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Om teen clichés te stry, te swerf en daarmee te groet
2014-04-02Die laaste sinne van my MA-skripsie wag om geskryf te word. Ek moet dus groet. Dit was groot pret en baie insiggewend om julle skryfwerk te begelei. Dit was heerlik om te sien dat daar soveel aspirantskrywers in Afrikaans en Engels skryf en stelselmatig leer om meer oorspronklik te kyk, dieper te dink en meer te lees.
Photos: "Using the Pen for Justice – How writers transform society"
2014-04-01 "Giving voices to the voiceless." See photos of an event at Bibliophilia, sponsored by LAPA Publishers.
Livid
2014-04-01"In Camden they brought
flowers, fags, and vodka with
a pomegranate blend
like a bludy munkey"
Oyster
2014-04-01 "The fisherman looks down to see an oyster in his netthat seems to say “Come for me. When will you come for me Saviour?”
I surrender! I climb into the river of silk
hiding the bad talent of a needle and dignified flowering bone."
Donovan Borne on his debut album, Greatest Hits: Vol II
2014-03-31 "People forget that good songwriting, specifically in terms of the lyrics, can mean the difference between mediocrity and greatness."
Technology transforms education
2014-03-28 Seven laws and three questions. Bertie du Plessis, member of LitNet’s management committee and one of the founding members of LitNet Akademies, at a presentation at the Stellenbosch University.
Japan
2014-03-26 "Their words are as old as a telescope, fossils, totem poles,tribes, trees, Darwinism, the touch of the hands
of my paternal grandmother, antiques,
the coelacanth, the dishes that are waiting
for me in the sink, the footprint of childhood
On the beach sucking a waterfall of sea."
Using the Pen for Justice: How writers transform society
2014-03-25 "On Saturday 29 March, journalist and radio personality Nancy Richards will be in conversation with four authors around the theme 'using the pen for justice, how writers transform society'."
Tugging towards discovery
2014-03-10 Mark Winkler's An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything) is “an intensely absorbing and unapologetically apolitical tale”.
African Library: Intimate Strangers
2014-03-04 Intimate Strangers has connections with social anthropological research. Annie Gagiano explains.
South Africa's response to Uganda's Gay Law
2014-02-27"People like you make me ashamed to be seen as a South African."
Exclusive Books Summer Sale 2014
2014-02-18 Exclusive Books Summer Sale has over 115,000 books, averaging at R60 a book. It will begin with a Fanatics-only preview at all stores from 5pm on the 25th of February.
LALA = Learn an African Language App
2014-02-18 Naomi Meyer asked Tessa Dowling: "Kutheni nizenzile ezi apps na?"
Review: Four Corners
2014-02-17 What a tightly bound package of violence, humanity, music and glorious Afrikaaps.
Call for Papers: Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On
2014-02-17 The University of York in association with University of Cambridge would like to extend an invitation to submit papers for the colloquium Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On.
Entries open for third SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition
2014-02-14 Entries open on 1 March, closing date for applications is 31 July and the top five scripts will be selected for a week-long staged reading in October, with the opportunity for discussion and feedback from the public and members of the theatre industry.
Ode to the internet
2014-02-04 "Its insubstantial web cocoons the globe,in threads of gossamer. It carries
my messages of love across the seas,"