Land of My Ancestors by Dr Botlale Tema (née Moloto) tells the story of the Moloto family’s generational history on...
Year: 2019
South African literature has a line of apocalyptic fiction that stretches from Eugène Marais’ “Ondergang van die Tweede Wêreld” to...
The memory of the “true events” on which this moving story is based have been lodged partly on paper in...
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack was born on a farm in the Eastern Cape in 1957, the son of a farm labourer...
Writer and poet Tariro Ndoro has an astute ability to share with readers what it's like to cross borders of...
Makhanda e ile ea fumana puo ea eona ea buka ea Khusta Jack To Survive and Succeed: From Farm Boy...
Makhanda got its own launch of Khusta Jack’s book To Survive and Succeed: From Farm Boy to Businessman, on Tuesday...
In another of its firsts this year, Wordfest hosted the launch of Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s The Broken River Tent (the author’s...
What does it mean to show compassion towards animals? In his book Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature,...
Phila, one of the two central characters of Mputhumi Ntabeni's exceptional novel The Broken River Tent, is a 40-year-old, disaffected...
