Christine Coates
Christine Coates is a poet and writer from Cape Town. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She has an interest in life-writing or memoir, and the recovery of personal history through public and private imagery.
The Jagger Library fire and my great-grandfather’s archive
2021-04-23"In 1999 I found a photograph in Karel Schoeman’s Witness to War. I recognised my great-grandfather WH Muller, captain in the Free State artillery."