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Prof Njabulo Ndebele

Mar 31, 2015

Professor Njabulo Ndebele is Chairman of The Nelson Mandela Foundation, and The Mandela Rhodes...

Professor Njabulo Ndebele’s full speech at the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

Jul 24, 2018

The full address of Nelson Mandela Foundation chairperson Professor Njabulo Ndebele at the 16th...

Mandela & Rhodes: Trying to reconcile the irreconcilable?

Apr 1, 2015

An “exhausting, painful, exhilarating” soul searching session

The late Ernest Mancoba, painter and sculptor, should be to South Africans as Van Gogh is to the Dutch and Picasso is to the Spanish. He, like others, have for too long been excluded from the South African narrative. He is considered to be in a class of his own and yet his work is not sufficiently studied at South African universities or art schools. The father of writer Njabulo Ndebele, Nimrod Ndebele, a playwright and friend, is known to have described Mancoba as the leading intellectual of his generation in the 1930s.

Man of Letters and a Champion of Books

Nov 27, 2018

Tribute to Flaxman Qoopane (July 23, 1955 – November 22, 2017)

Flaxman Qoopane was a cultural activist, poet, writer and journalist passed away almost a year ago at the tender age of 62. During his time he churned out countless books and articles in a variety of publications and contributed immensely to African literature and academia at large. Some of his books include From My Diary, A Poet Abroad, Letters to a Poet (edited by Molebogeng Alitta Mokhuoa) as well as Adventures in Journalism…