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www.sabooksellers.com Issue 98, Oct – Dec 2019 NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION OXFORD NEW AFRICAN LANGUAGE LITERATURE Making African voices heard A harrowing story of one orphaned teenager’s struggle to overcome adversity and betrayal, and a community’s pursuit of justice A riveting account for her. of how the sinking of the SS Mendi affects survivor Sihlangu, and the woman he loves, in the midst of the chaos of World War I and South African politics. ISBN 978 0 19 073084 0 ISBN 978 0 19 598926 7 Qaqamba dreams of being a medical doctor, but life is hard in the rural Eastern Cape. She studies diligently but will she overcome the restrictions that hold her back, including her own father? Sibling bonds between two brothers, Thebe and Otsile, are put to the ultimate test when they fall for the same woman, and when one must decide whether to expose the other’s corruption. ISBN 978 0 19 075252 1 ISBN 978 0 19 075203 3 Scan to browse our 021 596 2300 complete literature www.oxford.co.za offering in a range OxfordSASchools of South African languages! @OxfordSASchools African_languages_literature_A4_advert_masterset.indd 1 2019/08/01 10:07 CONTENTS REGULARS FEATURES Bookmark ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 2 NSFAS cash payout debacle ������������������������������������������������� 10 SA Booksellers Association ���������������������������������������������������� 2 Sweden in South Africa ���������������������������������������������������������11 SA Booksellers National Executive Committee ������������������������� 2 Sisters doing it for themselves ���������������������������������������������� 12 Letter from the President �������������������������������������������������������� 3 Copyright: Easy access – or a gateway for exploitation ����������� 14 Members listing �������������������������������������������������������������������23 Book Clubs are Back ������������������������������������������������������������� 15 NEWS TRIBUTE Jacana returns to its independent roots ����������������������������������� 4 Jill van Zyl – All the World’s a Stage ��������������������������������������� 16 Batya Bricker appointed Exclusive Books’ new GM Lieze Kotze – Lifetime Achievement �������������������������������������� 18 of Marketing, Retail and Procurement ������������������������������������� 4 Andrew Majoribanks – Farewell to a Gentleman �������������������� 19 SABA bids farewell to Peter Adams after 40 years �������������������� 4 Maritime TVET Academy ���������������������������������������������������������� 4 THE YEAR TO DATE SABA National Chair for the General Trade ������������������������������ 4 Top 50 Panel Titles Week 01 – 39 2019 ���������������������������������� 19 The subtle art of not panicking ����������������������������������������������20 EVENTS The South African Book Fair: A new era ����������������������������������� 5 PROFILE Making the trek to Gaborone Book Festival ������������������������������ 8 Spoken Word Wizards ����������������������������������������������������������� 21 Aardklop 2019 delivers a punch ���������������������������������������������� 8 Lunch with Malebo Sephodi �������������������������������������������������22 AWARDS 2019 Sefika and SA Book Award winners ��������������������������������� 9 Sunday Times Literary Awards ������������������������������������������������� 9 Leonie van Rensburg honoured at ATKV Woordveertjies ����������� 9 • Ace it! 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Study Guides help you understand how you learn best and gives you techniques to help you succeed. ace_it_study_guides www.aceitstudyguides.co.za Ace It Study Guides Customer Service: 033 8468721 / 22 / 23 / 24 Bookmark Issue 98 1 OCTOBER 2019 SA Booksellers National Executive Committee MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION Issue 98 • October 2019 PRESIDENT AND DIGITAL SECTOR HEAD Melvin Kaabwe EDITORS Olinka Nell • Heleen Liebenberg [email protected] • 021 918 4000 EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING +27 (0)82 873 4200 • [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT AND NORTHERN REGION +27 (0)82 780 5215 • [email protected] CHAIRPERSON SUBSCRIPTIONS SA Booksellers Office Riaz Hassim [email protected] • 011 726 8208 +27 (0)21 003 8098 • [email protected] FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Lorraine Sithole, Deborah Steinmair, Olinka Nell, VICE-PRESIDENT AND ACADEMIC SECTOR HEAD Heleen Liebenberg Mohamed Kharwa [email protected] • 031 337 2112 PHOTOGRAPHS Thanks to all for photographic contributions Design