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Basking in the Mediterranean sun, visiting art museums in Italy, and walking the streets of Paris a young student from Africa embarks on a journey of love and erotic adventure.

Helena Lathbury and Julian Bogart first met at the Invisible Church in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, during their first year at the University of the Witwatersrand. They remained friends throughout their undergraduate years, however, while Julian fell in love with Helena, she gently fobbed him off. After graduating they went their separate ways. However, a few years later, while in their mid-twenties, after a chance meeting, the incurably fickle but exquisitely beautiful Helena...

In this South African-styled LGBTQ story, Joab Badenhorst was born and grew up within a deeply conservative Calvinistic Afrikaner community in the predominantly Afrikaan speaking town of Potchefstroom in what was once the Western Transvaal before the 1994 election which brought the ANC into power. The young boy insisted on playing with dolls and then he only wanted to wear dresses. He was incredibly stubborn about wanting to wear dresses as a young child. He had uncontrollable tantrums whe...

On a chance meeting on a flight to Paris a professor of philosophy tells a young fashion model an intriguing story of love triangles, infidelities, betrayal, forgiveness which revolve around a desirable young woman who could have been a character out of a Luis Bunuel movie as the one called 'That obscure object of desire'. The story is told against the backdrop of Evangelical Christianity. The dynamics of betrayal, trust, forgiveness, pride, anger, and redemption pose huge ethical and theo...

Raghavee Srivastava the niece of Uncle Raju who happened to be a prominent member of the Communist Party was the daughter of an Indian rural shopkeeper. The shop was located on the edge of the national road connecting Johannesburg to Durban. Her friend Martin Marshall, a white boy, lived on a small farm across the road from the shop. They had been friends since childhood. In race-obsessed apartheid South Africa it was indeed rare that genuine friendships between white and black or white an...

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.

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.

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...

It was difficult to fathom Sheldon. He did come across as a hard line Leftist or Marxist. This was confusing for me and for the others. Was he phony or was he genuine. I could honestly not tell at the time. Anyway, whatever misgiving we may have had regarding his Leftist credentials, we were awe struck and quickly fell under his spell as he gave us an impromptu lecture on environmental activism. He spoke about 'guerrilla gardening' which involved planting seeds of indigenous trees in any o...

In the dying days of apartheid a Communist detained by the security police finds herself in a world of shadows, smoke and mirrors, where truth and falsehood seemed to merge seamlessly. It was also a world in which men and women lied shamelessly, and betrayal became the reality of not only the counter insurgency game but also the ultimate inexorable destiny of the revolution.

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