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Extract from ‘Bantu Knots’: The time of budding breasts
Lebohang Mazibuko’s debut novel, ‘Bantu Knots’ is both poignant and relevant — and speaks to teenagers and adults alike
Extract: ‘These Are Not Gentle people’ by Andrew Harding
‘These Are Not Gentle People’ is an account, by Andrew Harding, the BBC correspondent in South Africa, of a murder in Parys, in the Free State, and what happened next. This…
Extract from ‘Mermaid Fillet: A Noir Crime Novel’ by Mia Arderne
This extract from Mia Arderne’s debut work of fiction, ‘Mermaid Fillet: A Noir Crime Novel’ introduces readers to Uncle ‘M16-in-your-bek’
The landscape of meaning: mechanism and memory in depictions of disaster
‘There Are Mechanisms in Place’ posits that the all-encompassing physicality of the landscape does not reference an ‘abstract’ danger, but one that is created by both nature and…
‘Courageous reinvention’: an extract from Mark Gevisser’s ‘The Pink Line’
In this extract from Mark Gevisser’s new book, Aunty, fleeing abuse and witchcraft, treks to northern Malawi
Extract: Gunning for Bessie’s head, from ‘The Terrorist Album’
Jacob Dlamini’s new book, The Terrorist Album, tells the stories of people saddled with that catch-all phrase during apartheid and how their presence on that list made them fair…