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…
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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.
Unrecognised, ignored and forgotten. The Forgotten Scientist: TheStory of Saul Sithole is the untold story of a pioneering black scientistwho made a great contribution to…
In 2013, historian Jan-Ad Stemmet opened a box at the Archivefor Contemporary Affairs at the University of the Free State andrealised he’d found a collection…
Lucas Ledwaba The printing presses are increasingly grinding to an eerie halt the world over. And indications are that this spine-chilling trend will continue for…
Ideally, this new project will have a struggle background, without claiming to be a struggle movie. It should be a human story of love and hate; pain and pleasure; hope and despair and trust and betrayal
This war-cum-rebellion, remembered for generations as a heroic struggle against dispossession by the whites, was the longest of the frontier conflicts, lasting for twenty-seven months from December 1850 to March 1853.
After spending what seemed like a lifetime in pain, lying badly injured alongside a road after rolling his car while on a mission for Umkhonto…
Journalist Lerato Mogoatlhe gave up her day job to pursue her dream of sojourning around west Africa. She had planned to do it for three months, but it turned out to be an extended trip of five years! Mukurukuru Media shares a snippet of her journey from her book Vagabond: Wandering through Africa on faith.