Blogs in July 2023

Johannesburg 24th July 2023

6 December 2013. Johannesburg. Gin has returned home from New York to throw a party for her mother’s eightieth birthday; a few blocks away, at the Residence, Nelson Mandela’s family prepare to announce Tata’s death… So begins Johannesburg, Fiona...

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491 Days 29th December 2022

On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on 12 May 1969, security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela and detained her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged eight and ten....

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Double Negative 15th January 2021

‘One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today.’-Andre Brink Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, ‘Double Negative’ is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during...

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Outside the Lines 18th June 2020

Outside the Lines is a journey through the underbelly of Johannesburg, South Africa and the intimacy of family drama scattered across racial, religious, and class divisions. Drug addict Cathleen is kidnapped and her distracted, middle-class family fails to notice...

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Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story 9th June 2020

Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know that they need to bring their mother back...

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