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Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.
APARTHEID

Fietas and the enduring question of home

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

  • Kibo Ngowi
7 min read
May 1939: Indian women indentured workers leave the sugar cane fields after a day’s work on a plantation at Mount Edgecombe, Natal. Photo: Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images
ASHWIN DESAI

South African Indian literature explores identity

Books and academic articles tell us our own stories and help others to understand them

  • Aarti Bhana
7 min read
A university that teaches but does not innovate, that researches but does not apply, will find itself detached from the society it is meant to serve and elevate
ANC

A blended and vaccinated future for universities

Leadership will be at the core of how the learning space evolves and uses the pandemic as an opportunity to advance

  • Chris Gilili
3 min read
On this hill: Desmond D’Sa says his decades-long grassroots activism in Wentworth was ignited by the experience of being forcibly relocated there in 1966. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

Q&A Sessions: ‘Nobody will be able to stop us’ — Desmond D’Sa

Desmond D’Sa, winner of the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014, tells Paddy Harper how being forcibly removed from his home at the age of 10 taught him to fight for his…

  • Paddy Harper
8 min read
ASHWIN DESAI

All aboard the gravy train

It says a lot about an organisation that you invite somebody on the occasion of your 21st anniversary to point to your weaknesses and debate whether you are on track for another…

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read
ASHWIN DESAI

Ignoring local realities

Transformation in Higher Education: Global Pressures and Local Realities in South Africa edited by Nico Cloete, Richard Fehnel, Peter Maassen, Teboho Moja and Trish Gibbon (Juta)

  • Staff Reporter
8 min read