Lesego Rampolokeng’s latest novel, Bird-Monk Seding, if one can call it a novel, is a rampaging, fast-talking, spontaneous and often...

THE FIRST LAW OF SADNESS by Nick Mulgrew (David Philip Publishers)

I first met Masixole Ncevu (aka Macx Ncevu) when we worked as photographers in Cape Town in 2015. He was studying at the Vega School of Photography, and my first impression was of a fresh-faced and innocent student. It soon became clear that behind an almost cherubic façade lay a...

“I’m trying to represent a young Zulu kid from the farms [who] loves electronic music, because that’s who I am. But then, in that same...