South Africa: What I Learnt After a Week of Travelling With SA Writers

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Books and intellectual conversations all day long, right? Wrong. Writers are like you and me. They are very human who don't always talk smart and if there's anything to it, they don't always carry big words everywhere they go. MBALI ZWANE reports on her time spent covering the 2016 Time of the Writer festival.

The humidity might have left my hair standing on end but the company was anything but scruffy. Indeed, it was a real privilege to find myself in the company of a mixed bunch of writers and storytellers during the Time of the Writer festival in the salty, and sultry, city of Debben.

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