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SA Festival of Children’s Literature: an interview with Darryl David
2022-05-19"I believe it may well turn out to be my most important book festival."
Fresh off the press: To 100 & beyond by Wynand Gouws
2022-05-18To 100 & beyond provides sound, tried-and-tested advice on how to approach living a longer, financially secure life, including how to invest wisely, generate alternative income streams, handle your tax affairs and plan your estate.
Press release: Official launch of The Pam Golding Theatre at The Baxter
2022-05-17On Wednesday, 11 May 2022, the official launch of The Pam Golding Theatre at The Baxter saw the main theatre named after Pam Golding Properties’ late founder and life president, Pam Golding, as part of the company’s five-year sponsorship of Cape Town’s iconic and much-loved theatre.
Secret
2022-05-16"A love language,
Unhaltered, fragile, fluttering,
Mapped by constellations of emotions,"
Press release: Free entry to Zeitz MOCAA, celebrating museums and Africanicity
2022-05-12This May, celebrate both International Museum Day and Africa Day with free entry, coffee and more, and start your own art collection by purchasing one of our limited-edition prints.
A nightmare
2022-05-11"War is a nightmare, a nightmare we never wake up from.
A brutal shift in reality, a broken trust."
Press release: South African theatre legend, Athol Fugard’s acclaimed play, Blood Knot, at The Baxter for a limited season
2022-05-10Fugard’s timeless classic tackles themes of brotherhood and hope. It first premiered in 1961 and it is as relevant today (if not more so), 61 years later.
A home on Vorster Street: A memoir by Razina Theba: a book review
2022-05-10"But it is to be commended for the scrupulous directness with which it recounts the idiosyncrasies of multigenerational living, and for what it reveals about the making of one contemporary South African memory and about how we create the stories we tell about ourselves."
Press release: Join a philosophy café on a Greek island
2022-05-09You will explore different aspects of being human: thinking and knowing, being a self, being sick and being healthy, our relationship to art and language, the good life, and why any of this matters.
Press release: Once upon an island – workshop in the creation of an illustrated children’s book, presented by Piet Grobler
2022-05-09Write and illustrate a picture book, guided by award-winning South African illustrator Piet Grobler. Be inspired by the setting and the inhabitants of the lovely Greek island of Lesbos to create that story that you have been hoping to tell for a long time!
Book launch: Creating conditions for student success, edited by Magda Fourie-Malherbe
2022-05-09You are invited to the online book launch of Creating conditions for student success on 12 May 2022.
Beyond fear – Jacana releases Ebrahim Ebrahim’s post-1994 memoir
2022-05-06Beyond fear: Reflections of a freedom fighter, Ebrahim Ebrahim’s memoir, is now available in book shops all over South Africa.
Fresh off the press: A century of South African naval history
2022-05-05"While there are a number of books on the history of the South African Navy, this book brings them into perspective and gives an overall picture of the Navy and its development over the 100 years of its existence."
Ukraine: Artillery – Stalin’s “god of war”
2022-05-05"On the same day Moscow’s chief propagandist warned that Russia had the capacity to ignite a 'Poseidon' underwater nuke capable of submerging Britain with a giant radioactive tsunami, I listened to Freek Robinson on LitNet interviewing Theo Venter on the likelihood of President Putin actually using an atomic bomb."
Press release: Medium | A retrospective exhibition | Isa Steynberg | ’n Oorsiguitstalling
2022-05-04To celebrate the 80th birthday of renowned and versatile Pretoria artist Isa Steynberg, the Association of Arts Pretoria will be exhibiting several works of art in different media. | Ter viering van die vermaarde Pretoria-kunstenaar Isa Steynberg se tagtigste verjaarsdag, word etlike kunswerke in verskillende media wat sy deur haar lewe gemaak het, by die Pretoriase Kunsvereniging uitgestal.
Fleur du Cap Awards 2022: an interview with Wolf Britz
2022-04-29"I think the pandemic has reiterated the relevance of art as an integral part of our lives. It is my personal opinion that art making is a behavioural trait specific to our species which ensures our sustained survival and affluent existence on this planet. If we did not keep on creating theatre, what would be the alternative?"
Press release: NIROX Winter Sculpture Exhibition 2022 Good Neighbours
2022-04-29NIROX has invited universities across the country to each appoint a curator to develop their own take on Good Neighbours, as well as private and public institutions in neighbouring states to submit contributions.
Life in the time of the plague – and an interview with Julian Roup
2022-04-29"I kept a diary during the first year of COVID because I was not sure that I would survive, and I was also incandescent with rage at the ineptitude, corruption and general mismanagement of Boris Johnson and his government. I found writing the book cathartic and was delighted when Alec Hogg of BizNews asked me to produce it as a series of podcasts, which I did, and then it was published as a book by BLKDOG."
Ramadaan on Dorp Street
2022-04-28"So, as I stand on my stoep, looking up at the two rows of houses, I make the niyyah to pop around to each home and ask my neighbours what makes Ramadaan so special here on our street."
Before the Sabbath
2022-04-28"hasten along the graveyard road,
with the body limp and pierced
on a rickety cart –
His soul pawned and distraught"
