One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land traces his family’s ongoing struggle to strengthen their restitution case
An edited extract from The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past
Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently of the ANC?
Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently?
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 look in our Constitution
This new collection of essays, tributes and analyses focuses on the role of culture in the fostering of radical consciousness
Having conducted the bulk of his study during apartheid, which informed his scholarship, Peterson left us with provocations for the future
The soft-spoken scholar had a towering impact on scholarship, artistic work, teaching practice and activism
A new reading app plans to make relevant literature easily available
The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading
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’
Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem was published in 1913, the year Africans were stripped of their land
The Sol Plaatje biography is a triumph of research to which its length gives testimony.
The ANC regional executive committee will now provide the provincial executive committee with three potential candidates to become the new mayor
The Northern Cape High Court will hear an urgent application on Tuesday calling for mayor Mangaliso Matika’s removal.
Sol Plaatje municipality may be facing another shutdown after schools were closed and businesses disrupted on Monday
A life-sized statue of Solomon Plaatje has been languishing in storage for nine years after objections from his family over the way he was depicted
Plaatje encouraged independent thought. He felt that a critical disposition coupled with empirical evidence & public accountability was indispensable.
Topics include writing since Sol Plaatje to reporting on Marikana – and will continue at the afterparty
Edited extract of the editors’ introduction in ‘Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present’ (Wits University Press).
Three poems have been shortlisted for the 2016 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award.
Alongside panels discussing hot topics, shortlisted poets from the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology will receive their awards.
Academic JU Jacobs explores South African stories that reveal who we are and our journeys here and elsewhere, both physically and psychologically.
The imagining of a friendship between Sol Plaatje and Cecil Rhodes feels particularly relevant right now.