Book Review: Accident by Dawn Garisch
Monday, February 26, 2018
She’s also written a play, a short film, television scripts and numerous short stories.
Her novel, Trespass, was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Prize in Africa and her poem ‘Miracle’ was awarded the 2011 EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Award. And if that was not enough, she’s a practicing medical doctor in Cape Town. Accident is her sixth novel.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...