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Book review: Period Pain

KayDee Mashile [intro]In 2007, South African writer Kopano Matlwa burst onto the literary scene with the publication of her debut novel Coconut, which went on to win the European Union Literary Award. Spilt Milk was her second novel, which won the Wole Soyinka Prize...

Book Extract: Parcel of Death

Book Extract [intro]Parcel of Death recounts the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid regime pursued beyond the country’s borders to assassinate with a parcel bomb, in 1974. He is also hailed by many as...

Poem: Red Africa

Kay Dee Mashile [intro]Kay Dee Mashile, the books editor of The Journalist, shares a poem.[/intro] Red Africa Blood red Dry and red Barren and bare Africa is as red as Mars Dry as the lips of her hungry I guess she must also be hungry What other reason can she...

Mathatha Tsedu’s autobiography is our collective story

Michelle Galloway [intro]Media veteran Mathatha Tsedu is writing an autobiography detailing his life as a political activist and media warrior from his beginnings as a young boy who was born in rural Limpopo.[/intro] Mathatha Tsedu, veteran journalist and...

Social worker and author, a Q&A with Rethabile Lenkoe

KayDee Mashile [intro]Interview with author Rethabile Lenkoe speaks to South African social worker and author Rethabile Lenkoe about her latest book, Mirror, her love for writing and the importance of self-forgiveness.[/intro] Bongani Madondo once wrote,...

Newly published book puts young ‘Heroes’ in the spotlight

[intro]A new book, called Heroes, published by the organisation Activate! Change Drivers gives voice to the youth. Through Heroes, they hope to shine a light on everyday heroes and leaders who will stop at nothing to positively impact their surroundings. Heroes tells...