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Stellenbosch University: Postgraduate programmes in Translation
2013-08-19 Read more about the Postgraduate Diploma in Translation, the Honours Programme in Translation, as well as the MA and PhD Programmes in Translation at the US.
Helping translators change the world
2013-08-19 "The starting point of a good translation is to get at the meaning of the original. How does one do that?"
Sefika Awards dinner: Photos of the event
2013-08-16 At the annual Sefika Awards dinner, which was held recently, outstanding service to the publishing and bookselling industry was celebrated. Izak de Vries took photos at the event.
Lady Limbo by Consuelo Roland: A subversive, subverting love story
2013-08-15 "Playing with the tropes of erotic fiction, Roland gives us the striptease and the sex ..."
Cape Town launch: In Love's Place by Etienne van Heerden
2013-08-13 Penguin Books and The Book Lounge take pleasure in inviting you to the Cape Town launch of In Love's Place by Etienne van Heerden.
Expression is Golden
2013-08-13 "InZync poetry sessions are a surprisingly humble space where bras and sisters come together in an intimate cipher, where rappers informally freestyle over self-created beats, a pre-game warm-up rolling together blades of spiritual enlightenment, avoiding the blue lights of the five o’s and sharing a moment while spitting lyrical lines."
Cool stuff: August 2013
2013-08-12 Réney Warrington shares her highlights on the August events calendar.
About Beauty: A love letter
2013-08-12 "This is a love letter to some of the most remarkable full stops in the world, and to their friends. It could also have been an essay about beauty, but I’d rather treat it as the former."
A painting grows on your wall
2013-08-06 "How back to back we stood, and tall we stood?How we then read in books the lives we took.
Now a painting grows on you wall"
Early evening
2013-08-06 "Early evening and the great, glowing globeIs half hidden beneath the horizon.
No orange array salutes its passing,
Only the quiet coo of pigeons
And the slow pitter-patter
Of garden irrigation."
lKh? da !hoa 2013: Press release
2013-08-06 "By means of the first Namibian Word Festival, the lKh? da !hoa, I want the public to acknowledge and give hope to the people in our country who create art even if they are poor and not always in a position to have the luxury of studying."
The spokespeople that won’t speak
2013-08-05 Why is the beautiful but earwormish “Adiemus” one of the theme tunes to a Johannesburg journalist’s life? It is provincial government’s ”hold” tone.
Vuleka art competition opens at Art.b Gallery in Bellville
2013-07-31 Art.b Gallery invites you to the opening of the annual Vuleka art competition's exhibition.
The fair
2013-07-31"South Africa’s favourite fairground attraction
Is ninety-five years old
Today."
Test match (Some sessions)
2013-07-31"Leave the referral
Bowler’s got him plumb within a plum
Watchman to the stumps"
Schreiner Karoo Writers’ Festival: Lisa Ker-Antrobus interview
2013-07-29 The Karoo Writers' Festival will take place in Cradock from 9 to 11 August 2013. Lisa Ker-Antrobus, organiser of the festival, tells Naomi Meyer what visitors to the festival can look forward to.
St James Church shooting: Twenty years on
2013-07-25 On 25 July 1993 a shooting was carried out at the St James Church in Cape Town. Twenty years on, Naomi Meyer speaks to the rector, Mervyn Eloff.
Interpreting Nuremberg
2013-07-24 "In my life I craved the words Richard saidto Jewish parents English meant safety
In his time he had Höss plead to the dead"
Book launch: Pilgrim
2013-07-16"Pieter Cilliers’s autobiography, first published in South Africa in 1997, is the story of a gay pastor’s struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality. Izak de Vries took photos at the Central Methodist Church book launch in Cape Town."
