South Africa

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Call of the wild collector

28 Aug 2020

Walking at ‘botanist pace’ on Mount Terror in South Africa, Dr Ángela Cano likes to stop and smell the succulents. She then measures, photographs...

One of Sabelo Mlangeni's images going on display at MAA from today

The Longing of Belonging: African photography on show at MAA

13 Jun 2017

A photography exhibition capturing the black South African Zionist community – the most popular religious denomination in the country – opens at the...

Multiplier effect: the African PhD students who will grow African research

21 Feb 2017

Taskeen Adam and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi are part of a PhD programme that’s enrolling five African students per year for five years, to help train...

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

The artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

Nadine Gordimer in conversation at the Mail & Guardian Literary Festival 2012, Credit: Saaleha Bamjee

On not forgetting Nadine Gordimer

16 Jul 2014

In this article, originally posted on the CRASSH website, Graham Riach – a PhD candidate in the English Faculty working on South African literature...

South African crime-fiction wave hits Cambridge

20 May 2013

Amid high-profile, real-life murder investigations and growing concerns about public safety, a new breed of crime fiction is sweeping South Africa...

Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers

22 Jun 2012

A new exhibition launching at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the psychology and politics of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa...