Poets from around the globe are expected to descend on the Poetry Africa Festival hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts in Durban.

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

After stepping away from performance for seven years, Zewande BK Bhengu makes a triumphant return to claim the South African ...

Cynthia Gabbay receives funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013) / European Research Council grant agreement 615564. Karin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Made possible by the partnership with the City of Johannesburg’s Library and Information Services, the winners will be ...

The struggle of a small Maryland church to protect a historic burial ground recently became the source of inspiration for South African poet Siki Dlanga. Members of the Macedonia Baptist Church in ...

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 ...

STILL LIFE. By Zoe Wicomb. The New Press. 304 pages. $25.99. Typical of her richly complex fiction, Zoe Wicomb’s “Still Life” is an intriguingly metatextual novel that addresses some of the silences ...