The Vrystaat Arts Festival • Tsa-Botjhaba is an Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures. We contribute to the exchange of ideas around arts, culture and society through connections with other national and international creative communities.Vrystaat Arts Festival offers a creative marketing platform that reaches professionals across the country. About 160 000 visitors are expected every year for the duration of the festival (six days). These visitors like celebration, social contact and the arts.

Flemish author Chika Unigwe will take part in the inaugural Vrystaat Literature Festival. On 13 JuIy at 14:30, the writer will take part in discussions during To describe the Foreign (in conversation with Kader Abdullah and Wilfried N’Sonde ) and on 14 July at 11:30 during Africa - how do we write you now? (in conversation with Ingrid Winterbach, Ivan Vladislavic, Wilfried N’Sonde and Francois Smith).