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Alex Hamilton: An interview about the US Woordfees 2017

Alex Hamilton, Steyn du Toit Lifestyle and entertainment 2017-02-16

“The local art world is currently undergoing a spring season. There are currently more working, or career artists in South Africa than ever before. This creates a wonderful positive creative energy.”

Moulood-un-nabi @ Mashidul Quds

Izak de Vries Geestelik 2017-02-14

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.

The Vivid orphan

Gerrit Rautenbach Lifestyle and entertainment 2017-02-13

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

Invitation: Keiskamma Art Project launch

LitNet Lifestyle and entertainment 2017-02-10

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

Dad's car

Babatunde Fagbayibo New writing 2017-02-10

"On my way to work this morning, I drove behind
an old Jaguar, the same one Dad had mentioned
was his dream car."

Drumbeat

Babatunde Fagbayibo New writing 2017-02-10

"... the drumbeat
will remind you of the debt 
of being awake."

Sink: An interview with Brett Michael Innes

Brett Michael Innes, Naomi Meyer Books and writers 2017-02-07

“The choice of the title is to do with the water connection in the narrative, as well as the emotional state that all the characters are in. It is a limbo of pain and circumstance, a place of entrapment.”

Roughing it – 1820 settlers in their own words by Ralph Goldswain: a book review

Paul Murray Books and writers 2017-02-03

"Ralph Goldswain, in his work on Jeremiah Goldswain in The chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain (2014), and now in Roughing it, has made a considerable contribution to South African settler historiography."

Dazzling stellar line up for 2017 Fugard Bioscope season

LitNet Teater 2017-02-01

Now in its sixth phenomenally successful year, the Fugard Bioscope presents screenings of the world’s best theatre, opera and ballet productions to be enjoyed from the comfort of a Fugard Theatre seat.

History Matters by Bill Nasson – a book review

Paul Murray Books and writers 2017-02-01

"If Dudley was never meant to wave the magical fairy wand, to turn Nasson from a self-confessed numerical and scientific dunce into an Einstein, then he definitely succeeded in inspiring him to become a formidable historian. History matters is scientific proof!"

On hair and healing

Precious Bikitsha Opinion 2017-01-24

"When something in my life was changing, my hair, too, had to undergo some form of change."

Decolonising education in South Africa: An interview with Aslam Fataar

Estelle Kruger, Aslam Fataar Universiteitseminaar | University Seminar 2017-01-23

"Intercultural education promotes a type of epistemic openness to the knowledges of all human beings."

Remembering a magician: A tribute to the memory of Judith Mason

Keith Dietrich In memoriam 2017-01-16

"Judith Mason was without any doubt a maestro. Her paintings are meticulously crafted."

An interview with the daughters of Judith Mason

Tamar Mason, Petra Mason, Herman Lategan English 2017-01-09

The artist Judith Mason (78) died in White River on 29 December 2016. Herman Lategan decided to ask her daughters Tamar and Petra what they remember about their strong, gentle mother.

Press release: Lucy’s Dream by Joline Young

LitNet Books and writers 2017-01-09

Lucy’s Dream is an engaging children’s story that reveals slices of life of a little girl living in the fishing community in Simon’s Town up until the 1960s.”

Interview: Say again? The other side of South African English by Jean Branford and Malcolm Venter

Malcolm Venter, Naomi Meyer Books and writers 2017-01-06

"In the same way that we have Australian English, American English, and so on, we have South African English. Obviously all of these Englishes have a lot in common with British English, but they also have many unique aspects."

Book review: Travels with My Father by Karen Jennings

Mathilda Slabbert Books and writers 2017-01-06

"For me, this book is an unsparing quest for meaning on so many levels and one certainly deserving of the highest accolades."

African Library: Keeper of the Kumm by Sylvia Vollenhoven

Annie Gagiano Books and writers 2016-12-14

"Told with great candour and in her inimitable, forthright style, Vollenhoven’s is one of the most important South African autobiographies to have appeared."

Ghent University and South Africa: An overview and new perspectives

Yves T'Sjoen Opinion 2016-12-14

"The story of our research cooperation has just started."

Press release: Oh Baby, I’m a wild one

LitNet English 2016-12-09

Acclaimed playwright Louis Viljoen’s new one-woman show, Oh Baby, I'm a wild one, debuts at Alexander Bar & Café in December 2016. 

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