A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
TREK South Africans will recognize the origin of the word as being from Dutch/Afrikaans languages. The Afrikaans meaning is: to make a journey by ox wagon – to migrate and to travel slowly. Later it was included by local English…
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ANDRE BRINK born 29 May 1935 died 6 February 2015. He was one of the founders of the Afrikaans literary movement, Die Sestigers (the sixty-ers). His early writings were on apartheid but after 1994 he wrote more on the life…
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Words seldom have only one very definite meaning. This may, of course, not only apply to the English language. On occasion if one is not paying close attention to a question, confusion or maybe even a small dose of merriment,…
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RAY ALEXANDER born in Latvia on 12 January 1913, arrived in South African 11 November 1929. She lost her first job after taking part in an anti pass campaign. In 1941 she married Professor Jack Simons. Ray Alexander was a…
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After my first few days of fieldwork were successfully completed at a private game farm called Morongwa Bush Lodge (near the town of Thabazimbi, in Limpopo) I packed up and drove to Mapungubwe National Park. This was where I had…
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STOLEN, SMUGGLED, SOLD On The Hunt For Cultural Treasures AUTHOR: Nancy Moses PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 978-0-7591-2192-8 REVIEWER: Dr Dawn Gould What comes strongly to mind when one has read this book is the sometime inhumanity of mankind, political…
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When homework consists of either an essay or a letter make sure that the words used are correctly spelt. Be careful of those words called HOMOPHONES which are words that sound alike but are spelt differently and have different meanings….
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A women’s library opens at Artscape, the brain child of WOMAN ZONE and a new innovative-thinking space for Cape Town’s women. The Woman Zone Library Hub (WZLH) on the ground floor of Artscape is an extraordinary collection of books for,…
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This will be a series of emails from the bush from Botanist Alison Bijl. Emails will be posted as we receive them. Look out for them on Flash News throughout the next three months Alison is working on her…
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