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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.

"It’s a multi-sensory experience!"

The Philida Literary Award is awarded annually to a writer mid-career for an oeuvre of between three to five books of any genre. Here is the announcement of this year’s winner.

"The provision of reliable energy is at the centre of South Africa's ability to solve the scourge of poverty, unemployment, inequality, violent crime ..." | "Yiyo kuphela indlela enokukwazi ukusikhupha kula manyundululu orhwaphilizo kulungiswe eli ziko uEskom aphuhlise isizwe, azise impilo engcono kwabo babetheka kakhulu yintlupheko nokulamba."

"Currently, SU has adopted a visual redress policy to come to terms with its historical relations with the apartheid state structure. Starting in 2015, student protests, namely #Rhodesmustfall, #Feesmustfall and #OpenStellenbosch, called for 'transformation' and 'decolonisation' at historically white universities. SU reacted by choosing 'visual redress' as one of its core responses to these protests."

"In 1994, ignorant of this future, and on a national consensus of all political parties, we set out to do something that no country before us had done – we set out to deliver a welfare state to a country with a rapidly growing population, in the absence of an oil bonanza or some such."

Once a year the residents of Rhodes Village open their doors and give an inside perspective to life in this remote village. The festival includes open stoeps, presentations about aspects of the village, a photography competition and live music.

Freek Robinson interviews Songezo Zibi, author of Manifesto: a new vision for South Africa (2022), about the current political situation and his view on how South Africa can be turned around.

"The enthusiasm for the project from the local community, sponsors and writers is palpable. 'The goodwill of the community has been astounding, with the Simon’s Town Civic Association providing the start-up funding,' Attwell told me. And as his co-organiser, Darryl David, mentioned in his CapeTalk interview: 'Book festivals and scenery go hand in hand, and it doesn’t get better than Simon’s Town.'"

"What’s gone wrong with Mandela’s ANC?"

Bargain Books en LitNet kondig graag die wenners van die Kerskompetisies aan. | Bargain Books and LitNet are happy to announce the winners of the Christmas competitions.

"Dignified to the last is how she will be remembered."

"The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986."

"This is indeed a novel not only about the quality of mercy, but with that quality itself."