Horwitz: Botsotso 19: Fiction

True, False and Fantastical

Kolski Horwitz, Siphiwe ka, Kolski Horwitz, Siphiwe ka

• Publisher: Botsotso Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780994708137
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781990922039
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80, 000 people at a time largely politisized black workers and youth with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews. The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society. Botsotso 19: Fiction. True, False and Fantastical includes thirty-one pieces by a wide range of southern African writers accompanied with photographs by Moshe Sekete Potswana. The edition focuses on fiction that covers a wide range of themes and situations: Thabisani Ndlovus Making a Woman is about patriarchy and rising feminism in a Zimbabwean village, Mpumelelo Cilibes Keep the Ship Moving! is set during the emergence of the first trade union at a Ford motor plant in the late 1970s in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Muthal Naidoos anthropomorphic satire Stone Walls is about exploitative friendships. Botsotso 19 displays the art of storytelling in many forms and styles and moves the reader through a wide range of emotions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Editorial. It’s all about language
• ALEXANDRA WALLACE
• KILLING THE GOAT
• A Letter to the Saad Family
• LELIK
• Making a Woman
• LIGHT PURPLE AND A BIT HAZY
• LOVE FROM COLOMBO
• Sex is the Opium of The People
• Baziana
• BLACK BOY FLY
• Goodbye, Sokhulu
• Memories of her
• The Pregnancy
• Keep the Ship Moving!
• Mr Mothlalogo
• FACE THE NATION
• The Eye of the Storm
• Stone Walls
• PSYCHODELIC
• Dust
• An Ugly Name is a Curse
• Pinky the Side Chick
• THE TRAIN HOME
• TWO SOLDIERS
• Utoponil
• Identity
• The New Housewife
• The Matter of my Grandfather’s Ghia
• He wakes up
• The Parlour Trick
• Extract from THE POLITICIAN
• Back cover