Paulet House

Zack Mtombeni, a participant in the NATi Rising Stars Project of 2022, is not only a professional actor, but also a successful writer, producer and now director. His debut feature […]

Juliette Manitshana-Mnqeta is a legal transcriptionist and isiXhosa translator currently based in Knysna. In 2022, Mnqeta joined a group of writers at Paulet House for the Bosberg Book Writing residency […]

In ’n Facebook-post deel Keith Lewis, deelnemer aan die PEN dit neer-program in 2024, dat een van sy kortverhale, Blue Boy Lagoon, deel vorm van ’n module, Inleiding tot Genre […]

Ons neem met groot hartseer afskeid van Crystal-Donna Roberts. Sy was nie net ’n uitstekende aktrise nie, maar ook ’n talentvolle skrywer. Ons het die borrelende Crystal leer ken toe […]

Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting bied, in vennootskap met Huisgenoot en LitNet, ’n mentorskapprogram aan belowende opkomende kortverhaalskrywers. Die skrywers sal onder leiding van ons bekwame mentor, Fourie Botha – digter, […]

Dis met groot opgewondenheid dat die Jakes Gerwel Stigting die verkose kandidate bekend maak vir vanjaar se Bosberg-boekskryf-program: Enrico Hartzenberg, Miché C. van Wyk, Nols Matyolo en Sunni Faba-Gutu. Die […]

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 […]

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation invites donors to sponsor a Christmas gift valued at R50 per learner. Each gift will include a storybook, sweets and a small toy. This initiative supports […]

Congratulations to the five writers that were chosen for the NATi Rising Stars Programme for upcoming playwrights, a collaborative project of leading players in performance arts: NATi (National Afrikaans Theatre […]

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation and Passa Porta’s residency Brussels to Karoo took place from 18 to 30 March 2024. During this annual residency, two writers from Belgium and four writers […]

Girl:  I keep staring at the stars hoping to find myself in them…but the more I stare, the more feel as though I was never one with them, I never […]

Dis Maart 1981 en Ludo Labuschagne is terug met sy derde #Wiedoenit. Net toe hy wil bekommerd raak dat hy dalk nie hierdie maand ‘n raaisel sou kry om te […]

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 […]

“Ons wens graag Phoebe Gerwel van harte geluk met haar verjaarsdag. As stigterslid van die Jakes Gerwel Foundation en die skenking van Paulet Huis, maak sy n daadwerklike verskil in die loopbane […]

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 […]

In July, the University of the Western Cape renamed the Main Hall, the Jakes Gerwel Hall. Read further below:

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation’s Paulet House in Somerset East as seen through Gys Loubser’s camera lens.. See more below:

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

PEN Afrikaans and LitNet’s Naomi Meyer, LitNet colleague Izak de Vries and PEN Afrikaans and Klyntji.com’s Elodi Troskie had a field day interviewing the fellow residents. Journalist / editor / […]

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 […]