“They see savages, even when we wear their suits, speak their King’s English and worship their God.”
WILLIE CURRIE LADY Florrie returned to Johannesburg in February 1906. She was met at the station by her husband, Lord
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LITERATURE
Anxiety in Johannesburg: new views on a global south city
NICKY FALKOF, Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand COBUS VAN STADEN, Senior Researcher: China-Africa: South African Institute of International Affairs,
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PRISCILLA JANA: 1943 – 2020
In honour of Priscilla Jana, the legendary human rights lawyer, who passed away, The African Mirror publishes an excerpt from
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The Bitch Is Still In Heat
VUSI MAVIMBELA SOME time towards the end of November 1990, I received a phone call on my landline of my
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American “family” poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize for Literature
ANNA RINGSTROM and SIMON JOHNSON AMERICAN poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for works exploring family
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Book Review | Tennis for the people
KELLY FLETCHER THE first lawn tennis matches were played on hourglass-shaped courts. But not for long. Three years after Walter
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Book review | The blood politics of a warring ANC
JAN BORNMAN GREG Ardé’s War Party: How the ANC’s Political Killings Are Breaking South Africa is a cautionary tale of how the
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Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography
WOMEN photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. Even in
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Remembering Achmat Dangor, the South African novelist who redefined identity
IN his 71 years, Achmat Dangor was many things to many people, both in South Africa and across the world.
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Book reveals new, surprising nuggets about Nelson Mandela’s last years in jail
GAVIN EVANS TWENTY years ago the South African academic Jan-Ad Stemmet met the apartheid era justice minister Kobie Coetsee, who
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