Litnet

This month, the AVBOB Poetry Project asked the award-winning South African poet Caitlin Stobie to reflect on what aspiring poets can do to channel more surprising, richly imagined words. Read the three creative writing tips Caitlin shared and notice how your experience of writing is transformed when you apply them to your own practice.

Die Stellenbosch Internasionale Kamermusiekfees het nog altyd ’n eklektiese kombinasie van oud en nuut aangebied. Dit geld vir sowel die repertoire as vir die uitvoerende kunstenaars wat daar optree. Sterre wat by die SIKMF 2024 vir die eerste keer hul buiging sal maak is die dirigente Michael Repper en Simeone Tartaglione.

Van ’n spesiaal saamgestelde kamerorkes en immergewilde koor, tot kwartette, trio’s, duette en hope ander musikale verrassings: Dít alles en meer wag op liefhebbers van klassieke musiek, kuns, kos en wyn by die 15de Klein Karoo Klassique, wat van Vrydag 9 tot Sondag 11 Augustus 2024 op Oudtshoorn aangebied word.

Die Stellenbosch Internasionale Kamermusiekfees vind van 5 tot 14 Julie in die Konservatorium van die Universiteit Stellenbosch plaas. Vind meer oor die program uit.  | The Stellenbosch international Chamber Music Festival 2024 will run from 5 to 14 July at Stellenbosch University. Find out more about this year’s programme.

Gratis vraestel! Klik hier om die vraestel en memo deur Lee-Ann Langeveld in PDF-formaat af te laai.

"Kortom, dit was ’n moeilik en uitgerekte geboorte."

"Die Burger en Die Volksblad het albei ’n lang geskiedenis as amptelike mondstukke en bondgenote van die Nasionale Party. Die Beeld, Rapport en Beeld se bande was losser, maar was tog in mindere of meerdere mate in dieselfde dampkring."

The first season of Spinners just beat the Emmy-winning final season of Succession for Best Foreign TV Series at the 29th Shanghai TV Festival’s Magnolia Awards, one of the biggest accolades in Asia.

"Dit is pret om al hoe meer oorspronklike Afrikaanse fantasieverhale op die boekwinkels se rakke te sien."

"Colonel Jan Breytenbach, who has died peacefully in bed in his nineties, was arguably South Africa’s finest soldier in the latter half of the 20th century."

LitNet: Voorlopervroue

This thoughtful book takes you on a hilarious and insightful journey through the world of emigration and entrepreneurship. It offers an honest and candid account of Johan’s ups and downs and how to navigate them. He draws the link between successful emigration and entrepreneurship. It provides practical tips and advice on overcoming homesickness and cultural differences, and the mindset needed to thrive as both an emigrant and entrepreneur.

Koos Kombuis: "Riku Lätti se poësie-debuut is meer as net nog ’n oulike digbundeltjie in Afrikaans; ek sien dit as ’n monumentale en omvattende deurgronding van alle fasette van die moderne mens se soeke na betekenis en — hier kom die grootste verrassing — selfs ons opvattings oor die teologie."

This is the most urgent book ever to appear from the pen of cultural icon Koos Kombuis. Sometimes, when he is in an irreverent mood, Koos writes under the fun-filled pseudonym “Joe Kitchen”. This time around, though, he is deadly serious. The Death of History is a climate change diary. When Koos started writing it more than two years ago, he did not intend for it to be published as a book, but the longer he continued writing, the more he became aware of the urgency of sharing his message with the world.

Facing internal rebellion and the threat posed by German troops on South Africa’s borders, Prime Minister Louis Botha and his deputy, Jan Smuts, led the Union Defence Force during the First World War. This first-of-a-kind volume investigates the wartime roles of these two legendary yet divisive historical figures.

"The Karoo was selected for this study because of its far-reaching influence on South Africans and its strong presence in the Afrikaans prose tradition."

"Op grond van die diepgaande invloed wat die Karoo op soveel mense – ook skrywers – in ons land het, waag ek dit om die Karoo uit te sonder as landskap om my huidige ondersoek op te baseer."

"As Afrikaanssprekendes nie papierkoerante koop in die tipe hoeveelhede wat korporasies se natuurlike geldgierigheid aanwakker nie, dan kan ons niemand behalwe onsself blameer vir die ondergang van papierkoerante nie."

"Gaza has become the centre of the universe, the same way Soweto was the centre of the universe." A book discussion and video interview with Haidar Eid, author and professor in postcolonial studies and postmodern literature at al-Aqsa University, Gaza City.

"Sluk
die lug in
knyp die lig vas
sluimer dieper
hou my drome vas"