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Jun 16, 20154 min read

Africa’s Songbird

In Jazz there are those singers who are unafraid to do something truly different. They will sing against the grain, or play in a new way...

Feb 7, 20154 min read

Language is a meeting place, a point of confrontation, between the individual and the social. André

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” Milan Kundera as quoted by André Brink in Writing In A...

Jul 15, 20146 min read

Whose literature is it anyway?

It was inevitable that the defiance, dissent, resistance and protest against Apartheid should be reflected in South Africa’s literary...

Sep 29, 20125 min read

Some thoughts on why I started The Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast

By Victor Dlamini It is the age we live in that gives one that rush of blood to the head – and you suddenly feel as if you were a David...

Aug 9, 20126 min read

South Africa Finds Its Literary Voice

Portrait of a Nobel Laureate By all accounts South African literature is enjoying its finest hour. Even as the scandal of dumped and...