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You have to love your people to lead them
Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a…
A triple dose of shorts
Some people are of the view that short stories, like poetry, are the fast food of literature, but one cannot doubt their importance. Sabata-Mpho Mokae looks at three recent…
Poet in motion
Lebogang Lance Nawa is a poet whose relevance did not fade with the dawn of freedom. The issues he has dealt with in <i>Through the Eye of a Needle</i> are very contemporary,…
Reliving the past
The stories in <i>Childhood: South Africans Recall Their Past </i>, tell of hope and the triumph of human spirit, even though they emanate from an era filled with anguish, pain…
Native tongue
Author, Letepe Maisela, is a champion of black economic empowerment, but the empowerment in <i>The empowered native </i> is anything but economic, writes Sabata-mpho Mokae.
City life
Two local writers share their best-kept secrets in a pocketbook filled with insights into the Jo’burg scene writes Sabata-mpho Mokae.
Sweet Soweto soul
A new book by Gwen Ansell explores the history and politics of local jazz. It takes us back in time to when the circumstances of struggle politics influenced the composition of…
Tale well told
Award-winning playwright Martin Koboekae has turned his hand to novels, and <i>Taung Wells</i> fails to disappoint. The author has treated his subject matter with the accuracy of…