South Africa: Cultural Curator Nandi Dlepu Is Reimagining Joburg’s Creative Landscape

[Daily Maverick] Nandi Dlepu talks to us about her creative and nostalgic connection with Joburg's inner city and the many projects spawned by her limitless creativity.

South Africa: Darker Shade of Pale – Why I Wrote a Book About My Grandfather and How It Changed My View of Him

[The Conversation Africa] Deborah Posel, the founding director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, an interdisciplinary research institute in the humanities and social sciences in South Africa, has published a new book, Darker Shade of Pale: Shtetl to Colony. Using a combination of personal memoir and historical inquiry, it retraces the early 20th century migration of Jewish people from the Russian Empire to colonial South Africa through one man's life.