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Justice: A Personal Account by Edwin Cameron

2014-04-17 S'thembile Cele attended a book launch of Justice: A Personal Account and writes her contribution as part of a collaboration between LitNet and the University of Stellenbosch's Department of Journalism in 2014.

New Fringe Festival for Cape Town

2014-04-16

Exploring the role of nostalgic brand communication in the Afrikaner market

Kaylie Abrahamse 2014-04-09 Think of Afrikaans music, think of Afrikaans arts festivals. Nostalgia sells. How – and why?

Nadia

Christien Terblanche 2014-04-08 Nadia could not tell time yet. It was the stillness of the night that told her that it was already past midnight, to her a magical line between today and tomorrow. She was born at this hour, her mother always said. She was called Nadia because the stillness of the hour brought hope that the morning was approaching.

Cry, South Africa

Aloysius Graham 2014-04-08 "The day I saw him on television
I knew where the leaves of democracy had fallen."

Om teen clichés te stry, te swerf en daarmee te groet

Rentia Bartlett-Mohl 2014-04-02

Die 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"

Izak de Vries 2014-04-01 "Giving voices to the voiceless." See photos of an event at Bibliophilia, sponsored by LAPA Publishers.

Livid

Adriaan Coetzee 2014-04-01

"In Camden they brought
flowers, fags, and vodka with
a pomegranate blend
like a bludy munkey"

Oyster

Abigail George 2014-04-01 "The fisherman looks down to see an oyster in his net
that 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

Henry Cloete 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

Bertie du Plessis 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

Abigail George 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."