Lancement du Concours d'écriture poétique Francophone "L'Arbre"

En lien avec la construction d'un arbre à palabre dans l'enceinte du palais des congrès de Durban. Le comité organisateur du XIII éme congrès mondial des professeurs de français lance un grand concours d'écriture poétique francophone.
L'arbre - Concours d'écriture poétique (395.21 Ko)
L'arbre et ses sens (273.1 Ko)

The learners' library of Dibuka awaits for you!

Specially dedicated to students of the French language, Dibuka's learners' library has recently been updated with new documents suitable for all levels. It proposes you simple stories to familiarize yourself with the French language, adaptation of the great French literary classics, exercise notebooks, reference books and magazines or novels that will help you to grasp with French culture while practising the language. The learners' library proposes you a large selection of various media: books, audio CD, CD-rom, dictionaries... French films, mainly with English subtitles also await for you on DVD's. Media are classified following learning levels of the French language. Students can thus directly identify what section suit them best.

France-South Africa Seasons 2012 & 2013

For several years France has been engaged in a series of reciprocal Seasons with its key international partners (China, Japan, India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil among others). With South Africa, this will be the first time that a sub-Saharan country is involved in the Seasons with France.  The goal of these Seasons is to improve mutual understanding and contribute to the diversification of France’s image in South Africa and South Africa’s image in France by emphasising the modernity and values that the two countries share.

The French Season in South Africa 2012 is:

A festive period: a wide range of over 70 different projects, performances and initiatives are planned across South Africa. Cultural events will be combined with a wide array of events in other fields: innovation, science and technology, higher education, business, tourism, sport and languages with the involvement of many different actors. 
A showcase of the numerous links existing between France and South Africa
An opportunity to reinforce a wide range of existing collaborations and to build a lasting legacy for both nations.

There is so much to look forward to as the French Season in South Africa continues right through until November 2012 in towns and cities around South Africa. The South African Season in France will take place from May to December next year (2013).

Cannes Festival: Clap, 65th take!

65 is usually the time when you retire. Not for Cannes' festival. Looking more fresh than ever, the film-making industry's annual powwow will take place between the 16th and the 27th of May. The festival boasts this year again an impressive list of competing long features, directed by the likes of David Cronenberg, Wes Anderson, Jacques Audiard or Ken Loach to cite only a few. Presided by the astute Italian film-maker Nani Morreti, with British actor Ewan Mc Gregor and renowned Haitian documentary-maker Raoul Peck among its members, the jury will have the hard task to pick only one winner...

Ironman evening at the Alliance Française of PE

Ironman 2012: The Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela University welcomed French-speaking athletes in Port Elizabeth.

In partnership with the French Embassy in South Africa represented by Mr. Patrick Parrot and the French Department of the NMMU run by Dr Hilda Thomas, the Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth hosted a gala evening, on Thursday 19 April 2012: about a hundred people gathered in a cozy atmosphere and enjoyed a cocktail as well as entertainment by a jazz band and live interviews with the athletes participating in the Ironman.