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.

Jenny Crwys-Williams: “Peter Harris’s book is going to knock your socks off. It reads like a John Grisham novel, but it’s all true. It’s got three threads to it: a bomb that is being made for somebody ...

This has never stopped him from wrestling with the beast, however; and over six previous collections, plus a book of essays that stands on the top shelf of SA literary criticism, he has shown his ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two powerhouses of contemporary African fiction are undoubtedly South Africa and Nigeria, yet there are striking differences in the work coming out of these two centres – Small wonder, perhaps, ...

A long time ago humans used to walk on legs and arms, just like all the other four limbed creatures. Humans were faster than hare, leopard or rhino. Legs and arms were closer than any other organs: ...

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 ...