Category: books
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ABOUT: Wanda Verster
Wanda Verster is an architect, an academic and a writer (in training). She lives in Bloemfontein and is deeply connected to this strange central town that tries to be a city. She developed a love for stories through the influence of her Grandparents, who loved history, her mother who read to her from an early…
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ABOUT: Khalida Moosa
Khalida is a stay-at-home mom who has little inclination for cooking, sewing or baking. She is a wordsmith and loves the musicality and rhythm of the written word. She is also an avid reader and enjoys sharing good reads. Khalida currently hosts a community book club in the South of Johannesburg. Her poem was inspired…
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ABOUT: Kgetsa Mamabolo
Kgetsa is a talented, gifted, versatile and multilingual artist who enjoys the ability to capture the hearts of his audience through poetry. He has an electrifying stage performance of the highest standard. He normally performs at corporate events, offering poetry on a range of topics to suit the audience. Kgetsa is a member Penpals Poets,…
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ABOUT: Indigene Corefio
Indigene is no stranger to the love of word, having fallen in love with poetry from her formative years when she found refuge and therapy in writing and the expression it afforded her. Her writing spans across the universal themes of love, existential angst, divine bliss, esoteric consciousness, social challenges, sexuality, and feminism. In 2005,…
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ABOUT: Christina Engela
Christina Engela is a fervent advocate of human rights and equality for all people, and also the proud owner of a warped sense of humour, and it shows. She lives in Port Elizabeth (where she enjoys watching birds fly backwards) – a tourist haven with an unhealthy preoccupation with apples and whose mascot symbol is…
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ABOUT: Batia Efrat
Batia is a writer of many things, poetry being her favourite. Born to an artist mother, she found herself gifted with words at an early age. Her work explores both the thrills and fragility of the human condition – those murky spaces where few dare tread. Batia’s free style imbues her writing with poignant images…
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The Coinage Book Drive – Phuthaditjhaba
In 2013, we held a book drive for our first beneficiary, a start-up community library in Phuthaditjhaba. QwaQwa run by Nyakallo Lephoto. We received a lovely collection of paper and hardbacks, mostly South African novels covering a variety of topics. Most books were in excellent condition, assuring many more readings, and the collection is currently…