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Wide variety of music at Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival
2012-07-26 The Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival’s programme offers a wide variety of music – from huge concerts to intimate classical performances.
Art, food and something for the kids at the Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival
2012-07-26 At the 2012 Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival the visual arts programme focuses on photography as a medium.
The meaning of Mangaung 2012
2012-07-26 "A cheetah’s beauty and characteristics represent a combination of colour schemes that support its ability to blend with its environment, and the ANC should emulate the cheetah as it congregates at the place of cheetahs, Mangaung."
Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival
2012-07-20 "Now in its third successful year, the Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival will run from 9 to11 August 2012 in Cradock. There will be a special emphasis on women to coincide with National Women’s Day on Thursday, 9 August. Headline authors launching books will include the likes of Etienne van Heerden, Stephen Gray, Clinton V du Plessis and Aubrey Jones."
Japie Basson, a true, professional politician
2012-07-20 "Basson began his colourful political career as a law student at the University of Stellenbosch at age 18 in 1936, and since then his infatuation with politics has never ceased."
Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal: Scotland and South Africa
2012-07-20 The conference will ask how the different sites of Wicomb’s life and work illustrate and challenge notions of the ‘translocal’ in her fiction and criticism, and in new and emerging scholarship about her writing.
Jonathan Jansen discusses his new book, Letters to My Children
2012-07-17 Professor Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State, has written a new book, Letters to my children, which was recently published. The book contains thoughts posted by Jansen on Twitter as "letters" to his children and/or students. Henry Cloete asked him a few questions about his book.
Moonprint Productions and Resolution Health team up to promote recycling
2012-07-13 Resolution Health Medical Scheme and Moonprint Productions NPC launched a partnership last month. This move will see the facilitation and promotion of recycling awareness at music and artistic events across the country, as well as at schools. Moonprint’s Ronel Nel shares all the exciting details with Steyn du Toit.
Letters with feeling: The Post Office supports The National Schools Festival
2012-07-11 The Post Office was invited to St Andrew’s Preparatory School to speak to 220 children about letter-writing and the meaning of stamps, as part of their commitment towards the Schools Festival in Grahamstown.
Nicky Grieshaber discusses his book, the empowerment of clear communication and macaroni and cheese
2012-07-11 "Served on a potato rosti with avocado and crème fraiche, my mom loved the salmon." Nicky Grieshaber talks about common spelling mistakes and communication – and about his book Diacs and Quirks in a Nutshell – Afrikaans Spelling Explained.
A rift right through the pink community
2012-07-11"Not only are we being hunted and victimised by those outside who hate us – but now we are being hunted by predators inside our own community as well!"
A Spook's Progress: From Making War to Making Peace
2012-07-05 At times serious, at times ironic and satirical, A Spook’s Progress is a fascinating and frank account of an intelligence agent’s life and work, and his shift from making war to making peace.
National Arts Festival: A candlelit house of horrors – Exhibit A
2012-07-04 "Brett Bailey’s Exhibit A, one of the most talked about productions at the 2012 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, explores the theme of the objectification of black bodies through the lens of the violent history of European colonial expansion on the African continent."
Rock out at One Night in Cape Town!
2012-07-02 Hilltop Live Productions in association with MK present: One Night in Cape Town! at the Grand West Casino's Grand Arena on 9 August.
Lewin and Heyns take top literary honours
2012-06-28 Struggle veteran Hugh Lewin and former Stellenbosch professor Michiel Heyns are the winners of the 2012 Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery: A tragic narrative of an unwanted love
2012-06-28 Bahaa’ Taher’s standing as a short story writer and novelist was well established by the time this text, his third novel, was published in the original Arabic in his native Egypt in 1991.