We Shall Not Weep Emma Adams With photographs by Mark Skinner

With photographs by Mark Skinner and text by Sean Fraser

completed just days before Smuts’s unexpected death in 2016

She knows duck-billed platypuses don't have stomachs

And when she was in the space between life and death

something that will rewrite the future

We Shall Not Weep Emma Adams With photographs by Mark SkinnerIt all began with the anger of Laduma, the Thunder God, and the birth of a special child with strange, flickering eyes. This is the tale of a rural family Mabena, Mantombi and their grandson Duma who are exiled from the ancestral home and thrown into the turmoil of township life. They take Duma to Boekenhout, on the outskirts of a city, where Mabena, the grandfather, becomes a bridge between the past and the present, the urban and the rural. The