The man at the bottom of Johannesburg Road in Highlands North, where Berkswell Road intersects it, punching it from the…
By Christa Kuljian and Makhosazana Xaba Transformation Who I was is not who I am.And who I amis not who I…
Sanya Osha remembers the late Harry Garuba, who died earlier this year. Since he passed in February this year, friends…
Achmat Dangor, one of The JRB’s founding Patrons, died in September. Ben Williams remembers him. It is a year of…
It’s an odd, even an imperfect location to build a museum—to build, many may argue, any kind of structure at…
Niq Mhlongo on searching for stories during a pandemic. I arrive in Berlin on Monday, 10 February 2020. It is…
Adam Smyer reflects on a global pandemic and Black Lives Matter. As I write this, we are in roughly Month…
To honour JM Coetzee’s eightieth birthday on 9 February 2020, an exhibition celebrating his life and work titled Scenes from…
As part of our January Conversation Issue, Itumeleng Molefi reflects on Mona Eltahawy’s keynote address and conversation with Pumla Dineo…
The new episode of Read This! is out now—find out what’s hot in the world of books! In this episode, we travel…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Meanwhile … Graphic Short Stories About Everyday Queer Life in Southern and East Africa….
Sandile Ngidi reflects on the life and work of Zulu novelist, poet, scholar, teacher and editor Sibusiso Nyembezi (1919–2000). In…
The following is an edited excerpt from a work in progress by American author Adam Smyer, whose debut novel, Knucklehead,…
Daylin Paul won the Ernest Cole Award, a photography prize for a prospective project, for his debut work Broken Land…
The new episode of our books show Read This!, where we share news of what’s hot in the world of…
Mapule Mohulatsi pays tribute to Toni Morrison, and weighs up the significance of her impact on and conversations with African…
The Johannesburg Review of Books and Volume have launched a new books show called Read This!, where we share news…
This year marks one hundred years since Peter Abrahams’s birth. Elinor Sisulu reflects on her meeting with the author at…
On 25 June 2019, during the State of the Nation (SONA) debate, our Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula tried to impress…
The Johannesburg Review of Books and Volume have launched a new books show called Read This!, where you can discover…
Celebrated novelist and playwright Harry Kalmer has died, at the age of sixty-two. Kalmer passed away on 26 July 2019,…
Writer and publisher Moses Nzama Khaizen Mtileni has died, at the age of thirty-six. Mtileni was shot and fatally wounded…
The JRB presents a new essay by Jacob Dlamini. For Dlamini, what began as a research project on the labour…
City Editor Niq Mhlongo, having just won his first South African prize, shares his gripes and observations on that strange…
Short Story Day Africa is celebrating the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere, with…
Header image: Binyavanga Wainaina (second from left) and Niq Mhlongo (far left), with American author and academic Jeffery Renard Allen, Lesego…
Sifiso Mzobe shows his fellow scribe, and JRB City Editor, Niq Mhlongo around his hometown of Durban during the Time…
Forget about Vilakazi Street, Soweto is deeper than that. When you get off the taxi and you’re a smoker, buy…
The JRB presents an alternative Twitter timeline by Farai Mudzingwa, who imagines what he would have, or could have, posted…
There’s a film that stands the test of time and still resonates with my friends and me: The Shawshank Redemption….
Header image (left to right): Nozizwe Cynthia Jele, Niq Mhlongo, Siyamthanda Skota, Yanele Nyamela, Phindile Mokoena, Outlwile Tsipane and Mũkoma…
Wamuwi Mbao imagines a serial adaptation of Angela Makholwa’s Black Widow Society, a sleekly executed interpretation of HJ Golakai’s The Lazarus…
Fred Khumalo recalls being swept off his feet by Alan Paton, the African Writers Series and James Hadley Chase. It’s a question…
Two problems are gnawing at my heart as we leave Dar es Salaam to Morogoro on the Sunday afternoon of…
Two weeks before the end of our JIAS Fellowship, Niq Mhlongo and I decided that as we had been to…
Author Siphiwo Mahala gave gave his inaugural postdoctoral address last night at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, as part of a…
Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi visited Wits University in August, for a discussion around her debut novel, Kintu. Kintu Jennifer…
About five months ago a very close friend of mine invited me to his wedding. His big day was Saturday,…
VS Naipaul, who died aged eighty-five on Saturday, spent some months in South Africa in 2009, researching his final book….
A major change is happening on the South African literary landscape, and it has its roots in the formation of…
