I am oddly contentjust riding round insmall circles vocalisingvague unwords at myselfmy fairy wheels semireliably affixed by mysometimes present fatherand the bullies all offelsewhere…

Cosmo was released from prison after three years. Talent, called such because he was a former soccer player of great renown, met him for…

I have discovered I prefer to walk with it tucked safely beneath my descending aorta – to me, it is the last bit of comfort…

How Are You Brother? Amen. It was 4p.m when the yellow van arrived, and I was glad. The Sunday breeze was slightly tinged with…

If one were to look backon how the present resulted,there would be a track of wheelson the throat of kindness. Forthe lump that shrivelled…

The future of Africa does not belong to obsessions with power and sloganeering like “Down with the West, down with the detractors, down with…

 “dubula lenja!”splattering all over the lens, SABC news crew left bewildered, his words were so violent that they hurt delivered with such a ferocity…

When Pepi awoke from what she thought was a short nap, she was surprised to see what appeared to be a thick layer of…

She pays attention but she doesn’t see. She has an astigmatism her contact lenses don’t correct. She can’t use her camera properly, can’t see…

literally translated to mean ‘i see you’   following with the eye  the stream filling mind with water  with this in mind as a…

1 The drought was grievous.   It clung to men’s hearts and hung from their faces.   Silence lay heavy.   No chirp of crickets.   No bird…

1 Charity remains the most violent And lasting Form of colonialism.   2 No gift comes without A future request.   3 When people…

One – She wore her nakedness too well, it scared me. Two – Her breasts were a monument; a single one covered my universe whole - it…

Fool? Nutter? Brucker? Thus I have been christened. It will have to do; it might as well have been any other way. However, a…

Winner of the Deon Hofmeyr creative writing prize1. If there’s one thing I hate most it’s being interrupted mid-beer. I’m sitting outside at MaBliksem’s…

An elaborate classical Roman arch frames Raphael's School of Athens (1509-1510), behind which three more arches advance towards a vanishing point; focusing the viewer's…