Category: Opinion

Derek Attridge, University of York Zoë Wicomb, a celebrated South African-Scottish writer and scholar, has died. All my memories of her crystallise around her voice: it brought a small piece … Read More

Mariapaola McGurk, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Johannesburg is weathering a storm of crises. Nowhere is its complex tangle of challenges more visible than in the inner city, where … Read More

Darius Brubeck, University of KwaZulu-Natal Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South … Read More

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Cornell University Netflix began its Africa operations in South Africa in 2016. When the US streaming giant announced it was setting up shop in Nigeria in 2020, … Read More

By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor After his demise the social media platforms became abuzz with messages of both mourning and celebration of a life well lived by one of the … Read More

By Gregory Maqoma The Great Illusion: How Government Funding in South Africa Has Been Engineered for Dependence, Perhaps Even More For Humiliation. Government funding in South Africa, especially in the … Read More

Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising … Read More