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by Thando on May 15th, 2013
Join Tony Leon at Kalk Bay Books for the launch of his new memoir, The Accidental Ambassador: From Parliament to Patagonia.
Leon will be in conversation with John Maytham on Thursday 30 May at 6:30 PM for 7 PM.
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by Thando on May 10th, 2013
Picador Africa and Protea Bookshop invite you to join Tony Leon in conversation with Prof Hermann Giliomee about Leon’s latest release, The Accidental Ambassador: From Parliament to Patagonia.
The discussion will take place on Thursday 16 May at 6:30 PM for 7 PM.
Don’t miss it!
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- Date: Thursday, 16 May 2013
- Time: 6:30 PM for 7:00 PM
- Venue: Protea Bookshop,
Bergzicht Plaza
Andringastreet
Stellenbosch | Map
- Guest Speaker: Hermann Giliomee
- RSVP: proteaboek@mweb.co.za , 012 882 9100
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by Thando on May 10th, 2013
Picador Africa and The Book Lounge invite you to join Patricia Glyn in conversation around her latest book, What Dawid Knew: A Journey with the Kruipers.
The event will be held on Thursday 16 May at 5:30 PM for 6 PM.
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by Thando on May 8th, 2013
“I’m Missing News” is what Katy Katopodis’ son used to call Primedia’s Eyewitness News. He would walk around the house, saying “My mommy works for I’m Missing News”. So when it came to choosing a title for Katopodis’ book on juggling parenting with her job as editor-and-chief of Eyewitness News, what better choice could there be than I’m Missing News: When Hard News and Parenting Collide – it speaks not only of her relationship with her sons but also of her love of journalism.
At the launch of the book last night at The Book Lounge in Cape Town, Kieno Kammies of 567 Cape Talk and Talk Radio 702 introduced Katopodis, saying that he has tremendous respect for her ability to balance family and career. He also whet the audience’s appetite for the book, revealing that, among other things, it tells of Katopodis trying to get an illegal abortion (for a story) and Muammar Gaddafi getting “fresh” with the journo.
In conversation with Vanessa Raphaely, Katopodis explained that she wrote I’m Missing News because she feels that the conversation on and among working mothers is important. Although it is much easier and accepted today for mothers to have a career, there is still a need to share experiences and thoughts on this balancing act. That is why Katopodis also asked other women who work in media to contribute to I’m Missing News. Some frank pieces, including those by mothers who doubt their decisions, can be read in the book.
Speaking about how society responds to working mothers, Katopodis mentioned that her own mom used to say she needed to “stop running around in the townships”, settle down and have children. Once she did have children, however, she did not let it interfere with her work. Even when she is sitting by a sick child, she can still check her emails. Even when her sons don’t want her to go to work, she knows they’ll be happy and playing soon after she leaves.
“I would still go to a war zone in a heartbeat,” Katopodis said, expressing her love for news. Her current role as editor doesn’t allow it but the longing is still there.
When Katopodis became editor-in-chief at age 26, prejudice against a woman assuming this role soon reared its ugly head. An older colleague refused to work for someone who was younger and female. He abruptly quit the team.
At her son’s school, Katopodis also has to deal with certain “Stepford Wives” who have a problem with her because she is not involved at the school as often as they are.
Katopodis has learned to not let other people’s ideas of what a mother should be influence her. She has her own way of managing it and that’s fine as long as she and her family are happy.
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Carolyn Meads livetweeted from the event using the hashtag #livebooks:
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by Thando on May 8th, 2013
On Tuesday 14 May the Troyeville Hotel Book Club will host a dinner and discussion with Tony Leon about his new book The Accidental Ambassador: From Parliament to Patagonia.
The event will take place on Tuesday 14 May at 7 PM for 7:30 PM.
Tickets cost R179 and include dinner. Booking is essential.
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by Thando on May 7th, 2013
Picador Africa and The Book Lounge invite you to join John Maytham and Tony Leon in conversation around Leon’s latest release, The Accidental Ambassador: From Parliament to Patagonia.
The event will take place at The Book Lounge tomorrow evening, Wednesday 8 May, at 5:30 PM for 6 PM.
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by Thando on May 6th, 2013
Pan Macmillan invites you to join Katy Katodopis in conversation with Vanessa Raphaely around the release of her new book, I’m Missing News: When Hard News and Parenting Collide.
The event will take place at The Book Lounge tomorrow evening, Tuesday 7 May, at 5:30 PM for 6 PM.
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by Thando on May 2nd, 2013
Join Jenny Crwys-Williams on the 8th May as she chats with editor in chief of Eyewitness News, Katy Katopodis at Melissa’s in Parkhurst as they discuss Katopodis’s I’m Missing News: When Hard News and Parenting Collide.
The event starts at 6:30 PM. Seats are limited, so please book to avoid disappointment. Tickets cost R280 to R295.
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- Date: Wednesday, 08 May 2013
- Time: 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM
- Venue: Melissa’s,
Parkhurst Square
38 4th Avenue
Parkhurst | Map
- RSVP: Jade Horn, justjenny@iafrica.com, 076 780 6383
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by Thando on May 2nd, 2013
From the pen of the remarkable adventurer Patricia Glyn, author of Footing with Sir Richard’s Ghost and Off Peak, comes the true story of Bushman Dawid Kruiper and his family; What Dawid Knew: A Journey with the Kruipers:
“You see, Mama, I told the truth. And so did my grandpa. It’s the last time before I die that I can show my descendants the truth about what happened here. Now I can rest.” – Dawid Kruiper to Patricia Glyn
Dawid Kruiper was an old Bushman with a secret that had been kept in his family for over a century, and which he wanted to hand on to his sons before he died. But he didn’t have the means to take his children back to the place where his grandfather had witnessed the horror that silenced him.
So Dawid asked Patricia Glyn to help him mount the great – and final – odyssey of his life. For two months in 2011, three generations of the Kruiper family, Patricia and her expedition crew travelled through the Kalahari, visiting and documenting places where Dawid and his forebears had roamed when they were ‘wild’ and free in the decades before the outsiders arrived in their homeland. And their journey culminated in Dawid releasing his secret to the world.
This is the story of how Patricia’s assumptions about and relationships with the Kruiper family were tested to the limit before they trusted her with their knowledge and stories. Patricia slowly gains an understanding of the depth of the Kruipers’ pain after centuries of genocide, prejudice and dispossession. The result is a candid but compassionate account of how this historical trauma manifests in the everyday lives of a contemporary Bushman family.
Patricia describes what she learned from the family about humankind’s original relationship with wilderness and the natural world. She recounts the Kruipers’ extraordinary veld knowledge and intuition, their inbuilt GPS and prescience.
This is an eco-adventure with a difference. What Dawid Knew explores the personal history and heritage of a remarkable family and what the Bushmen have to teach us about respect for, and responsible management of, our natural resources.
About the author
Patricia Glyn is an eco-adventurer, professional speaker, former TV and radio presenter, and the author of Footing with Sir Richard’s Ghost about her 2 000 km walk in the footsteps of her Victorian ancestor, and Off Peak, an irreverent diary about the three months she spent on Mount Everest.
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by Thando on Apr 30th, 2013
In a column for Business Day, Tony Leon writes about the weekend’s Freedom Day celebrations, saying he agrees with what Bill Keller recently wrote in the New York Review of Books: that South Africa is a “dispiriting and inspiring” country.
Leon, former leader of the Democratic Alliance and previous South African ambassador to Argentina, recently published his memoir about his time in South America, The Accidental Ambassador: From Parliament to Patagonia.
DURING the 1990s, the hinge years of South Africa’s democratic transition, Bill Keller was based in Johannesburg as the correspondent for the New York Times. He recently revisited, in the pages of the New York Review of Books at least, our republic and penned a pithy and acute diagnosis of South Africa now and then. He described our story as simultaneously “dispiriting and inspiring”.
The Freedom Day weekend provided evidence of both aspects of this paradox.
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