Arja Salafranca

Performed at Old Mutual Theatre on the Square, Sandton, Johannesburg Hard Love is a play inspired by a real incident in the life of Israeli...

Review of The Imposter , Damon Galgut, Penguin This is a quiet, powerful story, a novel trimmed of excess, where every word means what it sh...

Review of Karma Suture, Rosamund Kendal, Jacana It’s the end of another long, tiring day for GP Sue Carey. She’s wearing green surgery pants...

The only thing uniting these five, diverse collections of poetry is that each was launched in 2007 at the Poetry Africa Festival hosted by t...

He takes us to the little wooden house he first occupied when arriving at this private 18 000ha reserve in Limpopo Province. Now the wooden ...

An elephant's hide is curiously soft, wrinkled and folded over on itself, but also incredibly soft. That was a surprise; only having see...

"I’d sell my computer before I’d sell my children. But the kids had better watch their step. When have the children helped me meet a de...

There is talk that the long-neglected short story is enjoying something of a renaissance locally, and the publication of four collections in...

Short stories are commonly called the Cinderellas of the literary world. Publishers complain that readers don’t buy short-story collections,...