The annual Mail & Guardian Literary Festival will run from 1-2 August at the Turbine Hall in Newtown Johannesburg, as part of the 2015 South African Book Fair.
Have a look at this year’s programme:
Saturday August 1, 9.30am
Goodbye to all that: Decolonising culture and institutions
Panel: Xolela Mangcu, Achille Mbembe, Leigh-Ann Naidoo and Thaddeus Metz
Chair: Salim Vally
Saturday August 1, 11.30am
It’s the economy, stupid!
Panel: Herman Mashaba, Greg Mills and Patrick Bond
Chair: Songezo Zibi
Saturday August 1, 1.30pm
South Africa at a fork in the road
Panel: Steven Friedman, Louis Picard, Rehana Rossouw and John Saul
Chair: Adam Habib
Saturday August 1, 3.30pm
Future perfect: Transforming Jo’burg from apartheid city to a city for all
Panel: Nechama Brodie, David Everatt, Zayd Ebrahim and Rashid Seedat.
Chair: Zeblon Vilakazi
Sunday August 2, 9.30am
South African fiction publishing at 21: Gatekeeping or rainmaking?
Panel: Fourie Botha (Umuzi), Bridget Impey (Jacana), Thabiso Mahlape (The Black Bird), Debra Primo (UKZN Press) and David Robbins (Porcupine Press)
Chair: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Sunday August 2, 11.30am
Black and white in colour: Why race (still) matters
Panel: Anthea Garman, Lewis Gordon, Xolela Mangcu, Hlonipha Mokoena and Melanie Verwoerd
Chair: Shireen Hassim
Sunday August 2, 1.30pm
The South African novel at 21
Panel: Damon Galgut, Mandla Langa, Niq Mhlongo, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Ivan Vladislavic
Chair: Leon de Kock
Sunday August 2, 3.30pm
The Monuments Men: Rewriting reputation – Rhodes, Malan, Mandela & EM Forster
Panel: Dean Allen, Damon Galgut, Lindie Koorts and Mandla Langa
Chair: Achmat Dangor
Tickets are available at webtickets.co.za and at the door on the day.
Programmes for the M&G Literary Festival and the South African Book Fair are online: southafricanbookfair.co.za
*Note Raks Seakhoa will no longer chair the South African fiction publishing at 21: Gatekeeping or rainmaking? panel. It will now be chaired by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen.
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- The Arrogance of Power by Xolela Mangcu
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- On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
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EAN: 9781868146918
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- Education, Economy and Society edited by Salim Vally, Enver Motala
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- Capitalist Crusader: Fighting Poverty Through Economic Growth by Herman Mashaba, Isabella Morris
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- How South Africa Works: And Must Do Better by Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
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- BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique edited by Patrick Bond, Ana Garcia
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- Raising the Bar: Hope and Renewal in South Africa by Songezo Zibi
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- Race, Class and Power: Harold Wolpe and the Radical Critique of Apartheid by Steven Friedman
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- The Limits of Democratic Governance in South Africa by Louis Picard, Thomas Mogale
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- What Will People Say by Rehana Rossouw
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- A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African Liberation by John Saul
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- South Africa’s Suspended Revolution by Adam Habib
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- The Joburg Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places edited by Nechama Brodie
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- The Origins of Non-racialism: White opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by David Everatt
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- The Seed Thief by Jacqui L’Ange
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- Askari: A story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle by Jacob Dlamini
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- Antjie Krog and the Post-Apartheid Public Sphere: Speaking Poetry to Power by Anthea Garman
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- Diary of a Guji Girl by Qaanitah Hunter
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- Platinum by Jack Shenker, illustrated by Jason Larkin
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- Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual by Hlonipha Mokoena
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- 21 at 21: The Coming of Age of a Nation by Melanie Verwoerd, Sonwabiso Ngcowa
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- The ANC Women’s League: A Jacana Pocket History by Shireen Hassim
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- Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
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- The Texture of Shadows by Mandla Langa
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- Way Back Home by Niq Mhlongo
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- Green Lion by Henrietta Rose-Innes
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EAN: 9781415206850
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- 101 Detectives by Ivan Vladislavic
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EAN: 9781415206904
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- Bad Sex by Leon de Kock
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EAN: 9781415201527
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- Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa by Dean Allen
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EAN: 9781770228474
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- DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism by Lindie Koorts
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EAN: 9780624055877
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- Strange Pilgrimages by Achmat Dangor
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EAN: 9781770103009
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