by Poppie Ntaka Masihlangane emasimini ezinhliziyo zethu Masamkele lesi memo esikhulu; masi’hloniphe *** Usho uma usufikile Mngane, Ngihambe kahle bandla izolo. Ngifike kusakhanya, besavukile bonke abantu. ...
Damian Garside
Nakhu Ukuphila
by Poppie Ntaka nankaya amathwasana okusa ephotha intambo yezulu nansiya intambo ebomvu isilengela esinyeni sokuvuka kwethu naku ukuphila. ENGLISH TRANSLATION The Healing over there, the initiates of our rising are weaving the rays and the ropes that criss-cross this...
Bea’s spoon
by Casey Golomski Hand-less, arm-less Clocks analogize what remains of time Here—night is a blue moon affixed in smoke-grey surrounds, Day an orange sun winking “you’ll see,” another partition With an image of sandwich bread expresses when it is lunch. Such dementia...
Hospital Street
by Carla Chiat There’s always this annoying rave song playing on the hospital’s ground floor, Hospital Street. Whenever I dawdle to the cafeteria, dawdling beside wheeled drips and men on crutches, women with skin stained from recurrent radiation, and mothers carrying...
Kujenga’s Art of Building Together – In The Wake’s Album Launch © Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku
Kujenga’s Art of Building Together – In The Wake’s Album Launch © Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku Expectation as a human feature is naturally flawed. This entity, very easily and perhaps deceptively so as someone more cynical might say; promises a lot without any guarantees that...
Jana van Niekerk
NEW POETRY BY JANA VAN NIEKERK 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...
Moses Seletiša: Simphiwe
Moses Seletiša Simphiwe for Simphiwe Nolutshungu Seretikonokono o bile, Nolutshungu.Ge o be o thenkgolla sefoka makaleng a kutu ya ‘hlare wa Avbob Poetry, Ka reto sa go sa “eXhoseni”, Ka go kwa o goeletša go tšwa nageng ya Gqeberha ya Nelson Mandela Bay, Nokengkgolo...
Hazel Woodward
Paintings by Hazel Woodward -- NEW Wheel and Skull(mixed media, 500 x 300mm) -- Huge heart(oils, 1.5m x 1.2m) -- anguished(oils, 1.5m x 1.2m) -- Epilepsy Pieta(mixed media, 900mm x 600mm) -- For Charles(oils, 1.5m x 1.2m) -- Leonard's Nancy(oils, 1,2m x 900m) -- Muses...
Anton Krueger – ‘The University Currently Known As …’ – a Novel Excerpt
Anton Krueger'The University Currently Known As ...'a Novel ExcerptThe University Currently Known As ... TUESDAY Rudy The plaintive bleep from his instrument’s dying battery fed into Rudy’s dream of being inside an alien craft, clean and white. He unwound himself...
Editorial
Botsotso Literary Journal (Volume 21) "Light Up the Night" Poetry Editorial Prose Editorial Allan Kolski Horwitz(Co-Ordinator) Kharys Ateh Laue(Senior Editor) Sarah Lubala(Senior Editor) Saliha Haddad(Associate Editor) Siphiwe ka Ngwenya(Member) Shari...