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Calling all birds of a feather to bookmark together at this year’s Kingsmead Book Fair. Kingsmead College will host the 13th annual Book Fair on Saturday, 24 May 2025 at Kingsmead College campus in Melrose, Johannesburg from 09:00 to 18:00.

Hermanus FynArts is proud to announce a dynamic new addition to the FynArts Festival: Wake up with Daily Maverick, a compelling morning talk series taking place from 9–13 June 2025. Don’t miss this thought-provoking series, designed for those who believe in the power of information, debate, and democracy.

"China’s presence in Africa’s port sector is unmatched anywhere else in the world. By contrast, Latin America and the Caribbean host only 10 ports built, financed or operated by Chinese firms, while Asian countries have 24."

"It’s a daring book.  He shows – and tells – with every word a song’s note, an ingredient that stirs flavours within, and the result is both delicate and rich."

"Let us redirect the winds of change that started blowing in South Africa from the founding of our constitutional democracy to make it a reality for everyone."

"It’s like a batsman playing his last test and scoring a hundred in the second innings. Or a bowler ending with 10 wickets in his last game."

We are delighted to announce the 2025 Island Prize shortlist.

Writer and alumna of the Jakes Gerwel/Oude Leeskamer residency programme, Lebogang Mazibuko, talks with our guest writer, Sihle Qwabe, about his writing process and the life experiences that inform his writing. Join us on 6 May from 15:30 to 17:00 for this conversation in Jannie se Leeskamer in exploration of Qwabe’s debut novel, The Resurrection.

"I asked if I could interview him about directing before he returned home, and he readily agreed. I opened a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau and turned on the tape recorder. I was 32 and Athol was 49."

Die wenners van die onderskeie pryse en toekennings van die Andrew Murray Desmond Tutu-prysfonds is nou bekend.

"Decima is a triumph of moral and aesthetic ambition. By entwining a species’s extinction with personal and national identity, Venter crafts a story that is simultaneously urgent and timeless. Its greatest achievement lies in making readers feel the weight of ecological collapse not as abstract data, but as the sum of countless individual tragedies, human and animal alike."

This arrangement promises to bring increased global visibility to Modjaji authors while maintaining Modjaji’s distinctive editorial vision and established local presence.

We are aware that some of the very sources cited here have been deliberately misinterpreted or misrepresented by those seeking to discredit gender-affirming care. This pattern — the selective citation of studies, the exaggeration of uncertainty, and the failure to reflect scientific consensus — does not reflect good-faith engagement with evidence.

"If you thought Apeirogon, published in 2020, was the most pertinent book McCann could have written for our era, wait until you read his recent book, Twist, which came out this month."

We are delighted to announce the 2025 Island Prize longlist for a debut novel by an African writer. The Island Prize is an annual competition held by Holland House Books. It offers both a small monetary reward and assistance in navigating the difficult world of the publishing industry, such as working on the winning manuscript with the author and assisting them in approaching agents and publishers.

"And having stayed in every Tuishuis in Market Street, I can tell you that no one – absolutely no one – could make a weathered old carpet look like a work of art on those sparkling Oregon pine floors as Sandra could."

The Commonwealth short story prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from any of the Commonwealth’s 56 Member States.

"The restored streetscape of Die Tuishuise and Victoria Manor Hotel is Cradock’s most recognisable tourism and heritage asset, along with the Great Fish River, the Mountain Zebra National Park and the gorgeous Moederkerk. It would never have happened without the love and passion of a local farming couple, Sandra and her husband Michael."

"If we mourn what needs to be mourned, we may find enough empathy to understand the legitimacy of calls for setting things in order that are based on natural justice. Only then, perhaps, we shall stop being angry with each other and begin healing from our historical traumas, and, per chance, even celebrate our history as part of our collective identity instead of as something that embarrasses us."