The iLembe Book Festival (IBF)

The iLembe Book Festival (IBF) is a collaborative literary event that brings together readers, writers, and creatives from the iLembe District Municipality and surrounding communities. The festival features panel discussions, a school outreach programme, poetry workshops, and a slam poetry event, all aimed at fostering a deeper appreciation for literature and the spoken word.

• Festival Date: 25 October 2025
• Place: Luthuli Museum in Groutville, KwaDukuza.
• Time: 9am to 5pm
• There is no entry fee, anybody can come in.

Programme:

• 9:30 to 10:00 – Festival Opening
• 10:00 to 10:50 – Writing the Unspoken: Navigating Family and Secrets in Storytelling
• 11:00 to 11:50 – The Craft of Adaptation: Reimagining Stories for Screen
• 12:00 to 12:50 – Memoirs: Echoes of a Life Lived | Women at the centre: We write what we like
• 13:00 to 13:50 – The Future of Writing: Creativity, AI and the vanishing readers | Gentelmen’s Club: We speak and write to shake nations, patriarchy and masculinity
• 14:00 to 14:50 – Stories in the shadows: Reading crime, reading ourselves | Penning Destinies: The reality of Modern Publishing
• 15:00 to 15:50 – Beyond the Headlines: Unpacking Africa’s Challenges and Possibilities | The Women in our Lives: What we inherit from the women before us and how we transform or resist those inheritances
• 16:00 to 17:30 – Poetry Slam Event (Auditorium)

Click here for the full programme.

Click here for more information.