If the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 signaled the imminent collapse of apartheid, what did the prospect of massive social change mean for South African poetry, a poetry for many years ...

Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot itself in the foot. On the one hand, after a horrifying exposé of jail conditions in Drum magazine at the end of ...

English in Africa, Vol. 46, No. 2 (AUGUST 2019), pp. 103-122 (20 pages) This article analyses a selection of South African English and Afrikaans humorous and satirical poems and songs about the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

English in Africa is a scholarly journal devoted to writing in the English language in Africa. Founded in 1974, it focuses on original research on African writing in English, with a leaning towards ...

Articles. Return to West Africa / Abioseh Nicol -- Requiem for Sophiatown / Can Themba -- Ibos as they are / Onyenaekeya Udeagu -- The widows of the reserves / Phyllis Ntantala -- Why I ran away / ...

South African poet, The Imperfect Poet comes out of two months of hibernation….reflecting on life, love and the purpose of breathing. Not necessarily the best state to exist in but it's been working ...

BWEF and CSP launch 18 Moyeng, a six-month poetry and prose internship designed to develop young literary talent in the Vaal.

Lee Mokobe is a 19-year-old from Capetown who started Vocal Revolutionaries, an activist poetry collective. For his accomplishments, Mokobe was invited to be a TED2015 fellow and speaker—the ...

Over 200 dignitaries attended the ceremony, which is increasingly being regarded as the “Oscars” of the literary calendar in ...

Keith Gottschalk is an ANC member, but writes this review in his personal capacities as a historian and a poet. Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot ...