KEVIN BLOOM is an award-winning journalist, editor and author, whose first book, Ways of Staying (Portobello, 2010) won the 2010 South African Literary Award for Literary Journalism and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. RICHARD POPLAK is a film-maker, pop-cultural commentator and author of several books, including Ja, No, Man: Growing Up White in Apartheid-era South Africa, which was longlisted for the Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Literary Award.