Don’t Frack with Our Karoo™
A Booktown Richmond / University of the Western Cape Project
Building a nation from words
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It always seems impossible…until its done. These immortal words, by Nelson Mandela, have been playing on my mind these last few days. To think that we announced the idea of such a festival at the end of April – and now 6 months later, we have curated the world’s largest online literary festival – leaves me with a smile that stretches into 2021. I know the festival has not taken place yet, but I feel we are well prepared and only an Eskom blackout that plunges the entire country into darkness can scupper our well-laid plans.
I want to thank all the writers who have given of their time so selflessly to make this the greatest international book festival to emerge out of SA. I want to pay tribute to my university, the University of the Western Cape, who are partnering us on this project, especially my Dean Prof Nomlomo and Acting Dean Prof Govender, for tolerating a colleague with his head in the clouds, Graham Julies from the IT division and Umesh Bawa and his team from the Institutional Advancement Office at UWC. I also want to thank Peter Baker from Book Town Richmond for his ‘lets do it’ attitude and Hendrik Mentz, who volunteered his life…literally, to put writers profiles and this programme up on our website. It was a mountain of work.
Now all we need is for the bibliophiles, the book lovers to come out in their numbers and make this the most unforgettable book festival in SA in the year of the plague. Let the beauty of the written and spoken word wash over you and heal you, better than any pharmaceutical vaccine ever can.
Oh, and did I mention we still need volunteers to sit in on sessions to keep an eye that Zoom keeps zooming writers to our screens. And for those who would like to introduce writers at a session or three – we need you, simply so that I can eat and go to the loo a few times over these 9 days.
Thank you once more, and may the literary gods smile upon us
ONLINE BOOKINGS
Please visit our webpage: click here << LINK | where you will find links for each of the days. You literally have to fill out your name and email, and the UWC system will then generate a link for you to click on for that days talks. You must however download the ZOOM APP. It really is very simple
WRITERS
You will get a special link from my university for PANELISTS. However if you want to attend talks of other writers you will have to book following instructions above.
ALL TALKS ARE FREE
PLEASE CONSULT WEBSITE BECAUSE OF INEVITABLE MINOR CHANGES BEYOND OUR CONTROL
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God Bless South Africa
Forever BookBedonnerd
Darryl David (alongside Peter Baker, co-director: Booktown Richmond)
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Madibaland Programme
Friday 20 November
10.00 – 11.00
OPENING – Prof Tyrone Pretorius – Vice Chancellor UWC
UWC Students’ short stories
Darryl David; Yunus Davids; Crystel Jansen; Alinique Swart
11.30 – 12.40
Elana Bregin: The Audacity of Hope
Louis Botha: Karoo (Darryl David Interviewer)
13: 00 – 14:10
Jackie Kalley: Gardens of The Natal Midlands
Erica Platter – Durban Curry (Interviewer: Darryl David)
14:30 – 15:40
Shantini Naidoo: Women in Solitary in conversation with Nancy Richards
Barbara Boswell & Betty Govinden: Marginalised Black Women Writers In
South Africa. (Interviewer – Rajendra Chetty)
16:00 – 17: 00
Rajie Tudge – Teaching the Canna Bush …About the Rainbow Nation
Gaireyah Fredericks/Jadrick Pedro/Duanne Miller – Kaaps Oppie Richterskaal
18:00 – 19:00
Official Opening: John Connell – The Cow Book
Christopher Merrill/Juwairiyah Khan
Nikola Madzirov – Remnants of Another Age (Poetry)
19:30 -20:30
Colleen Higgs/Brent Meersman /Hedi Lampert – in conversation with
Janet Van Eeden
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Madibaland Programme
Friday 20 November
10.00 – 11.00
OPENING – Prof Tyrone Pretorius – Vice Chancellor UWC
UWC Students’ short stories
