The nurse pointed at the long funeral procession coming down the slopes of the Drakensberg. "We are dying," she said. For the past 30 years Me Makaoe had been riding up into the highlands on her Basotho pony, to treat the sick. The villagers trusted her, she had grown up with them, and they wanted her to be the one who tested them for HIV.
Two forms of South African patois — Tsotsitaal and Gayle — are celebrated in new books, writes Henk Rossouw.
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/ 5 December 2001
<b>REVIEW: </b><i>The Lava of this Land</i>
by Denis Hirson
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/ 6 September 2001
<b>Reveiws:</b> <i>Welcome to our Hillbrow</i> by Phoswane Mpe (University of Natal Press) and <i>Sea-Mountain, Fire City: Living in Cape Town</i> by Mike Nicol (Kwela).
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/ 6 September 2001
Reveiws:</b> <i>Welcome to our Hillbrow</i> by Phoswane Mpe (University of Natal Press) and <i>Sea-Mountain, Fire City: Living in Cape Town</i> by Mike Nicol (Kwela).
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/ 12 January 2001
<i>The Heart of Redness</i> is a history book, a rural comedy, an environmental treatise, a cultural manual, and a love story.