English

Hello there, kettle

Chris Taljaard 2013-10-23

"Kettle, could you forgive me
if I were to call you black?
You see, in you lies my story
reflected, burning, back"

Should this catharsis contain some portent

Chris Taljaard 2013-10-23

"Should this catharsis contain some portent,
purport or potential politick;
should it conform to some shape and indent-
ation to be poetic rhetoric?"

African languages in the print media

Brian Ramadiro 2013-10-23 "The dominant view is that African languages have no future as languages of print. For purposes of this talk the designation 'African language' excludes Afrikaans, and the word 'print' is used inclusively to refer to both paper and digital print."

BookBedonnerd VI: Full programme

2013-10-21 The theme of this year’s Booktown Richmond’s Festival, BookBedonnerd VI, is Alice in Booktown Land. The festival takes place from 23 to 25 October 2013.

Milk Train: Sour for some, fresh for others

Lauren Voges 2013-10-18 Milk Train has been described as one of the plays that deal most poignantly, most convincingly, with death. The other play that has achieved this feat is Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Mensehandelbewustheid | Human Trafficking Awareness

Naomi Meyer, Marisa de Lange, Corinne Sandenberg 2013-10-18 Corinne Sandenberg of Stop Trafficking and Marisa de Lange, curator of the Freedom Exhibition, talk to Naomi Meyer about a topic everybody wants to avoid.

Rethinking Thinking: Modernity’s “Other” and the transformation of the University

Gert van der Westhuizen 2013-10-10 "This book is about the need for the transformation of higher education in South Africa. It problematises thinking about universities, and thinking in universities."

A response to Jonathan Jansen’s Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture to The English Academy of South Africa

Russell H Kaschula 2013-10-08 "One cannot, therefore, have a sustained democracy operating in a language in which most people are functionally illiterate. President Zuma is probably the only post-democratic president to have realised that (and to some extent former President Mandela), often speaking in isiNguni (collectively understood by approximately 45% of the population)."

Why English should be the language of South African universities

Jonathan Jansen Seminare en essays 2013-10-08

Jonathan Jansen, Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture of 2013: "What English does is level the playing fields in the historically Afrikaans universities for common engagement."

Some thoughts on Jonathan Jansen's call for English

Tessa Dowling 2013-10-07 Tessa Dowling, Adjunct Professor of African Languages in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town, responds to Jonathan Jansen's Percy Maneshik Memorial lecture.

In the flesh

Kim Harrisberg 2013-10-02 "Back by popular demand, the Body Worlds exhibition returned to South Africa. Kim Harrisberg went to find out why humans can’t get enough of seeing themselves skinned."

Kasrils’s battle for a free South Africa

Puleng Kuneshe 2013-10-01 "In the fourth edition of his memoir, Armed and dangerous, former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils recounts his journey as an Umkhonto we Sizwe operative and a member of cabinet following the collapse of apartheid."

Being coloured, a complexity in itself

tizz_91 2013-10-01 "Maybe the problem is not race, but the embracing of one’s roots. Like black South Africans are Xhosa or Zulu, etc, coloured people need to know which “tribe” they come from and celebrate it and live with the South African heritage in all its complexities."

Cape Town Narrative Co-op workshop series

2013-09-27 Cape Town Narrative Co-op are presenting a narrative workshop for adults on using creative writing as a therapeutic resource.

Add hope: Socially conscious advertising

Doug Smart, Naomi Meyer, Lauren Turnbull 2013-09-27 Two major South African award ceremonies in the advertising industry took place recently: the Pendoring awards on the 20th and the Loeries on the 21st of September 2013. Humour and social commentary on the South African situation seemed to be common themes. After attending the Pendoring awards, Naomi Meyer noted with interest the new marketing campaign of Kentucky Fried Chicken by Ogilvy Johannesburg.

Heritage Day interview: Mamelodi for a Month

Ena Hewitt, Julian Hewitt, Naomi Meyer 2013-09-23 National Braai Day? Nope. A photo taken in Mamelodi by a privileged white South African family (who is under public scrutiny after moving into a squatter camp for a month in an attempt to see how the other half lives).

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