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Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat from The Star interviewed Vanessa Goosen before…

Vanessa Goosen Discusses the Difficulty of Reintegrating After Being Imprisoned in Thailand

Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat from The Star interviewed Vanessa Goosen before the launch of her biography, Drug Muled, at Hyde Park Corner shopping centre. Goosen spoke …

 
 
Die internasionale Dansende Digtersfees het verlede naweek by die…

Verskeie perspektiewe op die Dansende Digtersfees (Plus: Video)

 
Die internasionale Dansende Digtersfees het verlede naweek by die Spier-wynlandgoed buite Stellenbosch plaasgevind. Dié fees, met Breyten Breytenbach as kurator, het ten doel gehad …

Andile Ndlovu chatted to Lauren Beukes for The Times about…

Lauren Beukes Talks Film Rights Offers for The Shining Girls

Andile Ndlovu chatted to Lauren Beukes for The Times about her new novel, The Shining Girls, and the film rights offers that she has received …

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Ian McGills Reviews The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee

The Childhood of Jesus Verdict: stick J.M. Coetzee’s 12th novel, The Childhood of Jesus, is set in an unnamed country, at an unspecified time. Everyone here, we soon learn, has come from elsewhere, across oceans

Annemarié van Niekerk resenseer Trek deur Winnie Rust

Trek Uitspraak: wortel As daar nou een ding is wat deur die eeue heen onophoudelik aan die suidpunt van Afrika gebeur het, was dit ’n trekkery. Hetsy vrywillig op soek na groener

Amanda Lourens resenseer Rangeer deur Clinton du Plessis

Rangeer Uitspraak: wortel Rangeer is die sewende bundel uit die pen van Du Plessis, wie se debuut in 1984 by Perskor verskyn. (Sy debuut is dan ook die enigste van sy bundels

Franschhoek Literary Festival 2013 Liveblog: Sunday 19 May, 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Franschhoek Literary Festival It's Franschhoek Literary Festival time: follow all the action from day three of the 2013 fest on our FLF Liveblog! ~ ~ ~ [liveblog]

Franschhoek Literary Festival 2013 Liveblog: Sunday 19 May, 1pm - 2pm

Franschhoek Literary Festival It's Franschhoek Literary Festival time: follow all the action from day three of the 2013 fest on our FLF Liveblog! ~ ~ ~ [liveblog]

Franschhoek Literary Festival 2013 Liveblog: Sunday 19 May, 11:30am - 12:30pm

Franschhoek Literary Festival It's Franschhoek Literary Festival time: follow all the action from day three of the 2013 fest on our FLF Liveblog! ~ ~ ~ [liveblog]

Wen vyf Brei saam met Vrouekeur-boeke deur Christa Swanepoel

Brei saam met Vrouekeur 1   Vyf gelukkige lesers kan elk ’n geskenkpak met Vroukeur en LAPA se splinternuwe breiboekreeks, Brei saam met Vrouekeur, in wen. Brei saam met Vrouekeur bied handige wenke en inligting soos

Elize Parker se Elke vrou vir haarself en Amber maan, oker son nou beskikbaar in omnibus

Elize Parker Omnibus Elize Parker Omnibus, wat twee van Parker se gewildste boeke bevat, verskyn vandeesmaand by NB-Uitgewers: Elke vrou vir haarself is ’n meesleurende familiesage oor die lief en leed van die drie

Leon van Nierop se gewilde radioverhaal Ratels nou ’n jeugroman

Ratels Leon van Nierop se jongste jeugroman, Ratels, is pas op die rakke: Ratels is ’n somerskool op ’n wildsplaas waar ’n groep jongmense, uit alle lae van die samelewing, bymekaarkom om

Join Michael de Jongh for a Discussion on Roots and Routes in Port Elizabeth

Roots and Routes: Karretjie People of the Great Karoo: The Marginalisation of a South African First People Join Michael de Jongh as he discusses his book Roots and Routes: Karretjie People of the Great Karoo: The Marginalisation of a South African First People at the Bayworld Complex

Differential Impact of the South African Constitution Studied in Falls the Shadow

Falls the Shadow South Africa supposedly has one of the best Constitutions in the world, one which is intended to control and constrain the exercise of power by the state so that it

Rehabilitating a Sculpture: Excerpt from Picturing Change by Brenda Schmahmann

Picturing Change In his short story, "Propaganda by Monuments", Ivan Vladislavic describes a South African shebeen owner who writes to Russia to ask for one of their "surplus" statues of Lenin. In

Travel and Nature

Cost of Visiting Kruger National Park to be Reduced for South Africans

National Parks and Nature Reserves In a bid to make visiting the Kruger National Park more affordable for South Africans, SANParks has announced that, as of 1 November this year, fees will be R62 for

Cost of Visiting Kruger National Park to be Reduced for South Africans

National Parks and Nature Reserves In a bid to make visiting the Kruger National Park more affordable for South Africans, SANParks has announced that, as of 1 November this year, fees will be R62 for

Win a Copy of On Track by Chris and Mathilde Stuart from Wildside Magazine

On Track One lucky reader could stand the chance of winning a copy of On Track: Quick ID Guide to Southern and East African Animal Tracks by Chris and Mathilde Stuart, courtesy

Green and Lifestyle

Wen vyf Brei saam met Vrouekeur-boeke deur Christa Swanepoel

Brei saam met Vrouekeur 1   Vyf gelukkige lesers kan elk ’n geskenkpak met Vroukeur en LAPA se splinternuwe breiboekreeks, Brei saam met Vrouekeur, in wen. Brei saam met Vrouekeur bied handige wenke en inligting soos

Patrick Bond Asks "Is Pretoria a Destructive Sub-imperialist Power?"

Politics of Climate Justice Patrick Bond has written an article for Pambazuka News asking, "is Pretoria a destructive sub-imperialist power?" This was partially prompted by the Zambian vice president Guy Scott saying that he dislikes

Join Sam Woulidge and Karen Dudley for the Launch of Confessions of a Hungry Woman

Invitation: Launch of Confessions of a Hungry Woman Struik Lifestyle and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Confessions of a Hungry Woman by Sam Woulidge. Woulidge will be in conversation with Karen Dudley, from The