Co-publishers, Karavan Press and uHlanga Press launched a posthumous memoir of CJ Driver at Clarke’s Bookshop in Long Street, on Wednesday July 16. Charles Jonathan Driver (August 19, 1939 to May 21, 2023), usually known as Jonty Driver, was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, political prisoner, educationalist, poet and writer. Dayspring was launched with a discussion between David Attwell, who is currently working on a biography about JM Coetzee, and Maeder Osler, owner of Hanglip Farm east of Colesberg.
Dayspring is a tender and deeply personal book, offering an intimate picture of a family coming to terms with the losses of the World War II. It is the story of a father and son recognising their differing beliefs, about a young man navigating the joys and pitfalls of romance.
