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"'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?

"For Stiegler, the central crisis of Western modernity is of a theological nature, namely its loss of faith in its social order and in its future."

"He wonders – how whole worlds can be buckled into suitcases or taped into wine cartons."

T.V. Bulpin (1918–1999) was a writer about African big game hunters, South African travel and history.

NB Publishers: “It seems digital and print can live in harmony and it can be a mutually beneficial harmony at that.”

"One can only wonder what Hector Pieterson may have made of this 'new dawn'."

"It is essential at this point to repeat that we cannot have an African renaissance without the development and intellectualisation of African languages."

"We want to provide a safe repository for drama and theatre material in the Unisa Library Archive."

"Part The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, part Forrest Gump"

"I’ve abandoned this poem/ to watch a kite weighted/ by a flower pot/ inhale and exhale"

"the morning bulges/ with sparked green light"

An experimental poem in twelve haiku

"Malema, my Noah’s Ark./ My Jonah’s Whale./ The Johannesburg people’s patriarch./ My country of ice cream."

This week LitNet celebrates one of South Africa's greatest literary exports, Lauren Beukes.

"The merboy seemed heavier, his breathing was slow, steady,/ his wide eyes fixed skywards – snagged by a full moon."

"existence stifles, drawing thick breath/ heaven has stripped to its underwear"

This year over 450 entries were received for the prize from over two dozen countries, both from writers living on the African continent and from writers in the African diaspora.