Upon invitation by Botsotso, the poets co-edited this work and out the collection together themselves. This involved monthly meetings in a Cape Town coffee shop, at which they had the rare privilege of reading their poetry aloud to each other...
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At tea-time on the afternoon of Friday 24 July 1964 a young white South African, John Harris, put down in the main concourse of Johannesburg station…a large brown suitcase containing eight sticks of dynamite, a quantity of Cordtex, a two-gallon...
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ZP Dala, a debut novelist and PEN South Africa member, was subjected to a severe physical assault and harassment after she expressed admiration for the work of Salman Rushdie amongst others. Instead of celebrating the launch of her first novel...
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The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd’s death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father...
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Deadline: 15 December 2015 Short.Sharp.Stories has announced that its theme for the 2016 competition and anthology is “Die Laughing”. We encourage writers to poke a little fun at our crazy country. There are so many starting points for humour: our...
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