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Nostalgie en films
2024-03-06 "’n Kyker mymer onlangs: 'Ek is gek oor Ballade vir ’n enkeling, want dit speel af in ’n tyd toe daar nog treine en stasies was', terwyl hy 'Tussen treine' hartseer en uit sy hart sing. Ja. Hoe het tye verander, en die rolprent bied ’n mate van tydelike troos. Pleister op ’n besmette emosionele wond […]
Translated or repatriated? An interview with Ignatius Mabasa on translating Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous conditions
2024-03-06 "In a bid to understand the process, nuances, motives and challenges of the process while also uncovering the politics of language, Philani A Nyoni converses with Ignatius Mabasa, the man who translated Nervous conditions into Shona."
A year of elections, multiple challenges and choices
2024-02-27 Exactly 30 years after South Africa’s first democratic elections on 27 April 1994, more voters than ever in history will be heading for the polls worldwide. National elections will be held in at least 64 countries, representing approximately 49% of the world’s population.
PP Fourie oor globale en nasionale gesondheid
2024-02-26 In LitNet Akademies se SteedsDink-video’s vertel Afrikaanse akademici van die interessante navorsing waarmee hulle besig is.
Luisterverhale: “’n Man kom tuis” deur Chris Barnard, voorgelees deur Marcel van Heerden
2024-02-22 Marcel van Heerden lees Chris Barnard se verhaal “’n Man kom tuis” voor. Die verhaal het oorspronklik in Chriskras, uitgegee deur Tafelberg, verskyn.
Uitdagings vir die hoër onderwys
2024-02-21 Freek Robinson gesels met Francis Petersen oor plaaslike en globale uitdagings vir die hoër onderwys. Petersen is rektor van die Universiteit van die Vrystaat (UV) en voorsitter van Universiteite Suid-Afrika se raad van direkteure.
Election 2024: The Economic Freedom Fighters’ election manifesto
2024-02-20 It is pointless to attempt to summarise this enormous document. (If you are interested, google “EFF Manifesto 2024”.) Instead, I’ll go for the jugular: “Yes, you are promising everything, but how is it to be afforded?”
Kunsmatige intelligensie | Artificial intelligence
2023-01-24 Kunsmatige intelligensie | Artificial intelligence
Framed: Who is the little girl in the picture?
2022-12-08 "Despite speculation by many researchers that this image could not be that of Krotoa, or 'Eva', the true origin of this image, which we have come to believe is a painted portrait of her, has not yet been widely recognized. Now, herewith, the origin story of this image."
Seen elsewhere: Phala Phala and the rather dubious provenance of the allegations
2022-12-06 "In so far as many are making claims of corruption, money laundering, exchange controls and tax violations, no such case has been brought against the President and he has not had an opportunity to put up a defence in that regard. To seek to condemn him on this basis is unfair especially in light of […]
Phala Phala – die langspel word toe die ondergang van Ramaphosa
2022-12-02 "Die president wat van sy korrupte voorganger, Jacob Zuma, ontslae geraak het, het deur sy eie toedoen ’n beleërde staatshoof geword. Ramaphosa het slagoffer geword van sy eie politieke styl, naamlik die sogenaamde langspel."
Enkele onderskeidende stylkenmerke van, en die totstandkoming van sosiale betekenis in, Generasie X se SMS-Afrikaans
2022-11-29 "Dit lei tot die insig dat die onderskeidende stylkenmerke in diens staan van sosialebetekenisskepping, wat neerslag vind in die manier waarop die deelnemers die taalmiddele tot hulle beskikking op WhatsApp aanwend om sosiale identiteit te skep en hulle aanlyn verhoudings te bedryf."
Eeufeesviering van Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, US: Kanselier Edwin Cameron se toespraak
2022-11-26 "My punt lê elders. Dit gaan om die noodsaaklikheid van aktivisme om die vertroeteling, die verering en die benutting van Afrikaans as onderrigmedium te verskans. ... Daar is niks wat vindingryke, vasberade, kundige aktivisme nie kan bereik nie. Ook hier op Stellenbosch. Moet nie die stryd as ongewonne, onoorwinbaar oorgee nie."
FilosofieKafee-gesprek: "Onthou, vergeet en nostalgie in die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing"
2022-11-18 Wat moet onthou word? Wie besluit dit? Hoe moet ons onthou? Jo-Ansie van Wyk, hoogleraar in internasionale politiek verbonde aan die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika (Unisa), was die FilosofieKafee-spreker op 11 November 2022 in Pretoria. Sy deel haar volledige voordrag by die geleentheid.
Why the African Library column? An interview with Annie Gagiano
2022-11-16 "Of course I admire, study and read books from other continents, but African writing is to my mind still hugely underrated and far too little known, when there are brilliant novels of great depth and complexity produced all over our continent."
