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THE MIRIAM TLALI READING & BOOK CLUB Invites you to a book discussion with the author, Mandla Langa Book title:   Facilitator: Duma Ndlovu Date: Saturday, 21 February 2015 Time: 14H00 – 16H30 Venue: Museum Africa, Newtown Cultural Precinct, 121 Bree Street, Newtown About the book: The Texture of Shadows is set at the turn…

African Writers Should Write Her Stories, Samia Nkrumah & Minister Mthethwa implores International African Writers Conference Africa will have to dig deep into her reservoirs of knowledge and wisdom if she harbours any intention to undo many years of both colonial intellectual plunder and apartheid exploitation. This realisation became the clarion call at the third…

MEDIA RELEASE 14th November 2014 Somali-born Author Scoops Prestigious South African Lifetime Achievement Literary Award Novelist Nuruddin Farah (69) won this year’s South African Literary Awards’ (SALA) Lifetime Achievement Award category. The award presentation was held at the National Library of South Africa, Tshwane, where eleven other winners received their accolades. SALA is a project…

Somali-born Author Scoops Prestigious South African Lifetime Achievement Literary Award Novelist Nuruddin Farah (69) won this year’s South African Literary Awards’ (SALA) Lifetime Achievement Award category. The award presentation was held at the National Library of South Africa, Tshwane, where eleven other winners received their accolades. SALA is a project of the wRite associates, launched…

Beautifull Fools is an anthology of Poems by Ernest Khosa., a University of Manchester trained international development finance specialist and a former Chief Executive of two state institutions in South Africa.The title is borrowed from one of the poems. It is a poem that celebrates the physical beauty and the economic resourcefulness of the African continent,…