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Month: April 2019

  • Rebels and Rage: Reflecting on #FeesMustFall; and We Are No Longer At Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall

    Adam Habib, Rebels and Rage: Reflecting on #FeesMustFall (Jonathan Ball, 2019); and Wandile Ngcaweni and Busani Ngcaweni (eds) We Are No Longer at Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall (Jacana, 2018) WORLDWIDE, the shelf life of […]

    April 30, 2019Book Reviews

     
  • Child at the Edge and End of Empire: A Memoir of Nassau in the 1960s

    PRELUDE What we call ‘my life’ is but a constantly rewritten version of our own past. ‘My life’ is the mental autobiography with which and by which we all live. What really happened is quite […]

    April 29, 2019Memoirs

     
  • To Kill the Truth

    SAM Bourne is the author of political thrillers. His real-life persona is Jonathan Freedland, one of the Guardian’s acute columnists and a commentator on British current events, especially Brexit, and Jewish affairs. His opinion piece […]

    April 24, 2019Sharp Thoughts

     
  • Africa’s Holocaust

    ‘IN Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God.’ Those […]

    April 5, 2019Sharp Thoughts

     

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