THE BUS PEOPLE

78pp., paperback, Uhlanga Books, No Place, 2023

ISBN: 9780796136084

Winner of the Cape Flats Literary Award for best fiction.

A collection of stories based on the experiences of black working-class commuters living mainly in informal settlements whose lives are impacted when buses and bus drivers are targeted in protests and taxi violence.

"The book vividly illustrates how crime exacerbates the entrenched challenges of poverty and land deprivation faced by black individuals." John Maytham, Cape Talk

"The book covers the dehumanisation of the bus drivers when buses are torched by angry protestors demanding access to water or toilets, or taxi bosses when they are fighting for routes and fighting against the enforcement of draconian municipal by-laws." Shakira Thebus, Cape Argus

Chumile Sali is a lawyer, human rights activist and bus commuter living in Khayelitsha township.