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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

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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]

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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 different sectors of the industry and provinces, SA Booksellers strives to regulate the book-trade, reminding publishers 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 the having worked at Edcon and Nedbank previously. He has a BSc in Hydrology disruption for the much needed energy and still has a keen interest in the subject. Melvin has a passion for required to revitalise our commitment reading and grew up with books as a constant companion while travelling as custodians and curators of our throughout the world as the son of a Fulbright scholar and UN academic. communities’ reading choices. He also sits on the board of PUKU. Melvin Kaabwe

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Bookmark Issue 98 3 OCTOBER 2019 News Jacana returns to its independent roots

make Jacana ‘the only truly independent owner-run major publisher in South Africa’. Imprints MFBooks and BlackBird Books will remain in the fold. Bridget grew up in a bookselling family, as daughter of the founders of Fogarty’s in Port Elizabeth. She worked at David Philip Publishers for nearly 20 years, before establishing a General Trade Division at Juta called Double Storey. Bridget has been at Jacana as both Publishing Director and Managing Director for more than 12 years. Veteran publishers Bridget Impey and Maggie was a publisher at David Philip Maggie Davey announced the acquisition and at the Mail & Guardian, and also of an 82% stake in Jacana Media through taught publishing at Wits before founding SABA bids farewell to Peter a consortium they formed. Their aim is to Jacana Media in 2002. ▾ Adams after 40 years Batya Bricker appointed Exclusive Books’ SABA secretary and bookselling legend new GM of Marketing, Retail and Procurement Peter Adams elected to step down from his role after 40 years of selfless service to the Exclusive Books were happy to welcome back into their fold Batya Bricker, who book trade. Peter is a direct descendant is no stranger to the trade. Batya is equally thrilled: of the family who opened Adams Books in Where book, reader and author meet is where the magic Durban in 1865 and served as Managing happens,and that so often happens in a bookstore. Director for nearly 50 years. He served in I am delighted to have the opportunity various portfolios at the SA Bookseller’s to play in this space again. Association for an uninterrupted period Batya Bricker has spent over 20 years in the South African of more than 40 years. book industry in various roles – as programme manager According to Peter, for three very different book festivals, as an independent Adams has never been totally profit publisher and editor, as lecturer in adult education, and focused. We have tried to give a course developer for SABA. Her longest tenure has been good and needed service and at Exclusive Books, where she spent 13 years managing and driving the Exclusive Books brand, from 1999 to see bookselling as a vocation 2012. as well as a business. It is indeed a homecoming of sorts to have her return to Exclusive Books as the GM of Marketing, Retail and Procurement. ▾ Long may his legacy endure. ▾ Maritime TVET capacity up to 240. The pro SABA National Chair for the General Trade Academy gramme offers 20 short cours es, 14 certificate programmes Exclusive Books CEO, Minister of Higher Education, and 18 diploma programmes. Grattan Kirk, was elect Science and Technology, These courses will be ed National Chair for the Dr Blade Nzimande has accredited by the South African General Trade at SABA’s launched the Maritime Maritime Safety Authority. Annual General Meeting Academy (a first of its kind The National Skills Fund in Cape Town in August. in South Africa) at the and Transport Education Grattan is a qualified Esikhawini Campus of uMfolozi Training Authority funded the CA, and has served TVET College, KZN. This renovated facility, refurbished as CEO at JD Group college hopes to target local classrooms, provided learning and Executive at Tiger unemployed youth who are material, training equipment Brands. He sits on the interested in maritime studies and capacity building. Audit Committee and and the oceans economy. In addition, Norway and Board of the Consumer The first group of 67 Sweden donated equipment to Goods Council of students started in April with the academy. ▾ South Africa. ▾ Bookmark Issue 98 4 OCTOBER 2019 Events The South African Book Fair: A new era In 2006, the South African book trade found itself at the crest of a wave, quite oblivious to twin disasters lurking around the corner: ͯͯthe global economic crash of 2007– 2008 and ͯͯthe launch of Amazon’s ‘iPod of reading’, the Kindle, on 19 November 2007.

