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The Radioactive Blog is organising this event "Let the Stanza Breathe" A spoken word poetry event in collaboration with the Vrystaat Literature Festival 2025. When we let poetry breathe, it reveals the hidden connections between seemingly separate worlds. This showcase will bring together dynamic voices – including poets from the deaf community – to illuminate these invisible... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas's "Weeping Becomes a River" interweaves poetry, theatre, and film to explore themes of cultural alienation and the complexities of tradition, religion, and migration in democratic South Africa.
Siphokazi Jonas participated in powerful discussions at the 2025 Franschhoek Literary Festival, focusing on cultural alienation and poetic reflections on nature.
The Open Book Festival will host a Workshop Week in Cape Town from June 2 to 7, 2025, at Bertha House in Mowbray.
National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)Advancing the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ululations of Excellence! As we continue to celebrate 10 years of the HSS Awards, we proudly acknowledge the exceptional literary achievement of Weeping Becomes a River by Siphokazi Jonas with a foreword by Trevor Jones which was honoured in the Best Fiction: Poetry category at the hashtag#HSSAwards2025. Celebrating boundary... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas will be part of two powerful sessions at this year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival, both happening on 16 May 2025 ONE, AN OTHER 14:30 – 15:30 Franschhoek Theatre Joined by Ashanti Kunene, Siphokazi explores the linguistic and cultural alienation experienced by Black learners in former Model C schools during the ’90s and early 2000s,... Continue Reading →
Do join Siphokazi as talks about her award winning poetry book "Weeping Becomes at River” at Pinelands Library on Wednesday 16th April from 10am till 11am Siphokazi Jonas is a weaver of seemingly discordant worlds; growing up in an Afrikaans dorpie, attending an English boarding school, and going on annual holidays to a village, emaXhoseni, during... Continue Reading →
Digtersparadys huldig Breyten Breytenbach.The event was on the 4th April at the KKNK in Oudtshoorn.WITH Antjie Krog, Bibi Slippers, Riku Lätti, Danie Marais, Tom Dreyer and Siphokazi Jonas Antjie Krog paid tribute to poet Breyten Breytenbach and brought her poems to life.Danie Marais (Ek en jy bestaan nie), Tom Dreyer (Nou in infrarooi), Bibi Slippers (Soekenjin) and Siphokazi Jonas (pictured... Continue Reading →
If you're at KKNK in Oudtshoorn this weekend, don’t miss this special event! Join us on Friday, 4 April, at 17:30 for an unforgettable evening of poetry and music. Antjie Krog will pay tribute to Breyten Breytenbach, while Siphokazi Jonas, Bibi Slippers, Daniela Maartens, and Tom Dreyer will share readings from their collections. Acclaimed musician... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas' Weeping Becomes a River was honoured as a joint winner for Best Poetry last night (28th March 2025) at the 10th Annual Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Awards Gratitude to NIHSS for their commitment to celebrating bold thinkers, storytellers, and changemakers who shape our understanding of society through research, creativity, and scholarship. Thank... Continue Reading →
The third edition of the Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers (JFWW) returns to the University of Johannesburg on the 9th March 2025.Book lovers will get to celebrate women’s voices, and honour local and international writers who continue to shape the landscape of women’s writing. Under the theme African’s Women’s Writing in the 21st Century the JFWW takes place at... Continue Reading →
My event is not open to the public. My talk is a private / invitation-only session. Thank you for understanding. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch, all details on the website openbookfestival.co.za Siphokazi Jonas
It dawned on me I have been in the entertainment economy since 1985, whilst at UCT Radio. Cleaning out we found some posters and articles, so I thought to post. Penguins in Bondage, The Usual, Seether, Hotstix and now Siphokazi Jonas. Can’t believe it has been 40 years this year 2025. We will find an article or two... Continue Reading →
Yesterday 4th February was an absolutely outstanding day. Siphokazi spent the afternoon with approximately 1000 learners at Westerford High School discussing her book, WEEPING BECOMES A RIVER. Together, they laughed, reflected, and she challenged them to embody their authentic selves and creativity wherever they go.THIS is a core reason why she wrote the book.As teacher Steve... Continue Reading →
The fourth Cape Flats Book Festival returns to West End Primary School in Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain, on Saturday and Sunday February 1 and 2. The FREE festival is organised annually by Read to Rise, a non-profit organisation that promotes youth literacy in poor communities.Siphokazi Jonas is on stage on 2 February - see poster below “The Cape Flats Book... Continue Reading →
And so 2024 eases to a close, and the great pilgrimage from urban to rural, from labour to home begins! Siphokazi captures the vibrant and complicated energy of this season in EASTERN CAPE MECCA from her poetry collection Weeping Becomes a River Wishing you all safe travels Music by Kukkurukugu, Zimbini Makwetu Full clip on YouTube ... Continue Reading →
The Reading List spent a few minutes chatting with Siphokazi Jonas about poetic cliffhangers, revealing yourself through writing, and the joys of the publishing process. Siphokazi Jonas is a South African poet, playwright and actor. She was the 2016 runner-up for the national Sol Plaatje European Union Award and headlined as the first Featured Poet at... Continue Reading →
I have some exciting news: Weeping Becomes a River by Siphokazi Jonas has been selected as one of Brittle Paper's 100 Notable African Books of 2024! Siphokazi Jonas’s work caught our attention for how it represents the creativity in African literary culture today. Feel free to share this achievement with your readers and community. To make it... Continue Reading →
Radio interviews with Siphokazi Jonas tomorrow 11 December on Algoa FM at 7.40am And Good Hope FM at 1.10pm talking about her book Weeping Becomes a River. Siphokazi Jonas is a weaver of seemingly discordant worlds; growing up in an Afrikaans dorpie, attending an English boarding school, and going on annual holidays to a village, emaXhoseni, during the... Continue Reading →
What the Book Lounge had to say:“The 2024 Book Lounge Book of the Year award goes to Siphokazi Jonas for her incredible collection of poetry, ‘Weeping Becomes a River’. Weeping Becomes a River is storytelling as a tapestry, threads of ancestral folktales woven through the complex contradictions of modern living.Through her poems, Siphokazi Jonas delivers... Continue Reading →
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