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Rebel and leader: John Tengo Jabavu (left) and his son Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (about 1903). Photo: Wikipedia
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Dubula Ngosiba: Young voices in an Age of Uncertainty

Today’s youth should remember those who came before them who conquered overwhelming odds

  • André Odendaal
8 min read
Fight and flight: Artist Sethembile Msezane during a performance piece in which she referenced the Zimbabwean Chapungu bird after the statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town campus in 2015. Photo: Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images
ANDREW VAN DER VLIES

The long story of #RhodesMustFall

This is an edited extract of Janet Remmington’s chapter titled ‘Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa’, from Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts

  • Janet Remmington
8 min read
On 17 August, 40 years ago, the inveterate socialist Ruth First was assassinated in Maputo under the orders of Apartheid spy Craig Williamson.
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Ruth First remembered 40 years after her death

It is 40 years since Ruth First was assassinated. What would she say about South Africa today?

  • Melody Emmett
6 min read
As the Karoo hopes for an end to its worst drought in a generation, the region’s history may hold important lessons for its future.
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Seven lean years in the Northern Cape

As the Karoo hopes for an end to its worst drought in a generation, the region’s history may hold important lessons for its future

  • Dennis Webster
17 min read
Landscape for thought: Olive Schreiner grew up in the Karoo and lived in towns such as Cradock, viewed here from Oukop Hill. (Chris Marais)
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Story of an African feminist

The arid Karoo was fertile soil for the writing of a young, white, female agnostic in the late 1800s and she is an example of a decolonised mind

  • Kevin Davie
14 min read