Categories of Persons

As ongoing controversies demonstrate, race in particular continues to galvanise and polarise public opinion in South Africa. Categories of Persons is a provocative intervention that punctures the rhetoric of contemporary race and social norms and offers alternative ways of looking at how we present ourselves and look at one another in South Africa today. From taxi rides to cross-dressing, inter-race marriages to living with disability and off-beat topics in between, the personal and evocative contributions from Jacob Dlamini, Megan Jones, Kopano Ratele, Neels Blom, Verashni Pillay, Antony Kaminju, Karen Lazar, Riaan Oppelt, Sarah Nuttall and Antjie Krog are guaranteed to challenge assumptions about what it means to be ‘able-bodied’, ‘black’, ‘white’, ‘Indian’ or ‘coloured’ as they narrate encounters and experiences that transcend racial and social stereotyping.