Monthly Archives: "December 2023"

All I Want for Christmas features three children, aged 8-10, who live in different parts of South Africa, celebrating Christmas. Their homes, families and lifestyles reflect the country’s diverse range of culture, community, geography and social heritage.

Charles Dickens’s well loved tale “A Christmas Carol” comes to life in an African context! “A Jozi Christmas Carol”, set in the present day in the heart of Jozi (the local slang for Johannesburg), tells the story of miraculous changes brought about in the life of miserly old Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is a slum lord

During the political changes in South Africa in the 1990’s Frik, an ardent Blue Bulls supporter, takes a voluntary “package” and leaves his employment to start a take away in Nigel on the East Rand. He is married to a younger woman “Poppie”. Frik and “Poppie’s” nephew, Worsie, who is mentally challenged due to a

The choir and church soar: They have TV shows; concerts; a huge following; fame, fortune, and record contracts. As with all success stories, this one involves compromise – a compromise between commercial and personal integrity. Gabriella is turned into a sanitised media myth – and a major star. Fully aware that Gospel has given her

The news of Ndoda’s cousin’s death along with five other initiates, splits the village and Ndoda’s household into strongly divided camps: those who support the old ways and those who reject them. Strife between the traditional father and his modern-thinking wife reigns, with Ndoda caught in the middle. Will he please his father and risk

A supernatural psychological thriller Nomathemba is an ambitious microbiologist on the fast-track to success, a Mandela’s child, living the post-apartheid dream. She’s lost touch with her heritage, her traditions, and her people, but she hasn’t lost her link to the ancestors who are calling her through her dreams. Unwittingly, Noma is led to her ancestral