The Struggle
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The Rashid Lombard Archive is where it’s happening
With the induction last week of the Rashid Lombard Archive at the University of the Western Cape his photography and stories will soon be accessible to a new generation.
Q&A Sessions: Judge Navi Pillay, a woman of many firsts
Judge Navi Pillay talks to Athandiwe Saba about being the daughter of a bus driver, a little girl who swore at school, and the pressure of being a leading woman in the world…
Brass, class, steel and sorrow: Jonas Gwangwa cut close to the bone
The trombonist’s music-making was inextricably tied up with South Africa’s struggle for freedom
‘Amandla’ review: Blood, tears and music of the struggle
‘Amandla’s’ status as a cultural rallying point during apartheid is captured in this Sounds review, republished in Chimurenga’s book ‘Festac 77’
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…