STACEY FRU: YOUNGEST ICONIC AUTHOR FROM SA

STACEY FRU: YOUNGEST ICONIC AUTHOR FROM SA

BY DR TSHEPO MVULANE MOLOI Tshepo Mvulane Moloi: As jollities of women’s month draw to an end, I wish to wax lyrical about teenager Stacey Fru as an imminent South African literati. Predictably the bulk of the public may retort, to candidly pose the transient question...
ZWELETHU-OUR LAND BY JAKI SEROKE

ZWELETHU-OUR LAND BY JAKI SEROKE

Thanks to NB Publishers, keen readers interested in South Africa’s ‘Social History’, are in for a treat, from a new book, about the life story of Mr Jaki Stone Stroke, entitled Zwelethu-Our Land. Explicably Zwelethu was Mr Seroke’s nickname (p.64), inspired by his...
NTONGELA MASILELA (1948-2020): IN MEMORIA

NTONGELA MASILELA (1948-2020): IN MEMORIA

By Dr. Tshepo Mvulane Moloi It was with despair, to receive the dreadful news on Monday morning, 6th of July 2020 that South African Professor Ntongela Masilela had transitioned to the ancestral realm. The unofficial cause of death was instantly explicated to...
NONI JABAVU EXHIBITION GOES VIRTUAL

NONI JABAVU EXHIBITION GOES VIRTUAL

As part of women’s month celebrations in South Africa, the Amazwi South African Museum of Literature-based in Makhanda, continued to renew its efforts of striving to live up to its mandate, ‘to promote and preserve vital South African Literary Works’, by hosting a...
70th ANNIVERSARY OF DRUM MAGAZINE

70th ANNIVERSARY OF DRUM MAGAZINE

Since August 2020 DRUM magazine, perhaps owing to the Corona Virus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the forthcoming demands of the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), transitioned to become South Africa’s weekly fully digital magazine. It however still claims to target...