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Chanette Paul, Herman Lategan en Clinton V du Plessis deel foto’s en indrukke van die negende BoekBedonnerdfees
by Annetjie on Oct 29th, 2015 Tweet
Richmond se negende BoekBedonnerdfees het vanjaar vanaf 22 tot 24 Oktober plaasgevind, met ‘n wye verskeidenheid skrywers wat die Groot Karoo stormgeloop het met woorde en idees.
Die skrywer Chanette Paul en feesorganiseerder Darryl David het foto’s van die verskeie gesprekke met LitNet gedeel.
Loer gerus na Paul se wonderlike foto’s van die skrywers en die dorp self. Oor die bostaande foto van Breyten Breytenbach en Dominique Botha skryf die Ewebeeld-outeur:
Breyten Breytenbach en Dominique Botha se foto’s is by die laaste geleentheid Saterdagoggend geneem. Die titel van die praatjie was “Voorlesings uit Oorblyfsels”. Maar die gesprek het op Breyten se aandrang ‘n tweegesprek geword tussen sy poësie en Dominique s’n. Baie ontroerend. Hulle het beurtelings voorgelees – onder meer Breyten as tweede stem in ‘n lang gedig van Dominique.
Volledige artikel en nog kiekies: LitNet
Kyk ook na David se feesfoto’s en lees sy amuserende onderskrifte:
“Nou watter vloekwoord het ek nie gebruik nie?” – Darryl David oor Herman Lategan se foto
In sy artikel vir Netwerk24 skryf Lategan oor die hoogtepunte van die fees, wat meer as 2 000 besoekers na Richmond gelok het:
Ongeveer 2 000 mense van oor die land heen het die Boekbedonnerd-fees van 22 tot 24 Oktober bygewoon, en met elke praatjie was die ­lokaal in die ou dorpsbiblioteek waar die gesprekke plaas­gevind het, ­barstensvol.
En dít nogal in die middel van die hittige, verlate Karoo, maar in ’n dorp vol geskiedenis en argitektoniese juwele.
Die digter Clinton V du Plessis het verslag gelewer oor die fees, en skryf ter inleiding: “Darryl David en Peter Baker kan vir Heyneke Meyer iets – nee, baie – leer. Hierdie flambojante en vernuwende skakelpaar aan die stuur van die jaarlikse BookBedonnerdfees op Richmond (vanjaar ook, om ooglopende redes, die Bokbedonnerdfees gedoop), weet net hoe om ‘n wenspan te kies.”
Die Woorde roes in die water-outeur beskryf die gebeure van die afgelope naweek en besin ook oor die wyer #FeesMustFall-konteks waarin die gesprekke plaasgevind het. Harry Kalmer het byvoorbeeld met die gehoor gedeel dat sy seun met traangas bygekom is.
Lees die artikel vir D Plessis se indrukke oor die negende BookBedonnerdfees:
Die volgende skrywers het onder meer vanjaar aan BoekBedonnerd deelgeneem:
Oros vir die siel deur Susan Coetzer
DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism deur Lindie Koorts
The Beautiful Bowls Of Carolyn Metcalfe saamgestel deur Elisabeth Lickendorf
Long Road to Liberation: An Exiled Namibian Activist’s Perspective deur Hans Beukes
Antjie Krog and the Post-Apartheid Public Sphere: Speaking Poetry to Power deur Anthea Garman
The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World deur Vernon RL Head
The Swan Whisperer: An Inaugural Lecture deur Marlene Van Niekerk, geïllustreer deur William Kentridge
Binnekring van spookasems: Stories oor die lewe deur Herman Lategan, saamgestel deur Amanda Botha
Passes and Poorts South Africa: Getaway’s Top Scenic Mountain Routes deur Marion Whitehead
Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke deur Elizabeth Rankin en Philippa Hobbs
The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire deur Ashwin Desai en Goolam Vahed
Tune in to FMR for JM Coetzee’s “Fine Minds” Radio Lecture about Hendrik Witbooi and the War for Namibia
by Erin on Jul 30th, 2015 Tweet
As part of their “Fine Minds” Radio Lecture Series, Fine Music Radio and the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Extra-Mural Studies will be presenting a lecture by JM Coetzee.
In his lecture, Coetzee uses Hendrik Witbooi, a fierce and determined opponent to the German takeover of what is now Namibia, as a focal point in the discussion of that country and 19th century conceptions of war, from both European and African perspectives.
The lecture will be broadcast on Monday, 3 August, at 6 PM. It is 55 minutes long, and will be available as a podcast after the broadcast.
Venue: 101.3 FM Fine Music Radio
Porcupine Press would like to invite you to the launch of Long Road to Liberation: An Exiled Namibian Activist’s Perspective by Hans Beukes.
The anti-apartheid activist will relay his tale of struggle and victory on Tuesday, 31 March, at The Book Lounge. The event will start at 5:30 for 6 PM.
Come and listen to Beukes’ tale of winning a scholarship to study at the University of Oslo in Norway and having his passport confiscated the moment he left his homeland.
RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com, 012 462 2425
In the late 1950s Hans Beukes, a native of the then South West Africa, was a student at the University of Cape Town when he won a ‘solidarity scholarship’ tenable for three years at the University of Oslo in Norway. ‘At your age, Mr Beukes,’ his professor in Constitutional History told him, ‘it ought to be an adventure.’
