THE Department of Health announced this week that it will this week, Monday, 23 January to 04 February commence with the programme of screening, verification,…
Posts published in “Books”
South Africa has one of the highest incidences of rape in the world. But even then Nomana Ntshakaza never imagined she could become a victim…
CAN Themba – The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi is a captivating piece of work chronicled by Dr Siphiwo Mahala, arguably the most clinical…
Author and scholar Nicolas Schicketanz traces the training of teachers and introduction of formal western education in Natal back to the 1800s. In this excerpt…
Mmabore Mogashoa recently came second in the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. She tells Lielly Kawa about her life as a healer, writer, poet,…
Very rarely does a book on music come with its own rhythm as it tantalisingly maps out the schemata of influences, icons and cultural movements…
When Samora's eldest brother died in the mines, the mining company sent forty pounds as compensation. Other relatives came home without limbs, blind, or deathly sick from tuberculosis or pleurisy—for which they rarely received even token compensation
Although Maishe Maponya’s global outlook transcended ideological confines, he always advanced a Black Consciousness perspective. National Writers Association of South Africa general secretary Dr Lebogang…
In KwaShange and in other areas affected by political violence in the Natal Midlands, the vast majority of young men who were born during the political violence are between 23 and 26 years of age at the time of writing. There is also a sizeable group of those who were ‘heroes’ in the Vulindlela conflict. For these young men, trauma is not 'post', but rather 'current', and part of their everyday life
In the police cells, we would spend the time polishing police boots, or washing police vans and cars. Sometimes we just sat doing nothing. But for some, it was the time to receive political education (umrabulo) from the older comrades, sing struggle songs, chant slogans and listen to poetry.