David Mann, author of Once Removed, interviews award-winning South African poet Zeenit Saban-Jacobs about her debut collection of poetry Inside an Eyeball (Botsotso, 2025).
David Mann, author of Once Removed, interviews award-winning Scottish-South African poet, Basil du Toit about his latest collection of poetry Studies in Khoisan Verbs.
The Colours of Our Flag was published in 2016, but it feels as timely and relevant now as ever. Would you like to say something about what this title meant to you when you chose it, and what it means to you today? What kind of response have you had to the anthology since it was published?
An audio-drama commissioned by ILRIG (International Labour Research and Information Group) and
produced by the BOTSOTSO arts collective with a cast drawn from CASAWU (the Commercial
Stevedoring and Agricultural Workers Union) and RECLAIM THE CITY (a working-class inner city
residents organization based in Cape Town).
In the shadow of Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza (almost all refugees from the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Jewish settlers in 1948), this collection, drawn from poems written over several years and culminating in the fire of the current onslaught, captures the agony and suffering of a defenceless people attacked with high precision weapons and a propaganda machine dedicated to advancing US/NATO control over the ‘non-white’ world.
David Mann, author of Once Removed, interviews award-winning South African poet Zeenit Saban-Jacobs about her debut collection of poetry Inside an Eyeball (Botsotso, 2025). 
An audio-drama commissioned by ILRIG (International Labour Research and Information Group) and
produced by the BOTSOTSO arts collective with a cast drawn from CASAWU (the Commercial
Stevedoring and Agricultural Workers Union) and RECLAIM THE CITY (a working-class inner city
residents organization based in Cape Town). 
In the shadow of Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza (almost all refugees from the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Jewish settlers in 1948), this collection, drawn from poems written over several years and culminating in the fire of the current onslaught, captures the agony and suffering of a defenceless people attacked with high precision weapons and a propaganda machine dedicated to advancing US/NATO control over the ‘non-white’ world.