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Taalmonument bied gevorderde klasse oor boekherstel en -bindery. | Book a date for Taalmonument’s advanced book repair and binding course.

The Midlands Literary Festival takes place during the first weekend of September 2023 at the Yellowwood Café in Howick. Here is the programme.

"I’ve always been much better at writing in the first-person narrative; being able to visualise my characters through their own eyes makes it easier for me to know what their next move will be or how they’ll react to a situation."

Taalmonument en Haarhoff bied gewilde werkswinkels vir beginners en bekwames. | Taalmonument and Haarhoff offer popular workshops for beginners and the experienced.

"The overall intention is to promote, celebrate, support and empower women in all spheres, all walks of life, all cultures and capabilities – ultimately, to ensure an equal, balanced society for all, now and in the future."

Travellers, explorers, meanderers ... come to the launch of The fall by Hans Pienaar.

"This fast-paced dystopian thriller, written by Di Mier, is fiction – not all events are based on reality. However, it is written in such a clever way, and some facts are so close to reality, that it all seems true."

"When the remains of Endurance were found, Knowledge Bhengu was the captain of Agulhas. Bristow-Bovey tells, in a sympathetic way, how a young black boy from rural KZN ended up being a marine captain of note. The book is researched comprehensively, its narrative style topically eclectic and lyrical tonally. The book is a mixture of natural sciences, geography, polar adventures and historical facts that are told in accessible language, in chapters with personal memoirs and other curiosities."

Inspired by the South African experience of being born in exile and yearning for a place to call home, Cantos of a Life in Exile weaves together a tapestry of diverse theatre and performance styles.

"Apart from getting sanctions lifted – and the calculation is that the effect of the latest grain shipping blockade embargo will trigger another massive migration crisis in Europe – Putin must also be hoping that the political impact in the EU will speed up calls for an end to the war in Ukraine via a negotiated settlement."

"before our love ossifies
withering unrequited unfulfilled
I will steal your heart truly
once more
committing like never before"

"One of the greatest catalysts of the festival is that it broadens horizons for those who might never have known that a career in logistics, or eventing, or catering, or agriculture, or finance, was even a possibility. This, in part, motivates a focus in the hearts and minds of the learners, which leads to a positive, gainfully employed work life ahead."

When it became clear that Eskom’s electricity availability for the kiln in which he bakes his works is unreliable, Dirks built a clay kiln with inspection holes to regulate the very high temperature (between 1 000 and 1 200 ºC). Unfortunately, the recent heavy rains severely damaged this clay kiln.

"[The Copyright Amendment Bill] will do inestimable damage to our law of copyright and related areas. Perhaps worst of all, if made law, they will cause immense harm to the very people they purport to be assisting, namely the authors, the composers, the artists and generally the creative persons who seek to produce new and better works and make a livelihood from doing so."

The first volume is already being shared by school children in South Africa. They choose sketches from the revues of the 1980’s and give them life. ... Volume Two could raise similar questions for readers with humour, surprises and the enjoyment of the Mandela years. No wonder it was being launched on Madiba Day 18 July 2023.

"We gain a certain understanding of Victorian classrooms at home and abroad, during the colonial period and after. We also learned of the contemporary cultures of neoliberal kitchens in neoliberal cities, and by implication, of many universities, their purposes of higher education and coercive relations of governance and management."

"The ability to see ourselves in our myths allows us to be critical of ourselves and the world as we know it. This encourages us to envision a better world, in which we too are better versions of ourselves in our interactions with one another. At the root of it all are empathy and transference."

"I realised the characters, incidents and interactions were all derived from real-life experiences – you just cannot make that *insert swear word here* up. From the first sentence I was right back there in a government hospital."

“I was inspired to write this story after reading about the Aversion Project, a medical torture programme in South Africa during apartheid which identified gay soldiers in the South African Defence Force and forced them to submit to ‘curing’ their homosexuality. The doctor in charge later fled to Canada.”

"And maybe A place to call home might have been produced by my subconscious, trying to work through that grief. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and leaving Howick made the life I lived there just so vivid. In many ways the story of my Egyptian geese is the story of my life."