We need to read good literature to help us once again find connection with one another. Tragically, we have been desensitised ...

Composer and educator Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904-1980) is probably best known for a few evergreen choral works, including Della and Sylvia, still sung by choirs across South Africa today.And, of ...

A multitude of books have been published about writing and the writing process, and the works that comprise this genre are surprisingly diverse. Some volumes are largely prescriptive—think of Strunk ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

The true depth of Michael Mosoeu Moerane’s work as a composer and educator is revealed in a stunning new biography called The Times Do Not Permit.

Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic powerhouse, is showing alarming signs of collapse, with its crumbling bridges now joining the long list of failing infrastructure. Less than 6% of the city ...

The former couple faces a lawsuit from a woman who worked for the couple in New Zealand. The items that vanished from the National Library of Scotland in the 1960s included poems and songs. The ...

In South Africa, the interest rates decisions are taken by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at ...

In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People ... "When I see the repetition of the blue, and particularly the repetition among Black women of the South, I think of it as a ...