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The Olive Schreiner Prize for drama forms part of a larger annual competition in creative writing of English expression, which includes prose and ...
This book probes the complex entanglements of different intellectual traditions in the SA context, by examining two case studies, the core around ...
You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock / Wathint’ Abafazi, Wathint’ Imbokotho is a bristling example of protest theatre-making during the height of ...
What do we do with hollow memorials and political architectural remnants?
'Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa' is the first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist ...
'San Elders Speak: Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San' is the first attempt to document indigenous knowledge through the voices of four San ...
Susan Booysen’s analysis reveals Cyril Ramaphosa to be a president who is weak and walking a tightrope between serving the needs of the organisation ...
In 'Out of the Dark Night', he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment.
In 'Rock | Water | Life', Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism and environmental destruction in SA.
Join the online launch and discussion of 'Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City' on October 28.