and Layout: élan Concepts TREASURER Jonathan Ferreira Printed by: Impress Litho [email protected] • 086 122 9229 SECRETARY AND LIBRARY SECTOR HEAD ABOUT THE SA BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION Vic Lopich The SA Booksellers Association represents a united front [email protected] • 0861 229 229 for booksellers. Through strategic liaison with the differ- ent sectors of the industry and provinces, SA Booksellers strives to regulate the book-trade, reminding publish- ers to act as wholesalers and booksellers as retailers. CENTRAL REGION CHAIRPERSON The annual SA Booksellers AGM has historically been Guru Redhi co-located with the Publishers Association of South [email protected] • 032 945 1240 Africa (PASA) AGM. The AGM is open to all members of SA Booksellers and is a conference full of information, energetic discussions, pertinent topics and eloquent speakers. This is an opportunity for education for all, EASTERN REGION CHAIRPERSON keeping members at the cutting edge of developments in Sydwell Molosi our ever changing industry. [email protected] • 047 531 0319 SA Booksellers works closely with government departments, educational authorities, and the state tender boards concerning matters that affect the trade. EDUCATION AND SOUTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON More than 50% of SA Booksellers members are Hentie Gericke previously disadvantaged and SA Booksellers is [email protected] • 021 981 1270 well positioned to lobby government on all issues pertinent to the book trade. SA Booksellers provides access to information for all its members, through the commissioning of research papers and the gathering of GENERAL TRADE SECTOR HEAD news, to the effective dissemination of this information Grattan Kirk via the industry magazine Bookmark and through [email protected] • 083 450 8855 www.sabooksellers.com. Bookmark, the official magazine of SA Booksellers, is distributed free of charge to all members as well as to all influential people in the book trade from publishers to SABA NATIONAL OFFICE government departments. The digital edition is sent to Tashrikah Jones an ever increasing subscriber database. This magazine [email protected] • 021 003 8098 is a mouthpiece for SA Booksellers members as much as it is a source of information. Send a letter to the editors at [email protected] or [email protected] The Executive Committee of SA Booksellers and the Editors thank to have your views published. all those who contributed to this issue of Bookmark through articles and/or advertising. SA Booksellers, PO Box 870, Bellville, 7535 Tel: 021 003 8098 [email protected] SA Booksellers National Office www.sabooksellers.com [email protected] Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 13:00 021 003 8098 Bookmark Issue 98 2 OCTOBER 2019 Regulars Letter from the President We write, publish and purvey internal ideas, feelings, experiences and opinions t has been a challenging year behind for external reception. Ius, particularly for the academic sector. Our industry is quite literally integral Best believe books will continue to be the to freedom. In the case of the xenotext, most sincerest expression of our humanity we do this work so that something of committed to a media for others. As a our creative freedom might even outlive relative newcomer to the industry, it is the species. I stand with colleagues in likely my digital evangelism broomstick the sector who view books as therefore may sweep disruptively to some. In that being much more than a content product. example of many titles that appeal to a context disruption may be just what is One only needs to look at self-published previously neglected segment, yet found needed to gather up the missing masses author and disruptor Dudu Busani-Dube, their way out to a receptive audience. I via a genuine commitment to diversity whose Hlomu trilogy blossomed under believe recognizing this diversity is good and inclusivity before the (Trump-like the radar and became a phenomenal and a transformative catalyst towards an ‘huge’) nascent opportunity relegates success. The spin-off movie will be on the inclusive industry. the current status quo into irrelevance. silver screen later this year. This is but one Like lightning in a bottle, digital tools are empowering more people like me Melvin Kaabwe was elected the new President of SABA at the 2019 SABA/ that are ‘less literati and more twitterati’ PASA AGM in Cape Town in August. Melvin is currently the Head of Digital at to reach our customers. We ignore these Van Schaik’s, and has more than 10 years’ experience in retail and banking, advances at our peril. Let’s engage