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Festival voor het Afrikaans 2013
2013-05-24 Wegens enorme belangstelling vindt het Festival voor het Afrikaans dit jaar voor de tweede keer plaats: het enige festival buiten Zuid-Afrika waar de Afrikaanse taal het middelpunt vormt. Zie ook het volledige programma van het festival hierbij!
Wat blues vir die Bones beteken
2013-05-22 “Ons het ’n nuwe klank gesoek,” gaan Kobus voort, “maar dit is nog steeds gebou op die blues-rock foundation ... Jy wil nie goed skryf wat té kommersieel is nie, maar ook nie só kunstig dat niemand daarvan gaan hou nie.”
Sacrifice – ’n drama deur Charles Fourie
2013-05-22 "Om te reis en afstand tussen jou en jou heimat te ervaar lei tot herbesinning van wat eens was en wat nou is. Dis in dié verband dat die karakter van Errol Hendriks in Sacrifice tot sy tuiskoms staan."
FLF 2013: The Happy World Of Alexander McCall Smith
2013-05-22 "Alexander McCall Smith has written over 100 books and sold 45 million copies worldwide. This revelation, by Jenny Crwys-Williams of Talk Radio 702, had the audience clapping and cheering enthusiastically on the first day of the Franschhoek Literary Festival."
Karoo Kitchen 'n gunsteling by die Franschhoek Literêre Fees
2013-05-22 Kookboekskrywers kon nie uitgepraat raak oor Sydda Essop se Karoo Kitchen nie. Chrizane van Zyl skryf oor dié gesprek tydens die Franschhoek Literêre Fees.
Sunday Times | Nal 'ibali Storybook launch
2013-05-22 The Sunday Times, in partnership with PRAESA (The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa), launched the new Sunday Times Nal’ibali Storybook at an event just before the Franschhoek Literary Festival.
Bekendstelling: Op pad met Afrikaans by McGregor
2013-05-22 Poësievoorlesing deur Floris Brown, met skyfievertoning.
Panic at Artscape Arena
2013-05-22 "Panic features the character Thando Molepo, a young man in his late twenties, facing and attempting to deal with a number of internal, domestic, relational and macro conflicts, all of them related in some way, or having some bearing on each other."
Shortstraw's Alastair Thomas on Good morning, Sunshine
2013-05-21 "With the new album, everything was written within a year by the whole band. More people, more party!"
Einde van Zinkplaat se “mooi besoedeling”
2013-05-21 Zinkplaat het verlede naweek hul heel laaste optrede gehad. Gys Visser het dit gaan bywoon om die soet en suur vas te pen.
Protesmusiek, Rozanne Gewaar en 'fracking'
2013-05-21 "Mense moet altyd ’n boodskap uit ’n paar oorde hoor voordat dit begin insink. Die proteslied is een van daardie oorde – en die advertensiebedryf het tog al vir ons gewys hoe effektief ’n goeie melodie kan wees!"
MampoerShorts: Short, sharp South African e-books
2013-05-21 Clarista Kotze, member of the Contemporary Literary Practice (English) honours group at Stellenbosch University reports back from the Franschhoek Literary Festival.
FLF 2013: Review of Paul Geraghty
2013-05-21 “For 5–10-year-olds and anyone with a sense of humour.” Despite being significantly older than the age bracket described, Paul Geraghty succeeded in convincing the audience why his books are so popular, and how he is still a child at heart.
Twitter on Trial
2013-05-21 Clarista Kotze, member of the Contemporary Literary Practice (English) honours group at Stellenbosch University reports back from the Franschhoek Literary Festival.
FLF 2013: Sex and violence
2013-05-21 “Does patriarchy lead to sexual violence, or are submissive or absent mothers also at fault?” this panel was headlined.
FLF 2013: Dystopia in science fiction
2013-05-21 "After the hour-long discussion I am convinced by Rachel Zadok that '[F]iction creates empathy.' Issues close to my heart, such as patriarchy and gender-based violence, are given room in these stories."
Chris van Wyk and Paul Geraghty do the “Power of Horowitz”
2013-05-21“Sorry about not being Horowitz. Let’s just say I’m the ‘horror’ part of it,” opened Paul Geraghty to ripples of laughter in the school hall in Franschhoek.
Ontwei: A poem by Antjie Krog to her mother
2013-05-20 Antjie Krog and Ingrid de Kok shared poems about the stars, love, children and death during an intimate reading at this year's Franschhoek Literary Festival.