Matthew Krouse’s ‘mid-career retrospective of a no career’
An exhibition of Matthew Krouse’s underground films reveal an agitator awed by the tradition of ‘dirty queens’
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‘Courageous reinvention’: an extract from Mark Gevisser’s ‘The Pink Line’
In this extract from Mark Gevisser’s new book, Aunty, fleeing abuse and witchcraft, treks to northern Malawi
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M&G presents Turning Points by the New York Times
The New York Times has selected the M&G above all others to bring their premium, agenda-setting content to South Africa.
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Aids, lies and dissidents
Like many people,Ronald Suresh Roberts may think Thabo Mbeki’s dissident views on Aids ”flat earth crap”.
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Arms: How Mbeki meddled
There is strong evidence that the deposed president undermined the investigation into South Africa’s arms procurement.
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Political books go pop
South Africans search for bookish answers in a time of political doubt, writes Nosimilo Ndlovu.
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A stunted af(fair)
If the Cape Town Book Fair is to mean something beyond an exercise in retailing it needs to seize opportunities to be unique, writes Darryl Accone.
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Won the state, lost the party
There is a moment when you can sense the power draining away, when a point of no return has been reached and passed. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing that moment now in Britain, as a sense of staleness, sleaze and incompetence overwhelms his government.
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Journalist demands apology from Gevisser
Journalist Charlene Smith on Friday demanded a public apology from Mark Gevisser, author of the book Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred, saying he had published ”serious inaccuracies”. She was referring to an article by her, published in the Washington Post, that Gevisser quoted in his biography of Mbeki.
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Fishing for clues in the ruling party’s stream
At last Mark Gevisser’s long-awaited biography of Thabo Mbeki is out. For a project that began in 1999 and took eight years to complete, the title <i>The Dream Deferred</i> seems especially apt. As a subject, Mbeki is a walking "writer’s block". Not only is he a densely complex person, as the book confirms, but he shimmers in the light, making it all but impossible to have a single thesis to explain the man.
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Six years on: Mbeki, the Aids dissident
President Thabo Mbeki remains an ”Aids dissident” who has told a biographer that he regrets bowing to pressure from his Cabinet to ”withdraw from the debate” over the disease ravaging South Africa. According to a long-awaited biography by Mark Gevisser, the president feels aggrieved that he was deflected from continuing to question the causes of the epidemic.
