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📚 We’re building something special with #NCBW2026 — happening in September across Kimberley. Now we want to hear from YOU: ✨ Which books are keeping you hooked? ✨ Which authors should we bring to Kimberley? ✨ Who do you want to meet, hear, and be inspired by?

The Robe. The History. The Legacy. The ceremonial robe placed on Chancellor Ikalafeng’s shoulders tonight was designed by Kimberley’s own @_ThebeMagugu_ , Africa’s first LVMH Prize winner.

📚 For the first time ever, the Northern Cape will have its very own literary festival — four days of books, stories, poetry, debate, and celebration of the written word. 📩 For further enquiries and partnerships email us at northerncapebookweek@gmail.com

RST VI. That’s the tweet.

What drives a life-long activist to take up the pen? We posed this question to Mama Nombi Flatela regarding her first book, My Life, My Race, My Destination. Her answer speaks to a life lived at the intersection of struggle, identity, and purpose. youtu.be/ETSaYGeeSLE?fe…

Sol Plaatje Municipality’s Municipal Manager Thapelo Matlala arrived at the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Law Office in Galeshewe carrying something refreshingly simple — books. The donation to the Galeshewe Youth Network’s library may appear modest, yet its symbolism is powerful.

📍🗓️ Join us at EB @MenlynSA for a meet and greet/book signing for Mme, Ntate O Kae? (Mommy, where is Daddy?); Mama's Boy, Boys Do Cry; and Mama's Chocolate Bone by Tshidi Monkoe! RSVP is essential here: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events#?…

Our founder @motheoseleke awaiting his moment as author @mokaewriter signs a copy of #LefatsheKeLaBadimo - a quiet but powerful meeting of reader and storyteller in celebration of African literature. Remember @BookWeek_NC takes place 16 - 19 September 2026 in Kimberley.

Shipment of #ToHealthWithIt copies headed for Gaborone Botswana ahead of the book launch. Details to follow.

📍🗓️ Join us at EB @TheMallOfAfrica for a meet and greet/book signing for I Am What I Choose to Become by Nonelela Melissa Ndzube! RSVP is essential here: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events#?…

Hello wonder world, Most thankful for this journey we’ve been on together and as we hop into a new universe, one is curious to know. When did are paths first cross? 1. 💛 for “Yellow: The Novel” 2. 🐮 for “Inganekwane” 3. 🕯️ for “nomthandazo” 4. 👽 for “The Vault”

The Phakamile Mabija Public Lecture takes place on Wednesday, 11 March 2026. Hosted by the Teemaneng Running Club in partnership with SPU, the lecture will be delivered by Setsi Matlhareng Dipone under the theme: “If he walked among us today: if he worked with us…”

The inaugural Northern Cape Book Week is confirmed for Wednesday, 16 to Saturday, 19 September 2026, to be staged across select venues in Kimberley. This gathering will convene writers, readers, thinkers, and custodians of story ...

Siyafunda Sonke Silent Reading Session at @ExclusiveBooks Centurion, 12:00 till 15:00 Bring your book, wine and snacks will be served. #SiyafundaSonkeSilentReading

we’re coming #kidslovejazz

It’s a date!

Lindiwe Mabuza (1938 – 2021) was South African anti-apartheid activist, poet, academic and diplomat. She completed her high school at St Louis Betrand High School in Newcastle. Mabuza earned a B.A from Roma College. In 1964, she moved to the United States and enrolled at Stanford University, where she completed a master's degree in English. She went further to obtain her second master's degree in history, majoring in American Studies, from the University of Minnesota. In 1968, she became a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. In 1969, she joined Ohio University as Assistant Professor of Literature and History. Mabuza's personal experience of racial segregation in South Africa, which led her to leave South Africa, and her exposure to the plight of African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement prompted Mabuza to join the struggle for the emancipation of her people in South Africa and Africa as a whole. In 1975, she joined the ANC and moved to Lusaka in Zambia. In 1977, she became Editor of Voice of Women, a feminist journal for women in the ANC. She was also a radio journalist and broadcaster in Radio Freedom, which was the ANC's radio station, broadcasting from Zambia to multiple African countries. She was also the Chairperson of the ANC's Cultural Committee. In 1979, the then ANC president Oliver Reginald Tambo assigned Mabuza to open ANC offices in Scandinavia and to become the ANC's Chief Representative to Scandinavian countries, residing in Stockholm, Sweden. She forged strong relationships with Scandinavians and was very close to the Prime minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, who was a major supporter of the resistance to the apartheid government. In 1986, Mabuza was transferred from Sweden to the United States to serve as the ANC's Chief Representative there. With the aid of the Swedes, Mabuza managed to open and run an office based in Washington, DC. She arrived in America shortly after the American government had imposed sanctions on apartheid South Africa. She continued to lobby congress and to work with many American activists, such as Jesse Jackson, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda and many others. She was instrumental in the many boycotts, rallies and other efforts to frustrate the apartheid government. Her efforts, with the help of other organizations and American colleges across America, led to Coca-Cola and many other such corporations withdrawing their investments from South Africa. Source: ANC Archives/The Presidency/SAHO/Wikipedia

Her job is selling dream homes. Her reality is a living nightmare. The Stalker is a chilling, twisty read about obsession, control, and what happens when admiration turns dangerous. #PsychThriller #StalkerFiction #Bookstagram #TwistyReads #Bestseller #CantPutItDown

A haunted house. A dangerous bond. A reckoning shaped by power and desire. 🕯️ Cape Fever by Nadia Davids is a taut, unsettling Gothic tale set in the shadows of a colonial city. #LiteraryFiction #GothicReads #Bookstagram #HauntingReads #AfricanLit

Empowering poems await! 💛📖 This collection of 100 works, featuring voices like Maya Angelou and Emily Brontë, is your cheerleader for courage and confidence. #PoetryLovers #WordsThatHeal #ConfidenceBoost #Bookstagram #FeelGoodReads