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TikTok goes dark in the US as ban takes effect

Sunday at 13:02 PM, via The South African

TikTok shut down in the US late Saturday night, just before a nationwide ban took effect. The ban was signed into law by President Joe Biden.

Book Bites | Rams Mabote, Rachel Blackmore, Matt Haig

Saturday at 22:00 PM, via Times Live

This week we feature an erotic novel about a South African banker who gets his jollies in Australia; a historical novel set in Renaissance Rome telling the story of Costanza Piccolomini, the muse of Bernini; and Matt Haig’s latest of a 72-year-old woman who learns to let go on party island Ibiza

IN PICS | Literary liaisons and glam gals

Saturday at 22:00 PM, via Times Live

Victor Hugo once said: “A writer is a world trapped in a person.”In Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani’s case, that world is one shaped by the harsh and painful past we share — a world she captures with nuance and lyricism

Creating better worlds

Saturday at 22:00 PM, via Times Live

Samantha Shannon has become a BookTok phenomenon and it’s easy to see why, writes Sanet Oberholzer

Jacket Notes: Thami Nkadimeng on writing ‘Finding Purpose’

Saturday at 22:00 PM, via Times Live

While I was writing I struggled with allowing myself to be vulnerable. I questioned whether the world needed to know so much about me and I had to remind myself why I became “The Message Architect” in the first place.

What happens to a dream deferred

Saturday at 22:00 PM, via Times Live

As a young man living under a bridge in Newtown, Mbuso Khoza dreamt of one day writing music for television. Here he tells Leonie Wagner that he didn’t realise then it would take 20 years for that dream to materialise.

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