MROVA

135pp., paperback, Botsotso, Johannesburg, 2026

ISBN: 9780639886879

A debut collection of short stories that capture the daily life of the people of Bethal, a small town in Mpumalanga, from taxi bosses and young lovers to promising sports stars, spaza shop owners and small-time thugs.

"With these stories, Tshowa puts forward a collective portrait of his home town that in vivid, evocative, and sharply observed, refracted through the keen and considered lens of a storyteller interested in making sense of a place through the characters that inhabit it." David Mann, David Mann, author of the short story collection, Once Removed

Thabiso Chris Tshowa was born in Tsakane, Brakpan, in 1993 and lives in Bethal. His short stories have been published on the FunDza platform and in Kotaz, New Contrast, and Botsotso.