Mermaid Fillet: Pressing on the pain
There are people who think they know Cape Town. People who spend a few months here, or even just a holiday, thinking it’s so beautiful, so much like home (Europe), … Read More
Category: Literature
The Broken River Tent: Shifting the weight of history
For 100 years, a collection of tribes in the Eastern Cape, known as AmaXhosa, fought off a global empire as the British tried to expand their occupation of the continent … Read More
A father is born: More selfie than self portrait
Given the prevalence of social media, this obsession with propagating a curated image of oneself appears to have seeped into other aspects of our lives, and our creative endeavours. In … Read More
Risking it all: For fans only
Opinions on billionaires – their very existence, that is – tend to be polarised. People either worship them or despise them. Those who worship them, read their books (ghost written, … Read More
Booth: A tale worthy of Shakespeare
England abolished slavery in 1833. It took the United States of America another 32 years, and a civil war leaving more than 750,000 bodies in its wake. John Wilkes Booth … Read More