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The sad fact is beautiful, trauma is just like fire, and giving regret the once-over
2019-11-20“You’re mine, love, but
you belong to another, and as a man
you belong to the world.”
Joburg Film Festival film review: 8 – unconvincing
2019-11-19"You must commend the South African film industry, where budgets are small, for attempting genres other than slapstick or drama, slightly more commercially viable options."
Joburg Film Festival film review: Hero – it should’ve been more
2019-11-19"The extraordinary story is there – war hero, law expert, survivor, charmer – but the movie fails its subject dismally."
Joburg Film Festival film review: Luce – the sustained menace will haunt you
2019-11-19"It could set in motion such thought-provoking and justifiable, yet completely conflicting, interpretations, that one could argue for weeks on end. It is marvellous."
Joburg Film Festival film review: Vision portraits – interesting topic, average film
2019-11-19"It is a moving portrait of artists losing their sight, the one thing they depend on most."
Book launch: Being Shelley by Qarnita Loxton
2019-11-15You are invited to the launch of Being Shelley by Qarnita Loxton on the 25th of November.
An interview with Fiona Snyckers
2019-11-15"Most of my books deal with issues that affect women, and it’s hard to rank these in terms of importance."
Book launch: Will South Africa be okay? by Jan-Jan Joubert
2019-11-14You are invited to the launch of Will South Africa be okay? on Thursday 21 November 2019 at The Book Lounge in Cape Town, where the author, Jan-Jan Joubert, will be in conversation with Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
Resensie: Shadow flicker deur Melissa A Volker
2019-11-14"Melissa slaag ongetwyfeld daarin om die leser vasgenael te hou, van begin tot einde."
Book launch: For the love of the land by Ivor Price and Kobus Louwrens
2019-11-13You are invited to the launch of For the love of the land by Ivor Price and Kobus Louwrens.
You did not take her Honour
2019-11-12“She walks with her head
Higher than yours.
She carries no shame.”
All the king's horses
2019-11-12“Harry’s burgeoning social life left Sue lonely and angry. In an effort to pick up the pieces, she had a makeover and tried to reconnect with him. She popped into his office to collect him for dinner after work, but found the office deserted.”
Press release: Zeitz MOCAA Collection reimagined in Two Together
2019-11-07Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) has today revealed the details of an exciting new exhibition, presenting works from its collection in a new and reimagined format.
Where they can’t hurt me and Sylvia Plath
2019-11-06“They can’t hurt our words,
Sylvia. Let us dance, then, in the arms
of our lovers, and our friends”
“In the belly of the beast”: South Africa’s education discourses associated with the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)
2019-11-06"An emphasis on the transfer of generic skills is rapidly becoming a core foundation of education policy, curriculum and pedagogy. The emerging 4IR knower is touted as a future-proof knower."
Disgust
2019-11-06“Mr Hicks cursed and stormed out into the reception room and said, sir, what is the problem, sir? He summed the stranger up and said, I know your sort. I have been taken in by your sort before, and then he ordered Fiona to call Sergeant Marais.”
Reader impression: Tobacco wars by Johann van Loggerenberg
2019-11-06"Overall, the book sheds light on the darker workings of a massive industry. But it also provides much-needed insight into SARS and the world of tax collection."
The African Library: The old drift by Namwali Serpell
2019-11-04"It is the achievement of Serpell’s novel to be at once complex and lucid, to evoke a Zambian past, present and (imagined) future both ironically and compassionately."
Siya Kolisi – against all odds: an interview with Jeremy Daniel
2019-10-31"I think he is a figure of reconciliation already. What he's achieved, where he came from, how he lives his life is all part of his story."
Press release: Forever Plaid showing at Theatre on the bay
2019-10-31Forever Plaid is running at Pieter Toerien’s Theatre On The Bay from 6–23 November.
