Nadine Gordimer

South Africa’s most beloved troubadour on new music, staying rooted in Mamelodi and why peace is worth singing about

South African artists keep dying poor while their work enriches others. The Copyright Amendment Bill could finally change that – if it ever becomes law

Does Putin fully understand its own reasons for its incursion into Ukraine – or does he just not care?

‘Soweto Tea Party’ is a children’s book that tells the story of Dr Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s childhood, growing up with a father under house arrest

The challenges we face in the world of scholarly and leisure reading and writing are not unique to our country but it is crucial to overcome them if we want to be as good as we…

Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels

The history of clubbing in Jo’burg is less about physical space and fading memories, but about the sheer, frightful necessity of dancing

In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches

Siphiwo Mahala talks about his fascination with the 1950s writer and journalist

David Goldblatt has left South African documentary photography incalculably richer, writes Niren Tolsi

The M&G Literary Festival will consider Nadine Gordimer’s notion ‘Being here: in a particular time and place.’

Gordimer wrote: ‘Vusi Mahlasela sings like a bird does, in total response to being alive. He is a national treasure.’ She was like a mother to him.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o pays tribute in prose and poetry to a great African.

It was 1988, Salman Rushdie had been ‘disinvited’ from the Weekly Mail Book Week and SA literature ­giants were at loggerheads, recalls Anton Harber.

Ilse Wilson, the daughter of Communist Party stalwart Bram Fischer, remembers the era of ‘Burger’s Daughter’ and other times spent with its author.