Litnet

The 2023 Franschhoek Literary Festival will offer Afrikaans literature as part of a rich and engaging three-day programme. Afrikaans makes its appearance for the first time at the festival through a mix of sessions in Afrikaans and Afrikaans authors and books.

"The Ukraine-Russia war drags on, slowly but surely getting more dangerous as Western weapons pour in and the Russian army suffers absurd losses but keeps grinding into battle anyway."

"Even as an entry-level associate, I enjoyed what I did. I was experiencing what it meant to love what you do."

"If anything, the book carries the pain it narrates with graceful eloquence, even though, by necessity of our state’s disrepair, its tone is often tinged with melancholy."

"Trust relationships, that is what it is about. In life. In business. This is how you make a business grow. Not that people will always like you. But they should trust you. Your employers, as well as your customers. They should trust you and your brand."

"The ANC is losing ground to the EFF in that vital community, black youth. Young people worldwide are not interested in attending monthly meetings at which elderly people give rambling talks on the proud history of their movement – young people want action, protests, burning tyres, walking on and over the lines of legality. This the EFF offers, while the ANC Youth League is moribund, conceding this cohort of voters to the EFF."

"Because Stof is a once-off. Dit sal nie weer opgevoer word nie."

"An intriguing and at times mesmerizing account and one that bears re-reading."

This Easter, on Saturday, 8 April 2023 at 16:00, Cape Town Opera brings Rossini’s Stabat Mater to the beautiful Toringkerk in Paarl.

Twenty-eight outstanding stories have been shortlisted by an international judging panel for the world’s most global literature prize. The stories range from fables to family dramas, tackling a range of themes and topics from violence and war to environmental damage, from love and loss to unexpected friendships.

The Department of Languages and Communication in the School of Humanities invites abstracts for the Sol Plaatje University International Language Conference scheduled from 6 to 8 September 2023 in Kimberley, South Africa.

"All characters are disturbed and have gone through trauma of some kind; only the depth varies. Nobody is born bad. What happened to her? That is why this is important."

A new PEN South Africa "Empty Chair Podcast" episode celebrates the life and legacy of Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s former national poet laureate.

"In this era of historical revisions by both white conservatives and radically woke activists who’re obsessed with trying to use history as another weapon of politics, perhaps this recalling of our lived experiences beyond mere ideologies is what will free us from these demagogues."

Pippa Hudson will be in conversation with Sung Yoon at the V&A Waterfront on Wednesday, 5 April 2023.

"If Eskom and corruption seem to take up the headspace of most adults in South Africa there’s a lot more that takes up the headspaces of born-free South Africans. This year’s festival, with its theme Placemaking: influence, roots, expression & imagination, was a dynamic platform for critical reflection and engagement."

It was a glittering affair at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre in Stellenbosch on Sunday 26 March when the winners of the 58^th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards were announced.

"Filmmaking is famously described as 'showing and not telling'. My favourite thing about it is that screenwriting is the art of getting a character to say something which reveals a completely different truth to the words they say. As Emma Thompson said when I had the honour of meeting her (it’s in the book!), screenwriting is the art of a character saying, 'Pass me the butter', when they really mean, 'You have ruined my life.'"

This “micro-novel” describes an imaginary future society and the role of social media where people are literally living inside virtual reality to the extent that they are unable to distinguish virtual reality from real life.

"We implore the legislature to reconsider the entire clause 12A and 12D until a proper socio-economic impact assessment has been done. We are legitimately concerned that fair use will diminish legal certainty and harm authors and publishers by diminishing their work, and creating a climate for freely using their work without permission or compensation."