Tag: Rutanang Book Fair 2016

  • Rutanang Book Fair 2016: Images and videos from the festival

    Rutanang Book Fair 2016: Images and videos from the festival

    The Rutanang Book Fair happened from 25-27 April 2016 in in Potchefstroom, South Africa and featured leading South African writers, poets, film personalities, singers and more. Feast your eyes on some of the images and videos that we were able to capture from the one day of the festival that we attended.

  • Sabata-Mpho Mokae gives Sol Plaatje Lecture at #RutanangBookFair

    Sabata-Mpho Mokae gives Sol Plaatje Lecture at #RutanangBookFair

    Sabata-Mpho Mokae gave the Sol Plaatje Lecture at the Rutanang Book Fair on 27th April 2016 in Potchefstroom, South Africa. A man goes to appeal to the crown to the better nature of the British Empire because the land of his people has been taken away in the worst way possible in 1914. He stays…

  • Decolonising literature at Rutanang Book Fair 2016

    Decolonising literature at Rutanang Book Fair 2016

    Decolonising literature is the order of the day in South Africa and this is the theme of the Rutanang Book Fair 2016 next week, 25-27th April, in Tlokwe. There promises to be a large number of events at the book fair, organized by Tlokwe-based media and events company Red Dune, geared towards this theme next…

  • Inaugural Rutanang Book Fair for South Africa

    Inaugural Rutanang Book Fair for South Africa

    The first annual Rutanang Book Fair will be held in Tlokwe, South Africa on 25 – 27 April 2016; the theme is Decolonising Literature. It looks like our African Literary Festivals have been coming thick and fast in 2016. With the ending Alexandra Book Fair ending this weekend there is another book fair on the horizon…