Packed event programme is brimming with contentious topics facing South Africa today Johannesburg, South Africa (30 July 2018) – The 2018 South African Book Fair, which will run from 7 to 9 September at Johannesburg’s Newtown Cultural Precinct, will present a diverse programme of topics and activities for visitors from all walks of life. The…
For immediate release Johannesburg, South Africa [insert day and date] – In a country in which 73% of the population is not interested in reading books, there couldn’t be a more urgent task than that of producing more local literature that will appeal to the majority of the South Africans. “Reading is critical to fulfilling…
Packed event programme is brimming with contentious topics facing South Africa today Johannesburg, South Africa (30 July 2018) – The 2018 South African Book Fair, which will run from 7 to 9 September at Johannesburg’s Newtown Cultural Precinct, will present a diverse programme of topics and activities for visitors from all walks of life. The…
Stories are part of the culture and wealth of our communities. They have the power to teach, inspire, excite, connect and soothe. We see stories come alive as we share them every day on train platforms, in taxis, in church, in class or round a fire at night. We all have stories to tell. This…
The South African Book Fair 2018, as its celebrates #OURSTORIES on the page, mic and stage, invites audiences to engage in a feast of intergenerational voices in our indigenous languages. Our Keorapetse Kgositsile Poetry Café* is a pop-up poetry platform with a series of four sessions on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th September, where you…
In 2017 the South African Book Development Council (SABDC) took over the national Book Fair from the Publishers’ Association of South Africa. The SABDC’s mandate is to grow and develop South Africa’s book industry; and to reposition the South African Book Fair (SABF), which had previously served a traditional, established market, as a Fair that…
Via Afrika in association with the NRF Chair in African languages and African Language Association of South Africa are offering authors who have never been published before and are writing in a previously under-published language (IsiNdebele, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa and South African First Nation Languages) an opportunity to have assistance…
