Feb 5, 2021a restless gathering(what’s the story?) — The Ja. magazine team is excited to announce its latest project — a restless gathering. a restless gathering is a collective project space committed to the creation of new work through the means of unconstrained yet considered collaboration, cross-pollination, workshop facilitation, and independent publishing. The project is an attempt at…Ja Magazine2 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Editorial | Welcome to Edition 20!Our last edition, in this vein, for the foreseeable future. — Hello, dear reader Welcome to Ja. mag 20 — our 20th e-zine publication — and also our last, in this vein, for the foreseeable future. As we celebrate Ja. magazine’s fifth year of publishing new written and visual work with a handmade twist and a digital take, we’re also…Editorial2 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Poetry | SkyscrapersWords by Jemima Meyer. Image by Niamh Walsh-Vorster — each night in bed my hands clench the edge of grey skyscrapers my fingers cramp & disappear in the depths I scream return to mid-air wait while autumn leaves drop underneath the sight of city lights highlight buildings I’ll visit next time I hang & cringe on repeat till morning I land on our kitchen chair to hear my dad…Jemima Meyer2 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Poetry | From the comfort of my couchWords by Jess Bothma. Image by Niamh Walsh-Vorster. — Visual references shift Like the blow of the wind, From the East a warning And the West ignoring I thought We would be untouched. Most of our people survive on some kind of crutch. Historical redress Contemporary unrest Take care and repair So much already the collective conscience cannot deny nor dismiss…Jawriting1 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Prose | Palm SundayWords by Charlotte von Fritschen. Image by Niamh Walsh-Vorster. — It’s 10:30am, the time I usually get back from Mass, which is essentially a ritualised hour of spoken words and actions. At once baffling and comforting. I pull up to the house and sit in the driveway. I see that the light is on. My lover is home. This is…Jawriting2 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Art | Performing parablesBy Minien Hattingh — Japhotography2 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Prose | ColdWords by Kanya Viljoen. Image by Dave Mann. — Cold. It is fucking cold. Early winter’s morning and it’s pitch black outside and you need to get up and go to school kind of cold. The first time you walk into the Cape’s ocean and your spine remembers where it rises kind of cold. Fingers folding around air to…Jawriting2 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Collage | Mapping the EstuaryBy Veruna Padayachee — The mouth of the estuary is closed, making the estuary unhealthy and inactive. Although at first glance the picture looks healthy and ‘normal’, many ecological disturbances are unseen to the eye…such is the reality of today, such is life with a pandemic. My name is Veruna Padayachee, I am a Bsc graduate and a freelance writer. I am just enjoying life one page at a time.Jaart1 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Jun 19, 2020Poetry | I never miss the showWords and images by @celle_writes — I never miss the show the universe puts on for us the dawn show with its soft cotton-candy pink peppered or thinly spread across the sky and the evening show that’s beautiful in its impending darkness and I think that this cycle reminds me of love or at least how I have loved…Jawriting2 min read
Published in Ja. magazine·Mar 20, 2020Poetry | Two poems by Francine SimonRead ‘Chandrama’ and ‘Easter’ by Francine Simon below. Collages by Dave Mann. — Ja Magazine1 min read
