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Copycat

- Thomas, Adèle

Crumpled hearts

- Crain, Patricia Ann

  • Authors: Crain, Patricia Ann
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , English language -- Writing , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5984 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015676
  • Description: A middle-aged woman, living in Johannesburg, has an experience which catapults her into changing her life. In the process of confronting her alcoholism, she realizes how patterns of addiction extend to other areas of her life and tries to make sense of the tragic events that have occurred. Her world becomes a different place as she questions everything that she has been taught about relationships, religion, race and her place in society. In the search for answers she uncovers stories about the lives of her parents, grandparents, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Embarking on a journey of discovery and rediscovery through her experiences and those of others, she explores the ways in which the things that she thought she knew defined her behaviour and expression of herself.
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  • Date Issued: 2014

Good-Gooder-Goodest

- Majola, Fundile Lawrence

  • Authors: Majola, Fundile Lawrence
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Xhosa fiction -- 21st century , Short stories, South African -- 21st century , Short stories, Xhosa -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher)
  • Language: English , Xhosa
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5982 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015657
  • Description: My stories are set in the townships, and move with the vigorous rhythms and jagged structures of township life. Some of them are written in English and others in isiXhosa. Some of the dialogue is township slang, a mixture of languages; and pure isiXhosa. The stories follow no particular pattern and are arranged according to any form of chronology, and different voices, at times as a man/boy and in others as a girl. The characters are not related each story perfectly stands for itself. Some of the stories hark back to the days of apartheid and are seen through the eyes of a child confused by the humiliations of his elders. , Amabali am asekelwe ezilokishini yaye ahambelana neemeko ezimaxongo zokuphila zasezilokishini apho yaye amanye asukela kwixesha lengcinezelo yesizwe esimnyama. Imiba echatshazelwa kula mabali iquka intlupheko, intiyo kwakunye nokuphilisana koluntu ezilokishini, phantsi kwezo meko. Amabali la ndizame ukuwenza alandele indlela yokubalisa yhenkwenkwana enguSkhumba, ethi ibone iqwalasele iimeko zokuphila zabantu bohlanga lwayo. Ingqokelela esisiqendu sokuqala yona ibhalwe ze yangeniswa ngesiNgesi. , This thesis is presented in two parts: English and isiXhosa.
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  • Date Issued: 2014

Kaffirmeid and other stories

- Madingwane, June

Kedibone

- Mokae, Sabata Paul

Road to redemption

- Singh, Anirood

Sarkaiym

- Sutherns, Michael Courtney

  • Authors: Sutherns, Michael Courtney
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5976 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012998
  • Description: The kingdom of Sansland situated on the Azanian Peninsula has been ruled by Sorricians, the sky people, ever since they landed on terra firma centuries ago. The indigenous population are forced to engage directly in the social and economic perpetuation of their own domination beneath the Sorrician heel. Until revolution flares in the antipodes, and soon, even the gods themselves seem to take an interest in the inevitable course of events. But all is not what it seems. The revolution appears to proceed too rapidly. The kingdom’s trade infrastructure collapses too easily. The Sorrician rulers are inexplicably and unrealistically confident in their ability to repel an attack on the capital. It will take a man of conscience, a regular soldier and a boy priest to restore appearances back to reality.
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  • Date Issued: 2014

Secrets I keep

- Thurgood, Mikaila Rae

Walls and remembrance

- M-Afrika, Andile Ernest

  • Authors: M-Afrika, Andile Ernest
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5973 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011940 , Creative writing (Higher education) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Description: This is a story of a quest that begins on a wall of history at a cemetery where Steve Biko was buried. The main character is the writer, who is partly the author, partly a fictionalised everyman. He is on a journey of self-discovery, while at the same time questioning contemporary South Africa.
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  • Date Issued: 2014

Counting planes

- Rawlins, Isabel Bethan

Dog wars : a Victorian steampunk adventure

- Molino, Nicolene Chloe

  • Authors: Molino, Nicolene Chloe
  • Date: 2013
  • Subjects: Creative writing , Fiction , South Africa , Creative writing (Higher education) , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5965 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001815
  • Description: We're in an alternate universe, circa Dickensian London. Leofric Lieven, a local crime lord, is about to find the past catching up on him. The Romany Carnival has come to town, and a gypsy woman, his former lover and partner in crime, demands from him a favour which will redress his betrayal of years before: he must secure a stolen object and return it to her. But things go horribly wrong when local delivery boy Cards Bennish is kidnapped by Leofric’s competitor before he can deliver the goods that will cover Leofric's debt to the gypsy. In this world, humans can shape shift into animals, entirely or only partially, dog fighting is the favourite pastime for high stakes betting, and power belongs to the highest bidder. The gypsy’s final bet, for the highest stakes yet, will seal the fates of a number of people, for better or worse
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  • Date Issued: 2013

Like Katherine

- Morgan, Jane Mary Kathleen

  • Authors: Morgan, Jane Mary Kathleen
  • Date: 2013
  • Subjects: Creative writing , Fiction , South Africa , Creative writing (Higher education) , Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5964 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001814
  • Description: Vicky, a thirty something English radio journalist, has moved to Cape Town to try and work out what it is that's missing from her life and to fill the gap. At first she thinks she's found what she's looking for, but a series of unsettling events makes her realise she has simply brought her problems with her. She goes back to England, ostensibly for work, where she is contacted by her stepbrother, Mark. They hardly know each other but he has a reason for wanting to find her. They meet and, for both of them, their encounters change the way they see themselves and their relationships. Vicky comes to understand more about her past and her family and, for the first time, to find a connection with her emotional life
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  • Date Issued: 2013

The talisman

- Reed, Graham Conan

Penumbra

- Mahlangu, Songeziwe

  • Authors: Mahlangu, Songeziwe
  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Fiction -- Social aspects -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5979 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015207
  • Description: After failing his Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting Mangaliso Zolo takes an office job at a large insurance company in Cape Town. Anonymous and overlooked in a vast bureaucracy but with a pay check promising happiness and security, he slides into a series of personal crises that test his grip on what he believes in. When at his lowest ebb he leaves his job, grabs his bible and hits the streets his world closes in on him and he is eventually confined to a psychiatric hospital. Penumbra is a novel that explores the liminal area between faith and avarice, sanity and madness, modernity and tradition, friendship and enmity. It is set in contemporary South Africa, a society defined by alienation and excess.
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  • Date Issued: 2012

Third crime unlucky

- Cartwright, Robert Oliver

  • Authors: Cartwright, Robert Oliver
  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) , Creative writing -- Fiction
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:5987 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015729
  • Description: This is a contemporary mystery novel set in the Eastern Cape. A town’s airstrip, situated between the golf club and the military base, acts as host to the local flying club and an active skydiving school. An amateur investigator uses unorthodox methods and the help of friends to find the cause of aeroplane fires and sabotage. His investigations lead him via geological research and insurance reports into contact with members of the aviation, property development and military fields.
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  • Date Issued: 2012

Touching Brýnstone

- Woudstra, Ruth

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