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Afro Story: Africana at the push of a button

A new reading app plans to make relevant literature easily available

Kwanele Sosibo

The Ashley Kriel Detachment was among the most successful in Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the seven units having carried out more than 30 operations between 1987 and 1990. (Courtesy of Nadine Cloete)

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‘Voices from the Underground’: in service for our liberation

These 18 stories from members of MK’s Ashley Kriel detachment teach the meaning of sacrifice

Nadine Cloete

Shaun Viljoen’s biography of Richard Rive left out the bits in which his subject would have gloried. (Stephen Gray)

Richard Rive biography: Where’s the roistering braggart?

A new biography fails to capture the turbulent life and death of one of South Africa’s most distinguished authors.

Stephen Gray Author