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…

Two forms of South African patois — Tsotsitaal and Gayle — are celebrated in new books, writes Henk Rossouw.

<b>REVIEW: </b><i>The Lava of this Land</i> by Denis Hirson

<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).

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).

<i>The Heart of Redness</i> is a history book, a rural comedy, an environmental treatise, a cultural manual, and a love story.