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Campaign
2012-12-18 "Nights I have stood outside my tent, seenthe orange glow far across the dark space ..."
Self-portrait as a Man of Mystery
2012-12-18 "Failures in action from the start, as thoughthey were deliberate, and at
some point they must’ve become so."
African Library: A Friend of the Court by M?roki Nd?ng’?
2012-12-14 "Nd?ng’?’s novel is a thriller and a gripping reading experience, but it carries a moral and political charge of unexpected magnitude."
The writing of the erotic "Backseat driving" made her feel complete
2012-12-14Simone (a pseudonym), writer of “Backseat driving” and co-winner of our recent Moon/Halloween competition, talks to Ingrid Botha of LêNet about writing the poem and gives us her insights about the writing of erotica.
Top 12 2012: Theatre
2012-12-14 Ismail Mahomed, artistic director of the National Arts Festival, reveals his top 12 theatre productions of 2012.
Discoverability and the author
2012-12-07 Writing a great book won’t necessarily turn you into a best-selling author. Tracey McDonald’s goal is to introduce the general public to authors, and authors to the general public.
Insomnia
2012-12-04 Gary Cummiskey recounts his latest bout of insomnia in this poem featuring a vomiting cat and Patti Smith.
Every generation has its struggle
2012-12-04 "As Trevor Manual identified in 2011, education is one of the most pressing problems in South Africa, the other being unemployment." Lyndal Pottier talks about how Equal Education wants to transform society.
A Spook’s Progress as optional reading
2012-11-28 "A Spook’s Progress is a memoire, recounting the author’s life from his childhood years on, with special emphasis on his career."
Mackenzie’s Pale Horses atmospheric, thought-provoking fare
2012-11-27 "Pale Horses really starts to hit its stride when De Jong visits the devastation of the “scene of the crime”, only to find that the missing community lived on land expropriated from a white farmer."
Abstracts: Interdisciplinary conference on brown identity at the Beyers Naudé Centre
2012-11-23 "The simultaneity in the embodiment of black consciousness, non-racialism and an African consciousness is worked out by illustrating in narrative style people’s gravitation from one consciousness to another."
I benefited from apartheid
2012-11-15 "I truly just find myself quite irritated with people who say things like, "Apartheid was 20 years ago, why can’t just we get over it?" The fact is that white people in general can be very lazy about transformation, and the lazier they are, the more vocal they are on this level."
Home is where the hurt is: Diane Awerbuck’s Home Remedies
2012-11-07 After finishing Diane Awerbuck’s latest novel, Home Remedies, successor to Gardening at Night, I sat dumbfounded, almost in tears, thinking to myself: How do I describe this evocative novel to someone who loves reading?
Francis Galloway reageer op The Cambridge History of South African Literature
2012-11-05 "Twee uitsprake in The Cambridge History of South African Literature met betrekking tot die oeuvre-ontwikkeling, uitgeegeskiedenis en loopbaan van Breyten Breytenbach verdien kritiese kommentaar." Francis Galloway reageer.
Booktown Richmond to relaunch the Athol Fugard Festival
2012-11-05 The Athol Fugard festival is being planned for the first quarter of 2013.