And so it turned out. As he was about to board an ore carrier bound for Oslo from Port Elizabeth, the South African government confiscated his passport. Back in Cape Town he met an American activist who would become a key figure in the US Civil Rights movement. Allard Lowenstein had no words of comfort for him, but a challenge: ‘Unless some of you are prepared to leave the comfort of your homes to go to fight the regime on the world stage, where they now monopolise opinion, you can forget about getting rid of apartheid.’
Beukes accepted the challenge. Thus was launched ‘the Beukes case’ in the annals of the international tug-of-war about the future of the Territory that would become Namibia.
The author paints a memorable picture of the protracted struggles against the apartheid government and of the ceaseless work done in mobilising international public opinion against the repressive regime.
Susan Smith resenseer Reisiger te perd deur Piet van Rooyen
by Annetjie on Nov 3rd, 2014 Tweet
’n Uitspraak oor die bundel? Ons kan ons in die woorde van die digter die volgende afvra: “is dit wonderlik is dit goed?” (29). ’n Knap bundel? Gewis. Leesbaar? Gewis. Dat die bundel hom tot verdere ontleding leen, dalk vanuit ’n feministiese perspektief? Vir seker. Het die bundel ’n “bruising in [die] bloed” (29) van hierdie leser veroorsaak? Nee.
Today, there is a growing recognition of the role that oral storytelling plays in literacy and the acquisition of complex concepts in home and additional languages. In South Africa, PRAESA and Nal’ibali have done much to stimulate more appreciation for the value of our indigenous stories, sharing their multilingual stories online as well as tips for parents trying to share their own.
Early next year, Puku will host its third annual isiXhosa Children’s Story Festival organised in association with the National Arts Festival and Rhodes University and sponsored by Redisa. SAIDE’s African Storybook Project is working with teachers and parents in South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya and Uganda to turn oral stories into digital ones in print or video format. I could list a half a dozen other organisations involved in similar work across the continent but the real tipping point will be in the home. When someone else’s grandmother starts to believe that her stories are valid and in telling them, she is changing the educational outcomes of her grandchildren forever, that will be the signal that we are really making progress on reviving oral storytelling for both urban and rural African children. Until then, I’ve already made it very clear to my future children’s grandmothers that they should start collecting their stories now because there is no way my children will lose the stories of their grandmothers the way I lost the stories of mine.
Bontle Senne is a Golden Baobab Media Fellow who produces articles on behalf of the organisation to promote and highlight the African children literary scene and Golden Baobab’s work. Golden Baobab is an organisation with a dream of seeing a world filled with wonder and possibility one children book at a time. Bontle is a blogger, web editor, speaker and literary activist on the board of NPO Puku Children’s Literature Foundation and NPO READ Educational Trust. She writes stories for FunDza Literary Trust and regularly speaks on social media and children’s literature at international literary festivals and conferences.
Cindy van Wyk Reviews Half of One Thing by Zirk van den Berg
by Erin on Aug 27th, 2014 Tweet
Caught between the loyalty he feels towards his country, his somewhat-shaky moral compass and his growing love for Esther Calitz, Gideon Lancaster is a man conflicted.
Often faced with the choice of doing the right thing and doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, he must leave one life behind and adopt a completely different one, all in the name of winning the war, and ultimately – staying alive.
Complete review: The Namibian
Half of One Thing homepage
2014 Midlands Literary Festival Programme Features Marguerite Poland and Ashwin Desai
by Jennifer on Aug 21st, 2014 Tweet
The 2014 Midlands Literary Festival will take place this weekend, with Marguerite Poland, whose new book The Keeper was released a few days ago, Kobus Moolman, who won the 2013 Sol Plaatje European Union Award, Ashwin Desai, whose most recent book is Chatsworth: The Making of a South African Township, and many others in attendance.
The festival is held on Saturday and Sunday (23 and 24 August) at the Yellowwood Cafe in Howick. Tickets are R50 for the day.
Christopher Nicholson’s debut short-story collection will be launched at the festival, and other notable authors include Nicki von der Heyde, author of the popular Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa, Craig Higginson, who won the UJ prize for his novel The Landscape Painter, and Kerry Jones, co-author of the Ju|’hoan Children’s Picture Dictionary, which provides San children with a valuable piece of mother-tongue literature.
Festival director Darryl David says securing a visit from Poland was a big coup: “The exciting news is that after eight long years, I have finally bagged one of the great names in South African literature: Marguerite Poland.”
Other books that I am really looking forward to are Chris Albertyn’s book Keeping Time: The Photographs and Cape Town Jazz Recordings of Ian Huntley (1964-1974), Barbara Siedle’s book Breathe the Dust, Mike Hardwich’s memoir of being a vet in KZN and Kerry Jones with the first picture book dictionary of a San language ever to be published. Famous dancer Tossie van Tonder comes to the Midlands Literary Festival with the most poetic name and a book to match. And Howick High pupil Jonathan William will undoubtedly talk on the most fascinating topic of the festival: a history of Japanese comics. I met Jonathan while buying a bunny chow at Mac Curry in Howick. There was something about how he opened this tome that told me – here was a book lover. A talk not to be missed!
But what fills my heart with pride on this our fifth anniversary is the people who have supported us since year one. The likes of acclaimed Pietermaritzburg poet Kobus Moolman; the legendary Ian Player, a man who should surely be honoured in the Icons of SA project. Judge Chris Nicholson who will unveil his debut short story anthology and Ashwin Desai, undoubtedly the most prolific author in SA. His latest book is definitely going to feature in my top five reads of 2014.
2014 Midlands Literary Festival Programme
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The Abundant Herds: A Celebration of the Sanga-Nguni Cattle of the Zulu People by Marguerite Poland, David Hammond-Tooke, illustrated by Leigh Voigt