Tag: Rutanang Book Fair
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Rutanang Book Fair 2018 artists and theme announced
The Rutanang Book Fair 2018 artists to feature at this year’s edition, its third iteration, have been announced by fair organisers. This year’s theme is ‘United by the Book.’ The Rutanang Book Fair was founded in 2016 to showcase the best of literature from Tlokwe and the greater South Africa. That event was well received…
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Rutanang Book Fair 2018 set for Tlokwe, South Africa in April
The Rutanang Book Fair 2018, the third edition of the South African literary festival, will be hosted in Tlokwe from April 26-28, 2018. In 2016, a team in the town of Tlokwe imagined a festival for their hometown. They settled on one they called ‘Rutanang’ which is a Sotho word means ‘learning from one another’…
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A snapshot of the virtual Rutanang Book Fair 2017
The Rutanang Book Fair 2017, the second edition of the South African festival, was hosted from May 2-4. This year the events would happen virtually. The Rutanang Book Fair 2016 was hosted in the South African town of Tlokwe from April 25-27. The festival brought together many of South Africa’s leading writers and we loved…
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Mbe Mbhele and Mpho Matsitle books debut at #RutanangBookFair
Mbe Mbhele’s and Mpho Matsitle made their debut on Thursday, 27th April 2016 at the Rutanang Book Fair in Potchefstroom, South Africa. The two books are published by South Africa’s Sankara Publishers. Mbe Mbhele and Mpho Matsitle called “the terrible twins of black literature” by some were the stars as they introduced their new books,…