Week 22 SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE?

 Hollow CityOn our way back from Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Capetown, I decided to concentrate on Afrikaans literature for at least the next 12 months – and this is in my mind a very broad concept. It includes translations from other languages into my mother tongue; and it includes literature that originated on this huge continent called Africa. And it includes legal literature. And I am going for it. Having said that, I am also writing...

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Week 21 DONKEYS

Plumtree, Zimbabwe Donkeys. Donkeys Strange animals those things and yet so useful and … My late dad used to tell the story that only the very poor people, during the Poor White Problem in South Africa, had donkeys. And they had. Early 2017 I visited our gardener in Zimbabwe to find out for myself how he is doing; the rumours I heard were that he was suffering from epilepsy and that is serious. Some years prior to him “retiring” to his home...

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