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Her story is told by her lover, an eccentric artist and Camus-eque character, who remains nameless. As an old man in the autumn of his life, he unburdens both his and Wanetta's story to a stranger he meets by chance one night in the pub of the Masonic Hotel in Boksburg. Woven into the story is a painting of a bird called the Sakabula Bird. The painting was included in one of his youthful exhibitions and drew the attention of a young university student called Wanetta Samuelsson. The telling...

In the 1970s as a result of the intellectual labours of senior academics working under the auspices of what become known as 'The History Workshop in South Africa' a resurgence of radical political activism erupted among students on the historically white university campuses. Apart from the critical revision of South African history which was informed by applying Marxist class analysis to the explaining and understanding of the origins and development of the Apartheid, undergraduate student...

The sources that have inspired 'Hotazel' are many and multi-fold. As a work of art 'Hotazel' is a literary work in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 'Hotazel' falls into that celebrated genre of literary creations that arises by way of not only breaking out of, but also transcending, those four walls of confinement which imprison, detain, cut-off, isolate and remove the inmate or detainee from society and the life-sustaining social intercourse which one enjoys with fami...

After six years of self-imposed exile as a teacher in Swaziland who is also a correspondence student studying Hebrew returns to South Africa shortly after the June 16th Soweto youth uprising in 1976. She has returned to complete the research for her MA degree which involves a philological analysis of the original Hebrew version of the Song of Songs. Her return is marred by experiences of racism. Inspired by the words 'Black bird flying in the dead of night' in Paul McCartney's song she fin...

This novel is the sequel to Jo'burg: Sex, Love and Marx. The protagonist Josh bids farewell to his wife Millicent who is immigrating to Canada. After Millicent leaves, a love affair develops between him and Gazala, his post-doc student. Following the successive waves of the Covid pandemic, South Africa undergoes an apocalyptic collapse due to the exorable processes of what Josh refers to as zombification.

A strange and unlikely romance begins on a night-train journey, the romance fraught with deception, contradictions and comedy borders on farce. The love between the two individuals requires them to negotiate impossible obstacles, and all the time the Rabbi remains completely oblivious of his beautiful wife's secret love life.

If you have enjoyed the ebook 'Who was oreithyia?' then you should find this book interesting. The character who forms the backbone of the narrative is none other than Joe Magee - nicknamed 'Jomogee'. Joe Magee an entrepreneur extraordinaire and compulsive philanderer who spends his live subverting the very idea of Order as something which serves the Common Good. Exerpt: '.......If we had to choose a patron divinity or daemon for Joe Magee then Hermes would be most qualified to fill this r...

In this novella Joab Badenhorst as a white South African male finds himself literally thrown into the cauldron of war, fighting on the wrong side of history, first in the counter-insurgency bush war on the Namibian-Angolan border and then in the Angolan civil war. Unable to extricate himself he experiences at first hand the existential futility of his life in a Universe ruled by contingency.

Franco Sorrentino's romantic relationship with Devorah Kirschenbaum draws him inadvertently into white Leftist student political activism on the eve of the collapse of the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa. For the South African white student Leftist movement it becomes a time of revolutionary expectations which foreshadows the eventual overthrow of apartheid. Hardly any fiction has been written which was embedded in the framework of the political activism of the white student Left duri...

Following the passing away of his parents, Gavin Swift moves into a flat in the inner-city of Johannesburg (Jo'burg). Communism has collapsed, apartheid is on the verge of collapsing, the whole world was in a state of transition. On his night walks, his fate merges with that of the city.

The short story involves a retelling of an ancient Jewish parable from medieval European times. Ironically the re-telling of the story takes place in a historical building called 'The Elephant Trading Store' and the trigger that led to the actual re-telling of the Jewish Parable was the discovery of an old newspaper report in the bottom of one of the drawers in the store. The newspaper story was about the actual 'murder' of the biggest African elephant that ever lived. The fable is about t...