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Molla's music
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Molla's Music is a novella about Maureen (Molla), a white Afrikaans woman born in 1935 in Cape Town, who faced poverty and abandonment before apartheid and who, during apartheid, faced the choice between an unwanted pregnancy ...
Lady Liberty
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
I am not a colour: A novella
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Nobathembu lifts her hand and waves at her neighbour. She is watering spinach in her garden
with a jug from a bucket. At age sixty-nine, her beauty shines. The sun is high on the echoes of
Nyanga village – echoes of ...
Visklippie and other Cape Town stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Visklippie and other Cape Town stories is a collection of short stories, inspired by my
experiences having grown up in the 1960s and 1970s in Cape Town. This is a fictional work
that, however, uses memory and oral history ...
Lost on the way home
(University of Western Cape, 2018)
This is a novella about homelessness, and the forms of exile, loss and displacement that it
creates. Based in South Africa and Palestine/Israel, it is a story about four men who all find
themselves alienated and marginalised ...
What lies
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
His brown hands, tanned darker than they already were from hours of supervising men
shoveling sand and mixing concrete on building sites, gripped the steering wheel. Hendrick
Vermeulen drove down Voortrekker Road after ...
The girl with the red flower
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
For a woman of her age, thirty-seven, freshly divorced, she has, to her mind, not solved the
problem of her sex very well. So now her work in the escort business all those years ago will be
used against her. This warning ...
The wedding interviews: A novella
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
It’s quite simple really. During these interviews you get to talk about anything you like. I’ll ask questions here and there to help the story along. Just be honest and try to forget about the camera. We’ll use the interview ...
Let’s go home: Stories and portraits
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Let's Go Home encompasses thirteen short stories inspired by the Coloured fishing
community of Blompark in Gansbaai. These stories embody a range of voices and perspectives,
some contemporary, some set in the past thirty ...
The marginal grey: A collection of short stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
A Collection of Short Stories.