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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 ...
We dare not say
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
We Dare Not Say is an anthology of seven interlinked short stories with the general theme of intergenerational trauma among coloured families in Cape Town. The stories are arranged in a montage of internally, variably and ...
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 ...
The price of liberty: A collection of poems and prose that explore the interplay between freedom and sacrifice
(University of Western cape, 2020)
The Price of Liberty: A collection of poems and prose that explores the interplay between
freedom and sacrifice.
David Schmidt
This mini-thesis explores the interplay between concepts of freedom and sacrifice. It
comprises ...
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 ...
Reflexive Essay
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
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 a ...
Unsettled: A Collection of Sort Stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Harriott is asleep under a jacaranda tree in her daughter's lush Escombe garden. Escombe is no longer part of the Natal Colony, the Natal Colony exists only in the minds of people like Harriott. Escombe, though still in ...