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READING CONTEMPORARY FICTION WRITERS

For the last three years or so I deliberately read more female fiction writers. I've now decided to go back into a more balanced reading, adding more male fictional writers also. I asked

A SOLEMN DAY OF REMEMBRANCE TO amaMFENGU

The 14th May is a solemn day of remembrance for my people, amaMfengu, when our tribe was scattered from the banks of Thukela (Tugela) River on the foothills of Ukhahlamba (Drakensberg) Mountains to

Fear and Trembling

They say falling in love makes poets out of everyone. I suspect its people who've never been locked down by a virus who say that. Lying in bed, scared of an invisible invincible

The Cost of Living

To the sea, with our undisclosed hurt Those who’ve read the South African born Deborah Levy's memoir, Things I Don't Want to Know will remember it hailed as a blend of personal