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Review: For the Mercy of Water
2013-11-04 "Inspired by Jayes’s experience as a newspaper journalist covering events in the Middle East, For the Mercy of Water is concerned with the ways in which control over access to water can be used as a political tool."
Sunset
2013-10-29 "The rays of light have become irresponsibleThey sparkle with a slightly more subtle shine"
Blossoms of the Savannah by HR Ole Kulet
2013-10-29"Ole Kulet evinces profound admiration of most aspects of Maa lifestyle and tradition, and the fact that he writes this novel from an insider’s perspective strengthens the validity of his balanced representation of a fraught issue and a valuable African culture."
South Africans should celebrate Halloween
2013-10-28 "After speaking to a few friends and consulting a religious group, it became clear to me that many people think that Halloween is evil."
Hello there, kettle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2013-10-08Jonathan 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
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
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
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
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.