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Breaking silence | Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal
22 hours ago
22 hours ago
Poetry has always provided one of the few safe spaces from which to explore one’s identity and find one’s own voice.
No-one knows this better than Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, an award-winning poet, musician and lecturer with two Afrikaans collections, asof geen berge ooit hier gew...
CELEBRATING NINE YEARS OF SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY: THE 2025 AVBOB POETRY COMPETITION
8 days ago
8 days ago
The 11 winners of the 2025 AVBOB Poetry Competition, one from each of South Africa’s official written languages, were honoured at the AVBOB Poetry Gala on Thursday, 1 October 2026, at Pretoria Country Club. The event celebrated South Africa’s rich cultural diversity and reaffirmed AVBOB&...
Komvandaan | Lynthia Julius
17 days ago
17 days ago
We South Africans are fond of talking about our rich, diverse cultural heritage. But it is important to remember the hard work done every day by poets, translators and activists to keep indigenous languages and traditions alive.
No one knows this better than Lynthia Julius, a poet born in Nam...
