...Lucy Graham This essay examines a hypothetical supplement to Rudyard Kipling's famous poem “If—” scripted by the judge during the Jacob Zuma rape trial in 2006. It places this into conversation with State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature (2012) and argues for the importance...

... readings of the Jacob Zuma rape trial. 69. Gunner, “Unruly Power of Song,” 38–39 . 68. Von Holdt, “Trouble,” 13–17 . 67. Organized armed action was a relatively limited aspect of resistance against the apartheid regime. The uMKhonto we Sizwe (MK) formed in 1961 and disbanded in 1993...

... to examine on an ongoing basis, and we invite contributions that add to our understanding of the event of apartheid and its ongoing reverberations in South African society. Lucy Graham’s reading of Jacob Zuma’s rape trial in conjunction with Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” shows how colonial...

... these all-­embracing diversity was never realized. Rather, as political openings rather than foreclosures. The what emerged were varied forms of ardent nation- #FeesMustFall campaigns have challenged a sense alism ranging from State President Jacob Zuma’s of national cohesion on grounds of both class...

...? I’m curi- Jacob Zuma in Brett Murray’s [painting] The Spear ous: when you say that all these private sentiments is not just about the sort of moral discussion that are suddenly bubbling...