In his brand new novel, ‘The Zulus of New York’, Zakes Mda reconstructs the story of a group of Zulus who were sent to England and later the United States in the 1880s by William Leonard Hunt, also known as...
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The first major PEN South Africa event of 2018 was held on Wednesday 25 July, when PEN SA – along with partner organisations, The Mandela Rhodes Foundation, The Fugard Theatre, and Penguin Random House – hosted the Cape Town launch...
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‘It has been almost fifteen years. I’ve thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.’ Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He...
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‘Be quiet and be calm, my countrymen, for what is taking place is exactly what you came to do… Brothers, we are drilling the death drill .’ – Reverend Isaac Wauchope Dyobha Paris, 1958. A skirmish in a world-famous restaurant...
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Once an enemy of the apartheid police, Andrew Brown has worked as a police reservist for almost twenty years. In this book he takes the reader on patrol with him – into the ganglands of the Cape Flats, the townships...
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