Madness: Society’s unacknowledged undercurrent
While waiting for my car’s tyres to be changed and wheels balanced in Maitland recently, I was approached politely by a young man who wanted to ask something of me. … Read More
Category: Literature
Poems in Times of Distress: Eastern Cape township blues
By Lindani Donyeli It was while a schoolboy in KwaNobuhle on the edge of Uitenhage that Ayanda Billie discovered writing as a means to express himself, and has recorded the … Read More
The Stone Gods: It’s the end of the world and we know it
If books are to be judged on their first sentence, Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods wins all the prizes. This new world weighs a yatto-gram.
The Distance: Floats like a bee
Such a strange book, The Distance by Ivan Vladislavic. It’s about Muhammad Ali, told from the view of a boy growing up around Pretoria in the 1970s. A boy who … Read More
Girl: Living through horror is still living
Boko Haram. Remember them. That they kidnapped and enslaved 276 school girls around this time of year – April 14 – six years ago. 112 are still missing. Those who … Read More