 With a tagline of ‘A spunky tale of Romance, Rotis and Unsuitable Boys’, The Story of Maha is certainly unlike any other South African book to have been released recently. It follows the story of (you guessed it) Maha, a young Muslim girl, half-coloured and half-Indian (or half-Bruinou, half-Chaarou, in the slang that freely peppers this novel). Due to an untimely tragedy, she finds herself living in Durban with the Indian grandparents she has just met. |
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 The Madams has put Zukiswa Wanner in a position that no other woman in South Africa has been in – she is the author of the first book of black chick lit.
Touted as ‘a wildly provocative novel’, The Madams follows the life of Thandi, an upper-middle-class businesswoman living in Joburg with her husband and child. She exists within her core group of best friends (Lauren and Nosizwe) and their weekly champagne brunches, braais and shopping sprees. |
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 Witness staffer Stephen Coan has helped to unearth another facet to Henry Rider Haggard. SHARON DELL reports.
"Good idea ... but what about the others?", was Stephen Coan's response to American economist and Haggard aficionado Alfred Tella when the latter suggested they collaborate on the publication of Star of Egypt, a play by Henry Rider Haggard based on his Ancient Egyptian romance novel Morning Star. |
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 Close the door softly behind you… is Emmaleen Kriel’s first book, and it is full of a fresh candour rarely seen in more established writers. The mother of seven children, she finds herself somewhat stranded when her husband dies, leaving her searching for a way to provide for her future.
Instead of relying on the kindness of others, she decides to take matters into her own hands (a characteristic trait, as we find out during the course of the book) and moves to England to work as a carer, cook and housekeeper for various individuals. |
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 “‘Honour killings’ suggest that the female is a symbol of her family honour, and that any marring of this symbolism requires that she (the symbol) should be ‘removed’. So then, the idea that women are linked with honour is not a matter of esteem; rather it is a gross project of objectification and the institutionalisation of control and exploitation of the human and moral rights of women” (Hassim, 2007: 46). This forms the backdrop against which Daughters are Diamonds is set.
While ‘honour’ killings (such as those prevalent in Pakistan and Iraq) may not be a feature in South African Indian Muslim society, traditionalist and patriarchal cultures still place a number of restrictions on the autonomy of the South African Indian Muslim woman. These include exclusion from secondary and tertiary education, the right to earn an income, and decision-making authority. |
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