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Amazwi, museum of literature, is proud to be part of the National Arts Festival 2024.

"Put differently, Zuma revived Buthelezi’s pre-1994 messaging in 2023 with a blend of false pro-black advocacy, myopic rule-by-chiefs nonsense, and promises to wannabe politicians and tenderpreneurs of a return to rent-seeking practices reminiscent of the Gupta era."

"Teachers who have used Sharkey in their classes will feel very comfortable moving on to Marked. It is a solid classroom reader. It has enough flesh on the bone to tick all the boxes of the curriculum, while offering the children a fast-paced, enjoyable read."

“We believe in the future of Afrikaans film and television, in the importance of a wide variety of voices, and in the power of stories to change people’s lives.” These are the thoughts of Waldimar Pelser, director of M-Net Premium Channels, on the 12th kykNET Silwerskerm Festival, held from 28 to 31 August this year at the Bay Hotel and Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay.

"Ons glo in die toekoms van Afrikaanse film en televisie, in die belangrikheid van ’n wye verskeidenheid stemme, en in die krag van stories om lewens te verander." Só sê Waldimar Pelser, direkteur van M-Net se Premium-kanale, oor die 12de kykNET Silwerskermfees wat vanjaar vanaf 28 tot 31 Augustus by die Bay Hotel en Theatre on the Bay in Kampsbaai plaasvind.

IIIFoet (DrieFoet) is Modise Sekgothe, Jotam Schoeman and Umlungu Deluxe. The name IIIFoet, a slang term for a pot standing on three legs, represents a melting pot of diverse flavors and influences, as well as the different cities each member calls home: Johannesburg, Cape Town, and London. The trio has partnered with indie label Paradise Worldwide to release their nine-track album, Metropolar on June 14, 2024 on all major streaming platforms. It promises to deliver a unique fusion of music, spoken word, and visual art.

"Abantwana bayakuvuyela ukufundelwa ngolwimi lwabo." | "Children enjoy being read to in their own language."

Five-year term with the possibility of reappointment for another term. Be responsible for the overall executive management, as well as for providing visionary leadership aligned with the institutional strategy.

"Indeed, the book is richly rooted in the textures, sights and sounds of the city in the ’70s and ’80s. Whether it is bell-bottoms, Salusa 45, dwarves in Orange Grove gardens, Abdullah Ibrahim, student parties at Crown Mines, Bob Dylan, Beyers Naudé, MacGyver or The jewel in the crown, the book provides details which will trigger memories for anyone who experienced those years."

John Kani: "This white man is here to suck their brains out!" Athol Fugard, the Grand Man of South African Literature, will turn 92 on Tuesday, 11 June 2024. Rory Riordan is writing a biography of the man who earned the title of "the foremost active playwright in the English-speaking world".

"The decision that charts our collective future in South Africa is now in the hands of politicians. This frightens me."

In April this year, the AVBOB Poetry Project ran a mini-competition on the theme "Three Ways to Look at a Person". We are announcing the names of the three winning poets and sharing their powerful words.

"If an essay is good, one distrusts it straight away. I did not award a single distinction."

"It would be easy in South Africa today, preoccupied as it is with the result of its own parliamentary election, to overlook the importance of the Allied D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, which liberated the world from the Nazi scourge. But that would be a mistake."

"Crucially, graduates are anticipated to embody critical thinking skills, and so actively contribute to societal development and progress. Higher education plays a vital role in cultivating virtues such as respect, resilience, dignity, inclusivity and gender equality, thereby fostering a constructive platform for public discourse. Universities serve as a safeguard against crude, anti-democratic rhetoric."

"Although Schreiner’s ideas about the place of women, the stratified nature of their labour, constantly developed over the course of her life, she evidently has a blind spot in her letters about the non-white servants in her close circle."

Here is a Zoom link for each day of the conference. Please find the programme for the Amazwi Children’s Literature Conference. 

One man shows: The Mbeki HIV Renaissance (2000-2009) is the third book in the series by Pieter-Dirk Uys/Evita Bezuidenhout and welcomes the new century with a detailed focus on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa.

"This note will address these developments in terms of 'Winners' and 'Losers', and of course we must begin with the first of the election’s big stories, the travails of the ANC."

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation, LitNet and Huisgenoot are eagerly awaiting applications from promising emerging writers for the Kommadagga Workshop on the fine art of writing short prose.