KLEIN KONINGS

240pp., paperback, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria, 2025

ISBN: 9781485316008

Civil servants Pixley and Joubert are instructed by the Minister to travel around the country and oversee the removal of all colonial and apartheid-era statues, symbols and monuments.

Pixley is descended from Zulu nobility, while Joubert is believed to be a descendent of General Piet Joubert on his great-grandmother's side.  As they go about their work they are forced to confront their personal histories.

"Die roman vertel die keersy van die geskiedenis en verskeie perspektiewe op dieselfde kwessies word gegee. Theo Kemp se vermoë om verskillende stemme aan die woord te stel moet uitgesonder word." Joan Hambidge

Theo Kemp has worked as project manager of the Woordfees, advertising coordinator at NB Publishers, programme manager of the KKNK and the Vrystaat Literature Festival, and manager of the Breytenbach Centre. He is currently Executive Director of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation. He is the author of the novels Skool and Strafjaart (2020 Jan Rabie Rapport Prize).