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A highly readable, dramatic story of a colourful South African journey in politics lasting over 50 years, from anti-apartheid protester to Right Honourable Lord, from Pretoria childhood to senior British Cabinet Minister.

"Kleynhans researched Hitler’s spies for his PhD thesis, and, as might be expected, he has included a superb bibliography, which will keep serious students of the Second World War history of South Africa reading for years to come."

"Much like a knight errant, the poet is in search of poetry. His life is a quest of refining the technique."

"Noise draws together statistical research to show how skewed judgement can be in fields from criminal justice to medicine, public health to economics, human resources to child protection – and just how rampant the problem is."

"Because everyone had to work from home, men expected to be able to close the door and get online and work without interruptions, while the mothers had to face the expanding care work and interruptions."

Fred Khumalo: "The riskier the choice I make, the more rewarding it is for me as a writer."

Every decision we make is a decision about the future. We constantly make choices that affect the next week, year or decade, but get blinded by what we want or expect the future to be.

"The promise is a major achievement, fully deserving its place on the Man Booker Prize longlist."

"I write young adult fiction because firstly, I've always been a fan of YA books and secondly, I am a high school teacher so I spend my days with teenagers."

"I have dreamt of this day for over a decade. Despite the numerous obstacles we faced putting this bid together, the planets seem to have aligned and in little over three months time we will know whether our bid to Unesco has been successful."

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Mother Earth, Mother Africa & missions on 26 July. The editors, Seblewengel Daniel, Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe and Angeline Savala, will speak to Christina Landman, Beverley Haddad, Musa Wenkosi Dube and Esther Mombo about this important publication.

Twenty educators will participate and enact an innovative fusion of Creative Arts and Life Skills during a two-day think-tank in Cradock at the end of July – a bold moment in local education history. This event will provide a curtain-raiser to the 2021 Karoo Writers Festival, taking place from 28 to 31 July 2021.

In this second episode of David Attwell’s monthly podcast, Full particulars, David hosts Elleke Boehmer and Carrol Clarkson in discussion of the South as a place of literary imagining. Guest appearance by Antjie Krog.  

Stellenbosch University and African Sun Media invite you to the online launch of Evoking transformation: Visual redress at Stellenbosch University on 27 July 2021.

Stellenbosch University and African Sun Media invite you to the online book launch of Empowering novice academics for student success: Wearing different hats on 14 July 2021.

"With this festival, I wanted to honour the unloved writers. For writers of children’s literature are, in a sense, the unloved ones. They never get the credit they deserve."

"An engrossing reading experience awaits readers, who will find in Dogstar rising an enlightening, bracing and gripping way of spending the leisure time that lockdown restrictions on social gatherings have made available. Readers can also follow it up by getting hold of the five other texts in this series."

In this first episode of David Attwell's monthly podcast, Full particulars, David hosts Zoë Wicomb reading from her new novel, Still life (Umuzi, 2020) and discusses historical (meta)fiction with Andrew van der Vlies, professor of English at the University of Adelaide.

In this interview, Ron Irwin interviews author Lynn Joffe, Wanda’s creator, and discovers not only the myriad of literary references that Wanda confronts, but also the many Jewish traditions and beliefs that Wanda thumbs her nose at. Listen to the podcast here.

"The theme and subthemes of the book carry the challenges (obstacles, discouragement, trauma and abuse, among others) that a human being may face, and how to overcome them ..."