Stories
latest news & developments
A chance to help children on World Read Aloud Day
Stories can help us find our way back to health, hope and possibility
Here’s the story: The psychological effects of the pandemic on children
A free webinar discusses how to help young people struggling to find their place in the new normal without classmates and friends
Shree Laxmi’s walk in the City of Gold
What would the Goddess be met with, were she to walk the streets of Johannesburg?
For my parents, for my witnesses
A meditation on losing parents, spirituality and how love is a verb, as expressed with potato-based food.
Heard the one about the Spaniard, Ouma and the lion?
A new book allows insights into the lives of the first inhabitants of the Bitterpits, the Karoo’s harshest region, through the stories of the /Xam.
How folktales grown in new soil can paint a less Grimm picture for our dancing girls
The classic Grimm fairy tale’s theme of wild teenage abandon is echoed in popular culture, but the moral of the story is luckily changing.
Mombelli’s stories from the heart
Carlo Mbombelli, a jazz enthusiast and lecturer. If he’s not busy teaching, he can be found on stage and in studio.
The struggle of life after apartheid
Achmat Dangor’s tradition of looking below the superficial continues.
Introducing Africa’s voicebox
Voices of Africa is the M&G’s new blogging platform.It showcases stories of life in different parts of the continent that the world doesn’t hear often enough.
My heart touches your heart
Once quite long ago, in a land not so far away, there lived a young woman called Gcina Mhlophe.