The Time of the Writer Festival returns with a bold hybrid vision, using literature to challenge power, amplify voices and reconnect communities across borders
Through Soraya’s journey, Cape Fever explores identity, resilience and the hidden histories of Cape Malays in post-war South Africa
More than a chronicle of Namibia, Barbara Adair’s book experiments with language and structure
Many commit to reading books every year and are not sure where to start. Here are three books poet Ndumiso Zondi suggest
Ashraf Kagee’s Song of the Slave Girl reimagines Cape slavery through emotion, love and loss, giving voice to histories erased from official memory
Paige Nick chats about her latest novel Book People, how online book clubs are shaking things up and how reading culture is changing
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Three new books spotlight Indian South Africans who helped shape the nation — through resistance, reflection and reinvention in unexpected places
What happens when men can’t ask for help? These South African books offer raw, revealing answers
Memoir is a gripping account of journalistic bravery, father-son reckonings and resilience
Jeffrey Rakabe ponders transformation, trauma and tradition in a debut that challenges what it means to grow up
When fiction mirrors fear, even the strongest reader flinches. Medusa is powerful, painful and unforgettable
Back in the Free State, a daughter rediscovers the textures of home, family and unspoken inheritances in Antjie Krog’s autobiographical novel
South Africa has lost a moral giant as the playwright who challenged injustice through art dies at 92
Writer confronts family, grief and recovery in his most vulnerable, honest book yet
A moving, mind-bending journey of grief, hope and unexpected transformation
Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani weaves a tale of identity, longing and the relentless pull of the past
Barbara Boswell’s novel tells the gripping love story of a middle-aged black woman in modern-day South Africa
The poet and painter was one of the greatest wordsmiths in Afrikaans
Author John van de Ruit is back with a new book in the popular series
