Tag: Dalene Matthee

As Per My Last Email…

Post author By mandymessina
Post date November 14, 2020
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Fiela se Kind (Dalene Matthee) Fiela Komotie is basically my mother with the piss and vinegar turned up. So… I can’t remember if we actually read the book in high school Afrikaans class or if a substitute teacher put on the movie. What I do remember are lines from the book/film being meme’d outside of […]

Kombuis Taal Progress

Post author By mandymessina
Post date October 20, 2020
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Basically, it’s been reading time: season of the sponge. Currently reading Pieternella – Daughter of Eva (English translation) by Dalene Matthee. She wrote South African historical fiction, with her book Fiela se Kind (Fiela’s Child) arguably being her best known work – curious thinking about it now: but maybe I’m saying that because I grew […]