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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...