by Vonani Bila 1- Who is İlyas Tunç and when did you encounter poetry ? I was born in 1956 in Ordu, Turkey. I taught English in the primary schools for twenty eight years. Last year I became retired. And for sixteen years I’ve been living in Sinop, the city of...
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James Matthews: Still Kicking Butt @ 77
by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo Veteran educator and social activist, Yusuf Cajee recently shared with me his recollections of the time he was arrested by the South African Police while distributing copies of Muslim Views (then Muslim News) which were accompanied by...
Mthwa and Hlubi
by Mbizo Mzamane We Africans do not refer to ourselves as coming from or being members of “tribes”. Both presently and historically the term used to indicate the people you were borne of is “clan”. My family is descendant of a number of clans. One is Mthwa...
The Ballad of Sugar Moon and Coffin Deadly
by Mphutlane wa Bofelo Aryan Kaganof is a writer who possesses the rare capability to capture grotesque and bleak scenes and moments in words of a lyrical and poetic beauty that land deep into the heart and mind of a reader like the melody of a serenading love...
The Liberation in Question
by Jean-Francois Kouadio Abidjan is indescribable tonight. All thieves, out-laws and maladjusted people that the quasi-informal situation of the Coup d’Etat has excited, are at their coward’s task. Acts ordinarily repugnant to moral principals are suddenly...
Grab and Bang – Man, Where’s the Condom? AIDS Crisis in South Africa Today
by Vonani Bila In 1990, South Africa had an infection rate of less than one percent. By 1999, an average infection rate had peaked to 22.4 per cent. By the same year, a projected twenty-five per cent of all pregnant women in the country were already HIV-positive. In...
Utoponil: A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Xenophobia
by J. Martin Labuschagne There was a fluttering of papers and white coats as the new psychiatry students walked behind Professor Doctor Franz T. Smalberger through the Xenophobia wing of the Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Hospital. He only stopped when he reached the...
President Zuma, The Market and the Spectre of Culture
by Mark Espin Much has been written about this country’s President, his questionable morality, his prowess with machines and his potent productivity. There have no doubt been several missives from religious practitioners arguing for urgent ethical rejuvenation...