Focusing on the epic love affair between a former amateur musician -- who happens to be a bootlegger, mercenary, and killer -- and a shebeen queen, this South African love story traces the couple's lives and loves through the interweaving of histor...
This multilayered family saga is a riveting tale of love, betrayal, and a search for identity -- sexual and otherwise. Sis Lettie, the streetwise philosopher of the shebeens and entrepreneur par excellence, and her son Kokoroshe, a street urchin tu...
As a teenager Fred Khumalo greeted his friends with a handshake and the words 'touch my blood'. It implied friendship and trust. The saying became his name. More than that, it became the way he viewed his world. Everything touched Fred Khumal...
‘Be quiet and be calm, my countrymen, for what is taking place is exactly what you came to do … Brothers, we are drilling the death drill.’â€" Reverend Isaac Wauchope DyobhaParis, 1958. A skirmish in a world-famous restaurant leaves two men dea...