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).
Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in those
days) to examine questions of language identity and entitlement.
“It is said that writing about music is the equivalent of dancing about architecture. Mick Raubenheimer, however, grasps in Bukowskian prose the embodied, emotional and cerebral qualities of improvisation, as well as the torsions of South African music subcultures. Writing about improvised music requires the disruption of form. Using irruptive anecdotes and in capturing interruptive moments of listening, Raubenheimer comes as close as is possible to the qualities of the music itself.
Staid histories of South African jazz inevitably regulate the music. Mick Raubenheimer captures musical events in all their disruptive singularity.”
Jana van Niekerk is a South African writer living in Cape Town. Her short stories and poetry appear in multiple journals including New Coin, New Contrast, Botsotso and Aerodrome and in collections such as For the Duration (brought out by Botsotso in 2015) and The Garden of the Beloved (the 2021 McGregor Poetry Festival Anthology). She has also published children’s books and romance novellas under different names.
John Mateer’s parents were born in Cape Town, living there until their twenties. From his early childhood, their nostalgia for The Cape was influential on him, even though he was born in the early 70s in Roodepoort, Johannesburg.
In the mid 70s his father took the family to Toronto, Canada, then, suffering ill health, returned two years later to Johannesburg. Shortly before John Mateer was conscripted in the late 80s, he moved with his mother and sisters to Australia.
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). 
Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in those
days) to examine questions of language identity and entitlement. 
“It is said that writing about music is the equivalent of dancing about architecture. Mick Raubenheimer, however, grasps in Bukowskian prose the embodied, emotional and cerebral qualities of improvisation, as well as the torsions of South African music subcultures. Writing about improvised music requires the disruption of form. Using irruptive anecdotes and in capturing interruptive moments of listening, Raubenheimer comes as close as is possible to the qualities of the music itself.
Staid histories of South African jazz inevitably regulate the music. Mick Raubenheimer captures musical events in all their disruptive singularity.”