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Marié Jacobs
• Hear Me Now

Abigail George
• No Social Worker

Chestlyn Draghoender
• By Desire
• Worst Times in My Life

Richard Cullinan
• What Poem
• Discarded Night Lamps
• Golden Moment
• Swan Dances

• Stillness of Being
Hennie Prins
• Considering Australia
• Impressionist
T Ketye
• Oh this brother!

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The problems and potential of literary translation in contemporary
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Food

Review
Occasions in demand
“True to Francois’s entertaining persona, Occasions provides a benchmark on how to celebrate just about every meal as a special occasion.”
Susina Jooste

Top 11 Restaurants
Paul Murray listed his top dining experiences of 2011.

Music

Interview
The many sides to Alistair Izobell
Steyn du Toit

Interview
Tony Cox’s International Guitar Night returns for a second year
Steyn du Toit, Tony Cox

Festival
The Cape Town Folk and Acoustic Music Festival.

Food and Wine

Murray’s Food Trails
“It’s the urban energy that drives the dining experience at Primi.”
The Primi Wharf Trail
Paul Murray

Film

Interview
Nashen Moodley joins the Sydney Film Festival
Janet van Eeden

Blog: Film review
Rosa – a startling short film
"... it was made by one guy, a guy with no budget whatsoever and no backers to keep happy. What bliss. "
Reney Warrington

Review
Black Butterflies: Lost opportunities
"It gives the film a cheesy touristy or opportunistic foreign fundraising promo feel – cringeworthy, to say the least."
Gillian Schutte

New Writing

Top 11 2011
Bibi Slippers chooses her favourite poems published on LitNet in 2011.
• Poems

NetFiction
• A crucial connection – Jaco Fouché

• The Incident on Heron Island
– Richard Jurgens

Gay

Top 11 2011
Top stories from The Pink Tongue, Independent Newspapers’ community newspaper for and about South Africa’s gay community.
Gary de Klerk

Top 11 events concerning the LGBTI community
“Government is simply not doing enough to educate all South Africans, especially in rural and township environments, on issues surrounding homophobia and transphobia”
Christina Engela

Fundamentally Speaking
This past week I have been contemplating crime ... that is, the concept of crime and punishment.
Christina Engela

Books and Writers

Review
The Boers in Angola: There for even longer than you thought
“The Boers in Angola gets to the heart of the people whose lives it depicts in often striking detail ...”
Bill Nasson

African Library
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives tackles contemporary African culture
Annie Gagiano

Review
Triumph of the Pennywhistle: Occasionally stirring but entirely overwrought debut
Jonathan Amid

Perfect for Christmas, choose one of these Modjaji Books

Poetry anthology gift recommendations by Michelle McGrane

Review
A Sailor’s Honour: ambitious, intelligent and enjoyable thriller
Jonathan Amid

Inter-review
“In Divine Justice, Hichens leaps solo into a story of bizarre characters, tensely twisted plots, chilling hatred and a denouement to die for.”
Joanne Hichens, author of Divine Justice, in conversation with Janet van Eeden