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AFRICAN LITERATURE

The President’s Keepers and state capture: black intellectualism needs to focus

South Africa has an undernourished literary tradition, where even among the sophisticated one may find confusion over written work and writers.

  • Sipho Hlongwane
7 min read
A crowd protesting against Pravin Gordhan’s address at a fundraiser for the Concerned Citizen’s Group in KwaDukuza clashed violently with the audience.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Rixon pushes the sonic envelope

His show brought out the life, dynamism and raw musicality that got squashed on to his album.

  • Ian Mcnair
5 min read
INTELLECTUAL CULTURE

Lack of choice defines SA’s reality

I would like to respond to Nelson Kgwete’s letter ("Pseudo think-tanks offer naive proposals", May 18 to 24)

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
INTELLECTUAL CULTURE

Pseudo think-tanks offer naive proposals

There is a new crop of so-called public intellectuals emerging in South Africa, comprising mainly members of the black semi-elite.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
The slow death of the intellect
INTELLECTUAL CULTURE

The slow death of the intellect

A culture of inquiry and debate must be resurrected at all universities, writes <b>Jonathan Jansen</b>.

  • Staff Reporter
10 min read