Pule Lechesa refuses to be carried away by the hype over Free State of mind
In his ground breaking masterpiece, The anatomy of female power, the great African intellectual, Chinweizu explains the awesome covert and overt methods women utilise to get their way. These methods...
View ArticleAfrican women and the burden of creative writing
By Christine MautjanaIt is rather exciting that many young South African Black women interested in arts and culture now regard me as something of a role model after I published my first book – which is...
View ArticleZAKES MDA IN CITY OF ROSES
Zakes Mda, the world celebrated writer - author of novels like Ways of Dying, The Madonna of Excelsior,Inside the whale, etc -was at the Central University of Technology (Bloemfontein) to orchestrate a...
View ArticleWriters luxuriate at Grahamstown
By Flaxman Qoopane Professor Ncedile Saule,Nonkqubela Evelyn Rasmeni, Mzukisi M , Silandela, Pumelelo P, Anthony, Hendrietta Bogopane –Zulu Deputy Minister for Women, Children Persons with...
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BABATUNDE HARVESTS CAINE PRIZERotimi Babatunde has won the prestigious Caine Prize for African writing. His winning entry (story) was described as an "ambitious, darkly humorous" story of a Nigerian...
View ArticleA BROKEN HEART
Short story by TIISETSO THIBALike any other enamoured partners showing love to each other in the beginning, S’putla and Dimakatso resided in one of the locations near Kuruman Town. They started...
View ArticleOMOSEYE BOLAJI: A Voyage around his literary work
A new book by Ishmael Mzwandile SoqagaReview by Pule LechesaThis is the type of book that really whets the appetite of lovers of quintessential literature! Free from the clutter of peripheral rubbish...
View ArticleLiterary Criticism an integral part of literature
By Raphael MokoenaIt is shocking the general ignorance that surrounds the sphere of literary criticism; which has actually been around for centuries. In Africa it is not uncommon to see some...
View ArticleREVISITING GOMOLEMO MOKAE
Gomolemo Mokae is rightly regarded as one of the most outstanding, well respected Black writers in the country. Author of at least six works, he has contributed solidly to arts and culture.He is a...
View ArticleBEN OKRI IN SOUTH AFRICA
Ben Okri, the internationally renowned writer (winner of the Booker Prize) utterly charmed a packed audience at University of Cape Town's Jameson Hall as he delivered the Steve Biko Memorial...
View ArticleSESOTHO LITERATURE THROUGH THE DECADES
By Pule LechesaLadies and gentlemen, allow me to express my profound gratitude to those who facilitated this epoch-making FREE STATE WRITERS FORUM (FSWF) WRITERS INDABA. I believe that the future and...
View ArticleTHERE WAS A COUNTRY. New book by Chinua Achebe
A review of Achebe's new book 'In more ways than one, Chinua Achebe in his new book, There Was A Country, returns to the very beginning, that is, his beginning. From that beginning he succeeds...
View ArticleTHE PYRRHIC VICTORY
A short story by Omoseye BolajiTebogo Mokoena was quite elated to see his old friend, Biggie - even as darkness encroached upon them. Tebogo was visiting "his" Botshabelo after a long time and to his...
View ArticleLiterature in mother tongue, tantalising translations, ebb and flow of...
By Pule Lechesa(with Dr Wally Serote above)Ladies and gentlemen, let me take this opportunity to greet our honourable MEC for Sports, Heritage, Culture and Recreation Ntate Dan Kgothule. Not forgetting...
View ArticleWRITING FOR EXCELLENCE- FUSION OF JOURNALISTIC AND FICTITIOUS WRITING.
BY FLAXMAN QOOPANE(Speech delivered during MACUFE WORDFEST 2012, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE)Ladies and gentlemen, this is an epoch making occasion, and I must confess that the topic, I am adumbrating on...
View ArticleSIPHIWO MAHALA’S AFRICAN DELIGHTS
Book: African DelightsAuthor: Siphiwo MahalaPublisher: JacanaReviewers: Flaxman Qoopane and O BolajiThe literary landscape of South Africa continues to be the richer with the presence of outstanding...
View ArticleSAVOUR OF KALAHARI
BY TIISETSO M THIBALandscape so attractive And pregnant with massive heritage and historyOn the rocks of KalahariLingo so bit rigid but action utter allAnd red sand so polite and beautifulWith dimples...
View ArticleFLOWERS OF HATRED
“FLOWERS OF HATRED”A poem by Raselebeli “Magic” KhotsengYou demon corrupters bayed for Tafari’s headHow your murderous hands beheaded Bambatha and assassinated LumumbaThe spirit of the great warrior of...
View ArticleWrites Associates Honours Writers at SALA Awards
By: Flaxman Qoopane (below)I was proud to attend the 7th annual South African Literary Awards (SALA) during the Africa Century International African Writers Conference, at the Callie Human Hall,...
View ArticleMBALI LITERARY AWARDS (2012)
The Mbali Literary Awards (2012) took place at the weekend in Clocolan, South Africa. Four writers based in the Free State were honoured in different categories. Here are excerpts from the formal...
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