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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…

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.


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…

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…

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…

#RobertMangalisoSobukwe Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province, today 100 years ago. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)


"Today Sobukwe stands for decolonisation as a mode of subjectivity and culture, decolonisation as a pervasive condition of political desire." Mail & Guardian Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust Remember R Sobukwe SA History Online mg.co.za/friday/2024-12…


"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…


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…

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

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…



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…

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

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


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…
