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Botsotso: An Anthology of Contemporary South African Poetry

Botsotso was founded in South Africa in 1994, following the end of Apartheid, by the Botsotso Jesters, a poetry performance group. Its first printed manifestation was as an insert in the New Nation a now defunct weekly newspaper’s demise, Botsotso became a magazine in its own right and a publishing house. This anthology of 12 [...]

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Of Loss, Hope & Healing: Finding the lost Family of the Displaced

South African looms before thousands of refugees from across all Africa as the land of milk and honey . They flee conflict and hardship, they leave behind home and beloved ones-only to face the harsh realities of living in a foreign, sometimes hostile country.   Their longing to be reunited with their families bring them [...]

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Revel Fox Obituary

27th June 2010 by David Krut

  By Susan de Villiers   Revel Fox died after a short illness on 13th December 2004. Revel was an innovator, an architect and town planner, an urban activist and a man who was, all his life, committed to pushing the professional boundaries in a difficult and often antagonistic political and social terrain. As an [...]

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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 [...]

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William Kentridge Nose

CLICK HERE TO SEE A PREVIEW OF THIS BOOK David Krut Publishing is delighted to announce the publication of William Kentridge Nose. This book accompanies the launch of a suite of thirty new limited-edition prints by Kentridge called ‘Nose’, the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the artist and David Krut Print Workshop. In December [...]

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Wordsetc. Sixth Edition, 2009

Imraan Coovadia: Sixth edition of Wordsetc hits bookshelves  “Coovadia’s work hardly shies away from including troubling contemporary issues, including the inevitable twinning of race and political life in South Africa (and the myriad hues in which this link appears); the ambiguous position of Indians living outside of the Subcontinent – their ability to fit between [...]

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Art and the End of Apartheid

In Art and the End of Apartheid, John Peffer considers in-depth the work of black South African artists in the decades leading up to the end of apartheid in 1994. Peffer examines painting and graphic art, photography, avant-garde and performance art, and popular and protest art through artist collectives, such as the Thupelo Art Project [...]

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Scorched: South Africa’s Changing Climate

Scorched is a vivid journey through South Africa’s mesmerising landscape as climate changes sets in. It wanders through the KwaZulu Natal Midlands to capture the last faltering calls of a rain frog that was named after the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

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Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commision

The first book to explore the complex relationship between law and literature in testimony to crimes of apartheid before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ambiguities of Witnessing closely analyzes key individual testimonies.

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I Knew You In This Dark

JESSICA WEBSTER – I KNEW YOU IN THIS DARK 30 JULY – 29 AUGUST 2009 The show was opened by Professor Penny Siopis David Krut Projects is pleased to present young Johannesburg artist Jessica Webster on the occasion of her MAFA graduation exhibition. Four years of rigorous academic study and studio practice culminate in a [...]

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