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Artists, from playwrights novelists, painters to moviemakers, have played a major role in keeping the story of the June 16 1976 Uprising alive. Fred Khumalo looks at some of the more recent works of art inspired by and in memory of the Soweto Revolution.

With the untimely death of Tiego Moseneke in a car crash on 19 April 2023, our country has been robbed of a formidable activist, keen lawyer and astute businessman.

Some implicated in the Zondo report are using the media to engage in a strategy to undermine the Commission’s findings and the judiciary.

Chasing quality, not clicks

Poet, author and community worker Colin Smuts was fearless – or ‘unbung’ – in his activism, using drama, art, literature and music to foster critical thinking and to fight for non-racialism.

1 June 2021 - Judy Seidman Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensembles contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing. The collective was formed by South African cultural activists exiled after the 1976 Soweto uprising and it worked with artists back home, Botswana citizens, and some from other countries. Medu used the creative arts – visual image, theatre, music and literature – to give voice to South Africa’s liberation str...

Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensemble's contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing.

This year, Exclusive Books celebrates 70 years of getting more books to more people. Exclusive Books opened their first store on King George Street in Johannesburg in 1951 and have since expanded to 41 bricks-and-mortar stores, and of course the virtual www.exclusivebooks.co.za. Exclusive Books will mark this happy milestone in a year peppered with celebratory plans – special promotions, book donation drives and story-sharing. Win Exclusive Books vouchers worth R500 each As part of The South...

Wamuwi Mbao In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, fifty years of protest poetry are brought together in one volume by literary critic and lecturer Dr Wamuwi Mbao. The animating impulse behind this collection of old and new voices is ‘decolonisation’, a term which has regained prominence over the last few years. It allows us to perceive how different South African poets have placed their work in the world, and how that work might relate to the struggle for radical...

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