BUSI FOR PARKS: love for neccesity

Author: Ros Haden Title: Sugar Daddy Series: Harmony High Genre: Teen Fiction (South Africa) Overview: Sugar Daddy by Ros Haden tells the story of the teenager Busi, who is socially troubled. Busi decides to bunk school and hang out with her sugar daddy, Parks, and this is where the trouble begins. She is lying to …

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo; the book review

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo tells the story of a middle aged married couple, Yejide and Akin who are struggling to conceive. The story is based on the lengths that they went to get a child and the ways their relationship suffered and conquered. The story kicks off with the couple visited by Akin’s …

Love and Life in Malay Camp

Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams tells the story of a young man, Xuma, who arrives in Malay Camp, Johannesburg, South Africa in search of a job. He arrives in the city early in the morning and the streets are bare and the weather couldn’t be foggier. Xuma is suddenly approached by a middle-aged woman, Leah, …

Mpho’s coffee table discussions

  Chwayita:            As a young woman in South Africa, what do you know about rape and what has Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain taught you? Mpho:                   I’ve always thought that rape is a result of men not raised the right way and then enforcing their own power onto somebody else so that they feel …

GROWING PAINS: The South African period

Author: Kopano Matlwa Title: Period Pain Publisher: Jacana     Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain tells the story of a young South African female, Masechaba living in modern South Africa. She is shown her first and most horrific enemy at a tender age when she battles with continual menstrual bleeding, which she refers to as The Beast. …