Comrade & Commander
Ronnie Kasrils and Fidelis Hove (eds), Comrade & Commander: The Life and Times of Joe Modise (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024) THE EDITORS of this book provide a summary of Joe Modise’s life and then describe it […]
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The lie about white genocide in South Africa
SOUTH Africa’s entire history has been one of dispossession; and now repossession. Violence is hardwired into the nation’s social fabric and psyche. But its dynamics are by no means straightforward; nor can they be explained […]
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Journalism for a democratic South Africa
THERE is still no definite explanation, political or financial, for the demise of the Rand Daily Mail forty years ago. But on 14 June 1985 the Weekly Mail (WM) was launched by redundant journalists. It […]
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One hundred days
ONE hundred days! It feels like a hundred years; and one word sums up Trump.2: chaos. Is this personal, tactical or strategic? Those who know Donald Trump describe him as narcissistic, vindictive and attention seeking […]
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Guilty and Proud: An MK Soldier’s Memoir of Exile, Prison and Freedom
Marion Sparg, Guilty and Proud: An MK Soldier’s Memoir of Exile, Prison and Freedom (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2024) EXTRAORDINARY and challenging circumstances raising matters of conscience can have unpredictable outcomes. Among the small group of […]
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Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
Daniel Magaziner, Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2025) Daniel Magaziner, Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2025) ARTIST, […]
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Election 2024 South Africa: Countdown to Coalition
Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall (eds), Election 2024 South Africa: Countdown to Coalition (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024) IT was widely assumed from the start of the 2024 general and provincial election campaigns that the ANC would […]
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Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid
Xolisa Guzula and Athambile Masola, Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024) NO one under 35 can have a first-hand understanding of life in apartheid South Africa. To many of today’s […]
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Nothing to fear but fear itself
WHEN we discuss the strengths and virtues of liberal democracy, that political philosophy now under siege in the United States, it is the permissive freedoms that spring to mind such as rule of and equality […]
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The Super Cadres: ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment
Pieter du Toit, The Super Cadres: ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) STATE capture nearly bankrupted South Africa. Its mechanics and perpetrators were well documented by investigative journalists and then […]