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Hani: A Life Too Short
Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s great imponderables: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on politics and government in South Africa? More pointedly, could this charismatic leader have risen to become president of the country? Hani was a hero of South Africa’s liberation, a communist [...]
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Rian Malan – My Traitor’s Heart
Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself. In 1977 Rian Malan, descendant of Daniel Francois Malan, South Africa’s first nationalist Prime Minister, and one of the master builders of apartheid, fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later he returned from exile to [...]
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Zuma: A Biography
The first edition of Zuma, published in late 2008, concluded with Jacob Zuma’s future balancing on a knife’s edge. National elections loomed, but so did corruption charges and endless court battles. Since then Zuma’s star has spectacularly risen – the corruption charges were dropped, he led the ANC to election victory and duly became President [...]
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Steve Biko Memorial Lectures 2000-2008
The Steve BikoMemorial Lecture, an annual program of the Steve Biko Foundation, is a seriesof lectures by some of the international community’s foremost scholars,artists, religious and political leaders. The lectures explore theenduring legacy and leadership of Stephen Bantu Biko in a contemporarycontext. The Steve BikoMemorial Lectures, Edition 1 is a compilation of some of the [...]
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TAXI-015 Paul Stopforth
CLICK HERE TO SEE A PREVIEW OF THIS BOOK by Leora Maltz-Leca, Kate McCrickard, Judith Mason, Anne Sassoon Paul Stopforth is known in South Africa for work that comments on the harshness and injustices of life under apartheid. His art – comprising sculpture, drawing, painting, and printmaking – is not, however, narrowly political but instead [...] |
Hani: A Life Too Short
Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s great imponderables: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on politics and government in South Africa? More pointedly, could this charismatic leader have risen to become president of the country? Hani was a hero of South Africa’s liberation, a communist [...]
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Notes From Fractured Country
In this selection of columns, Jonny Steinberg walks through Pollsmoor Prison on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and believes he sees in the jail’s corridors why the US’s impending war in the Middle East will fail.He meets a poverty-stricken old man who spends most of his state pension maintaining a black Mercedes Benz, [...]
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The Democratic Moment: South Africa’s Prospects Under Jacob Zuma
Xolela Mangcu’s latest book takes the temperature of our democracy at this moment and provides an informed prognosis of our future. In particular he looks at the health of our institution – such as political opposition, the court an the media – and the state f our enviroment , espcially South Africa’s position in the [...]
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Rian Malan – Resident Alien
For Rian Malan the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness beggars the imagination of those who live in saner places. ” Rian Mala could always see the story when others had long since lost the plt. Sometimes he went completely off his head as he [...]
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Zapiro – Don’t Mess with the President’s Head
Zapiro returns with his signature wry satirical style to ensure that his audience hovers between shaking their heads in rueful agreement and snorting in mirth. South Africa’s sharpest cartoon also acts as our national conscience and once again ensures that no event passes by without comment …or a laugh. “Zapiro’s cartoons pack a punch that [...]
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