If we are to make sense of the present and plan for the future we must understand our past, and so we must preserve our records
The reader navigates themes such as migration, black masculinity, displacement, aspirations, racial identity and sexuality before wokeness
The stories of children of apartheid activists are similar but Lindiwe Hani’s prose about a meeting with her father’s killers comes into its own.
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The judges are divided over a clean break from the apartheid past and cultural rights.
A good-guys, bad-guys account of the Anglo-Boer War is tedious, but a Dutch revisiting is riveting.
Struggle veteran and author Phyllis Naidoo has died, says the ANC.
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/ 11 December 2008
Documentary filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri’s work explores
the foibles of power, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Let’s face it, since 1994 many leading black figures in the middle, professional and upper classes have played the ”race card”.
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/ 21 February 2008
Adriaan Basson reviews Hermann Giliomee and Bernard Mbenga’s <i>New History of South Africa</i>.