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    Rethinking History

    Max Du Preez: On Fighting Against Apartheid As Media

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    From the late 70s to the early 90s, South Africa saw some truly turbulent times. Journalist and social commentator Max Du Preez was at...

    Remembering the SS Mendi and Shaka the Great at Time of...

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    The focus of Time of the Writer 2017 is on indigenous languages, the short story and the intersection of film and literature - and...

    Bantu Is A Powerful Reflection On Steve Biko’s Legacy

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    We are all familiar with the figure Stephen Bantu Biko or Steve Biko, but are we familiar with his ideas, his writings and his...

    Here’s How Sign Language Will Become an NSC Exam

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    During his inaugural state of the nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the first National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination on South African Sign...

    Commemorating 29 years since the assassination of Chris Hani

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    April 10 2022 marks 29 years since the assassination of Chris Hani. On April 10 1993, Thembisile Chris Hani was shot and killed in Dawn...

    In Conversation With Fatimah Asghar

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    Muslim, American, Pakistani-Kashmiri, poet, writer - in her debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar reflects on navigating those identities through questions of race, history, sexuality,...

    Don’t put my heritage over the coals

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    On the 24th of September, South Africans celebrate Heritage Day, when people across all racial and cultural groups are encouraged to celebrate their cultural...

    The Forgotten Women Series Uncovers The Untold Histories Of Women

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    World history remembers certain people better than others. Our records are dominated by white men from the West who supposedly led, conquered, and created...

    #BlackMonday and nostalgia for” “those days”

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    For many people, the brandishing of the apartheid flag at the #BlackMonday protests was unsurprising: it was part of the violence enacted daily on...

    History Comes Alive At These Jozi Museums

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    There’s no doubt that Johannesburg is a happening city. It started way back when gold was discovered here in the 1880s and has continued...

    #Roshnee55: Preserving history through photography

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    The Origins And 55-Year Pictorial History Of Roshnee (1967-2022) is a new book and pictorial history that will be released. Put together by former...

    Extract from Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home

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    Noni Jabavu, the first Black South African woman to publish books of memoir, was also one of the first African women who pursued a...

    Mandela Day: ‘There Is No Perfect Leader’

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    The Durban-based, youth-led, non governmental organisation, Door to Door Foundation will be spending its 67 minutes renovating a local school in Magabheni Township; in...

    KhoiKhoi is the mother of all mother tongues says Jeffrey Oarasib

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    Jeffrey Oarasib has been elevating the preservation of the KhoiKhoi language through poetry, and rapping. He is a Khoi language reclamation artist and activist....

    Book Extract: New History of South Africa

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    This newly updated, comprehensive history of South Africa presents the story of our turbulent country in a fresh, readable narrative. Grippingly retold by leading...

    Extract: Get out of your Mind

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    In “Get out of your Mind: Lessons on embracing difference from South Africa and beyond” Luyanda Mpahlwa and Klaus Doppler use their shared experiences....

    Out of Quatro: An Extract

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    Out of Quatro: From exile to exoneration is Luthando Dyasop’s story. The book is a story not only about Dyasop’s extraordinary life, but also...

    Why we all deserve to see the new Winnie documentary

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    There is arguably nobody in South Africa politics that has been more demonised in the media than Mam’ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, commonly juxtaposed to her...

    Wakanda Felt Like Home

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    The Hollywood imagination has a troublesome relationship with Africa, perhaps best embodied by Leonardo di Caprio’s jaded Rhodesian character Danny Archer in the 2006...

    A Home on Vorster Street: An Extract

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    In A Home on Vorster Street, Razina Theba witnesses the ebb and flow of a tight-knit neighbourhood trying to survive the forces of apartheid....