ooksellers and publishers were still Bsnug in their cocoons, churning out Exhibitors didn’t think twice to fork out bestsellers and joking about returns at up to R100 000 to set up stands. Exclusive With 364 exhibitors from long, drawn-out literary lunches, sipping Books, in celebration, booked their annual 34 countries though, only the best local wines. managers conference at the swanky That year, the Publishers Association Twelve Apostles for all to attend the fair. everyone was excited of South Africa (PASA), in collaboration International delegations from across the about what the next year with the Frankfurt Book Fair, launched the globe made the journey down south. might bring. very first Cape Town Book Fair, hosted at Afterwards, everyone was very sure they the Cape Town International Convention had a great time. Yet no one could say Exactly what could have been, will Centre (CITCC) from 17 – 20 June 2006. with certainty if it was good for business. never be known. When Kindle and Touted as a spectacular international fair, The public loved it, and attendance was the financial crisis hit, the book trade it was to rival London and Frankfurt as a through the roof with 57 000 visitors worldwide and locally faced calamitous venue for rights negotiations. recorded, but the commercial prospects of decline in the face of ebook mania and the selling rights to international publishers disappearance of middle class spending largely did not materialise. power. The high costs of exhibiting at the Cape Town Book Fair fair, coupled with waning international at CTICC • owned by PASA 2006 interest, gradually turned the event into and Frankfurt Book Fair Cape Town Book Fair an annual headache for publishers. The 2007 at CTICC • owned by PASA original vision now relegated to being a and Frankfurt Book Fair Cape Town Book Fair pipe dream, the trade struggled to define 2008 at CTICC • owned by PASA the nature of the fair as it veered more and and Frankfurt Book Fair Cape Town Book Fair more towards a public event, with less and 2009 at CTICC • owned by PASA less reason for exhibitors to participate. and Frankfurt Book Fair Cape Town Book Fair After five years, the PASA – Frankfurt at CTICC • owned by PASA 2010 and Frankfurt Book Fair partnership dissolved, and a hiatus was 2011 No Fair announced for 2011. In 2012 and 2014, the fair returned to Cape Town Book Fair 2012 CITCC as the South African Book Fair, this at CTICC • owned by PASA time with PASA as sole owners. Faced with 2013 No Fair a continued decline in numbers, PASA decided to alternate the fair between South African Book Fair 2014 Cape Town and Johannesburg, with 2015 at CTICC • owned by PASA earmarked as the first Gauteng outing. 2015 South African Book Fair In hindsight, this was a prophetic at Turbine Hall • owned by PASA decision. Seismic changes were underfoot. No Fair 2016 After 20 years of democracy, a whole new generation of black writers were about to 2017 South African Book Fair in Newtown • owned by SABDC take the market by storm. Gauteng is the South African Book Fair heartland of that market and the fair was 2018 in Newtown • owned by SABDC rightly repositioning itself at the epicentre South African Book Fair of the change to come. 2019 at Constitution Hill

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Bookmark Issue 98 5 OCTOBER 2019 Quick Facts ͯͯThe fair featured 72 sessions, of which more than half were aimed at children

ͯͯMore than 100 authors, artists, storytellers, poets, academics and journalists took part

ͯͯMore than 50% of the programme participants were women

ͯͯBlack participants made up more than 70% of the programme

ͯͯMore than 500 learners attended the schools programme on the Friday

ͯͯEight international authors took part in the fair, five of which were from the African continent

