Paulet House

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 […]