The Nix: Prescient of Portland
What’s going on in Portland USA today, and elsewhere in the ‘States – the teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets shot at protesters by armed men in riot gear – is … Read More
Month: July 2020
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
Seen Pha Kwa J.B!: Chapter and verse
J.Bobs sticks his hand in and pulls the whole thing inside out. ‘I’m sublime on them limits, on them limits I’m sublime’. Or something like that. ‘Can’t you sing along … Read More
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
Once Upon a Circus: It’s a kind of magic
Laura du Toit Once Upon A Circus begins as all fairy tales do; once upon a time, a young man named Trompie snuck into the Zip Zap tent. We are … Read More