ͯͯCountries represented on the programme: Ghana, It took the trade, and the market, a full SABDC CEO Elitha Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Malawi, Jamaica, Sweden, five years to hit this new stride, however. van der Sandt with USA The pendulum of cultural change first SABDC Chairman ͯͯHot topics included: Fees Must Fall, ‘Black Tax’, gender had to go through all the necessary Prof Andries violence, land ownership, diversity in the church, the motions: rejecting the status quo, purging Oliphant role of courts, xenophobia, multilingualism, political the establishment, reclaiming its own Photo: O. Nell satire and ‘state capture’ identity and paving the way for a truly African future. During this rocky period, ownership of the fair ͯͯSold out sessions: Sex Talk with Dr T, Black Tax and Its was transferred to the SA Book Development Council under the Discontents, Dismantling the Patriarchy, Gangster State, leadership of Elitha van der Sandt. Outings in Newtown in 2017 Fees Must Fall, Underground Booksellers Tour, Poetry and 2018 proved challenging, with all eyes set on a make-or- Tour of Constitution Hill break 2019. ͯͯSpecial events: writer’s workshop, Zulu class, inner city Finally, in September this year, the SA Book Fair found its home booksellers tour, cookery demonstrations, philosophy in the hearts of Johannesburg’s readers and writers. Symbolically café, poetry café, live illustration positioned at Constitution Hill, it managed to cross the divide between old and new, and offer the public something authentic. Importantly, it also laid the groundwork for resurrecting the The poetry sessions at the fair were vision of its founders: a trade portal into the burgeoning African hugely popular, headlined by Canadian- book market. Jamaican dub poet D’bi Young, who also launched her new collection of poems The fair took place from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 September at the event. On an emotional Saturday in the Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill. The Friday was in South Africa – the day murdered UCT dedicated to a school’s programme, while the Saturday student Uyinene Mrwetyana was laid to and Sunday were open to the public. rest in Cape Town – the evening’s Poetry Café saw sentiments boil over in a healing Peter Rabbit show of support for female victims of befriends violence everywhere. Vangi Gantsho’s Funda Bala raw performance delivered a punch to Photo: O. Nell the gut, lovingly lifted by D’bi Young’s soft humming of the Marley classic ‘don’t worry about a thing, cause every little thing gonna be alright … One by one, the audience chimed in, tears shining on many faces. The most talked about event at the fair was the tour of Constitution Hill, which Sarah Ladipo featured poets popping up at key stops Manyika at the on the way. Their powerful performances SA Book Fair tied in perfectly with each haunting space, Photo: O. Nell reminding the audience of the horrors which took place there – while at the same time transcending the confines of the past with triumphant chants of freedom.

Bookmark Issue 98 6 OCTOBER 2019 The last stop was in the atrium of the duly did. All shapes and sizes, all ages, Women’s Jail itself, where icon Gcina some with walking sticks and others in Constitution Hill Tour poets in the atrium of Mhlophe lifted the rafters in all her wheelchairs, women joined in the chorus: the Women’s Jail: Kabelo Ringane, Tshepo matriarchal magnificence. Ten minutes This is a new day… we Molefe, Fumo and Fumane Ntlhabane, into her song, she signalled for women celebrate you, women of Africa! Gcina Mhlophe and Jolyn Phillips to join her in a circle dance, which they ▾ Photo: SABF

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng (Dr T) and Malebo Sephodi Canadian-Jamaican poet D’bi Young Photo: O. Nell Photo: SABF

Bookmark Issue 98 7 OCTOBER 2019 Events Making the trek to Gaborone Book Festival

