…
You have to love your people to lead them
Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a…
Speaking in tongues: The literary revolution rooted in Sepedi and Setswana
The quiet power of Moses Seletisa’s Sepedi poetry and Sabata Mokae’s Setswana novels
Lebogang Seale’s book tracks a century of injustice in his family’s quest for land
One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family’s ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case
People and animals: A shared history, shared cruelties
An edited extract from The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past
Has the tripartite alliance become an anachronism?
Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently of the ANC?
Has the tripartite become an anachronism?
Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently?
OPINION| Black writers and publishers are South Africa’s ‘linguistic orphans’
The challenges we face in the world of scholarly and leisure reading and writing are not unique to our country but it is crucial to overcome them if we want to be as good as we…
Review: ‘Culture and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa’: On the arts as a catalyst in the quest for true freedom
This new collection of essays, tributes and analyses focuses on the role of culture in the fostering of radical consciousness
Great heart of African literature: Bheki Peterson’s expansive vision of the world
Having conducted the bulk of his study during apartheid, which informed his scholarship, Peterson left us with provocations for the future
Bheki Peterson: Pursuing radical epistemological thought with an understated erudition
The soft-spoken scholar had a towering impact on scholarship, artistic work, teaching practice and activism
Afro Story: Africana at the push of a button
A new reading app plans to make relevant literature easily available
Sol Plaatje and the antinomies of writing against ‘South Africa’
The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading
Obituary: Literary allrounder Stephen Gray was a scholar, critic, novelist and poet
Stephen Gray made an immense, long contribution to the South African literary landscape across many genres, but it was poetry that he described as ‘the main activity of my life’
Recall unheard voices in South Africa’s history
Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem was published in 1913, the year Africans were stripped of their land