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"I hope my book has opened the way for other people to write about the really difficult subjects of our past, when both sides committed atrocities, when the subject matter is regarded as taboo."

The JIAS Writers’ Workshop is open to African writers who work in fiction (long and short form), creative non-fiction, playwriting, screenwriting and poetry.

"I have seen the returning MK soldiers, how disappointed they are in what is happening in our country."

"The author here focuses particularly on (mostly lesbian) women and counters the tide of disgust by depicting such characters as joyous and beautiful and free in enjoying 'illicit' sexuality, but this is contrasted with many vignettes depicting states of terror, shame, denial of selfhood and forms of love that have been sullied and branded by the reigning disapproval and condemnation ...."

"In the end, ordinary people from the township brought the once mighty apartheid juggernaut to its knees; the Nats had no choice but to start negotiating. Many of these 'ordinary people' attended the launch."

"The beach quandary arose after I read a Rapport article, 'Jy swem eers, dan swem ons, Meneer die Burgemeester', which stated that Durban may be forced to keep their beaches closed due to high E. coli levels in the water."

Fun for all the family, The nutcracker is produced by ballet doyenne Veronica Paeper and will be presented for a limited season from 7 to 23 December at Artscape in the opera house.  

On Sunday, 4 December 2022, an international team of authors discussed the topic, "Who is an African?" They also asked: Who is allowed to write from an African experience? Why do African authors get boxed into certain kinds of story?

Tell us what you love most about South Africa. You will stand a chance to win three fabulous books by South African authors.

The theme is "My town". It can be a poem about your hometown, the town you live in or any town in the world that you love or have an interest in.

"A new history curriculum is scheduled for implementation; completion thereof is intended by 2024, and it is almost definitely constructed around ANC nationalistic assumptions of what constitutes valid historical knowledge. This potentially forebodes disturbing implications regarding state attempts to manipulate students’ comprehension of their own identity, particularly minorities and specifically white South Africans."

Why were the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage apartheid’s Stalingrad? What happened in the eighties that left the NP with no choice but to start negotiating?

Apartheid’s Stalingrad, how the townships of the Eastern Cape defied the apartheid war machine by Rory Riordan will be launched at the Nelson Mandela University.

Share with us what is your favourite children’s book and tell us why? You will stand a chance to win a book by David Walliams and one by Jeff Kinney!

"Attended by 150 persons from various regional and international universities, as well as participants from civil society, the conference occurred in the wake of the release of the Khampepe Report, which highlights, among other things, the lived experiences particularly of students and staff of colour at SU."

Tell us your favourite quote from Charlie Mackesy’s book and stand a chance to win The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse.

"While I was sitting in one of the conference sessions, I recalled a discussion we’d had in school 35 years before. It was about the name of the school which I matriculated from. The issue was, who is this person whom Luckhoff, our school, was named after?"

Please be sure to use the correct hashtag to participate, #ReadingAfrica. Please, do add something about and in your own language to the event! You can also help us celebrate by joining us at the three great events we’ve planned!

"I come to the Race and Transformation Conference looking for expert, substantive ways of understanding race and transformation globally, and at Stellenbosch University. I crave an ethical and empirical sense-making, gatvol of the patriarchal, anecdotal tales I am fed, before being silenced."

We are about to publish this book which, as the flyer states, could not have come at a better time.