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/ 20 March 2008

When God says, ‘Yes, maybe I do’

Marriage is an odd mixture of personal commitment and public show; of property rights and romance; of civic obligation and religious avowal. Despite religious homophobia, gay and lesbian people in South Africa have fought for their right to be married in the sight of God, writes Shaun de Waal.

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/ 6 November 2007

Over the rainbow?

As the secondary literature on the post-apartheid novel continues to expand (possibly faster than the post-apartheid novel), Cheryl Stobie takes an interesting and hitherto unique line. The figure of the bisexual in South African fiction is a marginal one, yet in Somewhere in the <i>Double Rainbow: Representations of Bisexuality in Post-Apartheid Novels</i> (UKZN Press) Stobie places that figure centrally, writes Shaun de Waal.