Paulet House

In 2018, Theo Kemp and Therése Hulme offered a poetry programme for learners, as this was a school that Jakes Gerwel taught at in the 1970s. I was excited about […]

Artscape Theatre, in conjunction with the Suidoosterfees and the City of Cape Town, presents this bra’s a psycho, a psychological crime thriller and cat-and-mouse tale tackling the themes of male […]

Family, friends and community members of Grassy Park High School braved the cold on Wednesday, 25 June 2025, to attend the YOH Poetry Reading, an uplifting afternoon filled with emotion, […]

Keith Oliver Lewis, wie die PEN dit neer-skrywerprogram in 2024 bygewoon het, se skryfstuk (of eerder: notas oor notas) op PEN Afrikaans laat ’n mens smul aan taal en die […]

Drie-en-twintig verhale is gekies vir publikasie in die tiende Stellenbosch Woordfeeskortverhaalbundel. Hierdie jaar se uitgawe sluit in kortverhale van voormalige Paulet Huis skrywers Lynthia Julius, wie se suster Sisca Julius […]

Youth Day 2025 – A Dialogue with Zahraa Schroeder There’s a reason I say that radio people are my people, and Zahraa Schroeder is one such example of why I […]

Erla-Mari Diedericks skryf ’n brief aan Netwerk24 oor haar verwagtinge, selfvertwyfeling en vooropsigte vir die PEN dit neer skrywersprogram wat sy tans in die Paulet Huis op KwaNojoli in die […]

Nadia Cassim, who attended the Bosberg Book Writing residency at Paulet House in KwaNojoli in the Eastern Cape in 2023, announces the publication of her debut novel Not Another Samoosa […]

Die Jakes Gerwel-stigting betreur die verlies van Rashid Lombard, ’n bekroonde fotojoernalis en kulturele aktivis instrumenteel in die bevordering van Suid-Afrikaanse jazz-musiek. Rashid se fotografie versier die mure van die […]

In samewerking met die Suidoosterfees, Artscape en New Voices, en die ondersteuning van NATi, belê ons in die ontwikkeling van ontluikende dramaturge se talente met hierdie gedeelde projek. Na ’n […]

Die LitNet-redaksie doen verslag op die Jakes Gerwel Stigting se navorsingsprojek oor die naamsverandering van Somerset-Oos in die Oos-Kaap na KwaNojoli in 2023. Dié projek was Donderdagaand, 22 Mei, tydens ’n geleentheid […]

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation’s research project on the renaming of Somerset East in the Eastern Cape to KwaNojoli in 2023 was introduced in a prestigious event on Thursday evening, May […]

Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting se navorsingsprojek oor die naamsverandering van Somerset-Oos in die Oos-Kaap na KwaNojoli in 2023 is op Donderdagaand, 22 Mei, op luisterryke wyse bekendgestel. Die geleentheid het […]

Zubayr Charles, participant in the Kommadagga workshop in 2020, challenges homophobia in his latest play, Please, don’t call me moffie. The show debuted at this year’s Suidoosterfees and sold out. […]

Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting werk in 2025 weer saam met PEN Afrikaans, PEN Suid-Afrika en twee internasionale sentrums – PEN Uganda en PEN Norway – om skrywers regoor die wêreld […]

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 […]