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The enchanting double bill features the pastoral fantasy of Mikhail Fokine's Les sylphides and Sir Frederick Ashton's charming twilight skating scene, Les patineurs.

Dance, drama, music and poetry will permeate and reverberate through The Baxter, from 24 March to 1 April 2023, when the Western Cape’s greatest staging of fresh and innovate theatre returns this year. The annual Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival will showcase 37 productions and 189 participants, who will entertain, captivate and intrigue audiences.

During International Mother Tongue Language Month, Tessa Dowling talks about her love and teachings of the Xhosa language. "I was captivated by the superb sound of Xhosa and the absolute grammatical sense that it made to me! Its power to connect me to people."

"I find that stories often have their own objectives, which I only discover while writing, or sometimes after writing."

At least 13 Ukrainian and foreign journalists and media workers have been killed since 24 February 2022 while carrying out their professional duties.

Darryl David praat met Naomi Meyer oor vanjaar se Adam Small-fees, wat op 24 tot 26 Februarie in Pniël plaasvind. | Darryl David chats to Naomi Meyer about this year’s Adam Small Festival, taking place in Pniël from 24 to 26 February 2023.

KZN’s eminent musical doctors, Cockburn and Warburton, play masterpieces for four hands at one piano.

You are invited to the book launch in Rosebank on Tuesday, 28 February 2023. Click here for more information.

"This is definitely a novel I would recommend to anyone who wants to read something that embodies traditional South African words, phrases and sayings. It would certainly make an excellent gift for non-South African readers!"

"Google makes about 80% of its revenue from search. And up until now, they’ve more or less had a monopoly on search, with over 90% of the world’s search queries going through Google. In fact, we don’t talk about searching for something online; we talk about googling it. But monopolies can fall. Remember Skype?"

"The value in my books comes from writing about those things people don’t want to talk about. My intent is to get people talking as opposed to measuring. We need to start having robust conversations around those topics that make us uncomfortable."

Frans Rautenbach and Footprint Press cordially invite you to attend this book launch on Tuesday 21 February 2023 at the Book Lounge.

"Both as a writer and as an artist, she could have this device emblazoned on her banner: Frustrate the expectations of the public! Something is suggested, a meaning seems imminent; but there is no closure, the dots are never connected." – Andries Gouws on Ingrid Winterbach.

Banyana Banyana’s Thembi Kgatlana is celebrated worldwide – she represented South Africa in the 2016 Summer Olympics; she was the leading goal scorer and Player of the Tournament at the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations.

Hosted by writer Kim Windvogel and journalist Romantha Botha, the adults-only documentary series Sex and pleasure will take a broader view of what South Africans get up to behind closed doors, and, well, everywhere else too.

"This book is an important literary contribution to the discourse on xenophobia in South Africa. With love at the centre, In the midst of it all demonstrates just how we’re all more alike than what we might think."

"Let my words caress you,
my gentle hands are thornless,
here to charm you, not to harm you"

When Operation Healing Hands reached out to Jacaranda FM’s Good Morning Angels for assistance, it was a no-brainer for them to come on board and assist in saving the lives of Wanga and four other children needing the surgery.

The charming village of Franschhoek will again be transformed into a literary hub from Friday 19th – Sunday 21st May 2023, when the Franschhoek Literary Festival celebrates its 16th year since inception.

When Thoko and her mom moves from the city to a plantation in Mpumalanga, she is totally out of her comfort zone. There is no mall in sight and she has to take a taxi with the other kids from the plantation to school.