A year from hell
ON JUNE 12, the writer Elsa Joubert emerged from the quiet of the Archives on to a noisy Cape Town street.
Joubert was ru gekonfronteer (roughly confronted) by the screams of newspaper boys selling a late edition of The Argus. Everyone seemed to be buying a copy, so she did too. The headline announced that the government had declared a state of emergency.
Joubert, who is best known for , a widely translated novelisation of the life of a domestic worker, walked
