“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
Reading the Palms of the Time is an anthology of contemporary South African plays and is the first publication by Diartskonageng.
It features work by renowned South African playwrights Xoli Norman, Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, Aubrey Sekhabi, Kgafela oa Mogogodi and Monageng “Vice” Motshabi.
The featured work, Hallelujah!, Inter-racial and Book of Rebellations, includes collaborative work between some of these writers and explores questions of race and political power in post 1994 South Africa.