Eastern Cape home fires burn bright in award-winning novel

Like a ray of sunshine, Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani ' s memory of her rural Eastern Cape childhood fires her novel Buried in the Chest, which has just won Jacana ' s 2024 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Speaking from her new home in the US, MbunyuzaMemani said yesterday she was born in the Dutywa village...

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Poets making mark at China writers’ conference ‘There are many talented writers in the commission. What is painful is that there is little encouragement for writers’

Two award-winning Nelson Mandela Bay poets are putting their best foot forward as they represent the region at a poetry conference hosted by the China Writers' Association.  New Brighton's Mxolisi Nyezwa and Mangaliso Buzani are among the more than 70 poets from Brics countries gathered in Hangzhou,...

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How life, loss and running the popular Facebook group The Village made former Cosmo editor Vanessa Raphaely a better mum

It's just one of those days . . . Her dogs won't stop barking, there's wet washing drying on a clothes horse in her home o ce and she's just realised she's double-booked herself and should be in a meeting with someone else. "It's my attention de cit disorder," Vanessa Raphaely groans about the...

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Life Lessons: How to fail and win

Content By ALAN KNOTT-CRAIG It started as a personal reflection. Almost like a diary where I thought about all the memorable moments of my life (mostly setbacks) and the lessons learnt (mostly painful) and then wrote them down in the same way I would tell the story on a stage — brutal honesty laced...

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Journalist Nicky Greenwall releases thrilling debut novel

It's scary sending a book out into the world. After all the effort that has gone into bringing it to life, it's now over to the readers and there's nothing the author can do but wait. That's the situation Nicky Greenwall is in right now – as an entertainment journalist and former TV presenter,...

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