I first met Dennis Brutus in the early 1980’s when I attended an African Literature Conference, held in the United States. Being in exile, he was happy to meet a fellow South African. He remembered my husband,  Herby,  as they were at  Fort Hare together.  We were very happy to renew our friendship when he came back to South Africa after 1994. He would speak of “the return of the native” - an amusing reference to one of Thomas Hardy’s novels.  Dennis was a consummate patriot and a world citizen – he did not give up fighting for a just democracy, both locally and globally.   

An analysis of the literary contributions of South African Indian women captured in the book: Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women, has won the prestigious Hiddingh-Currie Award for the author, UKZN’s Dr Devarakshanam Betty Govinden.

Dr Govinden, a senior research associate at the Faculty of Education at the Unviersity of KwaZulu-Natal, will receive the award - which acknowledges high quality academic and scholarly work - from Unisa Press in February. The award is named after Dr William Hiddingh, one of the first advocates in the Cape Colony, and Sir Donald Currie, an early benefactor of Higher Education in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

This is an interesting story book with a wide range of stories that contain the wisdom of the African people.  The stories range from those that attempt to explain the origin of striking features found in selected animals to those that explain certain relationships between animals and people.  The stories contain strong messages that are important in teaching life skills that will help people to avoid pitfalls in life, for example, teaching people to learn to do things for themselves and not to rely on others.  Other stories emphasize that life demands that people should always be alert in order to avoid being led to destruction by cunning individuals.

Please join us for our annual end of year function on Saturday the 5th December, from 9.30 until 11.30.  We are having a morning tea party in the beautiful grounds of Inanda Seminary and will also be launching the INK (Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) Writers Trail, which we have been working on with the eThekwini Municipality this year.

Tea and eats will be provided, Creative INK (a poetry and writers collective') will perform and the school museum will be open.  The Seminary is one of the stops on the INK Writers Trail.

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