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Dr Billy Keniston unpacks his book 'Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground', the first book-length account of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon in this interview with Thabi Madiba of Polity.org.za . polity.org.za/article/aparth…

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Congratulations to Dr Siphiwo Mahala for winning the University of Johannesburg's VC's Distinguished Award for Book of the Year! His book, Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, offers a definitive study on the iconic Drum-era journalist and writer.

Congratulations to <a href="/SiphiwoMahala/">Dr Siphiwo Mahala</a> for winning the University of Johannesburg's VC's Distinguished Award for Book of the Year! His book, Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, offers a definitive study on the iconic Drum-era journalist and writer.
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Excerpt: Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press edited by Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr @WiSER AUPresses 📚 brittlepaper.com/2024/11/excerp…

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Silenced and almost erased from history: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and the new book with his writings and essays about him by others, Darkest Before Dawn. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust News24 🇿🇦 news24.com/life/books/ext…

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Just published is a 2nd volume of writings by Sobukwe, Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. Available from online retailers RobertMSobukweTrust Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) witspress.co.za/page/detail/?K…

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NEW BOOK is now FREE to download from oapen.org 'Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press' has been made Open Access. Click on the LOCK on the page below to access the book. WiSER witspress.co.za/page/detail/Pu…

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"As we witness the colonial death drive smashing through Gaza, and now Lebanon too, Frantz Fanon’s work takes on a painfully urgent intensity." Nigel C Gibson’s new book Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing is published by Wits University Press Wits Politics mg.co.za/thought-leader…

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HEADS UP for online event!! Casey Golomski, author of 'God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End' will be giving a talk about his book, an exploration of life in a South African nursing home. It is now published with Wits University Press.

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One Hundred Years of Book Covers — Read here more about the remarkable changes in scholarly book publishing over the last 100 years in South Africa. An excerpt from Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press AUPresses 📚 WiSER johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2024/12/19/one…

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Can old racists change? New book tracks seven years in a South African nursing home - "God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End" theconversation.com/can-old-racist… via The Conversation Africa 🕊 casey golomski

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How is it possible to write 145-page book about the history of a relatively minor river, 70 km in length – the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape, South Africa – and keep the reader spellbound? Get your copy from Loot, Takealot or Amazon! [email protected] Southern African Historical Society sagoodnews.co.za/writing-the-an…

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NOW PUBLISHED! Award-winning South African writer, NADIA DAVIDS' new play, HOLD STILL delves into intergenerational trauma, exploring how the legacies of the Holocaust and apartheid shape a family's present. Get your copy from online retailers and bookshops in South Africa.

NOW PUBLISHED! Award-winning South African writer, NADIA DAVIDS' new play, HOLD STILL delves into intergenerational trauma, exploring how the legacies of the Holocaust and apartheid shape a family's present. Get your copy from online retailers and bookshops in South Africa.
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CAPE TOWN! Thursday 30 January at 7pm. Join Uhuru Phalafala, poet, academic & author of a book on Keorapetse Kgositsile at the Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, for an event celebrating the life of the late poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile.

CAPE TOWN!  Thursday 30 January at 7pm.  Join Uhuru Phalafala, poet, academic &amp; author of a book on Keorapetse Kgositsile at the Chimurenga Factory,  157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, for an event celebrating the life of the late poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile.
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PODCAST: Fascinating insights in CapeTalk on 567AM radio interview with Casey Golomski, author of God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning in South African Elder Care. Give it a listen. 🕊 casey golomski omny.fm/shows/mid-morn…

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CONGRATULATIONS to Prof Tendayi Sithole for receiving the prestigious Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Achievement Award from the The Caribbean Philosophical Association -Caribbean Philosophical Association He is the author of Black X: Liberatory thought in Azania. caribbeanphilosophy.org/nicolas-guillen

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Nigel C Gibson unpacks his book 'Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing', in which he argues that Fanon’s oeuvre is essential to thinking about race today. Watch the FULL interview: ow.ly/AwYJ50Vh4Ju Wits University Press

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Over the next few months, PsySSA's Decolonising Psychology Division, in collaboration with the Institute for Social and Health Sciences's African Psychologies, will be sharing an exciting reading list on decolonial thought and praxis. #DecolonialReads #DecolonisingKnowledge

Over the next few months, PsySSA's Decolonising Psychology Division, in collaboration with the Institute for Social and Health Sciences's African Psychologies, will be sharing an exciting reading list on decolonial thought and praxis. 

#DecolonialReads #DecolonisingKnowledge
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Thrilled to share that my book "Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins" is now out with Wits University Press ! Book launch Love Books on 29 May, details to follow. witspress.co.za/page/detail/Ma…

Thrilled to share that my book "Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins" is now out with <a href="/WitsPress/">Wits University Press</a> ! Book launch <a href="/LoveBooksJozi/">Love Books</a>  on 29 May, details to follow. witspress.co.za/page/detail/Ma…