How South Africa Can Prepare For Climate Change
BOOK REVIEW
South Africa’s Survival Guide to Climate Change by Sarah Wild and Sipho Kings is a new book aiming to make the scary impending...
10 Books Celebrating The Complexity Of Women
Novelist Kamila Shamsie challenged the books industry to publish no new titles by men for a year in 2018. Shamsie called for a “year...
Maths & Physics For Toddlers: Making It Fun At The Earliest...
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A 30-year-old physicist and post-doctorate research fellow at the University of Pretoria, Thabsile Thabethe, recently published mathematics and physics books for toddlers,...
#JozisBBF: An Affordable Literary Festival
Jozi’s Books and Blogs Festival (#JozisBBF) is an annual literary festival that takes place in Lenasia, a suburb in the South of Johannesburg. Started...
How We Could Have Stopped Climate Change, But Did Not.
In Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth he accounts for the past failures of politicians and others to stop climate change. Looking back at 1979, Rich...
‘The Enforcers’ Digs Deep Into Cape Town’s Criminal Underworld
Here is the Cape Town underworld laid bare, explored through the characters who control the “protection” industry – the bouncers and security at nightclubs...
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s ‘Patsy’ Is A Brave Take On Freedom And Motherhood
Societies have reproduced motherhood almost as a state of martyrdom. In becoming mothers, women are expected to forfeit themselves and adhere to a specific...
9 Poems That Reveal Nelson Mandela’s Impact
A fallen icon can never truly die. They are memorialised in the work of artists, the pens of history, and the lips of the...
Conjuring Soft Magic With Storyteller Upile Chisala
“Growing up, I never read books by black women,” the Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala told an audience at the Sandton Exclusive Books on Wednesday...
8 Summer Books To Chase Away The Winter Blues
Winter time in South Africa is when the days are cold and the nights are long. This time of the year can be a...
Tracing The History Of Domestic Workers Through Literature
Domestic work in South Africa is work that is fraught with racial and class tension. It lies at a unique intersection of the private...
The Harry Potter Books Are Timeless, JK Rowling Not So Much
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Ask any 90s kid and they are likely to say that the Harry Potter books were a big part of their lives. Being a...
The Book Stokvel: Growing Support For African Literature
It is often said that the reading culture in South Africa is very poor. Young and old people are just not reading regardless of...
Harris Dousemetzis On Telling The TRUE Story Of “The Man Who...
“The Man Who Killed Apartheid” is a book aiming to contribute to “a post-colonial intellectual history of South Africa.” It is book 12 of...
Queens Of The Kingdom: A Portrait Of Saudi Women
BOOK REVIEW
The Saudi Arabian woman is veiled in mystery: global media narratives paint her as locked in a tower of oppression, needing rescue by...
Author Hafsah Faizal: “Representation Is Not A Fad”
New author Hafsah Faizal joins an illustrious list of authors writing representative fantasy books. Think Sabaa Tahir. Tomi Adeyemi. Renee Ahdieh. Her debut novel...
Soniah Kamal Talks Setting Pride And Prejudice In Pakistan
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most beloved amongst classic English literature. There have been prequels, sequels, and variations of the story...
The Origins Of The South African Students Organisation
BOOK EXTRACT
During 2015 and 2016 student protests swept across South Africa campuses. In her new book Limpopo’s Legacy: Student politics and democracy in...
Our 10 Favourite Books By Muslim Women
Representation matters, especially in a world where ‘Muslim woman’ is a highly politicised identity. Muslim women are painted as submissive and oppressed, brown women...
Thabang Motsohi: Why The ANC Fails
“The African National Congress (ANC) is going to be divided, it’s going to split. The split is inevitable when you have ideological gridlock,” Thabang...