eptember 19 arrived and I was ready We then headed to lunch at The No. 1 Sto hit the road leading to the GBF’19. Ladies’ Detective and feasted on pap and I had mapped the route on my GPS and seswaa. In the evening, GBF was opened was ready to tackle the long 332 km to by Hon. Phillip Dikgang Makgalemele, Gaborone, but I had last minute errands Assistant Minister of Youth Empowerment, which added 98 kilometres to an already Sports and Culture Development. stretching drive. At 14:30, like Jack, a This was followed by three book chats: friend and I hit the road. Phillip Dikgang Makgalemele (Game Plan) Excitedly, we soon were cruising on the interviewed by Galaletsang Dintsi; Victor N4 towards Rustenburg. After a couple Baatweng in conversation with Nanjala of wrong turns, driving at 25 kms/h on a Nyabola (Digital Democracy, Analogue treacherous gravel road and negotiating Politics); and TJ Dema (The Careless Lorraine Sithole with Northern Cape poet border gate challenges, we eventually Seamstress) and Olebile Sikwane (Doctor Gontse wa Chaane checked into our hotel, Indaba Lodge, just Khumalo South Africa) in a session in time for the Gaborone Book Festival. facilitated by Kearoma Mosata and one album) and Nanjala Nyabola (Digital The following day, Friday, was spent at Bongani Malunga. After a scrumptious Democracy, Analogue Politics), facilitated the University of Botswana with sociology supper, we hung out at the hotel deck to by Lauri Kubuitsile. and political science students in a session unpack the day’s events. We had to bid our friends farewell at titled, ‘Digital Democracy, Analogue Saturday saw us attending a workshop 12:00 because, like a jetsetter, I had Politics’ led by Kenyan social activist, on the essentials of writing in indigenous to be at Lanseria airport at 17:00 for Nanjala Nyabola. Concurrently running language, followed by ‘Sharing notes: an unforgettable weekend away in was a Students’ Zone programme, which Lessons from my writing journey so far’, Zinkwazu Beach, KZN, with my book club, took place at the University of Botswana featuring Odafe Otagun (Taduo’s Song), BookWorms Book Club. ▾ conference facility. Phehello Mofokeng (Sankomota: An ode in by Lorraine Sithole

Aardklop 2019 delivers a punch

he Aardklop National Arts Festival returned to Potchefstroom 24–29 TSeptember this year and reported record attendance numbers. More than 10 000 people visited the festival on 24 September, 30% more than in 2018. The festival had more than 77 productions, 15 of which were debut shows.

Deborah Steinmair reports for Bookmark Toerien, directed by The Aardklop festival featured fewer Nicole Holm and features shows this year because the rand is in the luminous Cintaine a vice grip, but the shows on offer were Schutte as a 16-year-old of exceptional quality. Three débuts in the seventies. A haunting soundtrack Koningin Lear (Tom Lanoye’s play delivered a sucker punch evokes the innocence, confusion and loosely based on King Lear and beautifully ͯͯQueenie-hulle by Christo Davids (text brutality of the era, with lyrics like ‘A translated into Afrikaans by Antjie Krog) and direction) is about a motley crew time it was and what a time it was, a time reminds one why you fell in love with of hobos living on the stoep of the Good of innocence, a time of confidences’. theatre in the first place. Three hours Hope Centre. With echoes of Becket Younger playwrights like Kanya Viljoen are not too long to be held in the spell and Brecht, it’s a threepenny opera, (Raak) also shone. A ‘big’ production with of actors of the caliber of Antoinette a beggars ballet: breathtaking physical a star-studded cast is Katvoet – Tennessee Kellermann, Anna-Mart van der Merwe and theatre about homelessness, the need Williams’s classic Cat on a hot tin roof André Roothman. to belong and be recognised as a transposed to a Bosveld farm, translated The musical menu was diverse: Laurika human being. into Afrikaans. Tinarie van Wyk-Loots Rauch, Amanda Strydom, Karin Zoid, ͯͯWilde-als with veterans Dawid Minnaar is deliciously sensuous and painfully Albert Frost, Refentse, Rocco de Villiers – and Jana Cilliers is a visual masterpiece, vulnerable as Maggie the Cat. The set to name a few. like an art movie, in warm colours and is striking: naked trees like sculptures. Exclusive Books unpacked an full of texture. Sandra Prinsloo in Kamphoer, also an impressive bookstore at the Boeke Oase ͯͯMarita van der Vyver’s classic coming adaptation of a book, by Francois Smit, and some book talks were well attended. of age novel, Die dinge van ’n kind, is devastatingly brilliant. It is not light fare, People still flock to the theatre and fork out first published in 1994, is resurrected but all four shows were sold out and a fifth money to buy books. Dare one hope? ▾ with great sensitivity by Francois had to be organised. by Deborah Steinmair

