A scene from one of the videos where a Deaf storyteller interprets a children’s storybook in South African Sign Language.

Media release

SU’s Handlab and Book Dash open new worlds for Deaf children

ʼn Stille revolusie wat in vroeë kindergeletterdheid woed het nie in ʼn klaskamer begin nie, maar in ʼn ateljee waar dowe storievertellers Afrika-stories inoefen...

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Ingrid Jonker collection - documents and crate

Media release

Ingrid Jonker collection finds new home at Stellenbosch University

Earlier this month, a crate containing a very special collection of invaluable documents, was delivered to the Stellenbosch University (SU) Library and...

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At the Chancellor’s Lecture, South African-born Prof JM Coetzee and Tanzanian novelist Prof Abdulrazak Gurnah were in dialogue about how creative writing illuminates our shared humanity.

Arts, languages and social sciences

Literary giants probe writing, power and belonging in Chancellor’s Lecture

What, truly, is the meaning of the Nobel Prize for Literature? Who – writer, nation, language or market – does it finally serve? Might it be time, as JM Coetzee...

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