Andie Miller
Guest Author
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/ 5 July 2006

A storyteller’s story

Phaswane Mpe, who died late last year at 34, was a beloved teacher and an acclaimed writer who brought a new vision to South African literature. Here, in his last interview, he tells Andie Miller about the books that changed his life.

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/ 12 July 2004

The enemy within

It’s 5.15pm on a weekday, and I’m in a minibus taxi travelling along Louis Botha Avenue through Orange Grove, Johannesburg, when a group of policemen pulls us over. I ask the woman sitting alongside me what’s going on. ”They are looking for illegals,” she whispers conspiratorially. With our police force seemingly preoccupied with illegal immigrants, we may be more at risk from the home team.