Reconciliation Day reflections 2024/2025
“It’s a day when we don’t have to go to school,” said Lennox, a boy in my grade 8 class at Livingstone High School back in 2005. It’s Arts and […]
Magic, comedy and trickster life
Recently I reviewed the Entertaining Children contest for LitNet. It is a magic show hosted by the College of Magic in Cape Town for senior magicians to entertain a young […]
Ek verlang
’n Homesick poem geskryf deur Tasneem Daniels te’wyl sy innie buiteland gewoon’t Ek verlang narrie Kaap. Narrie soetgeid en souteragheid van homemade mango achaar, boeber met vermicelli, karamonk en sneeuwit melk […]
LitNet: Ses redes om Dude! Wa’s my bakkie? te kyk
Ôs ammal kan relate aan daai ou film vannie early 2000’s, though Jeremeo Le Cordeur se Dude! Wa’s my bakkie? gie niewe meaning aan daai movie – Ashton Kutcher se gesig issie […]
Sometimes
Diary of a playwright Sometimes writing for yourself isn’t enough. Sometimes writing for the page isn’t enough. Sometimes in the middle of the night when the world has gone […]
THE ONLY CHILD SYNDROME …
Every night I say the Kalimah. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah. And that Muhammad is his messenger. I know why I must say it. At […]
Paulet Huis Throwbacks and the Magic of Creative Safe Spaces
In retrospect I can only lovingly think back to the Paulet Huis like a grandmother happily welcoming us into her midst