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by Thando on May 24th, 2013
Leonie Joubert and Tim Noakes will be at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa to talk about their book, nutrition and feeding Southern African cities.
Joubert is the author of The Hungry Season and Noakes wrote Challenging Beliefs.
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by Thando on May 23rd, 2013
Pan Macmillan presents two launches for South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics by Mandisa Mbali in Durban and Cape Town.
On Tuesday 28 May at 5:30 PM for 6 PM, Mbali will be in discussion with Richard Ballard of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Development Studies at Ike’s Books and Collectables.
The Book Lounge in Cape Town will host Mbali in conversation with Steven Robins on Thursday 30 May at 5:30 PM for 6 PM.
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by Thando on May 22nd, 2013
The heartbreaking, harrowing and exquisitely beautiful stories that fly from eco-adventurer Patricia Glyn’s lips will make your hair stand on end. They will also make you weep and laugh, sometimes at the same time. This was the consensus of many who were at The Book Lounge last week to hear the author describe the remarkable events that went into the making of What Dawid Knew: A Journey with the Kruipers.
The erstwhile radio hostess held the capacity crowd spellbound for almost an hour as she recalled her adventures in the Kalahari with Dawid Kruiper, an elder of the Khomani Bushmen clan. She shared the frustrations and triumps she encountered as she recorded and archived their heritage sites in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, where the elders of the community set about sharing a long-held secret that would teach the youngsters about their history and rapidly disappearing culture.
Glyn described Dawid Kruiper as one of the most renowned Bushmen in South Africa. She emphasised that this was the term he chose to define him and his kinfolk due to the negative associations with the word “San” include “thief” and “dirty”. “Dawid is the elected traditional leader of the Khomani people, who live on the outskirts of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, where until the early 1900s, Dawid’s ancestors lived and hunted freely.
Glynn recalled the claim won in 1999 against the apartheid authorities that had robbed the Khomani of their ancestral land. The 25 000 hectares of land inside the Park that was offered by way of restitution, along with farms outside it, on which the community could live and run tourism businesses, represented a human rights victory in theory.
Glynn said that in the intervening years many factors including a lack of transport into the park had conspired to prevent the community from accessing all but a small portion of the land. Dawid Kruiper, in his late 70s, was desperate to return to some of the places of great historical and cultural significance that he hadn’t seen since his youth, places his grandchildren had never set eyes on. Aware of his impending death, he approached Glyn with an urgency. “The old man knew that when he died much of his knowledge would vanish with him,” she said.
With South African National Parks’ (SANParks) permission to camp and walk anywhere they needed to visit, the extended Kruiper clan set off with Glyn and her team of film makers to visit a range of sites, both sacred and profane. Battle grounds and hunting grounds, birth places and burial grounds were recorded for posterity and form the core of the story which Patricia was requested to tell.
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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 Wednesday 29 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.
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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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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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