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Mary Watson is the author of Moss (Kwela, 2004), a collection of interlinking short stories. She teaches in the Film and Media Department at the University of Cape Town. Her most recent short story, "The Lilytree", is about a couple who grow a little girl in their backyard. Mary is 29 years old and lives in Woodstock. Writing space: reflections and refractions Sam Naidu: I am a lecturer in the Department of English at Rhodes University. My teaching and research interests range from Classical Greek literature to postcolonial and diasporic literature. In October 2004 I leave for the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where I will complete a PhD entitled Towards a South Asian Feminist Aesthetic: an examination of selected prose writing by women of the South Asian diaspora. Literature of the South Asian diaspora: Jayapraga Reddy's South African contribution K Sello Duiker is the author of Thirteen Cents, for which he received the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel, and of The Quiet Violence of Dreams, for which he received the Herman Charles Bosman Award for English Literature. He has worked in advertising and in the media, and is currently working on a novel. A question of diversity Sonja Loots (32) is the books editor for Rapport. She has a part-time lecturing post in the Afrikaans Department at RAU, is a member of the KKNK (Klein Karoo National Arts Festival) arts cabinet and has worked as a scriptwriter for the SABC2 soap 7de Laan for the past five years. Her debut novel, Spoor, was published by Tafelberg in 1995 and her poetry and short stories have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines. She freelances as a journalist and apart from corporate work for companies like Absa, contributes regularly to the décor magazine Visi and the lifestyle magazine Insig (articles of hers appear in the current issues of both these magazines). She holds an MA in Afrikaans literature from Rhodes University. Circus Boers Saartjie Botha is a playwright and theatre impresario. She has won great praise as a playwright, particularly for Spanner, Die Goue Seun and 1975. As a producer she has tackled productions like Peter Verhelst's Aars!, Tom Lanoye's Mamma Medea and Astor Piazzolla's tango operita Maria de Buenos Aires under the banner of the production company Vleis, Rys & Aartappels. She is also involved with community theatre on wine farms in the Boland. She managed a coffeeshop before going into full-time theatre work in 2001. The establishment of a permanent theatre company is her next goal. She lives in Cape Town. Ek soek 'n plek I'm looking for a place Wonderboy Peters is one of the principal researchers and public programmers for Ochre Media's Heritage, Education and Tourism (HET) division, where he is involved in heritage projects like the Kliptown Open Air Museum and Constitution Hill. He holds an honours degree (1st class) in African Literature from Wits University and his BA (Zulu and African Literature) was awarded with distinction by Wits in 1997. He is a published literary critic and an experienced educator in literature, drama, language (isiZulu and English), African media studies, communication etc. He has taught at institutions like Wits University, University of London (SOAS), and the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA). He is the first isiZulu content editor of the Department of Communication's internet language portal. He has reviewed literary manuscripts for publishers like Heinemann and Unisa Press, and the manuscript for his autobiographical novel, The Unveiling, is being evaluated for publication. He is 31 years old. Locating And Missing Sisulu: The Paradoxes of the Kliptown Open Air Museum Danie Marais: I was born in Kimberley on the 30th of May 1971, but grew up in Pretoria, where I matriculated in 1989. After studying BComm Law at the University of Stellenbosch, I left for Oldenburg, Germany, in 1993 to pursue a relationship with a German exchange student. I studied Lehramt ("the teaching profession") at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, majoring in German and Mathematics. From 1997 my poems regularly appeared in the Stellenbosch publication Vlugskrif, as well as the Dutch poetry magazine Meander. Since my return to South Africa in August 2002 I have been teaching at the German School of Pretoria. I regularly write book reviews for Rapport and have been nominated for the 2005 DaimlerChrysler Poetry Award. Vir Niemand en Nêrens For Nobody and Nowhere By day, Lauren Beukes is an intrepid girl reporter, writing on anything from Rwandan refugees to pop provocateurs for the likes of Colors and Dazed & Confused, among others. She has had short stories published in the Laugh It Off Annual 2, Urban 03, Itch, Paperkut, donga and SL magazine. She is finishing off her MA in Creative Writing at UCT under André Brink and recently received a grant from the National Arts Council for her novel-in-progress, Branded, set in a dystopian future South Africa governed by a corporate apartheid system, where cell phones are used for social control and branding is literally addictive. She also writes computer game scripts and has a fiendishly tongue-in-cheek comedy screenplay, Porno, currently in development. The accident of home

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