In the third of five conversations with contemporary writers in South Africa, Christopher Hope talks to two Afrikaans novelists about their current work and about the books which brought them to international attention. For Elsa Joubert , it was Poppy Nongena , an account of the attempts of a black Afrikaans-speaking woman to protect her children during the Cape
Town riots; and for Dalene Matthee Circles in a Forest, a novel which describes the beauties of the Knysna Forest and a strange family of "royals" who believe themselves to be related to King George III.
