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Sylvia Vollenhoven

Jul 2, 2014

A writer, award-winning journalist, playwright and filmmaker. In 2019 appointed the University of...

Writing Ourselves Into History: The liberating narrative of who we are

Oct 18, 2021

Sylvia Vollenhoven“My initial foray into the world of telling stories for a living leads me into a media environment that requires you to leave your critical faculties behind.

Black Wednesday Edition

Oct 18, 2021

As South Africa commemorates the 44th anniversary of this day – October 17, 1977 – which, in...

The Free State Arts Festival recently took place at the Bloemfontein campus of the University of the Free State. In this piece Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi reports on a tour through her emotions as she experienced some of the plays.

Disgust, shame and heartache are the first things that came to me as I watched most of the plays at the Free State Arts Festival this year. I felt the screams of women in our country through art.

Colonialism came with historical distortions and we as modern day society still live by those and turn them into new words, philosophies and principles.

Zuluboy Arthur Molefe, the fearless African Warrior

Jun 25, 2019

January 5 1944 – May 31 2019

Zuluboy was the fearless African warrior who made me feel proud to be an African journalist and revel at being in his company.
It’s Monday morning in Toronto and Zuluboy “ZB” Arthur Molefe’s funeral was three days ago. There’s been no mention of my painstakingly prepared eulogy/tribute to my fellow journalist anywhere or by anyone. I don’t even care to know why it was excluded but I figure it’s OK to post it on Facebook essentially for his nephew,