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Copyright for Academics in the Digital Age
Putting teaching materials on the web doesn’t necessarily promote public knowledge By Colin Ramsey and Martha McCaughey…
Into Dark Water: A Police Memoir
Jeremy Vearey, Into Dark Water: A Police Memoir (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021) THIS is a curate’s egg of a…
Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa, 1939–1945
Evert Kleynhans, Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa,1939–1945 (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021) MILITARY history…
Decolonise Plan S, South African academics hear
Scientists warned against ‘apartheidisation’ of research and spiralling costs Plan S—the controversial open-access publishing plan that has…
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Elected Black Politician
Martin Plaut, Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Elected Black Politician (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2020) HIS funeral in Cape Town…
A Lawyer’s Odyssey: Apartheid, Mandela and Beyond
Henry Brown, A Lawyer’s Odyssey: Apartheid, Mandela and Beyond (Pietermaritzburg: Otterley Press, 2020) THE APARTHEID era produced a stream…
Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre
Mignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021) THE…
In memory of Colin Smuts who passed away on 20 May 2021
Colin Smuts was a longstanding member of ANFASA, also serving on the ANFASA board from 2015 to…
Jwara!: Induna’s Daughter
Joyce Piliso-Seroke, Jwara!: Induna’s Daughter (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) THE AUTHOR of Jwara!, a clan name, was born in 1933…
Publishing should be for social and disciplinary impact
“Plan S is a grand plan, but the devil is in the detail,” says Professor Robin Crewe…
