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MICHAEL KING, KARINA SZCZUREK & MASANDE NTSHANGA – By complete Contrast

Last year New Contrast, one of SA’s very first literary journals, celebrated 60 years in print. With two editors and a many-hatted admin, we take a look at its past, present and future.

ASHRAF KAGEE – By the Fading Light

A psychology professor uses his imagination, personal and professional experience to paint a picture of the soul of Salt River in the sixties.

BRIDGET MCNULTY - Giving you grief

It seems that never before has death been so prevalent as the pandemic cuts a swathe across the world. And with death comes grief. To help you at the worst time of your life, Bridget McNulty has just produced The Grief Handbook. Hear her tell, first hear how she dealt with it herself.

Buhle Ngaba - Hamlet Lines Online

The works of Shakespeare have seen any number of incarnations over the centuries. Actor and associate director Buhle Ngaba, talks about performing in the very newest, a reading of a very South African version of Hamlet – online.

Mandy Noble - Books on Fire

The flames that swept the slopes of Table Mountain in April this year also took a devastating toll on the nearly 80,000 strong collection of books and material in the University of Cape Town’s historic Jagger Library – some of it irreplaceable. The ashes settled and tears dried, a librarian tells the tale. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/jagger-recovery [http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/jagger-recovery]