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"This important and moving text is the last completed work by an Algerian Berber novelist and public intellectual who wrote in French, the language in which the original Éditions du Seuil edition appeared in 1962."

"King Kong – The Musical will be performed at 2pm on Sunday 31 December, New Year's Eve."

"A cold was all around the couch.
Winter for sure when he
left."

"The letters I wrote
to you. I had to erase all
memory of conversation."

"This book is about a celebration of moods, travels, family, classes – therefore, a feast."

"One aspect of freedom is
access to different views
to listen is to exercise such freedom"

"South Africans need to get more involved in their public affairs and need to evaluate leaders more robustly."

"His silence was like the steep stone folds of a mountain. She remained unseen. A quiet peaceful sea that had lost its roaring voice."

"The tools that you use are as important as the problems we are trying to solve. And if you use the wrong conceptual apparatus for making sense of problems like racism, like decoloniality, then, of course, I think you will be less effective than if you, for example, use critical race theory."

"Christie skilfully weaves historical and social context into the retelling of day-to-day events, from his early encounters with the Beachboys through to his introduction to the slums of Dar es Salaam."

"In Knysna, his elderly parents were getting a divorce. His sister was moving house to London with her daughters and accountant husband. Yes, everybody they knew was moving up in the world. He met Nick in Tampa."

"My music comes from a deep place of emotion and vulnerability – merely speaking about my truths, and hoping that someone else out there can relate to them, and, furthermore, that they will comfort them in some way."

"Beautifully illustrated with her own delicate artwork, the quaint characters in Trevor in the land of fantasy come to life, transporting the reader with them into a world of fantasy and imagination." Izak de Vries shares his photos of the Cape Town book launch with LitNet.

You are invited to the launch of A literary guide to KwaZulu-Natal on 30 November in Durban.

"in a seeming miracle of survival
a land where the rushing waterfall plummets into the Zambezi"

"Migrations is the fourth SSDA anthology after Feast, famine and potluck: African short stories, Terra incognita: New short speculative stories from Africa and the abovementioned Water. The idea behind the SSDA project is to offer a platform for writers across the African continent and the African diaspora to write about our experience on our own terms, and to support African writers in our endeavours through the SSDA Prize, anthologies and writing workshops."

"Whereas mother nature caused the failing French wheat harvests, father Mugabe was responsible for the shortage in Zim through chasing away those who produced the wheat."

Water Light 2017 will run at The Forge, 12 Windsor Road, Kalk Bay from Wednesday 6 December until Thursday 21 December. The exhibition will be open daily from 9.30 am to 5 pm, including on weekends.

You are invited to a seminar presented by Tongshinung Goteng at 11:00 for 11:15 on Monday, 20 November 2017 at the Department of Languages, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics, University of Johannesburg.

You are invited to a seminar presented by Maricel Botha at 10:15 for 10:30 on Monday, 20 November 2017 at the Department of Languages, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics, University of Johannesburg.