Angelo Agrizzi spills more beans, and Dennis Davis adds them up. The former Bosasa bagman turned Zondo whistleblower has released another explosive tell-all, Surviving the Beast – and he has questions as well as answers. (Via Zoom)
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Join world history author Christopher Lloyd on a visually arresting tour through 4 billion years of climate change. The show is based on the book It’s Up to Us, with a foreword by the Prince of Wales and published to coincide with COP26 in 2021. Using his coat of many pockets containing everyday objects, Lloyd will show why it’s up to us to fix our planet – and how we can do it. For ages 6 to 106!
Lloyd will be introduced by Ryan Parkhurst (Head of Marketing, Investec Wealth & Investment SA).
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Yewande Omotoso talks about women’s voices and the art of generational fiction with Tsitsi Dangarembga (This Mournable Body) & Sindiwe Magona (When The Village Sleeps).
Shaun de Waal tackles the LGBTQ+ rights revolution with Mark Gevisser (The Pink Line: Crossing the World’s Queer Frontiers) & Robert Hamblin (Robert – A queer and crooked memoir for the not so straight and narrow).
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Malcolm Ray talks to Ismail Lagardien about his memoir Too White to be Coloured, Too Coloured to be Black – and the need for a new and believable South African dream.
John Maytham talks to Finuala Dowling about her new novel, The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers and the psychological mysteries of departed parents.
Join award-winning Welsh illustrator and writer Jonny Duddle as he shares his illustration secrets and techniques. From working in the computer games industry, to creating concept work for The Pirates film, and illustrating the Harry Potter books, Jonny continues to produce picture books to the delight of fans worldwide.
Join bestselling publisher and author Melinda Ferguson for a 2-hour live-writing memoir workshop. Get tips on how to improve your personal writing as well as invaluable insights into the publishing scene in South Africa. Bring a notebook and pen. Space is limited.
Pippa Hudson invites Lionel Shriver and Imraan Coovadia to debate the role of fiction in an ideologically polarised moment. Can novels subvert tribalised identities – and should they?
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Refilwe Moloto talks to master novelist Zakes Mda about Wayfarers’ Hymns, a bildungsroman set among the famo folk musicians of Lesotho. How does physical distance (Mda lives and writes in Athens, Ohio), shape his profoundly African storytelling voice?
Annika Larsen speaks to Sarah Bullen about her memoir Love and Above, an account of a rapturous spiritual adventure that took her from Hout Bay to the Mediterranean, and to the brink of death and back again …
Dr Greg Mills talks to Michela Wrong about his latest broadside to conventional wisdom, Expensive Poverty: Why Aid Fails and How it Can Work. After a trillion dollars of aid, why have ordinary Africans gotten so little benefit?
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Prof Kopano Ratele and Dr Pumla Dineo Gqola (The Female Fear Factory) debate how and why South African women are made accessories to their own violation.
Jen Thorpe speaks to Shana Fife (Ougat) and Sue Nyathi (When Secrets Become Stories – Women Speak Out) about memoir and storytelling as a feminist act.
Craig Ray talks to Clinton van der Berg (Guns & Needles: A journey into the heart of South African sport’s steroid and drug culture) about South African sport’s longstanding drug problem.
Tony Leon speaks to Bill Browder (Freezing Order), the businessman who played a long, bloodsoaked chess game against the Putin regime and lobbied for the Magnitsky Act, a key weapon against the Kremlin.
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Andrew Brown asks Deon Meyer about his new Benny Griessel thriller, The Dark Flood – and how his villains are influenced by news stories.
Bruce Whitfield picks the brain of award-winning financial planner Warren Ingram on his offshore investment handbook, Global Investing Made Easy. Chris Holdsworth (Chief Investment Strategist, Investec Wealth & Investment SA) will join Ingram in the discussion.
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Richard Steyn talks to master historian Jonathan Dimbleby about his magisterial new book, Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War.
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Did Thabo Mbeki set the table for state capture? Mark Gevisser’s prize-winning Thabo Mbeki: A Dream Deferred has just been published in an updated and revised edition, and Ferial Haffajee tackles him on Mbeki’s legacy.
Sue Nyathi talks to Fred Khumalo about Two Tons O’Fun, his new coming-of-age novel set in Alexandra, switching genres and the shortage of laughs in South African fiction …
Sara-Jayne Makwala King consults Jen Thorpe (Adulting 101) and Chantal Lascaris (The Ultimate Salad Book) on the closely related dreams of an organised life and a healthy, seasonal diet.
John Maytham chews the fat with thriller wizard Jeffrey Archer, whose new William Warwick thriller Over My Dead Body is out now. For starters, how does one man sell 275-million books? (Via Zoom).
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Refilwe Moloto and Bruce Whitfield tackle his new book Genius – How to take smart ideas global, which explores the creative sorcery of world-beating South African entrepreneurs.
Pippa Hudson meets Dr Emmanuel Taban (The Boy Who Never Gave Up), who is Daily Maverick’s Africa Person of the Year. He walked from war-torn Sudan to JHB, survived torture and kidnapping, and then became a pioneering pulmonologist …
Shaun De Waal invites Imraan Coovadia (The Poisoners) and Andrew Harding (These Are Not Gentle People) to sample the art of political poisoning – from Salisbury to Nkandla.
Dr Wamuwi Mbao speaks to Mandla Langa about his new novel The Lost Language of the Soul – and South Africa’s literature of exile and return.
After four decades of magical storytelling, Marita van der Vyver (A Long Letter to my Daughter) looks back on her life and books with Karin Schimke …
Dennis Davis talks to Bulelani Ngcuka about his book Bulelani Ngcuka: The Sting in the Tale – and his reflections on the Zuma era and its legacies.
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Richard Steyn (Milner: Last of the Empire Builders) swaps notes on robber barons with Nick Dall & Matthew Blackman (Rogue’s Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC).
Sara-Jayne Makwala King discovers the secrets of going it alone with two best-selling queens of self-published fiction – Dudu Busani-Dube (the Hlomu series) and Jackie Phamotse (the Bare series).
Ferial Haffajee invites Tony Leon (Future Tense) and Ralph Mathekga (The ANC’s Last Decade) to peer through their crystal balls at South Africa after the 2024 elections.
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Mohale Mashigo discusses Cape Town as a setting & a character with three young novelists: Mia Arderne (Mermaid Fillet), Qarnita Loxton (Being Dianne) & Alistair Mackay (It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way).
Nicki Gules consults psychologist Wahbie Long (Nation On the Couch) about the generational and historical traumas that lurk in our national psyche(s) …
Melinda Ferguson talks to Jane Evans (A Path Unexpected) & Glynis Horning (Waterboy) about the taxing and rewarding art of memoir writing.
John Maytham reads poems and letters that speak to every variation of love: young, old, or middle-aged, comfortable or sizzling, fancy-free or heartbroken, plain-speaking or passionate. Compiled by Finuala Dowling, the show features a posse of poetic seducers – from Shakespeare to Derek Walcott. As Romeo said, ‘Heaven is here’.
R130 for members
R150 per ticket full price
Littlegig at Sterrekopje Farm is an evening of music, performance art and food at Franschhoek’s newest, most talked-about property. Littlegig creates festivals and retreats in Africa, including the Lamu Writing Retreat in Kenya (Sep ’22). Littlegig at Sterrekopje is limited to 50 tickets. R1,500 each. Accommodation not included.
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