Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – to be launched in April. Watch out for the first pages of each of the 24 stories, which will be run in hourly sequence every day.
It’s 3 AM and Sarah Britten takes us to Sydney, Australia:
Home Away: 3 AM (Sarah Britten)
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By invitation of the Library Committee, Dale Hefer will be presenting her published book, From Witblits to Vuvuzelas: Marketing in the New South Africa at The Rand Club on Thursday 15 April.
About the book
In From Witblits to Vuvuzelas, Dale Hefer, founding director of the Chillibush Group of Companies, shares a wealth of advice with South African marketers in the New South Africa. In a rapidly evolving industry, new and innovative ways of understanding target markets, objectives and go-to market opportunities are required. For this reason, the book dispels popular myths about which part of the population makes up the ‘main market’, experience with clients and incorporates invaluable insight from local marketing legends. Personal anecdotes illustrate key concepts, while the main focus of the book is on our diverse culture and the challenges and pitfalls that marketers encounter in this country. Informative, witty and accessible, From Witblits to Vuvuzela is an essential tool for anyone in the marketing industry or for those who want to enter the world of marketing.
Dale Hefer started her company in 1998 as a one-woman show. Operating from a rented garage and using her boyfriend’s computer and money given to her by her sister as start-up capital, Dale soon grew the business to the R1-million mark. Today she employs a team of 40-plus and has projected earnings of R70 to R80 million.
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Zebra Press brings you a preview of the exciting new collection of SA writing on hours and cities edited by Louis Greenberg, Home Away – to be launched in April. Watch out for the first pages of each of the 24 stories, which will be run in hourly sequence every day.
We start with midnight, Nairobi and Zukiswa Wanner:
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Home Away: Midnight (Zukiswa Wanner)
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Save the date! The Louis Greenberg-edited “book of cities and hours”, Home Away, will be launched on Thursday, April 15 at The Book Lounge in Cape Town.
This unique and captivating collection is a snapshot of South African writing today: emigrant and immigrant South Africans, living at home and away.
Here’s the brilliant line-up of contributors, the hours they’ve been assigned to and the cities they write about:
Midnight: Zukiswa Wanner (Nairobi)
1 am: S.A. Partridge (Triolet)
2 am: Richard de Nooy (Amsterdam/Rokytnice nad Yizerou)
3 am: Sarah Britten (Sydney)
4 am: Naomi Nkealah (Mainz)
5 am: Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (Havana)
6 am: Colleen Higgs (Kampala)
7 am: Moky Makura (Lagos)
8 am: Sarah Lotz (Maun)
9 am: Louis Greenberg (Ushuaia)
10 am: Fiona Snyckers (Oxford)
11 am: Lauren Beukes (Tokyo)
noon: Ted Botha (Los Angeles)
1 pm: Liesl Jobson (Victoria / the air)
2 pm: Jassy Mackenzie (Moscow)
3 pm: Makhosazana Xaba (Dakar)
4 pm: Jo-Anne Richards (Patmos)
5 pm: Henrietta Rose-Innes (Chanchan)
6 pm: Kathryn White (London)
7 pm: Karina Magdalena Szczurek (Salzburg)
8 pm: Ivan Vladislavic (Oklahoma City)
9 pm: Helen Moffett (Fairbanks)
10 pm: Rustum Kozain (Royaumont)
11pm: Victoria Burrows (Hong Kong)
Many of the authors will be on-hand at the launch to read from their selections. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Antjie Krog’s Begging to be Black was released in July last year, completing the trilogy that began with Country of My Skull and followed with A Change of Tongue. To celebrate, RHS is bringing out new editions of the first two books in the trilogy modelled on the same style as Begging to be Black. Now it’s simply a case of collect all three!
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It’s official! The much-anticipated compilation Home Away will be published by Zebra Press next month. Watch out for a special series related to the book on the Zebra Press blog starting next week – it will be “24″ with a twist!
Being South African isn’t as black and white as it used to be. People from all over the world make South Africa their home, while South Africans have more geographic freedom than ever before. This unique and captivating collection is a snapshot of South African writing today: emigrant and immigrant South Africans, living at home and away.
