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Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This portfolio of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces is quasi-autobiographical and tracks the trajectory of my life, from childhood in Cape Town (‘pre-exilic’) to emigration abroad (‘exilic’) and return to Cape ...
Dance on the red-brown earth
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Nandi, Java and Uuka are students at a Cape Town university, where they are enrolled in a
film making course. Adela, their lecturer, will supervise their screenplay and film on a story
which depicts the experience of the ...
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 ...
Bab’aba - Ugly short stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Bab’aba - Ugly Short Stories is a collection of vignettes whose function is to colour and
collage three portraits of Black women characters; namely, a rural woman (Nozikhali), a
township teenager (Zola), and a child/baby ...
Townships, shacks and suburbs: An original collection of poems
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
My creative writing full master’s thesis, entitled Townships, Shacks and Suburbs, is a collection of poems that explores the role played by place in shaping identity. Poems in this collection seek to examine the interplay ...
Of flowers and tears
(University of Western Cape, 2018)
The collection of ten short stories, Of Flowers and Tears, aims to capture the events that have shaped my life, impacted on my community. It hopefully gives a voice to topics such as mental trauma, sibling strife, abortion, ...
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.
Around a Fire: Poems of Memory and Ritual
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This Creative Writing mini-thesis offers a deep meditation on what it means to speak to ritual
and memory. The thesis is compiled from a collection of original creative work as well as a
short reflective essay that present ...