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La République Des Singes

La République Des Singes

by Jean Francois Kouadio Comprenons-nous réellement le contenu principiel du contrat social? Comment combattre effacement la corruption. Pourquoi assistons-nous continuellement à la dilution des repères normatifs, à la montée du tribalisme et de la xénophobie? Comment...

Botsotso 20

Botsotso 20

Drama: The Dramas of Life edited by Allan Kolski Horwitz, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya, Ike Mboneni Muila Botsotso 20: Drama. The Dramas of Life is an anthology of eight South African plays drawn from the last decade (2008 -18) and engages with personal dilemmas and social...

Botsotso 18: Poetry

Botsotso 18: Poetry

edited by Allan Kolski Horwitz With over seventy poets represented, this is a bumper edition of the journal and given the number of interesting and accomplished poems received (over the past two years since publication of Botsotso 17), we believed it worthwhile to...

Botsotso 19: Fiction

Botsotso 19: Fiction

True, False and Fantastical edited by Allan Kolski Horwitz, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya, Ike Mboneni Muila Botsotso 19: Fiction. True, False and Fantastical includes thirty-one pieces by a wide range of southern African writers accompanied with photographs by Moshe Sekete...

The Republic of Monkeys

The Republic of Monkeys

Jean-François Kouadio How can poverty be eradicated? How can Africa be industrialised? How can corruption be fought? How armed conflicts be settled? Why are so many Africans maladjusted once back from western universities? How can religious fundamentalism and...

Collected Plays: 2009 – 2017

Collected Plays: 2009 – 2017

by Allan Kolski Horwitz This collection contains five plays by the South African writer Allan Horwitz: The Pump Room; Comrade Babble; Boykie and Girlie; Jericho; and Book Marks. The plays explore the contradictions and dreams of the new and old South Africa, as well...

Loud and Yellow Laughter

Loud and Yellow Laughter

by Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese’s debut collection of poetry Loud and Yellow Laughter, published by Botsotso, was awarded the 2018 Ingrid Jonker prize for poetry. Busuku Mathese’s entry was described by one judge as, “completely original: the...

The Colours of Our Flag

The Colours of Our Flag

by Allan Kolski Horwitz This collection of poems by Allan Kolski Horwitz, and illustrated by the painter James de Villiers, was awarded the 2020 Olive Schreiner Award for poetry. Kolski Horwitz’s poetry encompasses sensually charged relationships and encounters...

For the Duration

For the Duration

by Jana van Niekerk, Rosemund Handler and Natalie Railoun This anthology of poems by three Cape Town based women contains both surreal and naturalistic elements. As mature women whose sense of relationships is no longer founded on romantic and untested notions, the...