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Since 1922 we have been curating and publishing innovative research that informs debate for the greater good of society. African Content. Global Impact.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined June 2009
From shtetl to colony: Deborah Posel’s new book traces Jewish migration to South Africa through her grandfather’s journey. 📖🌍 https://t.co/yw96yE18yU 💻 Leslie Swartz, @StellenboschUni and Deborah Posel, @UCT_news
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theconversation.com
Not all early 20th century Jewish immigrants to South Africa were commercially successful.
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Can Themba’s literary spirit blazes on! Launched under @TheDALRO Can Themba Merit Award, WHEN WATER WANTS TO is an anthology collection that honors the past while nurturing the future of SA literature 🕯️ @WitsPress @MarketTheatre @ukzncca
https://t.co/yHniQxmYlE
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The Dramatic, Artistic & Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO) marked World Literary Day and the 58th anniversary of Can Themba's death with the launch of When Water Wants To, the inaugural anthology...
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You can find more info about this anthology of short stories here:
witspress.co.za
Playing with genre conventions and inhabiting a multitude of perspectives and unruly voices, these stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical. Exciting new authors confirm the...
Attended awards ceremony for Dalro Merit Award honoring memory of Can Themba @Exclusives in Rosebank last night-Ten finalists all present, & a Q&A with the runner-up & winner. @WitsPress launched anthology of their works 'When Water Wants To'
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Attended awards ceremony for Dalro Merit Award honoring memory of Can Themba @Exclusives in Rosebank last night-Ten finalists all present, & a Q&A with the runner-up & winner. @WitsPress launched anthology of their works 'When Water Wants To'
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Tonight we celebrate storytelling at its boldest at @ExclusiveBooks Rosebank for the launch of When Water Wants To, in collaboration with @WitsPress, @MarketTheatre, and the @ukzncca. #WhenWaterWantsTo #DALROCTMA #LiteraryDay #CanThembaDay #WitsPress #TheMarketTheatre #UKZNCCA
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Celebrating the Legacy of Master Storyteller, Can Themba - with Bold new Voices. When Water Wants To - a brand new Anthology Edited by @neilcoppen 📖 Grab your copy now! https://t.co/AnfWBspauN
#WhenWaterWantsTo #DALROCTMA
#LiteraryDay #CanThembaDay #WitsPress
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In 2022, I was a research assistant for Dr. Nkoala on research into the Early Indigenous South African Black Press a powerful model for decoloniality and multilingualism in journalism education. We must embed this history in our journalism schools. It's pedagogy!
Umteteli wa Bantu, which means "Mouthpiece of the People," was a South African weekly newspaper established in 1920 by the Native Recruiting Corporation (NRC) and the Chamber of Mines. Created to counter the growing militancy of Black workers after the 1920 mineworkers strike as
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The Market Theatre Accessed: 25 August 2025, 17:00. https://t.co/5v4lcpYVOZ Baxter Theatre Accessed: 25 August 2025. 17:00.
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This #WomensMonth we honour the fire & resilience of South African women. ‘Isidlamlilo / The Fire Eater’ tells the story of Zenzile Maseko — a former Apartheid-era female assassin navigating violence, patriarchy & survival in a women’s hostel. More: https://t.co/PR1ktzWiU6
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Save 61% on selected books from Wits University Press. Limited Stock. Valid 18-31th August Ts & Cs Apply
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The Nightwatchman: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa by Hlonipha Mokoena 1 Aug. 2025, Wits University Press. https://t.co/PqaD6Xzqjc
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Thrilled to share that my book "Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins" is now out with @WitsPress ! Book launch @LoveBooksJozi on 29 May, details to follow. https://t.co/O4vMT96nzI
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Over the next few months, PsySSA's Decolonising Psychology Division, in collaboration with the Institute for Social and Health Sciences's African Psychologies, will be sharing an exciting reading list on decolonial thought and praxis. #DecolonialReads #DecolonisingKnowledge
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Nigel C Gibson unpacks his book 'Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing', in which he argues that Fanon’s oeuvre is essential to thinking about race today. Watch the FULL interview: https://t.co/AotjyeFlZ5
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CONGRATULATIONS to Prof Tendayi Sithole for receiving the prestigious Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Achievement Award from the The Caribbean Philosophical Association -@caribphil He is the author of Black X: Liberatory thought in Azania. https://t.co/9h2vlK3C9S
caribbeanphilosophy.org
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PODCAST: Fascinating insights in @CapeTalk radio interview with Casey Golomski, author of God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning in South African Elder Care. Give it a listen. @ChuckGski
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CAPE TOWN! Thursday 30 January at 7pm. Join Uhuru Phalafala, poet, academic & author of a book on Keorapetse Kgositsile at the Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, for an event celebrating the life of the late poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile.
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NOW PUBLISHED! Award-winning South African writer, NADIA DAVIDS' new play, HOLD STILL delves into intergenerational trauma, exploring how the legacies of the Holocaust and apartheid shape a family's present. Get your copy from online retailers and bookshops in South Africa.
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How is it possible to write 145-page book about the history of a relatively minor river, 70 km in length – the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape, South Africa – and keep the reader spellbound? Get your copy from Loot, Takealot or Amazon! @iNIHSS @SAHistSoc
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For me the book encapsulates South African history between the early 1700’s and the present day and gives a much better understanding of it.
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Can old racists change? New book tracks seven years in a South African nursing home - "God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End" https://t.co/2Ka1MG7yP4 via @TC_Africa @ChuckGski
theconversation.com
The study of (mostly white) residents and (mostly black) workers in an old age home in South Africa took place over seven years and it upended stereotypes.
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