Litnet

"Hul dwelms is ’n stroompie 
wat vry en vrolik vloei. 
’n Vrou wat aangerand is 
lê iewers doodgebloei"

This volume contains interviews with fourteen contemporary South African authors. The conversations with the writers are accompanied by vignettes of the authors’ lives and summaries of their works.

Grant Andrews examines how father characters are linked to storytelling; they narrate the lives of their children and their patriarchal power is constituted through narratives.

At once disturbing and perversely comforting, the crime novel has historically been used to curtail social anxieties through the "open and shut case" of its narrative form.

This book, with its wealth of stories from both on and off the pitch, tells of the making of a soccer sensation.

"Wat is ons sonder storievertellers en hul stories?"

A prisoner in a WWII concentration camp discovers a superpower that could keep him alive – he can make the commandant laugh by telling jokes.

Soos Uncle Kaz altyd sê: "Mens het net drie goete nodig om gelukkig te wees: iemand om lief te hê, iets om jou hande mee besig te hou, en iets om na uit te sien."

Wanneer skrywersverblyf in Killaloe, ’n klein Ierse dorpie, aangebied word, gryp professor Mariaan die geleentheid aan. Só kan sy Suid-Afrika en die trauma van die studenteopstande agterlaat.

Wanneer ’n gebroke verhouding vir Hanri terugdryf na haar tuisdorp, Swellendam, begin sy huise verf, vasberade om vroualleen ’n suksesvolle verfbesigheid staan te maak.

"They bomb in the evening. And with bags in hand, we go down from the tenth floor to the subway."

In this article automatisation as an important aspect of artificial intelligence is analysed with reference to the thought of Bernard Stiegler and René Girard, with specific attention to Stiegler’s book La société automatique 1. L’Avenir du travail.

In hierdie artikel word outomatisering as vername aspek van kunsmatige intelligensie ontleed aan die hand van die denke van Bernard Stiegler en René Girard, met spesifieke aandag aan Stiegler se boek Die outomatiese samelewing 1.

"'’n Fliek is net so goed soos die mense wat daaraan werk, en Stiekyt is geseën met mense wat nie net talentvol is nie, maar ook toegewyd.' As mense wíl, glo hy vas, dan kan berge versit word. 'En hierdie span wóú.'" – Etienne Fourie vertel van Stiekyt wat binnekort by die Silwerskermfees draai.

Christiaan Basson, voormalige Suid-Afrikaanse ambassadeur in Oekraïne (2014–2018), meen dat die oorlog in Oekraïne een van die interessantste geopolitieke ontwikkelinge sedert die Koue Oorlog is. Freek Robinson vind meer uit.

’n Oorsig van LitNet en Voertaal se berigte oor die oorlog in Oekraïne. | An overview of LitNet’s and Voertaal’s articles on the war in Ukraine.

Kaartjieverkope open op Donderdag 3 Maart, en verblyf is beskikbaar deur LekkeSlaap.

"Institutional support and status involves far more than just mouthing platitudes to the electorate. It means a dogged determination, as displayed in the development of Afrikaans to where it is today."

Is jy in graad 9? Hierdie video oor eksponentwette deur Lee-Ann West sal jou help dat jou kennis van Wiskunde eksponensieel toeneem.

The Western Cape Blood Service is appealing to all eligible donors to donate blood as blood stocks are critically low. Do something remarkable, donate blood.