MEET THE AUTHOR: Gaireyah Fredericks

Afrikaaps has been evolving as a language in the Western Cape for centuries. But it is so much more than just a means of communication, as Paarl writer Gaireyah Fredericks shows in her Afrikaaps book - Een Voet innie Kabr (One foot in the Grave). A collection of twenty one short stories, it features some very colourful characters - as Gaireyah explained to WZ Board chair Celeste Matthews Wannenburgh at the October meeting of the WZ Book Club