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the cliff

Henry Steel 2013-04-09

A simple strong poem about a man standing on a cliff, written by a new poet on LitNet.

Crime fiction in South Africa: the history, the hype and the “genre snob” debate

Anneke Rautenbach 2013-04-02 "To return to the “genre snob” debate, and the contention that crime fiction acts in post-apartheid South Africa as the new 'political novel': there are obvious problems with this blunt categorisation – genres are frequently blurred ..."

For the sake of repeating a story

Adriaan Coetzee 2013-04-02

A traveller, a receptionist, her husband, a boy the traveller dreamt of, and the receptionist again. Adriaan Coetzee retells a story.

Video: Leon de Kock and Michiel Heyns in conversation

Jonathan Amid 2013-03-22 Michiel Heyns and Leon De Kock in conversation with Jonathan Amid
18 March 2013
JS Gericke Library Auditorium

Nursery school

Heidi Henning 2013-03-20 Heidi Henning creates a delightful space in a goat kraal for a story about two little girls

Dangerous Love by Ben Okri: Seeking Solace in a Brutalised Society

Kayang Gagiano 2013-03-13 "The novel is ambitious in its scope and complex in its rendering."

Goddamn this drizzle

Adriaan 2013-03-12 Goddamn this pity party, March 11, the birthday of my father. I just thought of phoning my mother to ask her to confirm his age in the name of adding another sentence.

The little yellow house

Phelelani Makhanya 2013-03-12 A new poet on LitNet, Phelelani Makhanya, wonders about a little yellow house.

The REBIRTH graphic novel launch at The Book Lounge

2013-03-05 REBIRTH, a truely South African graphic novel set in an alternative history in which Jan van Riebeeck was actually a vampire, launches at The Book Club in Cape Town this Thursday.

REBIRTH Graphic Novel: Jan van Riebeeck was a vampire

Gerdus Senekal, Daniel Browde, Josh Ryba 2013-03-05 "But what interests me more than this – and I hope that in some way we have explored this a bit in the book – is how the colonial trauma creates a kind of force field, a blight maybe you could call it, that affects both colonised and coloniser for centuries afterwards."

It gets better South Africa

Lifestyle and entertainment 2013-03-01

Ahmed Kathrada, Jo-Ann Strauss, Kerry McGregor and Shashi Naidoo gave hope to gay and lesbian youth.

African Library: The Past Ahead

Annie Gagiano 2013-02-28 "Dear friend, this story belongs to you now. If it interested you, read it again one day, being careful not to become too absorbed by the play of the narrative, for what’s essential lies elsewhere."

Winner of Unisa International Piano Competition, Lukáš Vondrá?ek, on national tour

Ina van Rooyen 2013-02-27 The winner of the 12th Unisa International Piano Competition, Lukáš Vondrá?ek from the Czech Republic will tour South Africa during March as part of his prize.

Gesamentlike viering van internasionale moedertaaldag ter nagedagtenis aan Neville Alexander

2013-02-21 Die XhosAfrika-netwerk en PRAESA (Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa), sal hierdie maand hande vat om Internasionale Moedertaaldag te vier. Hierdie geleentheid, wat op Saterdag 23 Februarie van 10:00 tot 12:00 op die kampus van die Universiteit van Kaapstad plaasvind (Lesinglokaal 1, Humanities Graduate School), sal ook die lewe en werk van dr. Neville Alexander, voormalige direkteur van PRAESA en stigterslid van die XhosAfrika-netwerk gedenk.

Die melktrein stop nie meer hier nie

Fred Abrahamse, Emma Kotze 2013-02-19 Die melktrein stop nie meer hier nie is a Tennessee Williams play translated for the US Woordfees by Saartjie Botha. Emma Kotze asked Fred Abrahamse, the producer, about the show.

Fanie Fourie’s Lobola is an awesome South African flick

Réney Warrington 2013-02-12 "By saying Fanie Fourie’s Lobola is an awesome South African flick I do not mean compared with other South African films, or lekker for a local flick. Oh, no, I mean FFL is a world-class film with a strong South African flavour."

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