Noni Jabavu at her London office, 12th September 1961.
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These columns demonstrate that Noni Jabavu’s concerns from 1970s are still relevant today.
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These vibrant writers embrace the open road and claim spaces that were denied them during apartheid.
Regina Twala in a rare photograph with her first husband Percy Kumalo, 1936.
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A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
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Challenging myths about heterosexual white South African men, Prinsloo published four books of short stories in 12 years.
A young Juby Mayet in Vrededorp, Johannesburg.
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The Drum journalist was a rare woman in a male-dominated world. Her autobiography has now been published after her death.
Don Mattera in 2013.
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A true African poet, Don Mattera was at the centre of public life, an advocate for change and an enemy of elitism.
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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.
Antjie Krog from a detail of the cover for the book ‘n Vry vrou (a free woman).
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The famous writer turns 70 this year. She is driven by how South Africans see and hear one another.
K. Sello Duiker.
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His major work The Quiet Violence of Dreams is about a young man undergoing a mental breakdown, something that the novelist also experienced.
Portrait of a Lesotho shepherd, Ntoaesele Mashongoane.
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Set in the music wars of Lesotho, the new novel by the South African author tells of a wandering minstrel whose hit song leads to his downfall.
Lindiwe Mabuza (right) with President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2018.
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For her, art was a weapon in the struggle and a tool for education. She used every opportunity to build movements and to archive experiences in writing.
Damon Galgut at a photocall for this year’s Booker Prize in London.
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Will white South Africa ever give up part of its privilege? This is the contentious issue at the heart Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel.
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The shocking story at the centre of When the Village Sleeps is as heartbreaking as it is - ultimately - full of hope.
Sindiwe Magona at home.
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A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country’s brutal past in order to heal and move forward.
A statue of the author, Solomon T. Plaatje, in Kimberley, South Africa.
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According to a new book, the friendships among women in the novel reveal its author Sol T. Plaatje’s view of effective political struggle.