Kobus Moolman returns to Makhanda with a new poetry collection
A new poetry collection by Kobus Moolman Amazwi museum invites you to a meet and greet, book signing and launch of Kobus Moolman’s latest offering, Fall Risk. This poetry collection is for everyone, especially teachers and students in English, creative writing, drama, psychology, education, social workers and those in NGOs and CBOs that deal especially […]
An exhibition on Dr Sindiwe Magona tours Cape Town
The travelling exhibition, A Conscience for the Nation, toured her home city, Cape Town in September 2024. It is a version of the temporary exhibition on the life and works of Dr Sindiwe Magona. It has also toured her birthplace, Gungululu Village in Tsolo. In Cape Town, it was hosted by the Centre for […]
Voices from Amazwi
Quite a few of Amazwi’s staff signed up to explore their own creative voices in 2024. Nozipho Madinda (Education Officer), Patricia Peterson (Visitor Officer), Ayanda Simangweni (Gallery Attendant) and Anela Lupuwana (Post-graduate Intern) completed the 15-week community creative writing course run by the Institute for the Study of the Englishes of Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes […]
Amazwi to once again host ACALAN’s ALW 2025
Amazwi is set to host the third instalment of the African Languages Week (ALW), from 21 February to 28 February 2025. The event, under the auspices of African Academy of Languages (ACALAN) will be virtual. Several SADC states that include Swatini, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana and Zimbabwe are expected to participate. The event will kick-off on […]
Amazwi is Hiring
Amazwi has advertised for two (2) positions, that of a Librarian and an Exhibition Officer. For full details about the posts, including the closing date and the downloadable Amazwi Job Application Form, please visit the vacancies page: Vacancies – Amazwi South African Museum of Literature
Journ students intern at Amazwi
Amazwi hosted two interns from the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University. The students were Onthuse Ramaipato, a writing student, and Siqhamo Jama, a photo-journ student. They spent six weeks between September and October 2024 learning more about museums, heritage and the South African literary heritage while they were honing their skills […]
Veteran Librarian Retires
In December 2024 Amazwi librarian Petro Nhlapo retired. In her many years at Amazwi Petro worked with the press clipping collection and managed the museum’s journal subscriptions. She assisted visiting and corresponding researchers, and the Facebook post on her retirement has elicited many grateful comments from those she has helped over the years. Petro was […]
Amazwi Salutes Athol Fugard
Once upon a time, Athol Fugard at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature (then National English Literary Museum) in Beaufort Street, Makhanda. Andrew Martin, a Librarian at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature with years of experience on developing bibliographies, penned a moving tribute to Athol Fugard who passed away on 08 March 2025 at […]
Amazwi hosts the first ever Holiday Programme
Five schools will be part of the first ever Amazwi School Holiday Programme Amazwi South African Museum of Literature will be running a week-long Schools Holiday Programme from 31 March to 4 April 2025. It will start at 10h00 and finish at 13h00. This autumn programme will offer Foundation Phase and Intermediate Phase children an […]
Margaret Kelleher Visits Amazwi in October 2024
Margaret Kelleher, Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair, Centre for Humanities Research, UWC looking at part of the Amazwi exhibition which talks about Charlotte Maxeke. Margaret Kelleher talking to Amazwi staff about the Museum of Literature Ireland Margaret Kelleher, a board member of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MOLI) visited Amazwi in October 2024. We had […]