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Hail King Bob, Noble of literature
2016-10-21"That's it if you follow the world according to Dylan, a wandering minstrel with his guitar, harmonica and nasal voice – whose commentaries on the 'human condition', for that's what his songs are, have won him a Nobel Prize."
#FeesMustFall: Danny Titus on burning libraries and human rights
2016-10-17"It will therefore be of relevance as a South African civil society in particular to emphasise our international law obligations to the government, to work more strenuously towards the domestication of international instruments and to integrate it in our litigation as well as judicial decision-making."
#FeesMustFall: Andrew Donaldson on the burning of libraries and university facilities
2016-10-17"Irrespective of whether fees have fallen or disappeared altogether, or even the merits of such a campaign, a university education is just not possible without universities – or university structures, like libraries."
Ten questions: Arien van der Merwe on the book Managing diabetes and related health challenges
2016-10-11Is diabetes a lifelong death sentence? "It isn’t. My book is a message of hope that this disease can be managed and even healed."
Shredding the veil of reconciliation
2016-10-04"At the heart of the matter are two interlinked concepts and realities which manifest themselves in all aspects of the South African “way of life”: the pervasiveness of structural inequality and white supremacy in our daily lives."
Invitation to book launch: Losing the Plot by Leon de Kock
2016-10-04You are invited by Wits University Press and The Book Lounge, Cape Town, to the launch of Losing the Plot on Thursday 6 October 2016 at 17:30 for 18:00.
Interview: The end of public universities in South Africa?
2016-10-04"The drama we are seeing is that we are asking the university to do things it was never meant to do. I mean welfare is the domain of the state, it is not the domain of the university. We can’t be asking the university to do things it was not designed to do."
"Standing up for injustices"? – Nine notes on #FeesMustFall
2016-09-28"The South African movements of 2015–2016 show some of the dangers and difficulties of negotiating in the new media world and of moving from representative student government to a post-truth social media environment where there are no formal gatekeepers."
Interview: Marianne Thamm on Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me
2016-09-23"I am pleased that the country I grew up in no longer exists."
From racial to linguistic capitalism?
2016-09-22"Authors like Neville Alexander, Vincent Maphai, Allister Sparks and Sampie Terreblanche have produced important publications in which the 'miracle' of our transition is analysed from various perspectives."
Saying Good-bye
2016-09-21"the cloud-mark of your plane
leaves its path of entrails
across our continent ..."
Established South African writers doing it for themselves
2016-09-15"Self-publishing is rising in popularity with South African writers who have previously released novels through traditional publishers. To get an idea of what the self-publishing landscape in South Africa is like, four local fiction writers – Paige Nick, Joanne Hichens, Janita Thiele Lawrence and Gareth Crocker – were asked to share their experiences."
Review: New Contrast Manifesto Issue
2016-09-14"'Manifesto!' shouts the cover of the 173rd issue of South Africa’s oldest literary magazine, New Contrast. The effect is compelling: the reader is enjoined to listen and engage."
Roman rock
2016-09-14"And there, before it levels out
to pebbles, sand, more gulls, crushed shells,
the nasturtiums spread their green-and-spice ..."
The guests
2016-09-14"Not many visitors come to the farm,
but the sudden rain has charmed
a festival of frogs out of the mud ..."
Alexandra May: "It’s trial and error sometimes"
2016-09-13"I’m pretty new to creating my own music and being involved in the process of bringing it to life."
That Saturday
2016-09-13"I was only eight when we moved into this apartment. That was five years ago. I remember being excited at the thought of living in a new place."
The People Behind the Books: Isobel Dixon, Poet and Literary Agent in the UK
2016-09-13"But prizes, pleasing as they are, are not the pinnacle: the ongoing privilege and pleasure of my job is the stories, the stimulation, the richness of ideas and the precious relationships with my clients."
Invitation: Book launch of The Initiation by Mogorosi Motshumi
2016-09-12You are invited to the launch of The Initiation by Mogorosi Motshumi on the 13th of September in Bibliophilia, Woodstock.
hier, die land | here, this land
2016-09-07"jy is ons ineenryger van asem
jy is ons ineensnoerder van stem
jy is ons ineen alomheen"