Friday, 9 June 2023
Robyn Bloch is a doctor of English literature. Her PhD, from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, looked at complicity and betrayal in apartheid perpetrator narratives written after 2010. She now works as a subeditor for New Frame.
Damon Galgut’s use of irony in his Booker Prize-nominated new novel, The Promise, toes the line between the ironic and the allegorical in masterful fashion.
In an interview, activists Jong Pairez and Bas Umali discuss alternatives to social organisation that move away from the traditional – and often fragmented – Left.
Anti-apartheid activist Hugh Lewin served time and endured exile before returning to South Africa to continue his work in human rights. But it is as an author that he dazzled.