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    Mind, Spirit, and Imagination: Inaugural Address as Chancellor Of the University of Johannesburg
    2012
    Marikana Aftermath – My mother and the miners
    2012
    Liberation Betrayed By Bloodshed
    2012
    City Views Interview: My Cape Town
    2012
    Freedom is a killer
    2012
    The Emperor is Naked
    2012
    Sadtu’s revolution must not forget Teacher X
    2012
    The Curious Case of Police Officer James
    2012
    A Law Unto Ourself
    2012
    A meditation on corruption
    2012
    Thinking of Malema on the Day of Reconciliation
    2011
    What Must Be Done
    2011
    South Africa in a State of Disorientation
    2011
    Jiving with Madiba
    2011
    Toxic politics: Diary of a bad year
    2010
    Arriving home? South Africa Beyond Transition and Reconciliation
    2010
    Great Hall – Wits Honorary Graduate Address
    2010
    Of Pretence and Protest
    2009
    Speech at the 2009 Sunday Times Literary Awards
    2009
    Culture – Sword or Plough
    2009
    Interview with Victor Dlamini at the Cape Town Book Fair
    2008
    ‘On Being Viewed in a Game Lodge and Other Thoughts’, a review of Fine Lines from the Box
    2008
    In Conversation with Njabulo Ndebele: An interview on the NMF website
    2008
    Fine Lines from the Box: Further Thoughts About our Country
    2007
    The Year of the Dog
    2007
    Thinking of Brenda
    2007
    Wesleyan University Graduation Address 2004
    2004
    The Cry of Winnie Mandela
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela by Lisa Combrinck
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, The Natal Witness
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Daily Dispatch
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, The Herald
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela by Phillip John
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, City Press
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Cape Argus
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Sunday Times
    2003
    The Cry of Winnie Mandela, interview with Njabulo S Ndebele
    2003
    The Cry of Winnie Mandela, report on the launch
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Sunday Times
    2003
    Review of The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Mail and Guardian
    2003
    Reflections on being Vice-Chancellor: Interview by Richard Fehnel
    2001
    Reaching Out to the World: Inaugural address at the University of Cape Town
    2000
    Iph’indlela. Finding a way Through Confusion
    2000
    Game Lodges and Leisure Colonialists
    1999
    Shai Shies Away from Stardom
    1998
    Beyond Euro/Afrocentricism
    1997
    Arms Deal Comment in the Sunday Independent
    1997
    Death of a Son
    1996
    Recovering Childhood: Children in South African National Reconstruction
    1995
    Maintaining Domination through Language
    1995
    Defining South African Literature for a New Nation
    1994
    Sarah, Rings, and I
    1993
    Literature in Another South Africa: Njabulo Ndebele’s Theory of Emergent Culture
    1992
    The Noma Award Acceptance Speech
    1991
    Bonolo and the Peach Tree
    1991
    Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture
    1991
    Story telling and fictionality in South Africa
    1989
    Towards Progressive Cultural Planning
    1989
    Questions to the panel at Writers from South Africa Symposium
    1989
    The revolution of the aged
    1989
    The Prophetess
    1989
    Against Pamphleteering the Future
    1987
    Review of Fools and Other Stories in the Voice Literary Supplement
    1987
    Review of Fools and other stories, The Nation
    1986
    Review of Fools and other stories, New York Times
    1986
    Review of Fools and other stories by the American Library Association
    1986
    Fools of darkness
    1986
    Review of Fools and other stories, Readers International in The New Republic
    1986
    The English Language and Social Change in South Africa
    1986
    Redefining Relevance
    1986
    Review of Fools and other stories, Sunday Times
    1984
    Review of Fools and other stories, Finance Week
    1984
    Ndebele Strikes a Chord
    1984
    Turkish Tales and Some Thoughts on SA Fiction
    1984
    Running on: A Review of Fools and Other Stories
    1984
    Citation for Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele for the Noma Award
    1984
    The Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Some New Writings in South Africa
    1984
    Fresh Air and a Couple of Stories
    1983
    Preface to a Dissertation: “Fools” and Other Stories
    1983
    Fools and other stories
    1983
    Towards the Socio-political Development of the Black Community in South Africa
    1973
    The man of smoke
    1973
    Arts & Letters: Reviews
    1972
    More impressive on the mind
    1971
    An argument
    1971
    Be gentle
    1971
    Birth
    1971
    Cycle
    1971
    A child’s delirium
    1971
    Editorial from Expression
    1970
    Five letters to M.M.M
    1970
    I hid my love in a sewage
    1970
    A carol
    1970
    Little Dudu
    1970
    Looking at the girl I love
    1969
    Invention
    Date uncertain