Annemarie Jansen wrote a book on a famous South African. His name is Eugene de Kock. During the apartheid days he led a group that fought the anti-apartheid campaigners. Death was always near this group, based at a farm called Vlakplaas. Annemarie talked about her book and her subject at the Vryfees arts festival in … Continue reading the smell of death
lesego rampolokeng launches
This is good news. Another collection of poetry is on its way. On the very first day of next month Lesego Rampolokeng will launch his next collection. 25 years ago he published his first collection.
100 books for every south african child
What a plan and what an achievement! To plan is to get 100 books into the hands of every South African child before they reach the age of five. This would be about 600 million free books for children. Read about this fantastic story, written by Liesl Jobson.
books touched by Africa 