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Humpty Dumpty and Friends, a brand new children’s ballet by Robin van Wyk, opens at Artscape in Cape Town on Tuesday 5 January 2016.

"Search Woolf’s voyage out ..."

"I strongly recommend that all readers encounter for themselves the charming, humane, by turns hilarious and profound tales contained in this collection ..."

Performances take place at Artscape Theatre until December 23 - daily at 10:30.  

"We tend to say so easily, forget about the past and go on to the future; it just does not work. The real challenge is to remember, perpetrators as well as victims, to remember what needs to be worked through and what needs to be forgiven. And then try and work against the natural tendency of continuing the pattern of oppression, with only a reversal of the roles from time to time."

"Resisting the popular media projection that education is in crisis, I ask instead what kind of research is able to bring the complexity of our current educational experiences into fuller view."

"Afrikaans does not pose a problem that can be resolved simply by replacing it with English."

"Lay readers often experience problems with the peculiarities of legal language [...]. The aim of this article is to identify the syntactic properties of Afrikaans legal language that cause processing problems for lay readers of legal texts."

LitNet is among the websites and blogs awarded at this year's Arts Journalism Awards.

"At the end of the day you have human beings creating music to communicate to other human beings, which is a simple but essential concept ..."

"So I will build a sarcophagus in my heart for you. My memories of you will form the rocks of this shrine."

"You threw me away./ Said you were tired."

"Simply put: Am I reading her adult detective novels only because I liked (loved) Harry Potter?"

"The children of Kewtown, a very poor neighbourhood in Cape Town, understood the Babalela's cry; it actually became a mantra in their school. Again and again they wanted to hear the story, but very soon this outcry became part of how they saw themselves."

"Let me declare that the reading culture among the black South African youth is changing very fast."

"The existence of N.P. Van Wyk Louw’s struggle with God is well known."

"'Colonialism,' Achille Mbembe wrote, 'rhymes with monolingualism.'"

Karina Magdalena Szczurek on André Brink and Ingrid Jonker: "No other woman in André’s life had left as indelible a mark on him as Ingrid. No other haunted me as much in the beginning of our relationship." 

"He turned to walk away and then turned back and stared at my legs. For what felt like a long time. He then looked up, licked his lips in a suggestive manner and walked away."

Where does the name Christ come from?