Creative Non-Fiction

Getting Educated     I am no longer living in Vereeniging, my South African hometown. It is still my home town, and I go there for weekends and vacations, but now I am at university in Johannesburg. There is nothing to keep young...

An Unrecorded Performance   As a child in the late 1960s, the first live professional performance I was taken to was a concert with Theodore Bikel.  The concert was my birthday present from my mother.  Other children got parties; I was exposed to ...

Upminded Pulika My damp palms retrieve Pulika’s most recent letter tucked in my purse, creased from re-readings. The exotic stamp says: R4.60 South Africa. Dear Suzan, I am still well at Sabie, the only thing I had problems, my mum past a...