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Welcome to the PhilYaa Blog
Hi, welcome to my blog, where I hope to share ideas and give people information about performances and books, and sneak-preview poems. I would like to analyse, sift, request, defend, advertise,...
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The longer I spend as a writer, the more I become like an accountant. When I was young I thought artists led exciting, colourful lives, and that like the grasshopper who fiddled all summer, they didn’t...
View ArticleJa, Jo’burg
I’m always surveying our streets looking for evidence of change. As I drove through Yeoville the other day, a series of billboards in French graced the lamp-posts: “Je ne salis pas” – I don’t litter. I...
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Parliament of Poetry Flyer
Here’s the flyer for the show in the UK I mentioned earlier this month. Now let me resound the call: please tell your SA expat friends and family in London about the event, so they can come and support...
View ArticleOriginal Skin at the Baxter
Something you might have received in your inbox recently… Original Skin at the Baxter Theatre this Sunday The Baxter Theatre Centre’s popular South African season in the 2007 Play>Ground series...
View ArticleMuseum of Crime
I have to admit that I am often a bit of an ostrich. Get locked away in my own world where I watch the minute movements of grass. So for a change I decided to read the newspaper. Open myself up to all...
View ArticleVictor Victor!!!
I am so glad that Victor Dlamini’s contribition to literature and journalism is being recognized. He has really shown the world that black writers, in all their diversity, exist, and he continues to...
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Come, let’s go for a walk
I am experimenting with photographs, enjoy the slide show! http://www.flickr.com/photos/24925944@N02/sets/72157604210615236/
View ArticleNotes on Original Skin
Biographical sketch that first appeared in the Mail & Guardian – and more information about Original Skin, on at the Market Theatre until 22 June, from Litnet. After a number of incidents in my...
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