The award-winning Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival is the product of hybrid mentorship programmes for writers and directors.

This year’s Poetry in McGregor Festival is set to take place in the village of McGregor in the Western Cape from 19 to 21 November 2021.

South African actress Dr Gcina Mhlophe is sharing the magic of storytelling in a webinar to celebrate International Mother Language Day.

Poetry powerhouse Siphokazi Jonas performed her moving work at the annual State of the Nation address. Image: Supplied

South African poetry powerhouse Siphokazi Jonas will perform one of her works ahead of the annual State of the Nation address.

Johannesburg pupil Tariro Nyamayaro’s poem for Kwasa, ‘Auditioning For My Funeral’, has hit a nerve with more than 600 000 Instaviews.

Masters student James Seanego has won a poetry competition with his Sotho verse and graduated cum laude in languages.

The word is out on Instagram poets, with these four women breathing soft feminine magic on this visual platform.

World Poetry Day is celebrated worldwide on 21 March after it was formally adopted during Unesco’s 30th session held in Paris in 1999.

Nicholas Ninow really did just read-out a 48-line poem in court, as way of apologising to the seven-year-old girl he raped – here’s what he wrote.

Poetry has great power to make an impact. In a poem, written by anti-Apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, he reflects on the harrowing events on 21 March 1960.

Kgeorapetse Kgositsile, better known as Bra Willie was a South African poet and political activist. He passed away on Wednesday 3 January 2018, at the age of 79. Kgositsile was an influential member of the ANC in the 1960s and 1970s. Kgositsile was inaugurated as South Africa’s National Poet Laureate in 2006. He is the only person […]

What a great, inspirational message this is…

It’s a 20-year dream come true.

The story of a South African expat couple.

South African poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika Gwala has died