“I imagined a dying person’s last breath as something resembling an exclamation mark, distinct and hanging mid-air like an interrupted…
“By unflinchingly depicting people in a township getting on with the everyday business of being themselves without the overarching gaze…
“Every morning Portia paraded down Pritchard Street to the offices where she worked on the corner of Market Street and…
“To imagine these women is to face their questions. They are difficult. They are painful. They are necessary. We cannot…
‘History dooms us to condemn the guiltless (and ourselves with them) when we don’t choose mercy over sacrifice. Homophobia in…
‘Motherhood is not for me, because what if – like heart disease and haemophila – the ability to abandon one’s…
‘She comes to me in snatches – I remember pieces of her laugh, the look she gave when she was…
Lidudumalingani first caught our attention with his 2016 Caine Prize winning short story, “Memories we lost”, which discusses mental illness…
In the latest episode of the Cheeky Natives, Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele sat with the incomparable Zukiswa Wanner to discuss books,…
Hlomu, Zandile and Naledi. Three seemingly random names but whose stories our readers are so invested in, you’d swear they…