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We the People: Extracts from Albie Sachs new book

[intro]Exciting news for book lovers: over the next few months, The Journalist will publish excerpts from Albie Sachs new book We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge. The stalwart activist and former judge builds on South Africans’ renewed faith in the power of...

Cecil Rhodes as Amakwerekwere

Mosibudi Mangena [intro]Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s latest book, #Rhodes Must Fall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa explores and contextualises the notions of makwerekwere, imperialism and the boundaries of citizenship.[/intro] Social and professional...

We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge

[intro]In his new book, activist and former judge Albie Sachs builds on South Africans’ renewed faith in the power of the Constitution. We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge will be launched at Cavendish Square on Tuesday 22 November 2016 and Sachs will be in...

No, Bob Dylan isn’t the first lyricist to win the Nobel

The Con [intro]There’s been a great deal of excitement over Bob Dylan being awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s rare for artists who have achieved widespread, mainstream popularity to win. And although Nobels often go to Americans, the last literature...

The Black Consciousness novel ‘Amandla’

Barbara Boswell [intro]South African novelist Miriam Tlali’s “Amandla” is one of a handful of Black Consciousness novels that renders in fiction the June 1976 Soweto uprising. Published in 1980 by Ravan Press, it was only the second novel authored in English by a...

Beauty of the Heart book launch in Grahamstown

Abenathi Gqomo AG: You mentioned in an interview that you found yourself by co-incidence in journalism, so how did you know that this was the path for you? ZJ: I knew because I had spent that month at the Argus by co-incidence in the late 70s, not through conscious...