Darryl David; Yunus Davids; Crystel Jansen; Alinique Swart
11.30 – 12.40
Elana Bregin: The Audacity of Hope
Louis Botha: Karoo (Darryl David Interviewer)
13: 00 – 14:10
Jackie Kalley: Gardens of The Natal Midlands
Erica Platter – Durban Curry (Interviewer: Darryl David)
14:30 – 15:40
Shantini Naidoo: Women in Solitary in conversation with Nancy Richards
Barbara Boswell & Betty Govinden: Marginalised Black Women Writers In
South Africa. (Interviewer – Rajendra Chetty)
16:00 – 17: 00
Rajie Tudge – Teaching the Canna Bush …About the Rainbow Nation
Gaireyah Fredericks/Jadrick Pedro/Duanne Miller – Kaaps Oppie Richterskaal
18:00 – 19:00
Official Opening: John Connell – The Cow Book
Christopher Merrill/Juwairiyah Khan
Nikola Madzirov – Remnants of Another Age (Poetry)
19:30 -20:30
Colleen Higgs/Brent Meersman /Hedi Lampert – in conversation with
Janet Van Eeden
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Saturday 21 November
10:00 – 11: 00
Hector Kunene – Poetry
Darryl David & Philippe Menache – 101 Country Churches Of SA
11:30 – 12:40
Alke Pande – Masterpieces of Indian Art
Cosmo Brockway/Harriet Compston/Karam Puri: Glorious Hotels of India
13:00 – 14:10
Christopher Nicholson – Winter
Athol Williams – Poetry
14:30 – 15:40
Kirsten Miller (All That Is Left)/Andrew Miller (Dub Steps)
Irene Fisher – I Am Still Here
16:00- 17: 00
Mike Lowry/ Steve Wimberley/ Phillip Kretzman – Inpirational Animals
18:15 – 19: 15
Chris Abani – In Conversation with Jean Meiring
Paul Weinberg – A 30 Year Journey with The San
19:30 – 20:30
James Daschuk: Clearing the Plains
Lizzie Collingham: The Great British Biscuit – In Conversation with Darryl David
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Sunday 22 November
10:00 – 11:00
Zirk Van Den Berg – Ek Wens, Ek Wens – In Gesprek Met Thys Human
Jerzy Koch – Pleks Van Plaas – In Gesprek Met Jean Meiring
11:30 – 12: 40
Bronwyn Davids – Lansdowne Dearest in Conversation with Nancy Richards
Tracy Going – Brutal Legacy
Andisiwe Kawa – Kwanele, Enough – In Conversation with Desiree - Anne Martin
13:00 – 14:10
Angie Butler – Explorers of The Heroic Age
Rosemary Gray – The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri
14:30 – 15:30
Lize Albertyn Du Toit – Die Kinders Van Spookwerwe In Gesprek Met Kirby Van
Der Merwe
Chris Marais & Julienne Du Toit – Karoo Roads
16:00 – 17:00
Deena Padayachee – Soul of the Stethoscope in conversation P. Rastogi
Daniel Hugo – Die Verdriet Van Belgie In Gesprek Met Johan Myburg
18:00 – 19:00
Christopher Merrill – Walt Whitman
Shilpa Raj – The Elephant Chasers Daughter
19:30 – 20:30
Harris Dousemetzis – Dimitri Tsafendas: The Man Who Killed
Apartheid
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Monday 23 November
10:00 – 11:00
Petrovna Metelerkamp – Ingrid Jonker
Sujata Assomull – 100 Iconic Bollywood Costumes
11:30 – 12:30
Ria Winters – Reise Met Schoeman
Gerbrand Bakker – Boven Is Het Stil In Gesprek Met Daniel Hugo
13:00 – 14:00
John Matisonn: Cyril’s Choices
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation – Neeshan Balton: Un-Civil Society
14:30 – 15:40
Lebohang Masango – Mpumi’s Magic Beads
Bridget Krone – Small Mercies
John Costello – The Wild Coast
16:00 -17:00
Ronnie Kasrils – Catching Tadpoles
Johan Jack Smith – Zola – In Gesprek Met Thys Human
18:00 – 19: 15
Thomas Mollett – The Anni Dewani Murder
Kiki Petrosino – White Blood – A Lyric of Virginia
Vladimir Martinovski – Poetry
19:30 – 20:30
Jocelyn Kagan – Africa’s Wild Dogs in conversation Nancy Richards
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Tuesday 24 November
10:00 – 11:00
Don Pinnock – The Last Elephants
Patricia Schonstein –The Inn at Helsvlakte In Conversation with Jonathan Amid
11:30 – 12: 40
Michael Cawood Green – For the Sake of Silence
Hugh Bland – Trappist Missions of KZN
13:00 – 14:00
Gabeba Baderoon – The History of Intimacy
Emma Neale – Billy Bird
14:30 – 15:30
Kiki Petrisino – Witch Wife
Sumayya Lee - The Story of Maha In Conversation Kimmera Pillay
16:00 -17:00
Barry Cohen - Black Golfers of SA
