Colin Bower
latest news & developmentsWhose democracy is it anyway?
University of Cape Town historian Shamil Jeppie is impatient with the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s question: Is Islam compatible with democracy? "Would you bother to ask, ‘Is Roman…
(Another) author under fire
William Mervin Gumede is the next blip on the plagiarism radar that is sweeping South Africa, writes Colin Bower.
Tempered with realism
Will the Cape Town Book Fair be as successful as the world-famous Frankfurt Book Fair? Colin Bower reports.
What about the reader?
Assertive denials of allegations that Antjie Krog is a plagiarist have come from two of Krog’s publishers, Stephen Johnson of Random House and Nèlleke de Jager of Kwela Books.…
New claims against Krog
An e-mail circulating among academics at the University of Cape Town has fuelled the controversy around poet Antjie Krog by decribing what it calls Krog’s "close borrowing" from…