In Home Away, twenty-four chapters by twenty-four writers, set in cities all around the world, make up one global day, a mosaic reflecting on the nature of home. As the provocative stories in this collaboration suggest, often it’s when we are far away from home that we see it most clearly.
About the authors
The collaborators on Home Away are: Lauren Beukes, Ted Botha, Sarah Britten, Victoria Burrows, Richard de Nooy, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Louis Greenberg, Colleen Higgs, Liesl Jobson, Rustum Kozain, Sarah Lotz, Jassy Mackenzie, Moky Makura, Helen Moffett, Naomi Nkealah, SA Partridge, Jo-Anne Richards, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Fiona Snyckers, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, Ivan Vladislavić, Zukiswa Wanner, Kathryn White and Makhosazana Xaba.
Louis Greenberg is a freelance writer, editor and web designer. His first novel is the well-received The Beggars’ Signwriters, and he has published several stories, photographs and poems. He has lived in Johannesburg all his life, and much of his travel is vicarious.
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Shown above: all 24 contributors
Wat hou jou snags wakker? Vir sommige is dit geldsake, of die kinders of dinge by die werk. Rhynie Greeff kyk in sy rubriek na die nagmerries wat die wêreld wakker hou. Greeff vermaak By lesers al vir jare met sy Briewe uit Brittanje (nou ook as ‘n boek beskikbaar).
In 1963 het die Amerikaanse burgerregtestryder Martin Luther King jr. gesê: “Ek het ʼn droom”.Die wêreld skreeu daarenteen al eeue lank: “Ek het ʼn nagmerrie”.Met die oorgang na die 1800’s het baie mense in die nagmerrieteorie van Thomas Malthus geglo van wêreldhongersnood omdat die wêreldbevolking baie vinniger as kosproduksie sou groei. Gelukkig sit Malthus die pessimis die pot toe mis omdat hy nie nuwe voedseltegnologie voorsien het nie.Op Oujaarsaand 31 Desember 1999 het almal vreesbevange gewag vir die oomblik wanneer die kalender na 2000 sou oorslaan, die milleniumgogga rekenaars psigopaties sou maak en vliegtuie uit die lug sou val.
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Author of Pale Native, Max du Preez speaks to Jan Hennop, new editor for DispatchOnline, about his book, the ANC and Julius Malema. Gcina Ntsaluba attended a special “Dispatch Dialogue” night with du Preez and reports on his speech during the event.
VETERAN journalist, writer and political commentator Max du Preez was in town to talk about his latest book Pale Native, and the thrills and dangers of frontline investigative journalism.
Speaking in his characteristic straight-shooting and uncompromising manner at the Dispatch Dialogue on Tues day night, Du Preez said the book was an entertaining analysis of southern African politics, filled with drama and action.
It takes readers on a remarkable journey, from the contradictions of history to the triumphs and troubles of the present, to the halls of Parliament, burning townships, Presidents, guerillas, and hit men.
Watch: “Three questions for Max du Preez”:
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What has become, Max du Preez wonders aloud in his latest column, of that once glorious political party, Africa’s oldest, the ANC? Why the silence from Luthuli House on the antics of Julius Malema? Feeling similarly frustrated? Here’s your chance to vent with Max:
The ANC has become an insult to all those who carry its membership cards and those who voted for it last April – and to the many who died for it over the years.
Yes, sir, I mean you too, you who loves sending angry messages, often with accusations of racism, to the News24.com comments section whenever anyone criticises the government or those in Luthuli House.
What has become of the self-respect of this once proud organisation that was formed 98 years ago and brought us giants such as Sol Plaatje, Albert Luthuli, OR Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Chris Hani and Nelson Mandela?
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Old Mutual and Inspiring Women invite you to “Find Your Inspiration Day” on Saturday 6th March. Speakers include Donna McCallum, aka the Fairy Godmother, Angelique du Toit, Criselda Kananda and Moky Makura. Donna’s book The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What You Want has been an inspiration to thousands of women. Get some tips from the Godmother herself as well as various other phenomenal women.
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