Journalist Bongani Kona reads the first of five letters by five local writers exploring life in South Africa in the week of the African National Congress conference. Show more

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

Letters from South African writers in the week of the ANC elections. Panashe Chigumadzi describes how it feels to be a foreign-born, black citizen of South Africa. Show more

Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi reads the third of five letters by five local writers exploring life in South Africa in the week of the African National Congress conference. Show more

Five letters from five South African writers exploring aspects of life in the week of the ANC elections. Novelist Fiona Melrose explores her fraught relationship with Johannesburg. Show more