There is the high veld, the middle veld, the low veld, the bush veld, and now thoughts from the thorn veld,
Christopher Clark, Clare: The Killing of a Gentle Activist (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) THERE is a myth that still circulates out there, one of legions about South Africa’s history: that the transition from apartheid to […]
APPARENTLY, earlier this year South Africa held a decennial national census. Well, so we thought. In tune with the times, I registered us online and identified our house on Google Maps. Then, in spite of […]
Karyn Maughan and Kirsten Pearson, Nuclear: Inside South Africa’s Secret Deal (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) ONE of several wives of the president tries to poison him at the behest of the CIA, but he is […]
Zikhona Valela, Now You Know How Mapetla Died: The Story of a Black Consciousness Martyr (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) IN the 1980s, Black Sash meetings began with a roll-call of those who had died in […]