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‘Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?’ asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane and the trouble he gets into in the new South Africa. Jimmy, a people’s poet involved in the struggle, is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the ‘secret secret service’.
Missing is the story of Robert Khalipa , an ANC Cadre living in exile, who is very senior in the Organisation but is left out of the negotiations and almost forgotten in Sweden.
In his introduction to this collection, Stephen Gray states that ‘there can be no artistic grounds on which to uphold a belief that “short” implies “lesser”‘; he goes on to make the point that ‘Fugard seems naturally to be most at ease when working in compact dense forms’.
My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994
800×600 Volume 2 presents the work of visual artist Sam Hopkins, who lives and works in Nairobi. Hopkins, who has been educated in Kenya, Cuba, at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and in Edinburgh, is a crucial representative of a certain young, transnational art scene in Nairobi. The scene is oriented towards, and part of,…
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