Detail from the cover of the book Surfacing. Wits University Press May 30, 2021 Black feminist writers in South Africa raise their voices in a new book Desiree Lewis, University of the Western Cape and Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
UCT will honour Sarah Baartman by naming a hall after her. Wikimedia Commons January 10, 2019 The University of Cape Town’s recent history matters as much as its past Carla Lever, University of Cape Town Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
Senzeni Marasela, ‘Covering Sarah IV’, 2011. Copyright Senzeni Marasela, Courtesy of AFRONOVA GALLERY March 9, 2017 Under the influence of … ‘Covering Sarah’: exorcising the trauma of colonialism and racism Sharlene Khan, Rhodes University South African Visual Artist Senzeni Marasela’s work creates a tension between the narrations of public wounding and her private one.