Arja Salafranca

Battle Scarred: Hidden Costs of the Border War by Anthony Feinstein, Tafelberg There is a world of sadness wrapped up in these walls. The...

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At the launch of Gillian Schutte's After Just Now at Love Books, Melville, Johannesburg. From left: Jill Nudelman, Arja Salafranca, Le...

I left my cellphone at home. Racing out to an appointment mid-afternoon, and then I was off to a writers symposium that began at five, ther...

You woke up this morning to hear that Freddie Mercury had died. The brilliant blue light of dawn came in through a parting in the curtain ...

The constellation looked like a small cluster of cotton wool through the telescope. “Relax your eyes,” said astronomer Vincent Nettman. I di...

I swung into Wits University’s Senate House in February a few years ago. It was a hot summer’s day. Clutching books, a bag, sunglasses loope...

With Janet van Eeden,  regional winner at the Vodacom awards, and veteran journalist Sophie Tema. 

Arja’s first poem was written at the age of ten – and detailed the grim effects of typhoid, a subject she knew nothing about. Things have ch...