Verdict: carrot The hyperbolic disaster of Mugabe’s presidency provides the backdrop for Petina Gappah’s collection of sharply-written short stories, “An Elegy for Easterly.” Here are the daily lives ...

Like, if I’m in a township, and I turn heads because the locals aren’t used to seeing white folks there? Guy, when that happens I feel like Johnny Clegg! Like DJ Ankletap! It’s all I can do to prevent ...

Announcing the longlists for South Africa’s most prestigious annual literary awards, the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The ...

Alert! Three African novelists - Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 70, Nigerian Ben Okri, 49, and Angolan Ondjaki, 31, were awarded the Grinzane For Africa prize in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, earlier this week.

Anonymous strikes again in the review-o-sphere - and this time, as the person who directed the link my way put it, Sarah Lotz loses her carrot virginity. Are we allowed to say that on a family website ...

The greatest problem with Windscribe is the customer support. As the company provides a solution system just for customer support, it can difficult to acquire immediate assistance. Furthermore, the ...

His is a valid distinction: the Kobo device, backed by a catalogue of some three million ebooks – one million of them free – and synced to a suite of apps available for every smartphone and tablet, ...

The book hinges on a general election fought by a fledgling party with a charismatic leader… oh, enough with the coy pretense! Meersman was Patricia De Lille’s campaign manager in 2004, and then her ...

The authors believe that a university is a place for the sovereignty of ideas, reason and discourse that values collegiality, freedom of expression and assembly, and above all academic rule. The ...

Liesl Jobson listened as Jonathan Jansen gave some verbal medicine to SA on its education system: View Straight talk on education with Jonathan Jansen on Storify Before that, Liesl attended the launch ...

Niq Mhlongo: I don’t think I always wanted to be a writer. Instead, I think writing chose me. I always wanted to be a lawyer, earn big money, and be rich one day. That’s why I spent four years doing ...

Exclusive Books invites you to a special Valentine’s Day Speed Dating event. Bring your favourite book and find your perfect match on Thursday, 12 February, at Life Grand Café in Hyde Park. The event ...