Author Lorato Trok captures the courageous yet tragic story of how a young girl from a South African township beat Apartheid on the running track…
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No middle ground in times of war
The greatest challenge facing the nation now is: what must be done to pass that experience and history, both of the suffering of millions of South Africans and the almost five and half centuries of the freedom struggle
Are protest plays like Bopha! still relevant after end of apartheid?
Lucas Ledwaba WAS it necessary for the South African State Theatre to bring back the 1980s protest stage play Bopha! long after the end of…
Soweto to Beirut
In this extract from her memoir set to be released this week journalist Jedidiah Ramalapa takes the reader on a journey into the heart of…
Sekwati’s death and Sekhukhune’s rise to power
Professor Peter Delius writes in the introduction to this book that articulates how the Pedi polity grew to become a an important stumbling block to…
Please shoot me, oh dear God, please do it now…
In March 2013, South Africa suffered its worst military defeat since the end of apartheid. After a battle that lasted almost two days, 200 crack…
‘Take off your hat off you damned, bloody, dirty black swine!’
A new book on letters written by the pioneering activist and scholar Sol T Plaatje illuminate the nature of his relationship with the people with whom he corresponded and reveal his refusal to accept injustice.
How Dr Madiba’s pioneering work helped develop a language
The United Nations has designated the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Malesela Maubane pays tribute to a pioneer…
Step into my shoes
In this extract from the celebrated book Black Tax: Burden of Ubuntu author Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho explores the fine line between helping out and being…
Honour at last for a great son of the soil Dr Pheko
IN analysing the discourse of South Africa’s volatile history, one cannot help but notice the many forms of erasure that people like Dr Motsoko Pheko have suffered because of their affiliation to the PAC and to Robert Sobukwe.







