Khwezi Mkhize

Journal Article Scrutiny2 · January 2, 2019 The argument that I make in this article is that in leaving the prison house of apartheid, South Africa generated exclusive categories of belonging (framed around multiracial nationalism and citizenship) at the expense of a pan-African politics. By reading ... Full text Cite

Archives of empire

Journal Article Social Dynamics · January 1, 2019 South Africa has, in recent years, been witnessing the unraveling of narratives of collective being and becoming that are hinged around Apartheid as the singular institution of power to be overcome. In this paper I argue that while Apartheid has provided o ... Full text Cite

‘To see us as we see ourselves’: John Tengo Jabavu and the politics of the black periodical

Journal Article Journal of Southern African Studies · May 4, 2018 John Tengo Jabavu’s Imvo Zabantsundu is recognised as the first black periodical in South Africa. As with many of his generation of mission-educated intellectuals, Jabavu’s endeavours in print culture were set against a milieu of intensified conquest and t ... Full text Cite

The Violence of Belonging

Journal Article Black Scholar · April 3, 2017 Full text Cite

Neither History nor Freedom Will Absolve Us: On The Ethical Dimensions of The Poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng

Journal Article Safundi · April 1, 2011 Full text Cite

'Shoot with your pen': Isaac William(s) Wauchope's Ingcamango Ebunzimeni and the power of speaking obscurely in public

Conference Social Dynamics · March 1, 2010 This article explores Ingcamango Ebunzimeni, a collection of poems published in the latter months of 1912 by the African intellectual and missionary Isaac William(s) Wauchope (1852-1917). Wauchope is most prominently known for having written a poem that, a ... Full text Cite

Fables of death: Law, race and representations of african mine workers in umteteli wa bantu in the 1920s

Journal Article Current Writing · January 1, 2010 This article is an attempt to understand the relationship between racist regimes and the representational strategies that went into the insertion of black bodies into specified economies of labour in early twentieth century South Africa. I take as my prima ... Full text Cite

Citashe's apostrophe - "Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga": The unfinished "preface" to an African modernity

Journal Article Journal of Commonwealth Literature · January 1, 2008 The poem "Zimkile! Mfo wohlanga" has had a sustained salutary presence in South African literary and cultural criticism of the past three decades, especially when it has been concerned with the experiences of Christianized, modern Africans. The criticism o ... Full text Cite