Category: Opinion

Casper Lӧtter, North-West University Recently, South Africans were told about an extraordinary escape story – they learnt that a convicted rapist, Thabo Bester, had been at large for a year … Read More

Garhe Osiebe, Rhodes University Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido (David Adeleke) has demonstrated himself to be a master of showboating. He is able to milk every situation to the maximum. And … Read More

Tim Forssman, University of Mpumalanga Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out from … Read More

Ilana Webster-Kogen, SOAS, University of London As the Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou approached the age of 100, fans and music critics from the US to Ethiopia, Israel to Europe … Read More

Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria The immediate public reaction to the death of Gloria Bosman from a short respiratory illness on 14 March 2023 was shocked disbelief. The multiple award-winning … Read More

Athambile Masola, University of Cape Town Noni Jabavu was the first black South African woman to publish memoirs and one of the first African women to pursue a literary career … Read More

Sanya Osha, University of Cape Town Toyin Falola, distinguished professor of history, is one of Africa’s most accomplished intellectuals. Born Oloruntoyin Falola in 1953 in the Nigerian city of Ibadan, … Read More