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Truth dies

Babatunde Fagbayibo 2014-01-10 "Truth dies
at the doorstep of fragmented "truths",
and the jostle for supremacy
becomes the norm."

The human species

Celia Claase 2014-01-10

"We entered this solid plane like asteroids
on a mission to kill without thought

So we domesticated the buffalo for an easy
merciful cut
befriended wolves to help us sniff rabbits ou"

Losgelaat

Ester le Roux 2014-01-10

"Toe my retina skeur
het ek jou soos ‘n trekswael
losgelaat"

Maaltyd

Joanita Erasmus-Alt 2014-01-10

"Sondae eet ons op die stoep. Dis die enigste stoflose dag van die week. Dan gaan lê die verstikkende stof wat die veetrokke van Maandae tot Saterdae op pad na Lappies se slagpale uitry. Na kerk maak ons 'n brunch – sommer net tamatie-en-kaas-snackwiches en tee – en dan sit ons buite op die smal stoep. Ek en Ma."

Besoek aan Rennes-le-Château

Marthé McLoud Poësie 2014-01-10

"Ouma word begrawe
en haar liefling toer
in ’n sonbevlekte dorp
waar ruimte en tyd
skadu’s op die lewe gooi"

Calm

Heidi Henning 2014-01-10

"One small drop of this quiet
Falling from the dappled shade, carried by the breeze"

Song for Aung (For Aung San Suu Kyi)

Babatunde Fagbayibo 2014-01-10 "An ill-defined oasis
within which freedom
finds an identity,
shape,
hue,
texture,
language."

Madiba se oë

Dirk Hattingh 2014-01-10

"Sy oë het die dieptes ingestaar"

What Hidden Lies: Crime from up close

Jonathan Amid 2014-01-10 "In Greek mythology, Persephone is the queen of the underworld. In the brilliant debut novel by celebrated scriptwriter and script editor Michelle Rowe, detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas ... is the plucky young woman tasked with navigating the underworld of a community where little is as it appears."

Verlate Kloof se mense

Michael le Cordeur 2014-01-07 Adam Small gee sy indrukke van Michael le Cordeur se gedig onderaan "Verlate Kloof se mense".

The Spiral House by Claire Robertson

Jonathan Amid 2014-01-03 “Claire Robertson’s extensively researched debut novel, The Spiral House, comes after thirty years spent working as a journalist. The novel has garnered praise from various quarters, unsurprisingly, since it seems to engage every nerve and fibre of one’s body and mind, so absorbing is its arc.”

Reader's review: Black Widow Society

Jonathan Amid 2014-01-03 "If anyone dared to say that the burgeoning South African crime fiction scene was light on inventiveness, over-politicised, almost exclusively cornered by Cape writers and lacking in contributions from black female writers, then Angela Makholwa offers a decidedly tart response with her latest novel, Black Widow Society."

Sanlam Sing 'it 2013 lyric writer wins R50 000!

2013-12-20 Meet this year's Sanlam Sing 'it winner, Frans van Wyk!

Liedjieskrywer wen R50 000 met Sanlam Sing 'it 2013

2013-12-20 Hier is die Sanlam Sing 'it wenner vir 2013!

African Library: Harare North by Brian Chikwava

Annie Gagiano 2013-12-18 Chikwava’s Harare North ... presents readers with an evocation of conflicted Zimbabwean identities ... and with making lives for themselves in Britain, where so many of their compatriots have inserted themselves ... (T)hey have mockingly re-named London 'Harare North' (Johannesburg being known as 'Harare South')."