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"The topic of adoption by same-sex couples is a very important theme in the novel. Some of the questions posed and the fears experienced by the protagonist and his husband, I could relate to, like the vulnerability and also the sense of being scrutinised."

"As with other cases in the 'new' South Africa, where the state failed, the private sector moved in to repair damages. Today, an integrated support structure provides services to white and black farmers, and a number of joint venture projects continue the land reform programme."

"I find this fast-becoming-popular genre of interrogating history through filtered personal and family experience to be a very pleasing literary direction in our country. You’ll not see me complain if we eventually replace the political novel with it, because not only does it gently provide us with a platform to reckon with our (national) past, but it gives us tools for higher consciousness to map up our personal lives also, which is what literature is supposed to do."

"My guess is that the growing radicalism from the left will gain momentum, especially if things don’t get better. As it is now, they too are at sixes and sevens and have no workable solutions. Anger at the failures of the ANC and the betrayal of the revolutionary mandate is their only political fund. They will probably take the coming few years to unite, organise and consolidate before coming to take yet another bite out of the sinking leviathan."

Lights, camera, action! The Luitingh Alexander Musical Theatre Academy (LAMTA) is excited to present their much anticipated blockbuster dance production, Hollywood. The show is set to light up the stage from 19 to 29 June 2024 at Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay.

Miela’s box is a 50 minute radio drama in English and Kaaps. The show will air on Cape Flats Radio, a product of the Cape Flats Stories, and Radio Eersteriver on Sunday 30 June 2024 at 8pm.

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."

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"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."