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The TUT Film Awards: Congratulations to Mpho Nkoana

Mpho Nkoana is a passionate writer and an emerging talent in the film industry. During his three-year diploma in motion picture production at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), he wrote […]

Lest we forget

For a year, it was the home you lived to return to every quarter. It was a time of several points of necessary change, after which there was no going […]

2022 in Review: Remembrance

On November 28, two veteran journalists / authors, one Goema poet/troubadour – three men who knew Professor Jake Gerwel well – and one Jakes Gerwel Foundation mentee who did not […]

2022 in Review: The Gift of Books

A big highlight on the Jakes Gerwel Foundation calendar is the annual road trip across the Blue Crane Route Municipality in the Eastern Cape – Somerset East, Pearston, Cookhouse and […]

2022 in Review: Vlaams-SA

Vlaams-SA for short but officially the residency is known as the Dialogue Programme for Writers from the Low Countries and South Africa. This year South Africans Dumisani Hlatswayo and Sindiswa […]

2022 in Review: Kommadagga

Short story writing is their passion: Yuwinn Kraukamp, Liziwe Ndalana, Esmé Cupido, Gaasitwe Setshedi and Danie Kriek were at Paulet House in October to sharpen their storytelling skills in mentorship […]

2022 in Review: The Songwriters

When the songwriters – Keleabetswe Langa, Sphamandla Dlakwe, Kerischnie Pheiffer, mentor and mega-SA singing sensation Zolani Mahola, Noxolo Kheswa, Carlo Fortune, and the multi-instrumentalist/all-round performer and mentor Frazer Barry – […]

2022 in Review: The Playwrights

The plays that they worked on in the Jakes Gerwel Foundation / NATi Jong Sterre/Rising Stars Project for Upcoming Playwrights will premiere at 2023 Suidoosterfees at Artscape. Netwerk 24’s Murray […]

2022 in Review: The PEN Residents … Part 1

This was the first time that the Jakes Gerwel Foundation / PEN Afrikaans opened up the month-long winter residency to two other PEN centres. And what a success it was […]

2022 in Review: People of the Books

They spent a year in the Jakes Gerwel Foundation / NB Publishers’ Mentorship Programme for Emerging Writers of Fiction and Non-Fiction 2022 and four books tweaked and trimmed at Paulet […]

Anschen Conradie skryf oor Stories in die wind

#StoriesindieWind – Deidrė Jantjies #Tafelberg Die destydse ‘Kinders van die wêreld’-reeks het my as kind reeds gefassineerd gelaat deur kinders van reg oor die wêreld se kulture; legendes; sprokies; fabels […]

NATi Jong Sterre by Paulet Huis

Jane Mpholo, Stephren Saayman, Melissa Myburgh, Heloine Armstrong en Henque Heymans was die uitverkore teatermakers wat vir drie weke in Somerset-Oos gaan skryf het, met die befaamde Abduragman Adams as […]