Women Activists at the Jozi Book Fair
Community monitors from the Benchmarks Foundation (BF) attended the Jozi Book fair on 3 September 2017. Mmathapelo Thobajane…
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JBF Launches of the 2017 Guests of the Fair
The Jozi Book Fair (JBF) is thrilled to announce the launch of our two Guests of the 9th Jozi Book Fair Festival: Shailja Patel and Kopano Matlwa. The launch of the Guests will be on 3 June 2017, at the…
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BOOK REVIEW: Period Pain by Kopano Matlwa
Period Pain is Kopano Matlwa’s third book published by Jacana Media and looks at a number of South African horror stories that we see almost daily in news headlines; from xenophobia and racism, to corrective rape and the nightmare that…
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BOOK REVIEW: Getting Rid Of It by Lindsey Collen
“Plans together for after work today. Today today today. Take destiny in our? False hopes. Today. Plans to attend. Plans to attend to. Plans assembling in her mind on her mop. They’ve had enough of it…”Getting Rid Of It was…
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Black Panther activist in Johannesburg
On the 8th of March, International Women’s Day, Johannesburg residents were treated to a lecture hosted by the University of Johannesburg at SciBono Diversity Centre in Newtown. The audience was a diverse mix of students, high schoolers, workers…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o gives Inaugural Lecture at Wits University
On 2 March 2017, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) hosted Kenyan critically acclaimed author, Mwalimu Ngugi Wa Thiong’o for an inaugural lecture titled ‘Secure the base, Decolonise the Mind’. The lecture, held at Wits’ Great Hall, in Robert Sobukwe…
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Host events and Exhibit JBF
For 9 years Jozi Book Fair (JBF) has been a space and a platform for organisations and individuals to express themselves and debate any issues linked to the written word. Over the years JBF has transformed…
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Peter Magubane: A Photo Exhibition Commemorating Soweto 1976
40 years later, legendary photographer, Peter Magubane, once again brings to life the Soweto 1976 youth uprising. The photo exhibition, commemorating most appropriately the 40th anniversary of Soweto 1976, was opened on Sunday, 5 February, at CameraZ Gallery, in Rosebank…
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Women and Literature: 9th Jozi Book Fair
This year, we look forward to the 9th Jozi Book Fair (JBF) Festival, happening on 31 August to 3 September. Last year the JBF Festival was held at Wits University and this year we are happy to announce that we…
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