Archive for November, 2018

Khanya Blog

• Black Diamond: yuppie life in the new South Africa 16 May 2019
  Black Diamond by Zakes Mda My rating: 5 of 5 stars Don Mateza works for a security company in Johannesburg, and his ambitious girlfriend Tumi, who runs a modelling agency, is grooming him to become a “Black Diamond”, one of the nouveau riche of the new South Africa. Don is asked to be the bodyguard […]
• Out of the Silent Planet 10 May 2019
  Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve read this book at least four times, and probably more, and when a friend who had just read it for the first time posted a review, I realised that I hadn’t yet done so, and that after having read it […]
• Review of “The Year of the Dragon” 28 April 2019
  I don’t usually have guest posts on this blog, but an exception is Bishop John Davies, who has kindly written a review of my recently-published book The Year of the Dragon. Reviewed by the Rt Revd John D. Davies Honorary Assistant Bishop, Diocese of St Asaph, Church in Wales THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON by […]
• Tales from Dystopia XXIII: Academic freedom and university apartheid 16 April 2019
  Sixty years ago the Extension of University Education Bill was passed by the South African parliament, which enforced university apartheid. At the time I was a student at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), and on 16 April 1959 there was a protest meeting addressed by the Chancellor at which all members of the university […]
• The Black Angel 15 April 2019
  The Black Angel by John Connolly My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the fourth book of the Charlie Parker series that I have read, though it is actually number 6 in the series. I read them in the order 2, 11, 2, 1, 6. I read this one because it was about halfway […]