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In South Africa, the Fallist-inspired approach of “decolonising everything” has to some extent polarised literature circles. Older writers,...
Nothing destroys one’s enjoyment of and confidence in a work of nonfiction more than coming across factual howlers. If that’s in a field about...
Not having previously engaged in detail with either Helen Zille’s personality or the inner conflicts of her party, the Democratic Alliance (DA),...
I have a love affair with reading that exceeds two decades. When I was younger, I spent more time immersed in books than I did scraping my knees on...
Writer, musician and producer Greg Tate’s studious prose and inspired hollers can leave one regenerated but also a little deflated.
Craig Higginson has won the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English for his haunting third novel The Dream...
Within a few pages of Thula Simpson’s rather large tome, there are several key moments that illumine the history of the ANC’s armed wing and...
South Africans apparently don’t read, least of all local fiction. But Mohale Mashigo has blown that belief out of the water; she is preparing for...
I was part of the last generation to grow up under apartheid. I am a white writer who interrogates my mind and soul about the myths of white...
The more levels it works on, the more delicious a book is. Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix — nominated for the Arthur C...
Isabella Motadinyane was a Botsotso Jester. She named them, through a line in her poem One Leg In.
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder & Stoughton)Gwen Ansell
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