A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
There is a long-standing connection between Jews and words. This year, the debut Jewish Literary Festival will explore the rich tradition of written disputation, debate and dialogue with over 45 events that span Sunday May 22 in the many venues…
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A DICITONARY is defined as a book containing the words of a language alphabetically arranged with their meanings etc., also as an aid to improving spelling and grammar. But there is another aspect to paging through a dictionary, simple pleasure. …
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The Western Cape is fast becoming the Book Festival province. Hard on the heels of the Franschhoek Literary Festival comes the first Jewish Literary Festival (JLF) on Sunday 22 May, offering a jam-packed day of fascinating events to anyone who…
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South Africa has among the people of the country many exceptionally talented individuals in the arts and culture fields. For many to earn a living from their talent and ability to work hard, is not easy. Some will die without…
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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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To go back in time and browse through some of the early local cookery books makes for a pleasant and an interesting time spent. The Leipoldt Cookery Collection at the National Library of South Africa (Cape Town Campus) has a…
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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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AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE: How Africa Shapes The World Author: Tukufu Zuberi Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN : 978-1-4422-1641-9 Reviewer: Dr Dawn Gould Professor Zuberi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennyslvainia, has written an easy to read, absorbing and welcomed…
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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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NITA SPILHAUS (1878-1967) and her artist friends in the Cape during the early twentieth century TITLE: NITA SPILHAUS AUTHOR: Peter Elliott PUBLISHER: Peter Elliott ISBN: …
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