Arja Salafranca

The headliner for the third leg of the Out in Africa fest this year is  Howl , a film about a poem, rather than a biopic, which is what I w...

There’s tragedy in any suicide; and tragedy when the person who takes their own life is a creative person is that their voice is stilled...

I’m driving to work when the beat of a favourite song comes pouring out from the airwaves. Surprisingly I struggle to place it and then the...

Book of the Week: The Cream of South African Writers The editor of this eclectic collection of short stories, Arja Salafranca, sifted throu...

At the moment South Africa is experiencing a boom in book publishing. New writers are constantly minted and the stories they tell, whether i...

It lay surrounded by grassy yellow veld, hills forming a kind of amphitheatre in the distance. At first we couldn’t see much, with the other...

I’ve read two enormously different, but equally moving books in the past weeks – both of which reflect and affirm what I wish for women this...

The stories in The Thin Line hook the reader from the first one, and reel you in on that thin line. You will be haunted by the carefully dr...