rock_time, FicSci04

104pp., paperback, African Minds, Cape Town, 2006

ISBN: 9780639891422

A collection of writing that emerged from an workshop that brought together creative writers and geologist Tebogo Makhubela, who presented his research on caves, chronologies and environments associated with human evolution within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site. The writings that emerged offer new creative engagements with deep time, rock formation and fossil dating.

Invited writers: Bonolo Llale, Buntu Makhedama, Cheri Hugo, Emma Paulet, Engela Duvenage, Gaireyah Fredericks, Joy Persis Lupiya, Suwilanji Siyangwe, Tayla Paige, Terry-Ann Adams, Thandiwe Gaobepe, Veli Mnisi.

Researcher and writer Mehita Iqani is currently based in the Journalism Department at Stellenbosch University.

Wamuwi Mbao teaches literature at Stellenbosch University.

Dr Tebogo Makhubela is an academic in the Department of Geology at the University of Johannesburg.