In our structures we South Africans tend to declare ourselves quite nakedly, sometimes eloquently, and rarely with dissimulation. There, for all to see, in the geology of what we have built, and of what we have destroyed, are the accretions of our history and the choices we have made.
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‘If the pressure of their life didn’t kill her it made the fight too hard.’
‘Die Hel is a remote valley in the Swartburg Mountains of the south-western Cape.’
‘We decided then to tell each other exactly how a typical fuck played out in our marriages. We couldn’t believe we’d never done this before.’
Fiction by Miranda July.
‘What does that mean, vegan cheese? asks a lady who’d had no query about amuse-bouche.’
An extract from The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes.
‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.
