Litnet

"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

"Allegiant is a tedious, more befuddling, and even more sexist version of Divergent and Insurgent."

"At The Hussar Grill you are sure to go back in Rondebosch history."

"The prospect of watching a home-grown, Joburg-based thriller about a (yes, female) journalist scooping a major story was an exciting one. We undoubtedly have the stories to tell and the talent to tell it. Our movie industry is, furthermore, producing quite remarkable thrillers, comedies, dramas, etc. Sadly, The Assignment is not remarkable at all."

"If you have a child, you ought to see this. If you have a parent, you ought to see this. If you are both child and parent, well: Go."

"The team has launched some new initiatives on the farm to complement the famed 'duck parade' – a morning and afternoon display of hundreds of Indian Runner ducks."

"Bo-Kaap Kitchen is a collection of recipes from residents of the Bo-Kaap, the people who live in the area, those inhabitants who have a history there, a cultural connection to it. It is not a collection of recipes from a chef or a restaurant; this is food of and from the people. Not only is it their food, but it is also their stories, it is a slice of history through personal experiences." 

"Scars are not only physical. Hurt – and therefore, scars – may take emotional, psychological and intellectual forms too." 

"It’s proof that some of the nicest dishes are from uncooked food, simple to make, and so tasty."