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A vision of nothing

By Ross Fleming

I am oddly contentjust riding round insmall circles vocalisingvague unwords at myselfmy fairy wheels semireliably affixed by mysometimes present fatherand the bullies all offelsewhere…
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Aesthetics of Security | 2013

By Sibylle Feucht

The work series Aesthetics of Security derives from a longer stay in Johannesburg, South Africa. The city has still one of the highest crime…
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Chicken

By Karen Jennings

That was where we saw the chicken being eaten by another. It had been hit by a car, that first one. The second, coming…
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Cosmo's Return

By Frank Meintjies

Cosmo was released from prison after three years. Talent, called such because he was a former soccer player of great renown, met him for…
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Danger behaves a lot like clarity on random workday mornings

By Joseph Claassen

I have discovered I prefer to walk with it tucked safely beneath my descending aorta – to me, it is the last bit of comfort…
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Escaping the Grid

By Martin Gantman

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Happiness

By fabio sassi

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How Are You Brother? Amen.

By Mapule Mohulatsi

How Are You Brother? Amen. It was 4p.m when the yellow van arrived, and I was glad. The Sunday breeze was slightly tinged with…
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If one were to look

By Sheikha A.

If one were to look backon how the present resulted,there would be a track of wheelson the throat of kindness. Forthe lump that shrivelled…
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It Is Theirs Please Do Not Ruin It Any Further

By Ndaba Sibanda

The future of Africa does not belong to obsessions with power and sloganeering like “Down with the West, down with the detractors, down with…
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live (on prime time television)

By Sihle Ntuli

“dubula lenja!”splattering all over the lens, SABC news crew left bewildered, his words were so violent that they hurt delivered with such a ferocity…
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Pepi's Awakening

By Ahmed Patel

When Pepi awoke from what she thought was a short nap, she was surprised to see what appeared to be a thick layer of…
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Peripheral

By Jo-Ann Bekker

She pays attention but she doesn’t see. She has an astigmatism her contact lenses don’t correct. She can’t use her camera properly, can’t see…
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Sawubona

By Sihle Ntuli

literally translated to mean ‘i see you’ following with the eye the stream filling mind with water with this in mind as a…
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Soentjie's Song

By Denise Y. Fielding

1 The drought was grievous. It clung to men’s hearts and hung from their faces. Silence lay heavy. No chirp of crickets. No bird…
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Some things about this year.

By Kyle Allan

1 Charity remains the most violent And lasting Form of colonialism. 2 No gift comes without A future request. 3 When people…
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Ten honest thoughts on why i left her

By Khuli Zama

One – She wore her nakedness too well, it scared me. Two – Her breasts were a monument; a single one covered my universe whole - it…
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The Art of Aldous

By Lumumba Mthembu

Fool? Nutter? Brucker? Thus I have been christened. It will have to do; it might as well have been any other way. However, a…
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The Deliciousness of Lucerne

By Wesley Thompson

Winner of the Deon Hofmeyr creative writing prize1. If there’s one thing I hate most it’s being interrupted mid-beer. I’m sitting outside at MaBliksem’s…
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To understand is to look: putting Raphael’s 'School of Athens' into words

By Kent Lindiwe Williams

An elaborate classical Roman arch frames Raphael's School of Athens (1509-1510), behind which three more arches advance towards a vanishing point; focusing the viewer's…
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Watching the Sky

By Karen Fitzgerald

Vision is a wide-reaching concept. With this piece, I'm merging the physical/literal idea of vision, (as in seeing) with the idea of en-visioning. Watching…
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