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“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.”

"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."

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

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

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

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

"We were told we are no longer stuck
On the bottom floor
Vote for me
I will set you free ..."

"I always wrote for myself, but I now try to write more for the listener and how best I can structure the song so the message reaches him or her quickly and concisely."

“There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from the beginning.”

"... my eyes were tired
from the glare of dark men"

"I choose a leatherback
with whimsical face
and remember
that turtles are our myth"

"and the footsteps of the people with jobs
hurrying past the sleepers"

Tom Dreyer's books The Long Wave (English) and Dorado (Afrikaans) were launched at Die Ouwe Klok last week. Dreyer was interviewed by Dawid de Villiers. Watch the video.

"What Afrikaans has developed, what English developed over a period of time, is the way of being able to teach a complete foreigner the language, and that is what we need for Zulu."

"The most important hip hop album of 2016 – and one of the biggest releases of the year – dropped in the same week Republican Donald Trump stunned the world with a surprise presidential victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton."

The winners of this year’s South African Literary Awards have been announced.

"[Y]es, just about anyone can write, often must write – it’s an urge, a need. Anyone can put words on paper to give expression to something."

"The title of the novel refers to something that Gabashe is told by Madiba himself: 'There’s no time to spare. The time for suffering in the hands of an illegitimate government is now over. Our uniting slogan says there’s always tomorrow.'”

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.”

"The shadow of things to come is a brief text that packs a mighty punch: it is a finely written and vividly imagined narrative, many of whose details I have not even mentioned in this profile: a grim, brilliant, spell-binding work."