South Africa: Refresh, Reboot and Reset - - Free Talks Featuring SA's Best Writers Set for Cape Town

24 March 2025
Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
By Marianne Thamm

Join Daily Maverick and other renowned South African journalists and writers for free discussions at the Suidoosterfees/Festival at Artscape in Cape Town from 30 April to 4 May.

Listen to this article 6 min Listen to this article 6 min Every year, ground-shifting debates and discussions with some of this country's leading thinkers, journalists, historians and writers take place in the centre of Cape Town, and it's all free/gratis/mahala.

Thanks to the Jakes Gerwel Foundation, the ATKV and Netwerk24, in partnership with various South African publishing houses and the annual Suidoosterfees/Festival, these discussions have grown in popularity and significance since first being introduced in 2018.

The Suidoosterfees/Festival has taken place for over 21 years in the city and is hosted at the Artscape complex.

Daily Maverick's resident authors of multiple works, Pieter-Louis Myburgh and Caryn Dolley, will join legal journalist and author Karyn Maughan, Jana van der Merwe and Mia Spies on 1 May in the ATKV Book Oasis for a panel discussion titled "Press Freedom - We Will Not Be Silenced".

The discussion is multilingual and questions from the audience in any language are encouraged.

Those seeking to attend must bear in mind that while the events are free, you must still book on Webtickets.

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Exclusive Books will be handling book sales at the venue and authors will be available to sign copies...

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