’n Homesick poem geskryf deur Tasneem Daniels te’wyl sy innie buiteland gewoon’t Ek verlang narrie Kaap. Narrie soetgeid en souteragheid […]
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A blog by and about our writers
I’m writing this from my bed in Oslo, Norway. A little over three months have passed since I put my […]
Abuse always comes with more questions than answers. Why stay? is the violent question that most victims of abuse are […]
When the executive director of Jakes Gerwel Foundation, Theo Kemp, approached me with a proposal of collating the views of […]
It’s with great excitement that the Jakes Gerwel Foundation, LitNet and Huisgenoot announce their chosen candidates for the fifth annual […]
The Jakes Gerwel Foundation is grateful to Nal’ibali for recently offering their assistance in training our 40 reading assistants. Dr […]
Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting, LitNet en Huisgenoot maak met groot opgewondenheid hul verkose kandidate bekend vir die vyfde Kommadagga-slypskool wat […]
Mia Arderne is a Cape-Town based writer with by lines in, for example, the Mail & Guardian, New Frame, Africa […]
Dit is altyd ’n vreugde om die skryfwerk van skrywers wat tyd by Paulet Huis deurgebring het by boekbekendstellings of […]
The Jakes Gerwel Foundation and Oude Leeskamer in Stellenbosch are thrilled to announce that Lebo Mazibuko is the recipient of […]
Die ATKV-Woordveertjies bekroon jaarliks uitsonderlike prestasies rondom die Afrikaanse woord. Hulle vereer bydraes oor ’n breë spektrum – van woordeboeke […]
Teksmark vier sy negende jaar! Teksmark is in 2016 vir die eerste keer aangebied met die fokus om aan skrywers […]
Dis ’n tipiese wintersoggend in die Karoo: sonnig, met ’n paar verdwaalde vlieswolke in die bloue hemel. Die radio sukkel […]
Twee-en-twintig verhale is gekies vir publikasie in die negende Stellenbosch Woordfeeskortverhaalbundel. Dit sluit kortverhale in van gedugte skrywers soos Frederik […]
From the beach, your feet buried in the sand, you look toward a long strip of land inviting you to […]
Congratulations to the five writers that were chosen for the NATi Rising Stars Programme for upcoming playwrights, a collaborative project […]
Vyf belowende jong dramaturge is gekeur vir deelname aan die nuwe seisoen van die NATi Jong Sterre-projek, een van die […]
It is 10 June 2024, morning. Vice president of Malawi, Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima, kisses his wife and bid his […]
Miela’s Box is the first produced play of Tasneem Daniels, a playwright from Cape Town with a background in entertainment, […]
The longlist for the 2024 Sunday Times’ annual literary awards for non-fiction and fiction is here! This is the 21st […]
Sibuyiselo Sbuja Dywili (2000) is a published playwright, as well as an award-winning performer on screen and stage. Earlier this […]
The village is imperceptibly noisy at nightlike the cry of a drowning boy under waterbubbling up the surface. The nubile […]
Danie Marais is ’n digter, vryskutjoernalis, taalpraktisyn, musiekskrywer en omroeper. Hy is in Kimberley gebore, het nege jaar in Noord-Duitsland […]
The Oude Leeskamer is neither a standalone residential home nor an office park. It is neither a gallery nor a […]