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u-Grand, Malume? (Zulu slang: are you ok, Uncle?) is dedicated to two uncles who were victims of the anti-apartheid struggle. The poems are my way of bringing Jabulani Maswanganye's spirit back home, he joined Umkhonto weSizwe, went to exile in 1977 and never returned. My other uncle, comrade Mandla Maswanganye, was shot dead in 1992 by the Washington DC police. In remembering them - the good and the bad - the poems update both my uncles as to...

The same poet who observes that "everybody is a bridge/'' then asks in Zen-fashion, "Is it me, or is it you?/ are you reflection or projection / or the light that's shining through?'' can also note in a very down-to-earth way, that "If we hadn't robbed the car washers of their coin/they might not have turned so mean, you know? / Let them earn a little income, bra/ If we'd chiselled our hearts open, tried to see it from the middle/we'd have sof...

My collection embraces different kinds of poetry. Some poems come via my home in Pimville Soweto, the urban sounds and multilingual speech patterns as I move through it. Other poems draw on Sesotho culture and tradition, which still run strongly in my family, and at times, I integrate the different kinds of sounds and associations of Sesotho and English in the same poem. Another important aspect is my retracing the rural and forgotten footstep...

This book salutes Peter Esterhuysen, a fine and accomplished teller of stories. It is also a nod to a friendship that often expressed itself in poetic dialogue. That first meeting was accidental, incidental, or so it seemed then, providential (as those of a romantic disposition might describe it), undoubtedly consequential, one day while crossing a cement piazza we unexpectedly crystallised into each other.

A book of short stories, mainly about South Africans, that looks at some of the complexities of life faced by ordinary women living in a society of diverse cultures. Muthal Naidoo was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1935. She studied English and drama at the University of Natal and worked as a school teacher for 45 years in Marabastad, Pretoria and Giyani, Limpopo Province. She has written extensively for the theatre as well as works of social c...

A collection of poems, photographs and mediations from South African writer abu bakr solomons. Abu Bakr Solomons is a retired teacher-principal who has worked in primary and high schools in the townships of Cape Town for 40 years. He was the Chairperson of the Congress of South African Writers in 1990-91. He was awarded a fellowship to pursue research in African literature at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1992. In 1993 he was invited...

We're on a journey / for the duration: / naked, / itching, / sinning, / playing, / freefalling, / hurt to the marrow / seeing elephants / in the passages. African poetry collection.

I can, said the creator, I can / offer, he said, only a life. Just / the spark to the starter motor, / a puff, a squeak and I'm done. / Life is all I can give you. Haven't / you realised that I'm an experimenter, / not an insurance salesman? So you / see, survival, survival is up to you, / it's your adventure. I can't guarantee / silk stockings, an apartment in Manhattan, / or pure intentions. But here's a word of / advice: don't put too much ...

Poems by Kobus Moolman, Mphutlane wa Bofelo, Clinton du Plessis, Gillian Schutte and Lionel Murcott - another 'unholy' assemblage of voices and hands and thoughts. All five have since matured and continued to publish but these relatively early examples of their work certainly show how well formed they were and that subsequent work has been a relatively natural progression.

This volume was our first anthology of fiction (2001)and included work by writers who had been published in the Botsotso literary journal. The themes reflect the turmoil of the 1980's and the new issues raised in the 90's. Maropodi Mapalakanye's stories focus on the political-military struggle against apartheid with an emphasis on the deadly 'twists of fate' that insurrection spawns with regard to the need to resist and its collateral damage t...

This second compilation of work by The Botsotso Jesters has a similar structure to the first but the landscape format of the book with its intensive graphic drawings, doodles, scripts and patterns, and insightful preface by Donald Parenzee, makes it a worthy sequel. Of interest is the carry through of certain themes and styles but also the new turns and tones that justify fresh attention.

The Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group was founded in 1994. After a few member changes, it solidified in 1996 with the line up that published this first Botsotso book. The collectively written poems that provided such powerful performance material are followed by individual collections of each of the five. Anna Varney's graphics set the tone for many future books in which the combination of written and visual images becomes a striking f...

This collection of poems by Allan Kolski Horwitz and illustrated by the painter James de Villiers was awarded the 2020 Olive Schreiner Award for poetry. Kolski Horwitz's poetry encompasses sensually charged relationships and encounters between men and women, examinations of political realities (including the lives of artists and revolutionaries) and imagistic depictions of natural phenomena. This collection, comprising 80 poems written over th...

The ten stories in Un/common Ground do, indeed, cover the unusual and generally unwritten about in South Africa with respect to both themes and styles. They range from adult love entanglements to the difficulties of children caught in the dissolution of families, from white supremacist racial murders to utopian societies of the 26th century, from drug induced hallucinations and trade in human body parts to the problems of creating a new identi...

Short stories from a master of the form, this collection scrapes away superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless, in particular, they probe the limitations of middle class norms and blinkered identities and grapple with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of privileged ghettoes.Mixing satire with bruta...

Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese's debut collection of poetry Loud and Yellow Laughter, published by Botsotso, was awarded the 2018 Ingrid Jonker prize for poetry.Busuku Mathese's entry was described by one judge as 'completely original: the presentation of family history as a play, in which the narrator is an unreliable character'. The poet was praised for the 'the mix of WW2 history, the narrator's dilemmas about being adopted, and the way she manage...

From Soweto, from the hilltops of initiation, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya adopts the mantle of Killjoy, dissecting our liberation, questioning our infatuations, baptizing us in the juicy waters of procreation."Dance, Africa!" he cries, before hitting Hillbrow pavements parading brothels, singing for children whose anger and haste cannot be measured or bulldozed, singing for workers who brave themselves from darkness to darkness while the drumbeat seren...

This threesome reflects seemingly quite different sensibilities but running underground are common sources, primarily a genuine sense of observation and empathy.Parenzee's fine delineation of detail, his ideological openness but strong sense of justice link well with Vonani Bila's 'makoya poetry' (rendered largely in Xitsonga with English translations). This poetry that rails in its own manner against money madness and apartheid barbarism stan...

The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80, 000 people at a time - largely politisized black workers and youth - with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-...