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"This a joke book – except that all the dialogue is real, and from my family, over a period of fifteen years. I have been taking notes."

"For now, I continue reading – lifting the dust of archives, tracing the moral DNA of empires. The covenant demands it. And dust, after all, is where every story of human belonging begins."

"Can AI imitate God? What is lost when one seeks guidance from a machine?" This video overview of an accredited LitNet Akademies (Godsdienswetenskappe) article by Anné Verhoef is generated by AI.

"In the end, I hoped to create a show that honours Andersen’s emotional truth while offering a version of the story that feels honest, contemporary and welcoming to a 2025 South African audience."

Are you a parent looking for videos, infographics and slides of educational materials to send to your school-aged child? AI quickly summarises and packages LitNet text material in various formats. | Is jy ’n ouer op soek na video’s, infografika en skyfies van verrykingsmateriaal wat jy aan jou skoolgaande kind kan aanstuur? KI kan LitNet-teksmateriaal opsom en blitsig in verskeie formate verpak.

AI quickly summarises and packages LitNet text material in various formats, such as podcasts, videos and infographics. | KI kan LitNet-teksmateriaal opsom en blitsig in verskeie formate (soos podsendinggesprekke, video’s en infografika) verpak.

He grew up in a good household near Durban. At a delicate age, he learned that he was adopted. It shook his sense of identity, as he no longer was the boy he had been brought up to be. In his recently completed memoir, Lucky bastard, Anthony Akerman focuses primarily on how his life was shaped by the knowledge of his adoption.

One of the songs from her 2013 album Change your world is called “My leaves stay green”. This song was written during her journey through chemotherapy. It is also the title of her recently published book of “poetree”, a collection of pop-up poems inspired by trees that she shared on Facebook during the COVID lockdown.

"We’re on my three-seater couch, but the two of you are huddled on the left. Leaning back, I watch you reveal what you think is hidden." This short story was completed during the Kommadagga workshop and residency at Paulet House in KwaNojoli in the Eastern Cape. The workshop was presented by the Jakes Gerwel Foundation in cooperation with LitNet and Huisgenoot.

"Looking back, these memories remind us that life was woven together by simple rituals, laughter, and tradition. They are treasures of yesteryear, still alive in our hearts, teaching us to value the heritage that shaped us."

Amazwi intends to produce a peer-reviewed and edited electronic edition of the conference proceedings. The submission process will be shared with those whose abstracts are accepted for the conference.

"At the outset, I must make note, on the subject of identity, that I believe that we as human beings are wired to collect identities (plural) and discard identities, from the day we are born to the day we die, and these go way beyond notions of race, ethnicity, colour and nation."

"The driver was a youthful man with a very hairy back, which I could see through the slight space his shirt left. Thobani was the guy’s name. He was cool. Very hairy, but very cool." This short story was completed during the Kommadagga workshop and residency at Paulet House in KwaNojoli in the Eastern Cape. The workshop was presented by the Jakes Gerwel Foundation in cooperation with LitNet and Huisgenoot.

"The clockmaker watched him, unreadable. 'Back? There is no back. You stared into your clock. Time stared back. You were chosen.'"

"In tackling the hopscotch existence of a complicated man who has generated competing and conflicting opinions, Albert Grundlingh has produced a meticulously researched, highly readable and very well-rounded portrayal of Frederik van Zyl Slabbert."

"Both Namibia and South Africa grapple with high rates of SGBV and gender inequality. A key similarity is the presence of dedicated activists and movements fighting for justice. A significant difference is the legal landscape regarding abortion; South Africa repealed the old law, allowing girls as young as 12 to access safe abortion on request, while Namibia still operates under the restrictive 1975 act."

"The best writers are not merely stylists; they are custodians of sensibility. They bring with themselves the heaviness of culture, memory, grief, humour, private ghosts, inherited silences and the rest of the untranslatable textures of lived experience. They write from the grain of their mother tongue. They write from provincial landscapes that the internet has never indexed, not yet anyway. They write from the pain of exile, from the taste of a city’s dust and from history that refuses to be archived. AI, for all its omnivorous reading, knows only what is online."

Listen to a concise overview of Afrikaans content presented in the form of a podcast-style discussion by (American) AI hosts. | Luister na ’n baie kort oorsig van Afrikaanse inhoud in die vorm van ’n podsendinggesprek deur Amerikaanse KI-aanbieders. 

The early bird gets the coffee and the doughnuts!

"The 22nd of November 2025 is a very special day. It is the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor."