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This study identifies a recurring yet overlooked figure in global ethnic and diasporic literature that I term homo amens. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's concept of homo sacer and the postcolonial zombie, I argue that homo amens (\"the man without a mind\") is a powerful symbol of biopolitical violence that transgresses against immaterial bodies of knowledge—including indigenous cultural, familial, and scientific structures—instead of the material body. By focusing on the \"epistemological zombie\" in Erna Brodber's Myal (1988), John Okada's No-No Boy (1957), and Jonny Steinberg's Sizwe's Test (2008), I foreground the preservation of traditional knowledge as a political right and make the case for global ethnic literature as an instrument of epistemological equality.

Writers of South African narrative non-fiction often write texts about subject matter far removed from their personal or professional experiences, yet these texts are nevertheless seen as useful or otherwise valuable. How do these writers make such depictions seem authoritative to their readers, especially those readers who may have doubts about writers' abilities to bridge epistemological or experiential gaps? The issue of narrative reliability is not sufficiently studied as it applies to narrative non-fiction in South Africa, and this article seeks to explore the theoretical basis of narrative reliability - especially with regard to the operations of 'story' and 'discourse' as these terms are defined by the structural narratologist Seymour Chatman - and how it can be seen to operate in narrative non-fiction. This article uses Jonny Steinberg's 2014 text A Man of Good Hope as an archetype of a narrative strategy that uses the 'discourse' of its human subject's personal narrative as the 'story' of its own narrative. This gambit of narrativity shows how, even in spaces of epistemological and experiential disjuncture, writers of narrative non-fiction texts may create narratives that readers may find authoritative, and thus useful in explicating complicated social phenomena in South Africa.

Starting from a reading of Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, this article examines the changing nature of social space in South Africa since 1994 as reflected in recent writing by Galgut, Ivan Vladislavić, Jonny Steinberg, K.S. Duiker and J.M. Coetzee. Adapting Mikael Karlström's distinction between 'dystopian' and 'eutopian' responses to social phenomena, I argue that post-apartheid literature bears witness to the perpetuation of a fundamentally dystopian society. South Africa, by these lights, has seen no significant opening up and making public of space either physically or otherwise. Discussing the urban environment, crime, xenophobia, gender relations and sexuality, the article shows that power remains in the private sphere, with space still constructed in terms of exclusion rather than inclusion.

During a briefing to Parliament's police committee yesterday, the police top brass - including national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega - explained that crowd control training had \"not been a priority\" after 1994 as the country had become \"pretty stable\". Jonny Steinberg, a research associate at Oxford University's Centre for Criminology and a specialist in SA policing policy, has pointed to a lack of appropriate training and a sharp decline in specialist expertise within the police under former commissioner Jackie Selebi as a probable explanation for the Marikana massacre. \"If there had been proper public order policing (at Marikana), there would have been all sorts of alternatives to try before resorting to live ammunition,\" Steinberg was quoted as saying.

The first collaboration between The Young Vic and The Royal Opera, A Man of Good Hope is receiving its world premiere at The District Six Museum. The conductor is Mandisi Dyantyis, musical direction is by Mandisi Dyantyis and Pauline Malefane, and movement is by Lungelo Ngamlana. Lighting is by Mannie Manim.

  During a briefing to Parliament's police committee yesterday, police top brass - including national commissioner General Riah Phiyega - explained that crowd control training had \"not been a priority\" after 1994 as the country had become \"pretty stable\". \"If there had been proper public order policing [at Marikana], there would have been all sorts of alternatives to try before resorting to live ammunition,\" [Jonny Steinberg] was quoted as saying.

During a briefing to Parliament's police committee yesterday, police top brass - including national commissioner General Riah Phiyega - explained that crowd control training had \"not been a priority\" after 1994 as the country had become \"pretty stable\". Jonny Steinberg, a research associate at Oxford University's Centre for Criminology and a specialist in SA policing policy, has pointed to a lack of appropriate training and a sharp decline in specialist expertise within the police under former commissioner Jackie Selebi as a probable explanation for the Marikana massacre.

During a briefing to Parliament's police committee yesterday, the police top brass - including national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega - explained that crowd control training had \"not been a priority\" after 1994 as the country had become \"pretty stable\". Jonny Steinberg, a research associate at Oxford University's Centre for Criminology and a specialist in SA policing policy, has pointed to a lack of appropriate training and a sharp decline in specialist expertise within the police under former commissioner Jackie Selebi as a probable explanation for the Marikana massacre.

During a briefing to Parliament's police committee yesterday, the police top brass - including national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega - explained that crowd control training had \"not been a priority\" after 1994 as the country had become \"pretty stable\". Jonny Steinberg, a research associate at Oxford University's Centre for Criminology and a specialist in SA policing policy, has pointed to a lack of appropriate training and a sharp decline in specialist expertise within the police under former commissioner Jackie Selebi as a probable explanation for the Marikana massacre.

During a briefing to Parliament's police committee yesterday, the police top brass - including national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega - explained that crowd control training had \"not been a priority\" after 1994 as |the country had become \"pretty stable\". \"Marikana is about public order policing and about how you go about policing a violent crowd. It has to do with a very specialist function... If there had been proper public order policing (at Marikana), there would have been all sorts of alternatives to try before resorting to live ammunition...\" [Jonny Steinberg] was quoted as saying. One of the briefing documents stated there had been an \"emphasis on attendance of training\" in the police and \"hence a focus on quantity\", but that this had changed after 2009 with a \"shift from attendance to competency\".