Carving Out the South African Novel
Novelist Thando Mgqolozana (30) is often quoted in his interviews as saying that his favourite book of all time is Joseph Diescho’s Troubled Waters, a story set in Namibia in 1974 when the country was under the control of apartheid South Africa. The temptation is, of course, to search for traces of Diescho in […]
Cosafa ‘Champions League’ Dreams
A significant part of Southern Africa – the region that’s known in football terms as the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) – is a desert. It is dry and barren even though it has produced gemstones that have drawn envious glances from the rest of the world. Some of those gems, such as Mozambique’s Eusébio, stretching […]