Phaswane Mpe News Today

Challenging myths about heterosexual white South African men, Koos Prinsloo published four books of short stories in 12 years.

Students in the interdisciplinary course Pathogens and Populations: Representing Infectious Disease explored the process of translating scientific information into art and identified what gets lost in translation.

Sunday Times Fiction Award winner Tshidiso Moletsane successfully makes ‘you feel like you are listening to a friend telling you what had just happened’

K Sello Duiker started a trend when he made Cape Town the setting for his award-winning book about falling apart. Rofhiwa Maneta looks at two other novels on the same theme.



2021 has been kind to African literature and Peter Kimani highlights his top five books that tell diverse stories from the continent.

Welcome To Our Hillbrow was a turn-of-the-century exploration of Johannesburg’s inner city by an author who never shed his sense of ubuntu.

South Africas Inability to Confront AIDS vs. American COVID-19 Denial Despite differences between the viruses, there is one factor that has played out in tragically similar ways: neglect and misinformation at the highest levels of government. At a time when the U.S. is experiencing one of the worst COVID-19 infection rates among wealthy nations, Americans could take some cautionary lessons from South Africa, the nation that fared the worst during the HIV/AIDS epidemic because of the many stumbl...