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Heritage Day interview: Mamelodi for a Month
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).
No more blurred lines – putting misogyny on parole
2013-09-23 "'Suggestive', 'misogynistic' and 'demeaning' are three words which came to mind while I was watching the music video for Robin Thicke’s song 'Blurred Lines'."
Photos: Book Launch of Call it Dog by Marli Roode
2013-09-18 South African-born Marli Roode lives in London and recently visited South Africa for the launch of her debut novel, Call it Dog. The Johannesburg launch was at Love Books, Melville.
Boyhood: Reader's review
2013-09-18 "Coetzee is a skilful didactic lecturer as well. He withdraws himself from those pages, leaving one alone with his faint shadow and words, without ever telling one what he is really saying."
Wind Cathedral
2013-09-18"This place is quiet
silence dominates the days
before sunset, a breeze begins to move the sand"
Umuzi Fiction: Giveaway – winner announced
2013-09-17 Umuzi is pleased to announce a fiction giveaway on LitNet. A lucky reader can win three books published by Umuzi. The winner of the competition is Nadia Taljaard. Congratulations, Nadia!
Open Book Festival 2013: The Ghost-Eater and other stories
2013-09-17 "The Ghost-Eater and other stories is a collection of 31 short stories from different writers who all took part in a creative writing workshop at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) with the compiler of the book, Diane Awerbuck, last year."
Panorama: A book review
2013-09-17 "Panorama refers to both a song sung by schoolchildren and to the view of the mountain from Robben Island which is visible to all who live there except the prisoners behind walls so high that not even the visiting Sunday School picnic children from the Dutch Reformed Church were aware of them."
Chemotherapy
2013-09-11"Go with the flow, he says
Who says? He, he who dishes the dirt,
poison for the pores, the nerve endings, the brain"
In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney
2013-09-06 "Now he is gone. Moreover, he died in the very week of the 11th anniversary of that astounding visit in August 2002. The loss to the world of English letters is immense, and all over the world memorial services will be held and memories and appraisals will be voiced in many important places."
Clover Aardklop 2013: Afda brings Afrikaans short films to festival
2013-09-05 A selection of Afrikaans short films made by the students of The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance (Afda) will be shown at the Clover Aardklop Festival. Reney Warrington asked Garth Holmes, co-founder and chairman of Afda, about the films and the industry.
Staring down the barrel: Mike Nicol’s Of Cops & Robbers
2013-09-04 "Whether you read his latest work as a playful homage to the hard-boiled heroes of the 1930s, find the crossing of boundaries between fact and fiction a source of interest, or just want to read a white-knuckle thriller about the not-quite state of the nation, Nicol’s your man."
Found in Translation
2013-09-04 A casual conversation between Of Cops & Robbers author Mike Nicol and Jaco Botha, who translated the novel into the Afrikaans as Dieners & Donners.
Open Book Festival 2013: Tickets giveaway!
2013-09-03 LitNet is pleased to announce that the Open Book Festival 2013 is giving away ten tickets to two events respectively at this year’s festival.
The born-frees
2013-09-03"What worth is your bravery?
As I’m surrounded by poverty
What for was all that chivalry?
I’m a born-free, for I stand proudly jobless"
To Whom It May Concern
2013-09-03"A large life should not end ordinarily
quietly during sleep
in isolation or at the turn of a switch"
Zebra Crossing: An electrifying novel
2013-08-28 "Without unqualified exultation it would be fair to say that Zebra Crossing is one of the very best works of socially conscious fiction produced in 2013, one that provides ample evidence of tremendous literary ability and a fine understanding of form."
