Deadline: 15 October 2018 Applications are now open for the Africa Centre’s 2018 Artists In Residency Programme. For the last seven years, AIR has successfully awarded 69 African artists, among them Mona Eltahawy, Victor Ehikhamenor, Njabulo Ndebele & Aida Muluneh, with residency...
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In March 2015 devastating fires swept across the Cape Peninsula, destroying thousands of hectares of mountainside and property. The fires roared down the mountain where Christine lives, destroying a large part of her property. She spent the rest of 2015...
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PEN SA member Kirsten Miller, author most recently of The Hum of the Sun, will be appearing at the Midlands Literary Festival, which will be held in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on 1 & 2 September 2018. An opportunity to meet...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Achille Mbembe, who has been named the 2018 recipient of the bi-annual Gerda Henkel Prize for Research. He is the first African scholar to win it. “Since 2006,” writes the prize organisers, “the Gerda Henkel...
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Deadline: 15 August 2018 The Africa Check African Fact-Checking Awards, “the only awards that each year honour journalism by Africa-based media in the emerging field of fact-checking”, are open for entries for their fifth iteration. The winners of the awards...
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