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Barry Gilder on the loyalty and loneliness of exile
‘At Fire Hour’ is a mix of reality and reimagined reality of art and culture during apartheid
Book extract: ‘A Russian on Commando’ in the Boer War
In January 1900, a young Russian officer, Yevgeny Avgustus, ‘galvanised by the daring of the Boers to take on imperial Britain’, set off to fight in the Second Boer War. A…
Monageng ‘Vice’ Motshabi’s book and play question the real new South Africa
The The Red on the Rainbow is a story many South Africans can relate to as it asks the hard questions of where the rainbow is
Business leaders must be the agents of change
Covid-19 and the Fourth industrial Revolution are business and personal stressors on a grand scale. A new book explores how managers can help teams through chronic stress
Extract: ‘These Are Not Gentle people’ by Andrew Harding
‘These Are Not Gentle People’ is an account, by Andrew Harding, the BBC correspondent in South Africa, of a murder in Parys, in the Free State, and what happened next. This…
Inside the circle: A review of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartmanilluminates the perspectives of young Black women through a vividly cinematic narrative where we are positioned to view the world through their eyes.
Sharpeville is much more than the site of a massacre
Tsepo Gumbi’s photographs bring a more complex view of a place that has been so singularly defined as to be unknowable
The night McBride and friends blew up Magoo’s Bar
‘Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues’ is published by Tafelberg. This is an excerpt from the book
The city wins — but Egypt loses
A novel inspired by Arab Spring activists is brutally honest about what happened — and what keeps happening
Avoid a Modi authoritarian solution for South Africa
A nationalistic, gangster political faction is ready to feed off the crisis created by social inequality
Push towards living the South African dream
The nation must be delivered from its captors and every citizen has a role to play this Freedom Day
More Ace allegations set to emerge at Zondo commission
Friday’s sitting of the Zondo commission comes amid increased scrutiny of the ANC’s secretary general
Ex-treasurer promises bombshells
Mxolisi Dukwana ready to topple Ace Magashule’s house of cards at the Zondo commission
Habib on the varsity frontline
Adam Habib reveals the pitfalls of the political chess game that students were playing when they called for free, decolonised education.
An open letter to the readers of Adam Habib’s ‘Rebels and Rage’
Those referred to as "the far-left" in the Wits vice-chancellor’s book raise concerns about its ethics and its implications for academic freedom