THE SWEETEST TABOO

252pp, paperback, (Cape Town), 2024

Novel set in 2008. A young banker, about to head up a development bank in South Africa,  is sent by the ANC government on a study tour to Australia. As he travels across New South Wales, he has "copious amounts of sex, breaking taboo after taboo as the only black man at the dinner party."

Rams Mabote has worked at the Sunday Times, City Press, Sowetan and The Star. He presents Entrepreneurial SME on Business Day TV and hosts his podcast Taking the Rams by the Horns. He is the author of Crisis? What Crisis? Public relations not according to Thabo Mbeki.