The annual Sanlam prize for youth literature attracts welcome additions to young adult literature, particularly the 2013 gold and silver winners.
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/ 23 November 2012
Hot off the press from Jacana is a new crop of local books for read-to-mes.
Young adult readers will find a satisfying crop of new holiday reads, both local and international, on the shelves of local bookstores this summer.
The Blue Iris, a new work from the pen of 80-year-old Athol Fugard, is as delicate and finely detailed as the flower from which it takes its name.
The talented, eccentric, heavy-drinking and often tragic ghosts of 1950s Sophiatown are haunting the Market Theatre.
A new series of books uses local history as a way to hook young readers.
Despite some unfortunate gaps, there are many local books to keep the youngsters entertained this
holiday season.
On a heritage site in Swellendam, a pottery studio continues produces pieces rich in tradition.
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/ 3 November 2010
It’s an ambitious project to make reading a pleasure.
Early associations of warmth and care with books are a good way to begin a lifelong love.
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/ 3 September 2010
A question that plagues <b>Pat Schwartz</b> most about this strike: At what point does the right to fair pay trump the right to life?
Within a month of the death of its patron, Sheena Duncan, the Black Sash has lost a second stalwart.
Within a month of the death of its patron, Sheena Duncan, the Black Sash has lost a second stalwart.
As corporate donations for the arts dry up, many organisations need to exchange a begging bowl for a business plan, writes <b>Pat Schwartz</b>
"Too many words," say I to Sally-Ann Murray. Perhaps too many small moving parts.
Transplanting ancient Buddhist traditions to the seemingly arid Karoo saw stoep Zen grow into Antony Osler’s book of the same name.
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/ 18 December 2009
There is nothing comfortable about this tale of runaway slaves and those who make their living out of returning them to their owners.
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/ 13 November 2009
Why? Is one of the questions that pursued me throughout my reading of this so-called novel, presented in the form of a medical history.
The Franschhoek Valley will now be remembered for a happily successful three-day-long celebration of the written word, writes Pat Schwartz
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/ 24 November 2006
A lecture tour by Benjamin Pogrund, a former South African journalist now living in Israel, and his Palestinian associate has been called off in the wake of the controversy around Israel’s shelling of Gaza. However, the fate of the tour was already in the balance after threats by the South African-based Palestine Solidarity Committee to demonstrate outside the lecture venues.
Artist Gabrielle Ozynski is passionate about Yeoville’s potential, its ambience and its future, writes Pat Schwartz.
Denis Hirson’s <i>We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way</i> is a funny, moving and tender book. It ultimately tells us more about our country than many a more obviously serious work, writes Pat Schwartz.
<i>Barney’s Women</i> includes four actresses and a director who evoke the memory of Barney Simon in a series of reminiscences and extracts from his workshopped plays. Pat Schwartz reviews.
<i>Batho pele</i> (putting people first); <i>motho kemotho kabatho</i> (a human being is a human being because of others); ubuntu … admirable words, fine concepts, but meaningless in a society apparently devoid of capacity, compassion or concern. How many people have the energy or the means, asks Pat Schwartz, to fight a callous and careless bureaucracy?
Ah, Italy! It all began with a birthday wish: to introduce the family to the Tuscany we had fallen in love with five years before. Pat Schwartz took her family to Tuscany and found a personal paradise, far from the madding crowd.
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/ 2 December 2002
Hugh Lewin’s prison book is out in a new edition. He speaks to Pat Schwartz.
Fiction is orderly but life is a mess, says South African-born author Lynn Freed, whose new novel is just out. She spoke to Pat Schwartz.