Let Me Play: The Papwa Sewgolum Story
Chris Nicholson –Papwa: From Pariah to Legend in Conversation Ashwin Desai
18:00 – 19:00
Carman Miller – Canada In the Anglo-Boer War
Elleke Boehmer – Southern Imaginings: To the Volcano
19:30 – 20:30
Henry Brown – A Lawyers Odyssey: Apartheid, Mandela And Beyond
Ashwin Desai – Indian Indenture in SA
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Wednesday 25 November
10:00 – 11:00
Elana Bregin – The Antbear Cabin
Joanne Hichens – Death and the After Party
11:30 – 12:30
Etienne Van Heerden – Die Biblioteek Aan Die Einde Van Die Wereld In Gesprek
Met Jonathan Amid
Amanda Michalapoulou – God’s Wife in Conversation Jean Meiring
13:00 – 14:00
Vernon Head – A Tree for The Birds – In Conversation with Ken Barris
Audrey Schulman – The Theory of Bastards
14:30 – 15:30
Cherry Lewis – The Enlightened Mr Parkinson
Fred Khumalo – The Longest March
16:00 – 17:00
Diana Ferrus & Mengelmoes Digters – Saartjie Baartman/Poetry in Conversation Nancy Richards
Andries ‘Roof’ Bezuidenhout – Onplaats/Music
18:00 – 19:15
Obie Oberholzer - Photography
Dana Snyman – Op Die Agterpaaie – In Gesprek Met Thys Human
19:30 – 20:30
Christopher Nicholson – Among the Summer Snows
Antony Osler – Stoepzen
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Thursday 26 November
10:00 – 11: 00
Sumathi Ramaswamy – Gandhi In the Gallery: The Art of Disobedience
Thomas Weber – Going Native: Gandhi’s Relationship with Western
Women
11:30 – 12: 30
Jackie Kalley: Farmhouses of Old Natal
Salma Husain: Mughal Feast
13:00 – 14:00
Irna Van Zyl – Bloedsteen/Blood Stone in Gesprek Met Jonathan Amid
Marita Van Der Vyver: Grensgeval /Borderline
14:30 -15:30
Paul Weinberg – On Common Ground: An Exhibition of Peter Magubane
And David Goldblatt
Carla Van Der Spuy – Plaasmoorde
16:00 – 17: 00
Christine Barkhuizen Le Roux – My Naam Is Prins
Goolam Vahed - Chota Motala And Madiba
18:00 – 19:00
Anton Harber – So, For the Record
Chris Abani/Kobus Moolman/Emma Neale/Adiela Akoo/Vernon Head
19:30 – 20 :30
Raks Seakhoa – Madiba In Poetry
Sindiswa Seakhoa – Songs for Madibaland
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Friday 27 November
10:00 – 11:00
Amy Mcdaid – Fake Baby
Natalie Conyer: Sisters in Crime (Three Sydney Crime Writers)
11:30 – 12:30
Clinton Du Plessis – Voetsoldaat Van Die Afrikaanse Digkuns
Sjon – The Whispering Muse from Iceland
13:00 – 14:00
Mike Nicol – Espionage Fiction in Conversation with Jonathan Amid
Hattie Edmonds – The Spectacular Vision of Oskar Dunkelblick
14:30 – 15: 30
Lynn Joffe: The Gospel According to Wanda B. Lazarus In Conversation With
Ken Barris
Kobus Moolman – The Mountain Behind the House
16:00 – 17: 00
Landa Mabenge – Becoming Him: A Trans-Memoir
Erns Grundlingh – Sushi En Shosholoza: Rugbyreise En Pelgrimstogte In
Japan
18:00 – 19:00
Chris Mann – The Troubadour
Debbie Rodriguez: The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
19:30 – 21:00
Jacob Dlamini – Askari: A Story of Betrayal During Apartheid
John T. Edge – The Potlikker Papers : A Food History of the Modern South
John Connell – The Running Book
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Saturday 28 November
10: 00 – 11:15
Raashida Khan – Fragrance of Forgiveness
Zanele Dlamini – Wounds of Ignorance
11:30 – 12:30
Patric Tariq Mellet – The Lie Of 1652 in Conversation Nancy Richards
Carol Campbell – The Tortoise Cried Its Only Tear in Conversation Jean Meiring
13:00 – 14: 00
Antjie Krog – N Vrye Vrou – The Poetry of Antjie Krog
Marguerite Poland – Sins of Omission
14:30 – 15: 40
Greg Arde – War Party
Zoe Wicomb – Still Life in Conversation Nancy Richards
16:00 – 17:30
Rumena Buzarovska – My Husband
Lizzie Collingham: Curry: Of Cooks and Conquerors
James Brent-Styan – Trump and the Post-Truth Era
18:00 – 19: 00
Greg Marinovich – Shots from The Edge: A Photojournalists Encounter
With Conflict and Resilience
Jacob Dlamini – The Terrorist Album
19:30 – 20:30
Shantanu Guha Ray – Corruption in Cricket & Mahendra Dhoni Biography
20:30 -20:40
Closing
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