Literature & Publishing

by Rahiem Whisgary – The opening line to Nadine Gordimer’s ‘The House Gun’ most accurately describes our sentiment to her passing: Something terrible has happened. Recognised by Seamus Heaney as one of the ‘guerrillas of the imagination’, Gordimer has, through the course of her long and illustrious career, become one of South Africa’s most lauded

Bongani Kona reviews The Blacks of Cape Town – Straddling two continents, America and Africa, and shifting between time zones, from the mid-1800’s to 2008, C.A. Davids’s ambitious first novel tells – as the provocative title suggests – the story of three generations of the Black family. Yet it is also so much more than