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Taking Guard in Inner-city Johannesburg—Read an excerpt from Niren Tolsi’s new book Writing Around the Wicket: Race, Class and History in South African Cricket

December 19, 2024December 19, 2024Niren TolsiLeave a Comment

The JRB presents an excerpt from Writing Around the Wicket: Race, Class and History in South African Cricket by Niren…

[City Editor] ‘Who owns it, who visits it, who is it for?’ Lidudumalingani visits Joburg’s James Hall Museum of Transport

October 8, 2020October 13, 2021LidudumalinganiLeave a Comment

It’s an odd, even an imperfect location to build a museum—to build, many may argue, any kind of structure at…

Reflections on an afternoon in Coyaba—Elinor Sisulu on meeting Peter Abrahams, an almost forgotten South African literary centenarian

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019Elinor Sisulu2 Comments

This year marks one hundred years since Peter Abrahams’s birth. Elinor Sisulu reflects on her meeting with the author at…

Biography & Memoir

Nelson Mandela’s ‘new’ collection of prison dispatches signs his name across our hearts: Bongani Madondo reviews The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

August 6, 2018September 26, 2018Bongani MadondoLeave a Comment

Torn for so long between anxiety and awe at the idolisation of Nelson Mandela, The JRB Contributing Editor Bongani Madondo…

The Durban Riots and an ‘ambitious re-examination’ of the relationship between Africans and Indians–Alex Lichtenstein reviews Jon Soske’s Internal Frontiers

August 6, 2018August 6, 2018Alex LichtensteinLeave a Comment

By recentering the narrative on Durban and Natal, rather than Johannesburg and the Transvaal, Jon Soske modifies the established account…

[The JRB Exclusive] ‘What African Nationalism Is’—Read an excerpt from Africa’s Cause Must Triumph: The Collected Writings of AP Mda

August 6, 2018August 14, 2018The JRBLeave a Comment

The JRB is proud to present an excerpt from Africa’s Cause Must Triumph: The Collected Writings of AP Mda. Africa’s Cause…

‘Spending time with Bra Willie is the closest thing to being in touch with the soul of this country’: Read Mandla Langa’s Introduction to Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Homesoil in My Blood

March 5, 2018June 3, 2018The JRB2 Comments

Homesoil in My Blood: A Trilogy Keorapetse Kgositsile Xarra Books, 2018 Exclusive to The JRB, we present author Mandla Langa’s…

Biography & Memoir

Linger No More: Mandela speaks from the grave, and Bongani Madondo speaks to his medium, author Mandla Langa

November 6, 2017January 12, 2018Bongani Madondo1 Comment

Nelson Mandela altered the world. He affected everyone in it, in ways few will ever manage. He also died before…