ELEKSIE OP ERDVARK

219pp., paperback, Queillerie, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780795803000

Comic Afrikaans novel.

Soois Swart runs a struggling newspaper in Erdvark in the Knersvlakte without the use of modern technology. To cover the approaching municipal election he has to walk a fine line between serious journalism and reporting that doesn't tread on sensitive toes.

Rudie van Rensburg (b. 1951) is the author of the comic novels Hans Hou sy Lyf Sherlock, Hans Bars die Bioborrel, Hans Gee Herklaas Horings and Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor, as well as several thrillers, the latest of which is Leeumens. He lives in Cape Town.