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Francoise Malby-Anthony Describes Meeting Lawrence Anthony for the First Time
Myrtle Ryan from the Sunday Tribune paid a visit to Thula Thula, the late Lawrence Anthony’s game reserve, which is featured in his books, The Last Rhinos and The Elephant Whisperer. Ryan met Anthony’s...
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Mtutuzeli Nyoka Discusses the Theme of Slavery in His New Novel, A Hill of Fools
While most books on African slavery deal with the reproachable way in which they were treated during the passage and upon arrival in the new country, Mtutuzeli Nyoka chose to look at “how slavery...
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Mtutuzeli Nyoka Explains How a Love of Reading Led to Him Becoming a Writer
Mtutuzeli Nyoka, author of A Hill of Fools, has blogged about how his love of writing stems from a life-time of reading. According to Nyoka, reading as a writer differs from reading for pleasure. “With...
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“Work is a Whole New World”: Shelagh Foster on Your First Year of Work: The...
On All4Women Shelagh Foster, author of the newly published Your First Year of Work: The Survival Guide, gave some handy tips from the book on work ethics and how to get ahead in your first job. Foster...
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Jacob Dlamini Writes About South Africa’s Monolingualism for The Big Issue
Jacob Dlamini, co-editor of Categories of Persons, has written about South Africans’ inability to converse with one another in The Big Issue‘s collector’s edition, which is on sale until 17 January...
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Fill it With Intent: Read Steven Boykey Sidley’s Stirring 60th Birthday Speech
Steven Boykey Sidley, author of Imperfect Solo, made a moving and eloquent speech at his 60th birthday recently. Sidley shared the speech on his Facebook page; it’s a superb piece of writing, in which...
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“Children are not colour-blind”– Mylo Freeman on racial diversity in...
Mylo Freeman The Dutch author Mylo Freeman, who gained recognition for her Princess Arabella-series, which features a black princess as main character, recently wrote a piece for The Guardian on how...
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“Apartheid did impart in us a violent approach to life”– a feature on Achmat...
The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas’s wife, Lydia, in revenge for her...
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Peter Harris’s first novel rings as true as any history, writes Ray Hartley
Published in the Sunday Times Peter Harris, more used to chronicling the facts, gives us new insights into what’s going on behind the scenes with a novel about a mining magnate, writes Ray Hartley Bare...
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What is your greatest regret? “Not taking better care of myself as a younger...
By Mila de Villiers A sepia snapshot of the scribe, provided by the author himself. The sound of the ringing doorbell of acclaimed novelist and playwright Craig Higginson’s home in Johannesburg’s...
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