Cape Flats - My Story Volume III

Andy Anderson is a South African poet and writer, and the author of seven books of poetry and fiction, including the Cape Flats - My Story series. His work is rooted in the Cape Flats of Cape Town and engages directly with violence, gender-based violence, crime, and the lived realities of communities shaped by inequality. His writing draws on community memory, observation, and documented events, presenting poetry as a form of witness rather than escape.
Across his work, Anderson focuses on ordinary lives caught in extraordinary circumstances, where survival, loss, and memory exist side by side. The Cape Flats - My Story volumes form a structured body of work that records experience rather than retelling it, placing emphasis on voice, place, and the persistence of lived reality in post-apartheid South Africa.