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"Policing is a fluid, dangerous and changing situation. Not every decision will be perfect. But ultimately, everyone – even a Trump supporter – has the right to live. How much more someone seizing an opportunity to alleviate some of their poverty."

"I was acutely aware of the sensitivities of this story, and my approach with the extended Langenhoven family was cautious."

The Free State and North West are already into their third wave. Freek Robinson interviews Michelle Groome, head of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

"It is a sad moment for South Africans." Freek Robinson interviews William Gumede, Associate Professor, School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand and executive chairperson of Democracy Works Foundation.

On 29 April 2021 at 10:00, Marianne Thamm will be in conversation with Wahbie Long about his book, Nation on the couch: Inside South Africa's mind, as part of the Suidoosterfees-Jakes Gerwel conversations at Artscape, Cape Town. Robert Kriger interviews Wahbie to find out more about his book, which he describes as a "letter to all South African citizens".

"Basically, we all need each other, so, no, we cannot allow humanity to self-destruct." Adam Cruise (It’s not about the bats) will be part of the Jakes Gerwel conversations at the Suidoosterfees. 

"It is my small way of paying it forward and a way of showing gratitude for the privileges life has afforded me thus far." Thembalethu Seyisi (21 life lessons @ 21) will be part of the Jakes Gerwel conversations at the Suidoosterfees. 

Where are the millions? Freek Robinson interviews playwright and activist Mike van Graan from the Sustaining Theatre and Dance (STAND) Foundation and the Theatre and Dance Alliance.

"My eternal thanks for kykNET’s very generous Legende Fiësta award ..."

"The live experience, the exchange between actor and audience, which theatre uniquely offers, cannot be replaced by other mediums."

What role can Afrikaners play in the practical rebuilding of South Africa? A summit between the Thabo Mbeki Foundation and Afrikaner interest groups took place at the end of February 2021 in Cape Town. Freek Robinson interviews Thabane Vincent Maphai from the Thabo Mbeki Foundation.

"Once all the adults in a particular group have been vaccinated then it must be okay to socialise together, or attend meetings together, or congregate together."

"Ivermectin exploits this communication system: it makes it impossible for the different parts of a worm or other parasite to talk to each other."

"I’m one of the survivors of COVID, and I wouldn’t wish what I went through on anyone else. It hurts, literally." Cliffordene Norton interviews two people who have recovered from the virus.

What went wrong in South Africa? Freek Robinson interviews paediatrician and president of the Medical Research Council, Glenda Gray.

“People don’t read crime if they don’t have hope.” So said Jessica Powers, head of Catalyst Press, quoting the South African author Andrew Brown, during a panel discussion hosted by Micheal Sears on Wednesday 9 December 2020.

On Sunday 6 December 2020 an international panel of authors and publishers took part in a discussion on the joys of #ReadingAfrica. View the discussion on LitNet’s YouTube channel.

"I just began to feel excited about the possibility of bringing African literature of all genres to a North American readership – not scholarly work, which I think has some real champions, but crime novels, thrillers, literary fiction, children’s fiction and graphic novels."

"I visited the Amazwi literary museum (then NELM) to look at Pringle’s papers. It was his letter requesting permission to take the Tswana boy Hinza Marossi to London that piqued my interest. Reading Mary Prince’s slave narrative, published by Pringle in London, settled it: I would try to write a novel about them."

"I think my mother’s death released me; I felt the burden of responsibility lift from me."