Love Interrupted

Reneilwe Malatji was born in South Africa in 1968. She grew up in Turfloop township, in the northern part of South Africa, during the era of apartheid. Her father was an academic and her mother was a school teacher. Malatji trained as a teacher and worked as a subject specialist and advisor to provincial education departments. She recently completed a post-graduate diploma in Journalism and an MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University. She works as a lecturer at the University of Limpopo in South Africa and has an adult son. Love interrupted is her first book.

• Angela 1Drama Queens and Kings 13Love Interrupted 26Lebo’s Story 1: A Young Girl’s Dream Interrupted 57Lebo’s Story 2: It’s My Turn to Eat 76Vicious Cycle 91The Things We Do For Love 108Take Back the Lobola 123Bridal Shower 137My Perfect Husband 152The Threat 163A Million Dollars in Grahamstown 175Toy Boy 200Glossary 220

"The unsentimental style of these stories packs an emotional punch as they examine post-apartheid patriarchy through the eyes of various observant black women characters." —Foreword Reviews