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20th Time of the Writer Festival line-up
2017-02-22A feast of literary offerings from Africa and the world will be showcased at this year’s 20th Time of the Writer International Festival. The Festival, set to take place from 13–18 March 2017, will feature some of the country’s most prolific writers.
Jaco Bouwer directs a stellar and dynamic cast in the contemporary theatre classic Marat/Sade
2017-02-22"It is a bloody and unrelenting depiction of class struggle and human suffering that interrogates whether true revolution comes from changing society or changing oneself."
Potblou / Blou Pot at the US Woordfees 2017
2017-02-22"With the pairing up of each visual artist with a blue pot made by one of the ceramicists, the challenge is to explore the object through each artist’s respective medium."
Book launch invitation: Tribing and Untribing the Archive
2017-02-21The launch of Tribing and Untribing the Archive, edited by Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Leibhammer, takes place on 2 March 2017 at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Alex Hamilton: An interview about the US Woordfees 2017
2017-02-16“The local art world is currently undergoing a spring season. There are currently more working, or career artists in South Africa than ever before. This creates a wonderful positive creative energy.”
Moulood-un-nabi @ Mashidul Quds
2017-02-14At a time when the world was threatening to build walls and institute travel bans, I was offered a bridge of kindness, I was offered food, water and hospitality. / Ek is toegelaat om die binneste van die moskee te betree en is totale vryheid gegun.
The Vivid orphan
2017-02-13"Volunteering to help those in need is indeed noble. Yet, more often than not, it is the volunteer benefiting the most ..."
Invitation: Keiskamma Art Project launch
2017-02-10You are invited to the launch of the Keiskamma Art Project in Cape Town on Saturday 18 February 2017.
Dad's car
2017-02-10"On my way to work this morning, I drove behind
an old Jaguar, the same one Dad had mentioned
was his dream car."
Sink: An interview with Brett Michael Innes
2017-02-07“The choice of the title is to do with the water connection in the narrative, as well as the emotional state that all the characters are in. It is a limbo of pain and circumstance, a place of entrapment.”
Roughing it – 1820 settlers in their own words by Ralph Goldswain: a book review
2017-02-03"Ralph Goldswain, in his work on Jeremiah Goldswain in The chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain (2014), and now in Roughing it, has made a considerable contribution to South African settler historiography."
Dazzling stellar line up for 2017 Fugard Bioscope season
2017-02-01Now in its sixth phenomenally successful year, the Fugard Bioscope presents screenings of the world’s best theatre, opera and ballet productions to be enjoyed from the comfort of a Fugard Theatre seat.
History Matters by Bill Nasson – a book review
2017-02-01"If Dudley was never meant to wave the magical fairy wand, to turn Nasson from a self-confessed numerical and scientific dunce into an Einstein, then he definitely succeeded in inspiring him to become a formidable historian. History matters is scientific proof!"
On hair and healing
2017-01-24"When something in my life was changing, my hair, too, had to undergo some form of change."
Decolonising education in South Africa: An interview with Aslam Fataar
2017-01-23"Intercultural education promotes a type of epistemic openness to the knowledges of all human beings."
Remembering a magician: A tribute to the memory of Judith Mason
2017-01-16"Judith Mason was without any doubt a maestro. Her paintings are meticulously crafted."
An interview with the daughters of Judith Mason
2017-01-09The artist Judith Mason (78) died in White River on 29 December 2016. Herman Lategan decided to ask her daughters Tamar and Petra what they remember about their strong, gentle mother.
Press release: Lucy’s Dream by Joline Young
2017-01-09“Lucy’s Dream is an engaging children’s story that reveals slices of life of a little girl living in the fishing community in Simon’s Town up until the 1960s.”
Interview: Say again? The other side of South African English by Jean Branford and Malcolm Venter
2017-01-06"In the same way that we have Australian English, American English, and so on, we have South African English. Obviously all of these Englishes have a lot in common with British English, but they also have many unique aspects."