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LIBERATING THE ARTS
A Red-brown Dog Stands His Ground
Even if you don’t like dogs, you would soon or eventually warm to Jack. With his distinctive colour, Jack stood out among neighbourhood...
Frank Meintjies
Sep 2, 20244 min read
There is Something I Know [excerpt]
In this funky sex-smelling town, runner-away girls trade their bodies with overweight men: truck drivers, bus drivers and scarred men...
Vonani Bila
Sep 2, 20244 min read
Ukuzincama
Ekuphileni komntu, kukho amaxesha apho ubani athatha isigqibo sokukhe athi xhaa ekwenzeni oko aqhele ukukwenza imihla ngemihla. La...
Vusumzi Nyezwa
Aug 29, 20243 min read
1. Shrinking next to the blossoming flowers
The books always take my chair and send me onto the floor. I lie on my side, sometimes on my back, with an open book completely a sky...
Mangaliso Buzani
Aug 29, 20243 min read
Izicatshulwa kwincwadi ethi “Masidle ilifa lethu”
1. Ukuvela komntwana Ngethuba lokuba inkosikazi ilindele umntwana ngakumbi ngelaa xesha lokuba kusithiwa iyanqumka okanye iyakhawula...
Nomonde Mdlokolo
Aug 29, 20244 min read
1. 300
One more dance, one more dance on the Bridal Beach of broken glass. Once more into my small breached heart the carnage of Dunkirk. Once more the kiss of never-enough my love. If you are the sailor then I am the soldier my legs unsteady from the voyage, consulting the Oracle who spoke against me and failing to meditate. I fought on this beach to live. What could you do. You blew on my wounds You used your words manfully you kept dancing. 2. Night alchemy I woke up with the wor
Jana van Niekerk
Aug 29, 20242 min read
1. Sifun’ utywala!
Lumkani!! lumkani!! Sifun’ utywala!! Sifun’ utywala!! Ikhovithi!! Ikhovithi!! Sifun’ utywala!! Sifun’ utywala!! Waphel’ umntu!! Baf’...
Mpumelelo Matwa
Aug 29, 20242 min read
I.
I . I am a silence of two mountains facing a valley of pain. I am a balancing act of beliefs, bread, and running water. I am a nervous...
Kyle Allen
Aug 29, 20242 min read
1. The Money Knot
UMakhulu had a money cloth knot that she kept under her mattress or in the pocket of her petticoat depending on when last she had used...
Lelethu Sobekwa
Aug 29, 20243 min read
1. Pin Prick
Thirty second HIV test: positive or negative status indicated by the number of vertical stripes formed after a drop of blood has been...
Allan Kolski Horwitz
Aug 22, 20244 min read
1. Love Letter To My Slay Queen
Chiskop woman of my heart, Chocolate girl of my soul, The bright torch of my poems, Your lips are like a cup of coffee, I can enjoy...
Dlayani Enock Shishenge
Aug 22, 20245 min read
Jackals
I wanted to learn about wild animals’ behaviour, yet I was well aware of the havoc that jackals caused. Still deep in thought on my way...
Mussolini Soga Mlandu
Aug 13, 20245 min read
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