Monthly Archives: March 2012

Harare Book Club resists Mugabe strong-arming

Dear Friends, Harare’s community home for artists and audiences, Book Café, has been threatened for years. It represents the power of culture and people. For 30 years it has celebrated the creativity of mind and art, and has become a […]

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Auspicious occasion as Cambridge History of SA Literature launched

Launch of The Cambridge History of South African Literature edited by David Attwell and Derek Attridge, 13 March 2012, The Book Lounge, Cape Town WAMUWI MBAO Go to bottom for an audio podcast of this event. It’s a sun-filled day […]

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On translations, toll-roads and gatekeeping

Inheems met Antjie Krog, 7 March 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch TAZNEEM WENTZEL Charming Sanlam-sponsored, facebook-blue flags are draped tree to tree across the street. Quirky posters, signs, schedules, menus and middle-aged festival-goers linger about. The red flag reads WOORDFEES. Well, […]

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Schimke’s poetry manifesto: ‘Finishing one’s shit’

Launch of Bare & Breaking by Karin Schimke, 6 March 2012, The Book Lounge, Cape Town KATE ELLIS-COLE It’s a warm Cape evening, as the setting sun casts coppery rays across the parquet floor in Cape Town’s Book Lounge, making […]

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Naarstig op zoek naar de groen in het gedicht

Die Groen in die Gedig: Susan Smith gesels oor ekogedigte, 9 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch. DAVID VERSTEEG Vrijdagochtend was een introductie ochtend. Rond de klok van 10 uur had een groepje van zo’n 20 mensen zich weten te verzamelen […]

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An average ‘hutspot’, despite good ingredients

En soe kap ôs an! : Opkomende woordkunstenaars en kletsrymers, 10 March 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch DAVID VERSTEEG It’s Saturday lunchtime, and Radio RSG is buzzing their idea of the Woordfees out into the big wide world of radio waves, […]

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The conversational moment

Launch of Conversations with Bourdieu: The Johannesburg Moment by Michael Burawoy and Karl von Holdt, Wits University Press, 2012 LARA BUXBAUM Wits University Press hosted the launch of Conversations with Bourdieu on the evening of 6 March in the Humanities […]

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Hambidge kyk terug op pynlike ervarings

Bekendstelling van Lot se Vrou deur Joan Hambidge, 1 Maart 2012, The Book Lounge, Kaapstad Deur Sonja Loots Dit het al tradisie geraak dat daar elke jaar, min of meer hierdie tyd van die jaar, ’n nuwe bundel van Joan […]

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Krog se voorlesing betower

Mankepank en ander Verse: ’n gesprek met Antjie Krog en Diek Grobler, 10 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch BIBI BURGER Dit was baie winderig op 10 Maart, en die rondrukkende Boeketent was die gepaste venue vir die bespreking van Mankepank […]

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Om donker hoeke te belig

Sirkusboere: Dr Piet Croucamp gesels met Sonja Loots, 8 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch JONATHAN AMID Met die lees van skrywer, akademikus, joernalis, en draaiboekskrywer Sonja Loots se insiggewende Sirkusboere (NB uitgewers), word lesers genoop om parallelle tussen die gebeure […]

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Lafras Verwey staan sy man op verhoog

Die Rebellie van Lafras Verwey deur Chris Barnard, 6 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch JUNETTE GERBER Lafras Verwey is die verhaal van ʼn onbeholpe, middeljarige man met skisofrenie wat homself verset teen die onderdrukking van burokrasie en kapitalisme. Sy paranoia […]

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Die diskoers van begeerte: Hennie Aucamp se Lendetaal

Lendetaal: Amanda Botha en Louise Viljoen bespreek Hennie Aucamp se nuutste bundel, 5 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch FRANCOIS OLIVIER Ek het myself onlangs in ʼn soort skaduwêreld bevind, toe ek met troebel gedagtes gesit en wag het vir ʼn […]

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The soft side of Mongane Wally Serote

Interview with Mongane Wally Serote, conducted by Leon de Kock, 7 March 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch STEFANIE SCHNEIDER Born in 1944 in Sophiatown, growing up and going to school in Soweto and in the township of Alexandra, Mongane Wally Serote joined the […]

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A theatrical experience of pain (based on nothing)

Thom Pain (based on nothing), Klein Libertas Theatre, 2 March 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch MEGAN BURSEY Thom Pain’s play, “based on nothing”, is not really based on nothing – this is clearly a paradox as nothing can be based on nothing. Pain’s […]

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A critical look at critical looking

Watter resensie kry die groen lig? 6 March 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch JANA JACOBS In 2011 the major SA newsgroup Media 24, owner of Die Burger, Beeld, Die Volksblad, City Press, Rapport, The Sun and other big titles, made headlines with its […]

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Sex is just a weapon in the gender wars

Bad Sex. Bibi Slippers interviews Leon de Kock, 5 March 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch CARYN JEFTHA NOTE: Go to bottom for an audio podcast of this event. It is 10:50am and I am precariously seated in the small hall at Erfurthuis, […]

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Uit die mond van die leser hoor jy die waarheid

Uit die mond van die leser, US Woordfees, 6 Maart 2012 LELANIE ROUX Die ontwikkeling van webwerwe soos LitNet.co.za het die wêreld van resensies drasties verbreed tot in ’n uiteenlopende ruimte waar elke leser sy mening aan die publiek bekend […]

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Resensie Kliniek ’n puik idee wat uitgebrei moet word

Resensie Kliniek, aangebied deur LitNet, 6 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch, ROZ DE WAAL ’n  Goeie resensent het ’n  liefde vir lees en die letterkunde, is bekend met die literêre tradisie, kan goed formuleer en kan ’n  oordeel maak oor […]

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Provocative, protean Odendaal purrs out the pastiche

Transkripsie. Pieter Odendaal and Bateleur, US Woordfees, 5 March 2012, Stellenbosch KATE ELLIS-COLE Tables at De Vette Mossel, decked in their customary blue-and-white, buzz with the sounds of relaxed conversation as patrons filter into the Woordfees venue and calmly take […]

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Misdaadfiksie ’n ontlading vir daaglikse spanning?

Waarom Misdaad? Karin Brynard gesels met Afrikaanse misdaadskrywers, 6 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch JOAN-MARI BARENDSE Dit was ʼn vrolike groepie misdaadskrywers wat op 6 Maart as deel van die Woordfees 2012 se Skrywersfees in die Boektent vergader het. Die […]

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Agterplaas gaan verby vervelige grense

Agterplaas, teks en regie deur Charles Fourie, 5 Maart 2012, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch BIBI BURGER In ’n onderhoud met Willemien Brümmer het die dramaturg en regisseur Charles Fourie gesê sy doel in die teater is “om die gehoor op te […]

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