Makwerekwere Abahambe! by Black Edward

Two orphaned Zimbabwean brothers cross the Limpopo on foot to find work in Johannesburg, sending money home for their younger twins’ school fees. The story follows them through years of undocumented day-labour survival, a tender romance, and a night of xenophobic mob violence that strips away everything but their grip on each other.

Black Edward, a veteran journalist of thirty years, writes it with the pacing of reportage and the ache of testimony — this is fiction that reads like it’s been lived.

Read it here: https://brittlepaper.com/2026/08/makwerekwere-abahambe-black-edward-fiction/