Book review: rewriting the script on patriarchal violence in South Africa
Author THOKO SIPUNGU, Lecturer in Sociology, Rhodes University AUTHOR and academic Pumla Dineo Gqola’s latest book Female Fear Factory is
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Book review: how Africa was central to the making of the modern world
JOURNALIST, photographer, author and professor Howard W. French’s Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World,
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Book review: Zakes Mda’s subversive take on Lesotho’s traditions
IN 2019 at the Abantu Book Festival in Soweto, South African writer and artist Zakes Mda was celebrating the publication
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Book Review | Black and feminist in SA
POETRY and art combine in a collection of 20 essays edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon to shine a light on the ideas and work of women in southern Africa.
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Book Review | Cuddling men and tailoring scissors
MEGAN ROSS THE Madhouse is a work of dazzling complexity, a pan-African tribute to art and artists alike that explores the
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Book Review | 69 Jerusalem Street
KARABO KGOLENG LINDIWE Nkutha has small feet. For the longest time, she coveted a pair of All Star takkies but
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Book Review | Remnants of Miriam Tlali
BARBARA BOSWELL EDITED by esteemed feminist literary critic Pumla Dineo Gqola, Miriam Tlali: Writing Freedom presents a kaleidoscopic view of Miriam Tlali’s
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How apartheid denied a Black golf champ
BARRY COHEN SEWSUNKER “Papwa” Sewgolum began playing golf with a syringa stick but went on to win the Dutch Open
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“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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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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