The memoir I worked on last year has been published. It is being distributed to bookstores at the moment. It’s a somewhat daunting thing. I now have to engage in things like book launches, literary festivals (three in the next two months) as well as radio and TV interviews. These are the least favourite things…
Tag: race
Signing off on the book
In the next t4 hours I will be signing off on the on the book, a hybrid of memoir, commentary and analysis of South Africa’s contemporary history and persistent racial ordering. It should go on sale by 20 March.
Old Photographs: Nothing or Legs
Among the old photographs that I have on storage drives, especially those old water damaged negs I scanned, I sometimes find gems, like the one below. To make this picture I risked life and limb. I stood in the middle of Market Street, Johannesburg, on one of the white lines, in traffic, to get this…