It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town, has never had a dictionary until now.
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Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensemble’s contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing.
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
It took black folk unimaginable resources of creativity, humanity, humour and generosity to detoxify the N-word for their own collective sanity.
The independent theatre will be a monument to how a failed department of arts and culture could not match state support with public philanthropy.
A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country’s brutal past in order to heal and move forward.
During the coronavirus pandemic the Jerusalema dance challenge enacted a way for communities to connect - repetitive enough to be picked up and varied enough to tease.
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Professor of Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape
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FBA Professor of English Literature, King's College London
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Head of Department of Theatre and Performance and PhD candidate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Research associate, History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies, Penn State
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University of Cape Town
