SA author 'stunned' by deportation from UK

South African author Ishtiyaq Shukri's deportation from the UK has left him stunned. In a statement released on Friday through his South African publisher Jacana, Shukri recounted how he was searched and detained for nine-and-a-half hours by UK Border Force at Heathrow on July 14. The author, who won the inaugural European Union Literary Award for his novel The Silent Minaret in 2004, told the Sunday Times yesterday: "As the days have progressed, I am stunned at how the consequences of what hap...