Paulet House

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 […]

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 […]

#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 […]

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 […]