Mphuthumi Ntabeni

When the executive director of Jakes Gerwel Foundation, Theo Kemp, approached me with a proposal of collating the views of the name change in Somerset East, I was a little […]

Gravesend — April 15th, 1857 Almost everyone we meet has an edgy lean look. We struggle against the English air, nippy and thin as a memory of the departed. For a […]

“After a rather thorough and thoughtful process of elimination regarding which town to choose – Hanover (Olive Schreiner once lived there), Cradock, Philippolis, Sutherland – Richmond took the prize as […]

The literary controversy by author Elizabeth Gilbert, of the popular book Eat pray love, seems to have passed unnoticed on South Africa’s literary scene. Gilbert’s new book was due to be […]

“This is the stuff that action-packed, environmentally friendly stories are made of. In my home of vegans, pescatarians and meat-eaters, the book provoked a lot of discussion on several moral […]

The word Karoo conjures up ideas of vast empty dry land spaces to most of us. Imagine my surprise to be met by lush vegetation when I arrived in Somerset […]

Vernon RL Head is a birdwatcher and an award-winning environmentalist. He is also a South African poet, a bestselling novelist and an internationally acclaimed architect. His first book – a […]

“The book feels like Yizo Yizo (whose soundtrack was almost always playing in my head as I read it) meets Kings of Jo’burg, with a winking homage to Vusamazulu (meaning […]

MN: Job well done. Your book first came out in the US, and this month in South Africa. Whenever I meet black African writers, in particular, they always complain about the […]

This brings us to another topic that fascinates me about writing ideas. Do you think that they exist somehow in the nanosphere? That there’s an element of clairvoyance about them? […]

The word Karoo conjures up ideas of vast empty dry land spaces to most of us. Imagine my surprise to be met by lush vegetation when I arrived in Somerset […]