CHRIS ROPER: A cocktail of true and false
A new collection of nonfiction, ‘The Interpreters’, provokes readers into reflection on the way they perceive the world
15 May 2025 - 05:00
We don’t share many unifying philosophies as a country, but one thing all South Africans can probably identify with is the scepticism with which we understand the slippery nature of that concept known as truth. Fiction, nonfiction … in South Africa today, yesterday, and very probably tomorrow, there’s always been a slippage between those two theoretically distinct categories.
The two editors of The Interpreters: South Africa’s New Nonfiction, an anthology of some of the brilliant nonfiction published since the end of apartheid, know something about the craft themselves...
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