Buys, the award-winning novel by Willem Anker, uses lines without credit from the Irish writer - not the first such literary controversy it has raised.
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In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
Abundantly talented and flawed, apartheid-era writer Can Themba wasn’t afraid to put his body on the line for a story.
The books aim to write women back into history for children to see that women are able to take up powerful positions in society.
Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola sees gender violence as a sophisticated ecosystem kept alive by socially manufactured fear.
The shocking story at the centre of When the Village Sleeps is as heartbreaking as it is - ultimately - full of hope.
The student authors wrote about their lives during lockdown, and their stories were published in a book that now informs their university’s syllabus.
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
According to a new book, the friendships among women in the novel reveal its author Sol T. Plaatje’s view of effective political struggle.
Even in a world where 99% of the male population is dead, patriarchy is still a very comfortable pair of shoes and very easy to slip into.
With humility that belied his global stature, his laugh came easily, and his generous storytelling taught lessons that his students grew into for many years after he shared them.
Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers.
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Senior Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Sociology, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor, Publishing, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of the Free State
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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PhD candidate, University of Cape Town
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Coordinator: Initiative for Creative African Narratives (iCAN) & Lecturer: Academic Literacy, University of the Free State
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies, Penn State
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Lecturer/Researcher: Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of the Free State, University of the Free State
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Adjunct Professor, Richmond American International University
