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Molly's game: a film review
2017-12-20"The film is based on the fascinating story of Molly Bloom, an intriguing real-life person. It’s worth buying your ticket just for that. Don’t expect well drawn characters or anything outside of the Hollywood soapbox, though."
Jumanji – so much fun
2017-12-20"Jumanji is good, old-fashioned entertainment guaranteed to put you in a fantastic mood."
For Prague, city of particles and atoms
2017-12-19"The rainfall outside my window takes upon itself
a pensive transformation. An
eternity that is filled with hope."
#ANC54: Cyril the Silent
2017-12-19"For now it’s business as usual for the captured state. Ramaphosa will have to tread softly at least until the 2019 elections."
Journal 1955–1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun
2017-12-18"This important and moving text is the last completed work by an Algerian Berber novelist and public intellectual who wrote in French, the language in which the original Éditions du Seuil edition appeared in 1962."
Press release: The Fugard Theatre's New Year's Eve production of King Kong – The Musical
2017-12-18"King Kong – The Musical will be performed at 2pm on Sunday 31 December, New Year's Eve."
Social cohesion at the diving board and winter studies of the Renaissance
2017-12-13"A cold was all around the couch.
Winter for sure when he
left."
Burning dead things in the concrete jungle
2017-12-13"The letters I wrote
to you. I had to erase all
memory of conversation."
My Portuguese feast: an interview with Mimi Jardim
2017-12-06"This book is about a celebration of moods, travels, family, classes – therefore, a feast."
All ears
2017-12-05"One aspect of freedom is
access to different views
to listen is to exercise such freedom"
When Zuma goes by Ralph Mathekga: "Just before midnight" seminar
2017-12-04"South Africans need to get more involved in their public affairs and need to evaluate leaders more robustly."
Young German woman with the graceful neck
2017-12-01"His silence was like the steep stone folds of a mountain. She remained unseen. A quiet peaceful sea that had lost its roaring voice."
“The problem with decolonisation”: Jonathan Jansen seminar
2017-11-30"The tools that you use are as important as the problems we are trying to solve. And if you use the wrong conceptual apparatus for making sense of problems like racism, like decoloniality, then, of course, I think you will be less effective than if you, for example, use critical race theory."
Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard by Sean Christie: a book review
2017-11-29"Christie skilfully weaves historical and social context into the retelling of day-to-day events, from his early encounters with the Beachboys through to his introduction to the slums of Dar es Salaam."
Tampa
2017-11-29"In Knysna, his elderly parents were getting a divorce. His sister was moving house to London with her daughters and accountant husband. Yes, everybody they knew was moving up in the world. He met Nick in Tampa."
Driven by experimentation, flowing with the current: Boskasie
2017-11-27"My music comes from a deep place of emotion and vulnerability – merely speaking about my truths, and hoping that someone else out there can relate to them, and, furthermore, that they will comfort them in some way."
Trevor in the land of fantasy by Sheila Cussons: book launch
2017-11-24"Beautifully illustrated with her own delicate artwork, the quaint characters in Trevor in the land of fantasy come to life, transporting the reader with them into a world of fantasy and imagination." Izak de Vries shares his photos of the Cape Town book launch with LitNet.
A literary guide to KwaZulu-Natal by Niall McNulty and Lindy Stiebel: book launch
2017-11-24You are invited to the launch of A literary guide to KwaZulu-Natal on 30 November in Durban.
Zimbabwe
2017-11-23"in a seeming miracle of survival
a land where the rushing waterfall plummets into the Zambezi"
Migrations: New short fiction from Africa edited by Efemia Chela, Bongani Kona and Helen Moffett: book review
2017-11-23"Migrations is the fourth SSDA anthology after Feast, famine and potluck: African short stories, Terra incognita: New short speculative stories from Africa and the abovementioned Water. The idea behind the SSDA project is to offer a platform for writers across the African continent and the African diaspora to write about our experience on our own terms, and to support African writers in our endeavours through the SSDA Prize, anthologies and writing workshops."