Bookmark Issue 98 8 OCTOBER 2019 Awards 2019 Sefika and SA Book Award winners

The annual Sefika and SA Book Awards winners were announced at a ͯͯNational Trade Bookseller (Chain Store) prestigious ceremony at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town on the 27th of August. 2019 – Bargain Books ͯͯNational Trade Bookseller (Independent) outh African booksellers voted for Sam 2019 – Love Books SBeckbessinger’s Manage Your Money ͯͯNational Library Supplier 2019 – Like a F*cking Grownup as their favourite Hargraves Library Services book to sell in 2019. Their favourite Trade Publisher was Penguin Random House, Sefika Booksellers Awards 2019 and favourite Academic and Educational ͯͯNational Trade Publisher 2019 – Publisher Oxford University Press. Penguin Random House South Africa Berlut took the honours as Best Small ͯͯNational Academic Publisher 2019 – Educational Publisher. Oxford University Press South Africa Publishers in turn honoured Bargain ͯͯNational Education Publisher (Large) Books as Best General Bookseller of the 2019 – Oxford University Press South year, with Love Books acknowledged Africa as best Independent Bookseller. Protea ͯͯNational Education Publisher (Small) books walked away with the Best 2019 – Berlut Books Academic Bookshop accolade, and Books Elmarie Stodart (left) of Jonathan Ball 24/7 with the prize for Best Educational Publishers receives the SA Book Award on SA Book Awards 2019 Bookseller. The Best Library Supplier in behalf of Sam Beckbessinger. ͯͯFavourite Bestselling Adult Fiction Title – Prooi by Deon Meyer 2019 was Hargraves. Sefika Publishers Award 2019 ͯͯFavourite Bestselling Adult Non-Fiction Publishers also paid posthumous ͯͯNational Academic Bookseller 2019 – Title – Manage your money like a tribute to Stephen Johnson, former MD Protea Books f*cking grownup by Sam Beckbessinger of Penguin Random House, and Lieze ͯͯNational Educational Bookseller 2019 – ͯͯ Favourite Bestselling Children’s Title Kotze, MD of Oxford University Press, for Books 24/7 their lifetime contribution to publishing in (Fiction and Non-Fiction) – Klein kook South Africa. en geniet by Eunice van der Berg ▾

Sunday Times Literary Awards his year’s Sunday Times Literary Essays on Photography, Family and TAwards ceremony saw a change of Memory (Fourthwall Books), and the Barry venue to the rooftop bar of the Tiso Ronge Fiction Prize to Siphiwe Ndlovu for Blackstar offices in the Hill on Empire her novel Theory of Flight (Penguin Books). building. The guest list included many of Both writers received a substantial the authors, publishers and booksellers R100 000 prize. participating in the South African Book “This was a special and significant year Fair, lending the 30th edition of the for the Sunday Times Literary Awards. awards a more intimate and inclusive feel. It marked the 30th anniversary of the The prestigious Alan Paton Award went coveted Alan Paton Award,” said Sunday to Terry Kurgan’s Everyone is Present: Times Books Editor Jennifer Platt. ▾ Leonie van Rensburg honoured at ATKV Woordveertjies The ATKVs 12th instalment of the Woordveertjies awards took place on Friday 6 September in Stellenbosch. Leonie van Rensburg (left) of Graffiti Owner of Graffiti Books, Leonie van The Bookshop in Tygervalley in Cape Books with Sonél Brits (MD ATKV) and Rensburg, was awarded a Woordveertjie Town. Leonie served as CEO of Fascination Hettie Scholtz (former publisher for for her outstanding contribution to the Books in its heyday. Graffiti Books today Queillerie Publishers) South African book trade, especially is known for its unrivalled collection of for her role in promoting and selling Afrikaans literature, and serves markets as Afrikaans books. Leonie started her far afield as Australia and Canada. career at Universitas, after which she Literary Woordveertjies were awarded joined Exclusive Books, opening the to Die dao van Daan van der Walt by legendary Sunnypark branch in Pretoria Lodewyk G. du Plessis (Best Fiction), before moving to the Hyde Park branch as Prooi by Deon Meyer (Best Thriller) and manager. She was one of the co-founders Ingrid Jonker by Petrovna Metelerkamp of Facts & Fiction, and later opened (Best Non-fiction). ▾ Bookmark Issue 98 9 OCTOBER 2019 Features NSFAS cash payout debacle – Urgent appeal to government

