Lethabo Khumalo worked at The Department of Home Affairs in Pietermartizburg, she was a single mom to three beautiful children. When the offer to earn an additional R45 000 per month was presented to her by her new lover, she thought of her mother’s leaking roof in Soweto and her eldest daughter’s University fees. She said yes.

When important people started disappearing from work, she began to suspect that her lover was more deeply involved. After months of clicking yes to Nigerian applicants and hiding money in brown envelopes under her mattress she had to make a difficult decision. But would she also simply vanish into thin air too?  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Onyeka Nwelue is a Nigerian writer, filmmaker, jazz musician, a trained anthropologist and a Žižekian disciple, a Soyinkaphile, who has published over 50 books, including the Crime Awards and ANA prize-winning The Strangers of Braamfontein, hailed by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka as ‘raunchy’ and Murder in Orania. He is the founding director of the James Currey Society in Oxford, was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar in the University of Cambridge simultaneously. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Ohio University and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Assistant Professor of African Literature to the University of Manipur, Imphal in India.

'Home Affairs' is published by Bayan Street Books