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Mmusi Maimane’s leadership is ‘fairly revolutionary’ for the DA – Ferial...
Late last year, Ferial Haffajee chatted to Insig about the outlook for Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane in 2016. Haffajee’s debut book, What If There Were No Whites In South Africa?, is on...
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On this day: The Battle of Isandlwana, in which Zulu troops inflicted a...
Today, 22 January, is the anniversary of the Battle of Isandlwana, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British and the Zulu Kingdom, and the most serious defeat inflicted on the...
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5 scientific fields to keep an eye on in 2016, according to Innovation author...
Sarah Wild, multi-award-winning science journalist and science editor at the Mail & Guardian, has identified the five key scientific areas we should keep our eyes on in 2016. “Science continues to...
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Pan Macmillan South Africa acquires first book by Trevor Noah
Pan Macmillan South Africa is thrilled to announce that it will publish Trevor Noah’s forthcoming book in November 2016. Pan Macmillan South Africa has acquired southern African rights to comedian...
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French stamp of approval for Imperfect Solo by Steven Boykey Sidley
The French edition of Imperfect Solo by Steven Boykey Sidley has been receiving some excellent media coverage in that country, with the author being compared to heavy hitters such as Joseph Heller,...
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‘Kagiso Rabada is not far off from being captain’– former Cricket SA...
Mtutuzeli Nyoka, former president of Cricket SA and author of Deliberate Concealment: An Insider’s Account of Cricket South Africa and the IPL Bonus Saga, has called for young Protea sensation Kagiso...
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Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance urges public to oppose Eskom rate hike
Outa has released a statement to the effect that Eskom’s latest application to hike up its rates was based on claiming costs for electricity it had never generated. The former Opposition to Urban...
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Ferial Haffajee has done the maths: ‘No whites in South Africa’ is not the...
Why this obsession with whiteness, and white supremacy? Where will it lead? Is the idea of a non-racial rainbow nation outdated? These are some of Ferial Haffajee’s key questions in her...
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‘Fiction is like exercise for the mind’– Alex van Tonder
Alex van Tonder, a South African celebrity blogger and advertising creative whose debut novel This One Time was released last year, has written a piece around the question, “Why Read Fiction?” Van...
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Getting to grips with why race is still a divisive issue in South Africa
Lyn Snodgrass, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University The title of South African newspaper editor Ferial Haffajee’s book, What If There Were No Whites In South Africa?, is provocative on many levels....
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Why is the discovery of gravitational waves a big deal? Sarah Wild explains
Last week, as South Africans were following the 2016 State of the Nation and related drama, a significant scientific announcement was made: Scientists had detected gravitational waves. If you have no...
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Presenting Own Your Space: The Toolkit For The Working Woman by Nadia Bilchik...
Own Your Space: The Toolkit For The Working Woman by Nadia Bilchik and Lori Milner will be published by Pan Macmillan next month: Own Your Space provides practical tools and insights gleaned from...
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‘Tears and celebrations’– Alex Eliseev on the guilty verdict for Betty...
Three men were today convicted of killing Thandiwe Betty Ketani‚ a chef at a popular Johannesburg restaurant‚ nearly 17 years after she disappeared. Alex Eliseev, whose book on the case, Cold Case...
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Most people agree that we are living in a time of white supremacy – Ferial...
During a recent presentation on her new book What If There Were No Whites In South Africa?, Ferial Haffajee made a powerful statement: “Most people agree that we are living in a time of white...
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Hot off the press: A new edition of Khaya Dlanga’s To Quote Myself, with a...
If, like me, you are curious to read beyond the self-conscious title, you’ll find that Khaya Dlanga can actually swing, sell and sing a pretty good tale. Throw in the mix some raw, pull-ya-self by...
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Outa says the fuel levy hike ‘will push up the cost of living’ for everyone
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa, previously the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance) said it found it “strange” that government “has no problem increasing the general fuel levy by 60 cents...
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Jub Jub, Oscar Pistorius – that could have been me: Read an excerpt from...
Pan Macmillan has shared an excerpt from I Ran For My Life: My Story by Kabelo Mabalane. In I Ran For My Life, Mabalane shares his extraordinary life journey, from being a multi-platinum-selling...
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Sanral is flogging a dead horse, says Outa’s Wayne Duvenage
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) says Sanral’s announcement that civil summonses will be issued to e-toll defaulters is merely a scare tactic for motorists and a show of force for the benefit...
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‘The black writer is the least marketable in this country’– Khaya Dlanga...
Khaya Dlanga has written a response to a recent piece by Rod MacKenzie titled “Can a white man tell Khaya Dlanga how to write a memoir?” The article, published on the Mail & Guardian Thought Leader...
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‘The ANC government has been zombified’– Malema after Nkandla judgment
Commander-in-Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema has vowed not to allow President Jacob Zuma to speak in Parliament again, adding that his party will stop him physically. “Zuma...
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