Quiet Moments in the Struggle combines images and text to portray the life of a writer and documentary photographer in South Africa during the 1980s. The narrative weaves reportage with personal memoir and presents the human face of dispossessed rural people, industrial workers and women workers; as well as white South Africans preparing themselves for radical political change. 

The photographs are an integral part of the story telling and portray an intimate picture of South African communities in the late 1970s, and 1980s. Published as an e-book on Blurb in 2019.

Side effects is a work of narrative non-fiction that asks why South Africa has one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world, and why all the early attempts to deal with it led to deepening controversy and strife.

The historical narrative reveals how and why AIDS conquered one of the richest countries on the African continent. It is a tale of the failures of presidents and people, of the legacy of apartheid, of bureaucratic indifference and corporate greed. It lays bare the lost opportunities and fateful decisions that led to mass death at a time when medical and social science had cleared the way to the prevention and treatment of the worst disease ever to have afflicted humankind.

Above all, Side effects is the biography of an extraordinary virus. A virus that enters a society, just as it enters the body, at its weakest point: an opportunistic virus that triumphed over the vulnerabilities of a country in transition.

Published in 2008 by Double Storey, Juta, Side Effects is now out of print, but available second-hand at Amazon and other online bookstores. Contact the author for new copies.
Prologue (Download PDF)
Reviews
City Press (Download PDF)
Sunday Times (Download PDF)
South African Labour Bulletin (Download PDF)
Sunday Independent (Download PDF)

Working Women is a book of photographs and text published by The Sached Trust/Ravan Press in 1985 and Pluto Press in 1986.
Using interviews and photographs, Working Women documents the daily lives of ordinary working class women in South Africa. From the low-paid forestry worker to the big city sex worker, women tell their tales of survival, triumph and despair. Despite the complex web of legislation and gender discrimination, in the early 1980s black women were beginning to exert their economic muscle to form a growing and important sector of the workforce. The book was written for the nascent trade union women's movement, but was also used extensively by literacy workers and community organisers.

Reviews, excerpts etc:
Weekly Mail and Guardian (Download PDF)
African Business (Download PDF)
Times Literary Supplement (Download PDF)