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 ...

#STBooks: Whiteness Mzansi Style By Hagen Engler for The Sunday Times White people, don’t you enjoy being the only white person around? You know, those odd occasions where you find yourself surrounded ...

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.

Org Potgieter het onlangs met Madelein Rust gesels oor haar twee spanningsverhale – Monstersaad en Die 13de kaart – wat onderskeidelik vanjaar en in 2014 by LAPA verskyn het. Rust vertel meer oor waar ...

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 ...

Alert! The Sunday Times and Kobo Books are giving away 24 of Kobo’s fantastic eReaders. It’s easy to enter – read all about it below!

With a Canadian presence, Windscribe VPN is receiving encouraging review articles from its users. Whether you would like privacy, quickness, compatibility with streaming providers, or ease, there are ...

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 ...

This is Part 2 in our How to be a Writer series. Read Part 1: How to be a Writer, Part 1: Thando Mgqolozana on Copying Your Role Models, Expensive Superstitions and Getting Published Books ...

Alert! Local books diva Jenny Crwys-Williams has named Peter Harris’ account of his defense of the “Delmas Four” during their murder and treason trial in the late-1980s, In a Different Time, as her ...

12th June – The Griqua’s Apprentice – Antoinette Pienaar interviewed by Jenny Crwys-Williams 13th June – Nathaniel (interviewed Jenny Crwys Williams and Barry Ronge) All events are 19h30 for 20h00.