Tag: South African Literature
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My Year of Not Getting Sh*tfaced
“I think meditation and saying ‘no’ more often is going to help me, along with feeling it’s okay for people not to agree with me or like me.”
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The Promise
“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”
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The Strangers of Braamfontein
“Like they say; if a person goes and gets one whole measure of oil to eat only one yam, does he think the yam farmer who owns the land would put aside a whole mortar of palm fruit for oil?”
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9 Books For People Who “Don’t Have Time To Read”
By Megan Thomas I hear people say things like, “I love reading, I just don’t have the time”, a lot. But I genuinely think that the only reason people think this is true is because they’re imagining trying to get stuck into The Lord Of The Rings or War and Peace between tube stations or…
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A Family Affair
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of childbearing age must be in want of a husband”
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A Year In The Wild
Email exchanges between two brothers having a rather different experience of the South African bush…
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The Gold Diggers
“We all know our final destination but we have no idea what will cross our path as we journey there.”
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