Zikr, by Saleha Idrees Bamjee current-affairs-1

Zikr, by Saleha Idrees Bamjee current-affairs-1In Zikr's beguilingly measured and covertly powerful poems, Saaleha Idrees Bamjee achieves these often difficult tasks. In doing so, Bamjee introduces new idioms and understandings of Muslim identity to South African poetry yet not through manifesto, nor outright polemic. This is a collection of fine metaphors, concrete turns of phrase, and a refreshing specificity of image, place, and self.

Nkosi's biological mother was dying when Gail Johnson took the two-year old into her home

' These words spoken by Bram Fischer in his statement from the dock during his treason trial were followed by a life sentence

Eye-witness accounts of anarchy

A Yeoville-born boykie with Yiddish roots

Who Could That Be at This Hour

By the end of the session

Quayson takes issue with the prevalent use of oral tradition in the criticism of Europhone written literature as a kind of cultural matrix out of which the written text emerged

Imagine a Springbok as a finished product coming off a factory assembly line

It traces the growing ambition and power of Grace Mugabe

food or ‘proper’ transport) that information can be gathered concerning individual thoughts and actions and the structures within which these are manifested

impotence and power

leaving any concern for his education by the wayside