Issue 91 | The Journalist

From a protector to a threat

by journalist | Aug 30, 2017 | Spotlight | 27

Grace Mugabe: Interests of the State placed ahead of individual human security

Strike a woman, strike a rock

by journalist | Aug 30, 2017 | Kau Kauru Voices | 2188

Women will continue to fight against violence and abuse

“Umama woManyano Ngumama!” and post-apartheid feminisms

by journalist | Aug 30, 2017 | Spotlight | 1743

It is impossible to use linear understandings to determine the legitimacy of such spaces, particularly for black women

Public intellectuals and gatekeepers of knowledge

by journalist | Aug 30, 2017 | Spotlight, Uhuru Now | 510

Podcast: The Academic Citizen

The Mesh: Connecting with environmental damage

by journalist | Aug 30, 2017 | Art | 10

Exhibition investigates our overworked eco-system and the hope for repair

“The Mesh”, an art installation by Keith Armstrong, with contributions by Thabang Mofokeng was exhibited at the University of the Free State’s Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery earlier this month, Thabo Twala reports.

Following a lecture on cultural studies with a particular focus on the broadened definition of the concept of a “text”, I felt the need to try and look at things from that perspective. Now, I certainly wasn’t going to read an activity like studying, as a text. That gets enough attention as it is.

The Long Hard Fight For News on Robben Island

by journalist | Aug 30, 2017 | The Craft | 312

News snuck in under tables, hidden in porridge and in repaired shoes

As we celebrate media freedom this year, I am reminded of the many years we spent on Robben Island where there was a total news blackout. It was the 1960s, and the prison authorities in what was arguably one of the worst penal colonies in the world, very deliberately suppressed any news getting to us as political prisoners. Sunny Singh, Robben Island Prisoner No. 67/6 recalls his time as a political prisoner.

Discovering Clements Kadalie’s writing

by journalist | Aug 30, 2017 | Pioneers | 4292

Essayist, opinion maker and thought leader 1896 – 1951

Clements Kadalie, known for being the first black national trade unionist in Southern Africa was more than a labour activist. He was described by Henry Mitchell, a young historian currently completing his P.h.D research on Kadalie, as a mediator, interpreter and broker between diverse publics, advocating for workers’ rights. This former teacher, used all media platforms at his disposal to make his Pan-Africanist opinions public, an essayist of note…