Sustain
Vision
bios is currently a series of twelve non-fiction pieces about street life, the public health system and institutional failure in South African cities.
There is nowhere else to publish this kind of writing in South Africa.
Once the twelve pieces have been published, I will be expanding bios in various ways.
Expanding to start publishing reviews and discussions of music, film and other cultural moments as they happen – along the lines of the writing I did while running mahala and for The Con.
Also covering news events from a similar perspective when possible. So often events are reported in stats and soundbites from spokespeople, we seldom hear from those most affected.
Other sections are planned, such as Not So Famous Last Words, and publishing excerpts from my upcoming book, I Hardly Remember Their Names, comprised of roughly eighty short biographies of people met while living on and off the street since 2002.
Hopefully expanding to publish other writers who approach their work this way, who are also struggling to find a space to be read, and to pay them for their work.
And to do this all I need your support. It's that simple.
A monthly contribution of between R100-R250 keeps me going.
Do what you can.
res ipsa loquitur
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