eKapa
Item set
- Title
- eKapa
- Alternative Title
- eKapa : a cultural magazine
- Creator
- EKAPA
- Description
- eKapa was a seminal grassroots cultural and political journal published in Cape Town, South Africa, during the mid-to-late 1980s. Emerging during the height of the State of Emergency, the magazine served as a vital platform for the "Culture of Resistance." It bridged the gap between academic political theory and street-level community struggle, utilising poetry, woodcut art, and investigative journalism to document the anti-apartheid movement.
- Type
- Collection
- Genre
- Magazine
- Publisher
- EKAPA
- Place
- Athlone, Cape Province, South Africa
- Subject
- Anti-apartheid movement -- South Africa -- Periodicals
- Arts -- Political aspects -- South Africa
- South African poetry (English)
- Underground press -- South Africa
- Cape Town (South Africa) -- History -- 20th century
- Date
- 1986 – 1987
Items
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A resistance-era cultural journal published in December 1986 during the State of Emergency. This issue focuses on "A Culture of Resistance" and includes an editorial on "People's Culture," an interview with jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin, a legal update on KTC squatters suing the Minister of Law and Order, a tribute to the late Samora Machel, and a historical comparison with the Chilean resistance under Pinochet. -
A grassroots cultural and political journal from the late apartheid era. This issue features an interview with Dr Allan Boesak on democratic socialism, a detailed report on the "War Zone" of Crossroads, biographical profiles of exiled poets Dennis Brutus and Arthur Nortje, and numerous protest poems and graphics addressing the State of Emergency and judicial injustice against students.