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Articles Sandra Swart: The Construction of Eugène Marais as an Afrikaner Hero - Journal of Southern African Studies. 30.4, Dec 2004 (23/08/06) Jameson Maluleke: (Mis)leading with words to corrupt democratic South Africa (17/08/06) Paul Murray on editing Leipoldt, an interesting and versatile person (19/07/06) Rosemund J Handler discusses writing in South Africa, with a special emphasis on women's writing (14/07) Finuala Dowling shares her Cape Town Book Fair discussion on writing in South Africa (07/07) Cape Town Book Fair discussion on the editing process (23/06) Jameson Maluleke: Our ignorance, irresponsibility and laziness don’t reflect true African culture (23/06) The end of underground? A new mini-seminar: Melinda Ferguson: Chemical Illusion (23/06) Roof Bezuidenhout: From Voëlvry to Fokofpolisiekar (23/06) Fred de Vries: The Underground character; doomed or heroic? (14/06) Michael Titlestad writes: From Verloc to the Unabomber: modernist and post-modern versions of the underground (26/05) Sound Bites for a Derailed Democracy - Jameson Maluleke revisits protest language (17/05) Mike van Graan on Fokofpolisiekar: There are greater evils in our society for the church to rise up against (26/04/06) Seminar 19 April 2006: Is there still an underground? Or is it a dying phenomenon, associated with subcultures and repressive attitudes of days gone by? (18/04/06) Stephen Watson accuses Antjie Krog of plagiarism in New Contrast. Read the responses of: Antjie Krog again: Last time, this time (22/03/06) Nèlleke de Jager Eve Gray Stephen Johnson Antjie Krog (19/02/06) Annie Gagiano Johann de Lange (21/02/06) Your comments: Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk: The Boggle of the Google of My Skull (30/03/06) Colin Bower: The end of private ownership means the end of the publishing industry Craig Mason-Jones: The Google of My Skull (24/03/06) Shaun de Waal: In response to Barbara Adair (22/03/06) Madame Lacoste: Literary polemics: Questions and answers; claims and responses (15/03/06) Barbara Adair: Speaking through the mask of culture Willemien le Roux: To give true voice to those original poets Mathew Blatchford: Sometimes one needs to wield a large chopper in defense of good sense Helen Moffett: What if we don't want to take sides? (13/03/06) Rosalind Morris: On Watson, Krog and “plagiarism” (08/03/06) Mike Stevenson: LitNet bias? (08/03/06) LitNet response (08/03/06) Sam Raditlhalo: Krog should have been allowed to respond (28/02/06) Add your voice! E-mail sharon@litnet.co.za Ken Barris discusses bitter Afrikaners and their treatment in three recent South African novels: Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Troy Blacklaws's Karoo Boy (14/12/05) Jameson Maluleke puts The Da Vinci Code under the magnifying glass (20/10/05) Rustum Kozain on Afrikaans: Between liberating potential on the one hand and nationalism and Apartheid on the other. (20/10/05) Gay debate in the Dutch Reformed Church: Who are the dominees to go against Jesus? (20/09/05) Antjie Krog: Tribute to André P Brink on the occasion of his seventieth birthday celebration (12/07/05) Max du Preez: Changing ideas of Afrikaner/white identity (12/07/05) Richard Ballard: Assimilation, emigration, semigration, and integration: "white" peoples' strategies for finding a comfort zone in post-apartheid South Africa (24/03/05) Jan Casno: The Bram Fischer debate: A revisit (13/01/05) Rebecca J Davies: The global political economy and contemporary manifestations of Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid era (09/02/04) Still much to write about, say SA writers in London (22/10/04) Yvonne Malan and Christoff Pauw: Afrikaner Dissidents - Bram Fischer and Beyers Naudé (15/10/04) A Newshound's Reflections: Experiences, responsibilities and challenges of a sleuth (25/08/04) The post-colonial writer: Non-commitment and the betrayal of the African revolution (08/07/04) Julian Roup : Lost for words (24/05/04) I, Johann Lodewyk Marais, a non-existent South African poet, introducing myself at UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa (26/03/04) Michael Chapman: Response to a non-existent South African poet (26/03/04) Michael Chapman: The Politics of Identity: South Africa, Storytelling, and Literary History (26/03/04) Anton A van Niekerk: Philosophical Reflections on the Future as Dialectic between Ingenuity and Regularity (29/01/04) Hermann Giliomee: The rise and fall of Afrikaner women Russell H Kaschula: Southern African languages, Globalisation and the Internet Herman Wasserman: Between the Local and the Global: South African Languages and the Internet Carel Alberts: Orwellian vision of institutional peeking and private fantasies SJ Neethling: An onomastic renaissance: African names to the fore Norman Bernard: Correlating race and intelligence: a budget of fallacies Herman Wasserman: Fear and Loathing? A report on first impressions of race and ethnicity in America Jean Williams: Biblionef: Providing books for underpriviledged children Annie Gagiano: The Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literatures and its message to multilingual South Africa Christine Campbell: Ramblings — Night Swimming

Reviews Paul Murray discusses Raam en Rigting in die Politiek en die Storie van Apartheid by Japie Basson (31/08/06) Paul Murray reviews Politieke Kaarte op die Tafel; Parlementêre Herinneringe by Japie Basson (14/07/06) Russel Brownlee reviews The Forgotten Frontier a book which succeeds in "lifting a history from an undeserved state of obscurity" (08/03/06) Michelle McGrane revisits Patrick Süskind's classic novel Perfume, The Story of a Murderer (22/02/06) PR Anderson reviews This Carting Life by Rustum Kozain: "... a considerable and mature demonstration of a proper poet at work" (15/02/06) Why would anyone choose to visit Antarctica? Arja Salafranca reviews Blue Ice, Don Pinnock's vivid experiences on the ice continent (01/02/06) "... understatedly beautiful, unassuming and utterly moving." Deborah Steinmair reads District Six: An Ordinary Day (24/01/06) Meg Samuelson reviews Blood Orange, part memoir, part fiction about growing up white in apartheid South Africa (14/11/05) Arja Salafranca reads as South Africans recall their past in Childhood (11/10/05) NS Zulu: The telling voices in Nadine Gordimer's Telling tales (05/10/05) PR Anderson: "Graveyard confetti", a review of Killing Time, by Arthur Attwell (05/10/05) Rampolokeng juggles language and reinvents syntax with the dexterity and ingenuity of a master magus (12/07/05) Here is the dove-cow tethered to the clouds: Some reflections on Marguerite Poland's novel Recessional For Grace (03/12/04) Alan G Morris reviews: The Bone Woman by Clea Koff (14/11/04) "Beckett seems a little out of sync" - Ian Glenn reviews Beckett's Redeeming Features "St Francis of the Ritz" - André Brink reviews Karel Schoeman's Die laaste Afrikaanse boek Andries Oliphant on Coloured by History Shaped by Place: "A thought-provoking and timely publication" "Herman Charles Bosman is back" - Peter Merrington reads Bosman's Jacaranda in the Night and Old Transvaal Stories "A commendable book especially for non-Xhosa speakers" Russell Kaschula on Clicking with Xhosa / A Xhosa phrasebook "Voices of the land" - Kobus Moolman reads: Weather Eye by Isobel Dixon "A tribute to the youthful idealism of a lost generation" - Peter Merrington reads: The Gardens of Kyoto Peter Merrington reads: The Extinction Club, a "novel with a built-in death-wish" Marius J Swart reads: 50 Ways to a Healthy Heart by Prof Christiaan Barnard Peter Merrington reads: Smoky Joe’s Café by Bryce Courtenay "In the midst of such frenzied mayhem" - Stephen Debros reads: The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a hidden war Koos Kombuis reviews Who moved my cheese by Darrel Bristow-Bovey "Beating the paralyses" - Pamella Maseko & Russell H Kaschula review Discourse in a Multilingual and Multicultural Courtroom: A court interpreter’s guide "Unsung heroes in the face of horror": May Bleeker review Catch me a Killer by Micki Pistorius Walter McKay reviews: My voice is under control now Izak de Vries on Conflict of interest: "A heart-pounding read"

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