Botsotso

01/06/2026

This week at The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective!

Catch Botsotso poet Kelwyn Sole alongside Tania Haberland 🎙️✨

21/05/2026

Catch Botsotso authors David Mann and Les Morison at Kingsmead Book Fair this Saturday!

Tickets available via 🎟️

20/05/2026

Check out this interview with Botsotso poet Zeenit Saban-Jacobs about Inside an Eyeball on African Books Collective!

In Inside an Eyeball, Zeenit Saban-Jacobs blends surrealism, Sufi philosophy, and spiritual inquiry. Her poetry evokes vivid “feeling states,” exploring love, consciousness, and the experience of being a stranger. Visceral and layered, the collection invites deep reflection. Available through Bo...

05/05/2026

Join us!

16 & 17 May
Emakhaya Theatre
3pm

27/04/2026

"Anyone who is at all interested in South African poetry and the 'state of the nation' should read this outstanding meditation."

Read Basil du Toit's review of Kelwyn Sole's brilliant collection 'What is Owed?' in the latest issue of 'Stanzas'

10/04/2026

🗣️The International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) presents a Botsotso Ensemble production, The Struggle for Swazini, a title combining the name, Eswatini, as declared by King Mswati in 2018, and the historically popular name, Swaziland, which dates back to the British colonial era of the 19th century.

📢The play is dedicated to those who lost their lives at the hands of the Royal police during the July 2021 uprising calling for democracy and free political activity, to the survivors of the repression that put down the mass mobilization, and to all those still engaged in the struggle to liberate Swaziland from the oppressive rule of an absolute monarchy.

08/04/2026

"However, nowadays it seems that more people perform and listen to poetry than write or read it – and even they are a tiny segment of the population."

Read Botsotso poet Kelwyn Sole's previously unpublished 2014 paper 'Craft Wars and ’74 – did it happen?' in the most recent edition of HERRI ⬇

https://herri.org.za/12/kelwyn-sole/

30/03/2026

This past weekend in Johannesburg 🙌

10/02/2026

This Thursday at Exclusive Books Cavendish, join us for the launch of 'Volcanoed' by Petros Isaakidis! 💫

RSVP here: https://exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events #?event-id=71841

Exclusive Books

03/02/2026

Join us at Exclusive Books Cavendish for the launch of this brilliant new collection 📣🎉

📍🗓️ Join us at EB Cavendish Square for a book launch for Volcanoed by Petros Isaakidis!

Botsotso

RSVP is essential here: https://exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events #?event-id=71841