EXCLUSIVE: Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine speaks to M&G from exile in the US, calls for sanctions against Museveni
Exiled politician calls for sanctions against President Yoweri Museveni’s regime
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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft: A story of servitude, survival and the search for home
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with Theft, a moving portrait of loss, longing, and the elusive idea of home.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found — A profound portrait of the artist in exile
Ernest Cole’s untold story comes home — with a revealing documentary premiering at the Joburg Film Festival this week
Morley Nkosi finds his way back home in his book
His autobiography The Way Home is an account of the travails of life in exile
ANC: A corrupt party culture leads to a corrupt government
Incompetence, corruption and cronyism are part of many liberation organisations for complex reasons, but such organisational culture tends to persist into government.
Q&A Sessions: Lebo M — a lifetime of roaring
Lebo M tells us about his journey from South Africa to Hollywood, his days as a ballroom dancer and his successful battle against alcohol abuse.
Interview with Michela Wrong: The tool of power in Rwanda is fear
Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid, the theme of her latest book
The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home
Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence
Exile, exhilaration and Jonas Gwangwa’s case of the ‘South African Blues’
The 1990 documentary ‘South African Blues’ offers insight into the effects of exile on Jonas Gwangwa’s psyche
Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala
The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she hates horror movies
‘Don’t vote, overthrow the dictators’
Tanzania’s opposition leader, who is again in exile, says ‘instead of telling people to vote, we should be telling them to prepare for popular revolt
‘Before Night Falls’: Reinaldo Arenas breaks down (in) Fidel Castro’s Cuba
Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir reveals the contradiction of a revolutionary society ruled by an autocrat
Review: Thandi Ntuli’s double consciousness on ‘Live at Jazzwerkstatt’
Thandi Ntuli’s new album, ‘Live at Jazzwerkstatt’, is a radiant turn, with dark a darker meta-narrative
George Hallett: Nomad, raconteur and photographer who ‘became the camera’
The renowned South African photographer understood how to look for the tucked-away spaces that were the sources of both light and dark
What exile means to creatives
Clockwise from top left: Maurice T Nyagumbo, Ruth Nomonde Chinamano, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Ziyaphapha Manyika, Johanna Nkomo and Robson Manyika. The stamps appear in the book as a way of writing Zimbabwe’s lesser known political figures into the canon
The forgotten cadres are the ANC’s loss
The death of an Eighties student activist reminds us how much South Africa owes to that generation
Obituary: A leader with backbone
Historians may struggle to pick Zola Skweyiya’s greatest political legacy, because there are several contenders
​Unembargoed: April 6 to 12
Defiant Zuma supporters get ready to march on SA courts; the quotas question in the DA and paying tribute to Comrade Zami, Winnie Mandela. Read more!
Playwright opens file on OR Tambo the dictator
Pushing past fears of creating a critical dialogue of the ANC’s revered leader, a new conversation opens
The people’s war updated
An underground operative challenges many established views about important aspects of the struggle