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Poets or their publishers are invited to submit entries for the Ingrid Jonker Prize for English poetry in 2022. The closing date for submissions is 15 March 2022. 

"Against this background the main aim of the present article is to examine the TBVC entities in the context of other contested states, drawing on theoretical insights developed in recent academic studies."

"Op veiligheidsgebied het Suid-Afrika en die TBVC-lande ten nouste saamgewerk, insluitend met die vestiging van hul onderskeie weermagte. Suid-Afrika het ook, soos genoem, met elk van die vier lande ’n nie-aanvalsverdrag gesluit."

"Am I waxing poetic about Russian culture? No, I don’t think so. I am not saying that Putin is good, or doing good things. But I have seen and experienced and read and been born into a life that sees, very well, that to heal the cycles of violence we are used to, we need to think differently to how we have been feeling thus far."

Eben Viktor woon in Dnipro, Oekraïne. Die Russiese soldate is nou slegs 70 km ver. Hoe berei hy en sy vrou voor? Wat doen hulle vriende? Waarom koop hulle jodium?

"What wasn’t surprising about the vote on Ukraine at the United Nations General Assembly on 2 March 2022 was that South Africa abstained ... For South Africa’s foreign policy to become focused on human rights again, the left-nationalist power cabal that is the ANC must go ... But underneath, tremendous forces are at play. The world is being reordered and it is unlikely to be in Africa’s favour."

"Met die lees van Anderkind kan die jong lesers hulle vereenselwig met uitdagende, vreesaanjaende en moeilike situasies oor tye heen. Hulle mag egter ook bewus raak van oplossings en moontlikhede; van die uitkoms wat hoop bring."

LitNet: Berigte te velde

As die katjiepiering blom is ’n bildungsroman wat in die Overberg en Kaapstad afspeel.

"Mooi Berta, haar ou stralende self, was laaste om die lesinglokaal te verlaat – net voor die professor, wat eers sy tas moes pak. By die deur het sy haar lang wimpers vir hom gefladder en mooi geglimlag en sy ou hart bly gemaak."

"met my geboorte
het my ma haar drome en trane
diep in die berge gaan begrawe
want sy was nou ’n ma"

"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.