Mail & Guardian reporter Sam Sole has become an expert at decoding the oft-times titanic political battles behind Julius Malema’s frequently difficult-to-comprehend remarks. Malema’s latest antics, says Sole, in a major new story that’s sure to reverberate for months, mark the revival of Zuma conspiracy theories, and go to the heart of “money politics” ravaging the ANC:
Youth league leader Julius Malema’s attack on Pravin Gordhan and the South African Revenue Service (Sars) has blown open simmering suspicions in the ANC-led alliance over the role of Gordhan and Sars in curbing the patronage networks that are driving power struggles in the ANC.
This week Malema released details of a dossier he claimed showed Sars had targeted senior Zuma supporters. He effectively fingered Gordhan, the former Sars chief, as being behind an alleged Sars campaign against “Zuma people”.
Malema’s allegations also exposed a controversial unit of Sars, set up in February 2007, apparently as a small covert group supplying strategic information on Sars targets. Known as the Special Projects Unit or National Research Group, the unit fell under Sars head of compliance, Ivan Pillay — considered Gordhan’s key ally — and later reported to Pillay’s head of enforcement investigations, Johann van Loggerenberg.
Join us on a journey to the Never-Ever Wood, where an enduring world of stories awaits readers young and old.
Here, in In the Never-Ever Wood are sixty stories, selected and retold by fairy-tale lover and compiler of children’s books Linda Rode.
Smaller folks, who have the stories read to them, as well as self-readers, will derive an equal amount of pleasure from this book. It is a comprehensive collection that will open up the wide, wide world of fairy tales and other folklore to children.
A short annotation at the end of each story points out the land of origin and puts the stories from Africa, Europe, the East and other parts of the world in context with one another.
Fiona Moodie’s evocative illustrations are drypoint etches printed by hand and painted afterwards – an intricate process that took more than two years to complete.
The enchanting results make this book an art treasure for every child privileged enough to receive it.
Die Nuwe stemme-reeks is ’n opwindende projek waarmee Tafelberg-Uitgewers publikasie-geleenthede skep vir jong digters wat nog nie genoeg gedigte vir ’n eie, selfstandige debuut het nie.
Nuwe stemme 1 het in 1997 verskyn. Elf debuutdigters is daarin opgeneem en die samestellers was George Weideman en Anastasia de Vries. In 2001 is Nuwe stemme 2 gepubliseer met poësie van sestien nuwe, jong digters waar Petra Müller en Nèlleke de Jager as samestellers opgetree het. Nuwe stemme 3 was in 2005 ’n groot sukses met werk van twintig nuwelinge, wat deur Antjie Krog en Alfred Schaffer geselekteer is.
Danie Marais en Ronel de Goede (Foster) is die samestellers van die bundel Nuwe Stemme 4. Tafelberg is bly om vandag die name van die volgende Nuwe stemme 4-deelnemers bekend te maak. Hierdie 20 digters word na slypskole genooi. Deelname aan die slypskole beteken nie noodwendig opname in die finale bloemlesing nie.
Fourie Botha (Kaapstad) Lewies Botha (Beacon Bay) Corné Coetzee (Johannesburg) Jan A.F. du Plessis (Pretoria) Marike Groenewald (Kaapstad) Francilié Hoek (Bryanston) Pieter Hugo (Beaufort-Wes) Willem Jansen (Bellville) Hunter Kennedy (Brackenfell) Annie Klopper (Brackenfell) Hennie Meyer (Pretoria) Heidi Papadopoulos-Pienaar (Johannesburg) Bibi Slippers (New Zealand) Adél Steyn (Stellenbosch) Lou-Ann Stone (Kaapstad) Marius Swart (Stellenbosch) André Trantraal (Matroosfontein) Karlien van der Merwe (Pretoria) Niel van Deventer (Ifafi) Lize Viljoen (Suid-Korea)
Vir meer inligting kontak gerus vir Loftus Marais by 021 406 3450 of loftus.marais@nb.co.za.
Hosted yearly, the program offers writers from all over the world the opportunity to focus on their writing whilst partaking of university life in the United States.
Already a well-known author and columnist, with articles published in O Magazine, Real Simple and Reader’s Digest – and winner of both the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book in Africa and the Herman Charles Bosman Award for her first novel, All We Have Left Unsaid – Maxine is certainly a wonderful representative for South African literature.
The Academy’s Stan Ridge read the judge’s citation, which is excerpted from here, and Geoffrey Haresnape presented the award.
Bristow-Bovey then gave a sparkling, off-the-cuff speech that took the importance of books for children as its theme. “It’s always been a dream of mine to deliver a speech that begins, ‘I would like to thank the Academy’… the Oscars are one thing, but to win the Percy…”
Sally-Ann Partridge’s explosive new novel, Fuse, follows the success of The Goblet Club which won both the I am a Writer Competition in 2007 and the MER prize for best youth novel in 2008.
Kendall Mullins hates high school, almost as much as he hates the situation at home, but that all changes when Craig Baumgarten joins his class. Craig makes life at Percy Fitzpatrick High almost bearable, until the bullies set their sights on the new best friends and Craig hatches a plan to fight back with devastating consequences. (more…)
Chris Karsten se biografie oor Charlize Theron, die boeremeisie wat hollywoodaktrise geword het, ondersoek onder meer die ware gebeure rondom haar pa se dood. ‘n Uittreksel uit die boek is Sondag in Rapport gepubliseer.
Toe dit bekend geword het dat Charlize se ma haar pa doodgeskiet het, het Charlize, volgens Karsten se navorsing, eers haar pa as “abusive” beskryf, toe as ‘n “verbal abuser” en later as ‘n “alcoholic”. Karstens het “in Putfontein gaan soek na maplotters en white trash”, maar wat hy gevind het, is dat Charles Theron by sy afsterwe in 1991 ‘n boedel van meer as R3 miljoen gehad het.
Dié uittreksel uit Charlize: Ek leef my droom is baie interessante leesstof, veral as jy in geheime en die glanswêreld belangstel: (more…)
Hy kry inspirasie terwyl hy skeer of stort. Só vertel Louis Krüger, skrywer van Wederkoms: Die lewe van Johannes Hoop in hierdie videos van NB-uitgewers op YouTube.
“Dit het iets met water te doen,” meen hy.
Kyk die videos om te sien wat die skrywer verder te sê het oor sy skryfmetodes en die geboorte van sy boeke: (more…)
Mail & Guardian reporter Sam Sole has become an expert at decoding the oft-times titanic political battles behind Julius Malema’s frequently difficult-to-comprehend remarks. Malema’s latest antics, says Sole, in a major new story that’s sure to reverberate for months, mark the revival of Zuma conspiracy theories, and go to the heart of “money politics” ravaging the ANC:
