The upcoming elections in South Africa in 2024 are unlikely to serve the interests of the people. Instead, they are poised to benefit the capital bosses. This assertion can be understood through a Gramscian-Marxist analysis, which highlights how the ruling class maintains its power and control over society.

The longer Madala remained in his worried state, the more urgent my curiosity became. This led to a barrage of questions, asked in polite yet searching tones: Were his books ready? How many? Had he managed to find transportation?

Following the underground success of their self- funded debut album, Queernomics, the newly monikered S’BO GYRE has broken into the mainstream music arena with his latest offering – Altar Call.

One of the dangerous disadvantages of the failure of the Azanian revolutionary project, as symbolized by Poqo’s “one settler, one bullet” battle cry, is that the liberal nonracialism of the Charterists managed to redeem abelumbi/ wizards or white settlers.

In a more contemporary study by Sandra Sanyagitha Sooklal, it is stated that the origins of "The history of technical and vocational education in South Africa are bound up with the early development of the South African economy and the discovery of diamonds and gold in the 19th Century" (Sooklal; 2005:19).

Award winning director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s You’re My Favourite Place sees four freedom seeking teenage girls commemorate their last day at school with a road trip to the ‘Hole In The Wall’- a coastal landmark with the reputation of harbouring the spirits of the dead.

They can never look us dead in the eye for fear of facing the truth we are—the spark they ignited and neglected. What are we to them but an interference and a collage of ugly adjectives: ungrateful, lazy, confused, addicts...

In my quest to comprehend how this text should potentially be framed as social commentary on the current status quo of the continent, the fact of Othello being a black man accused of murdering his white wife would have provoked discourse on South Africa's underlying racial prejudices and the general air of distrust that lurks between us as a residue of our unresolved past.