NOSTALGIC REVISIT TO PRESENT-DAY MARABASTAD
It was a chilly morning on 28 May when Dr Mothobi Mutloatse and yours truly went on a whistle-stop walkabout of Marabastad. The mission was to try and retrace the steps of the late academic and author par excellence, Professor Es’kia Mphahlele, the author of the all-time classic, “Down Second Avenue”. Indeed our port of […]
ZAMA-ZAMAS OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE
An exploration of memory, myth, and the posthumous mining of liberation credentials Gold from the Grave These days, it seems that to die in South Africa is to finally receive your liberation stripes. A friend sent me a link to a social media tribute the other day. The dearly departed was someone we had all […]