• WHAT LIGHT CANNOT TOUCH, a memoir on memory, cost, and what remains

WHAT LIGHT CANNOT TOUCH, a memoir on memory, cost, and what remains

: Mmereki (T.)

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306pp., illus., paperback, Kuruman House Publishers, Johannesburg, 2026

ISBN: 9781049287300

 

Thato Sebastian-Charles Mmereki explores what he became to survive the silence in his family and community around his older sister Audrey's mysterious disappearance without trace in 1997, when he was a very young child, and who paid the price.

"What Light Cannot Touch does what only the most serious literary memoirs dare: it refuses the consolation of resolution. Mmereki writes about grief and power and the price of becoming with a precision that is almost unbearable, and a prose style that earns every sentence. This book will last." Mandla Langa

Thato Sebastian-Charles Mmereki was born in Kuruman. He served as spokesman and personal aide to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the years before her death in 2018. Before that, he worked as a technical producer and journalist at the SABC, and later as Director: Strategic Communications in the Office of the Premier. Currently he is a strategic executive and sovereign venture capitalist across Africa, and leads high-impact initiatives in geopolitics, infrastructure, and governance.