Litnet

At a time when the world was threatening to build walls and institute travel bans, I was offered a bridge of kindness, I was offered food, water and hospitality. / Ek is toegelaat om die binneste van die moskee te betree en is totale vryheid gegun.

"Volunteering to help those in need is indeed noble. Yet, more often than not, it is the volunteer benefiting the most ..."

You are invited to the launch of the Keiskamma Art Project in Cape Town on Saturday 18 February 2017.

On Saturday, 24 September 2016 Palesa was crowned the winner of ATKV-Muziqanto 2016. “I love the stage,” she told me. “I love an audience.”

"I’m pretty new to creating my own music and being involved in the process of bringing it to life."

"The best thing about this film, though, is the suspense. You really sit on the edge of your seat from beginning to end."

"Camaraderie. That is word which comes to mind when I think back to the one day I spent at the fabulous Soweto Theatre, attending the inaugural The Star Soweto Literary Festival."

KZN's premier book festival, the Midlands Literary Festival, is taking place in Yellowwood, Howick on 27–28 August. The complete programme is now available.

"Every year we see growth and development in artists participating."

KZN's premier book festival, the Midlands Literary Festival, is just around the corner, two weekends away, on 27–28 August.

You are invited to nagmusiek+, a modernist sight-sound poem, performed by Liza Joubert on the piano.

The RAD Foundation will once again host the annual Montagu Music, Art, Dance and Drama Festival (MMADD) from 10^th to 20^th August in Montagu on Route 62. This event is now in it’s 21^st year.

On Ingrid Jonker: "I really felt her despair and wanted to fight alongside her ..."

The third Spier Poetry Festival: dancing in other words took place on Saturday, 7 May.

The dancing in other words / dansende digtersfees is an annual international poetry event, curated by Breyten Breytenbach, Dominique Botha and composer Neo Muyanga. This year's participating poets were introduced at a special Poets’ Welcome Dinner at Spier on Sunday, 1 May.

"The translator should be patient and persevering: endurance is the solution to difficult problems which may have left the translator in despair for quite some time." – Hans C ten Berge

Six award-winning Johannesburg novelists, Fred Khumalo, Harry Kalmer, Ivan Vladislavic, James Whyle, Kleinboer and Yewande Omotoso will be reading new and published work at David Krut Books.

"Poetry celebrates life through the aesthetic ordering of language comparable to the way music does through its aesthetic ordering of sound."

"it is the eve of life's death
and i am departing with
a glow of being
my spirit ablaze with
celestial splendour"

"Poetry is a desperate move to express what we can't express." – Georges Lory