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Book of the Week: Letters from South Africa

Mark Gevisser

Nicola Holloway

Book of the Week: Letters from South Africa: Episode 2

Letters From South Africa

Episode 2

Letters from South Africa

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Letters from South Africa, Episode 2

Writer Mark Gevisser's letter from South Africa broadcast in the week of the ANC elections

Journalist Mark Gevisser shares his experience of returning from a peaceful life in France to a politically fraught South Africa.

Five letters from five South African writers exploring life there in the week of the ANC elections. These letters reflect on living in South Africa now, in all its troubled richness.

Journalist Mark Gevisser shares his experience of returning from a peaceful life in France to a politically fraught South Africa . Gevisser luxuriates in the beauty of his new seaside residence in a village outside Cape Town, but soon discovers signs of a desperate underclass living very close to home.

Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa's leading authors and journalists. His latest book, the memoir 'Lost and Found in Johannesburg' was shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2014. His biography of second post-apartheid President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki - 'Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream' - was the winner of the Sunday Times 2008 Alan Paton Prize. 

Written and read by Mark Gevisser
Produced by Nicola Holloway.

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Five letters from South African writers about life there in the week of the ANC elections.

Five letters from five South African writers exploring aspects of life in the week of the ANC elections.

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