Extracts
Extract - 1986 by William Dicey
18 January 2021
On 1 January 1986, in the early hours of the morning, a band of vigilantes invaded Moutse, a rural district adjacent to the self-governing homeland of KwaNdebele. Wielding axes and guns, they abducted several hundred men and boys from their villages and took them to a community hall in Siyabuswa, the capital of KwaNdebele. The floor of the hall...
Extract: Promised Land - Exploring South Africa’s Land Conflict
16 November 2020
This land is our land
‘Land reform’ and, even more headline grabbing, ‘expropriation without compensation’. Two phrases that is used to scare just as much as to promise a new beginning. In Promised Land: Exploring South Africa’s Land Conflict, Karl Kemp travels the country documenting the fallout of failing...
Extract - The History of Man by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
21 October 2020
The Ashtonburys proved instrumental to the realisation of Emil’s dream. They knew and introduced him to all the right people and, now that he was connected to the Ashtonburys, all the right people were open to his idea. Nevertheless, even with the help of the Ashtonburys, it eventually became apparent to Emil that if anything was actually to...
Extract: The Sentinel
13 October 2020
The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2020 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher.
CHAPTER ONE
Rusty Rutherford emerged from his apartment on a Monday morning, exactly one week after he got fired. He spent the first few days after the axe fell with his...
Uittreksel - Die heelal op my tong
30 September 2020
Elkeen het ’n heelal in hul mond. Keuses wat jou wentelbaan van uur tot uur bepaal.
“Jy was eers ’n seun gewees,” praat my ma dié dag skuins af na my toe.
Haar perd se rug is heelwat hoër as myne. Ek konsentreer so hard om nie van Kaneel af te val nie dat ek nie kan agterkom of sy my terg nie...
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