vast majority of students depend on Athe National Students Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to support their studies – fees, accommodation, food as well as learning material such as text books. In the past NSFAS had a ring-fenced policy where money for learning material was Photo by Susan paid to the supplier. Yin/Unsplash In 2019, NSFAS changed this policy and students received money allocated for were pressured to learning material as a direct cash transfer. send their stipends Unfortunately, the ‘book’ money isn’t home in order to always used for learning materials but support the family redirected to the student’s other needs. instead of using it all The result has been that book sales at ac for their academic ademic bookstores dropped by up to 91%. needs. determine if this is having an effect on Several book shops have closed down. Kharwa said that they are worried the student’s academic performance. If A non-profit organisation Alliance for about the impact this could have on the that is the case the Alliance for Academic Academic Success was formed to address performance of the students. The Alliance Success hopes the outcome of the study these issues. Mohamed Kharwa, chair of for Academic Success is making an urgent will assist policy makers in their decision the Alliance for Academic Success, said appeal to Higher Education Minister whether they should continue with the their research showed that many students Blade Nzimande to conduct research to cash payment in 2020 or not. ▾

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Bookmark Issue 98 10 OCTOBER 2019 Features Sweden in South Africa By: Olinka Nell Cultural collaborations between What then lies behind the sudden blossoming of Swedish-SA cultural relations? South Africa and Sweden are eet Hedda Krausz Sjögren flourishing M(right), Sweden’s first outh Africa seems to be having a Counsellor for Cultural Affairs SSwedish moment. at the Embassy of Sweden in Pretoria. Effervescent, ͯͯIn June this year, funk master and disarmingly smart and uncannily trombone virtuoso Nils Landgren in tune with the cultural heart headlined the Standard Bank of Mzansi, Hedda is at the Jazz Festival. forefront of the current explosion of collaborations between ͯͯAt the National Arts Festival in July, the countries in all spheres of Sirqus Alfon’s apocalyptic music the arts. A playwright, director theatre piece I Am Somebody played and producer in her own the Makhanda stage to rave reviews. right, she is passionate and irrepressible in her role to uphold ͯͯIn August, the Swedish Children’s Sweden’s profile as a major Theatre Unga Klara collaborated supporter of artistic freedom and with the Drama For Life Festival on freedom of speech. the biggest bi-national investment Hedda’s work has been on in children’s culture South Africa has many stages around Sweden, including the Department of Arts and Culture and seen to date. her stage adaption of a novel by Nobel the National Library of South Africa is a big Prize laureate Svetlana Aleksijevitj, which opportunity for the country as a whole’. ͯͯThe annual Nadine Gordimer lecture at was produced by the Royal Dramatic Director General of the Department WITS was given by yet another Swede: Theatre. She has received numerous of Sport, Arts and Culture, Mr Vusumuzi writer, newspaper editor and Nobel awards for her theatre work. Prior to her Mkhize was at the announcement Prize committee member Per Wästberg. appointment at the Swedish Embassy in ceremony on 29th September to accept Pretoria, she served as an expert advisor the honour. ‘On behalf of the South ͯͯAward-winning Swedish writer at the Swedish Ministry of Culture. African Government, we are honoured Elisabeth Åsbrink (below) appeared at Hedda and the embassy’s plans for to be the country of focus for the both the Open Book Festival and the South Africa include the Safe Havens Gothenburg Book Fair 2020. We embrace SA Book Fair in September. Conference in Cape Town from 4–6 this wonderful opportunity to introduce December, the Women’s Struggle Stories our Rainbow Nation to you. To share Conference at the Market Theatre in with you our languages, writers, artists, Johannesburg in February 2020, and the storytellers, rich culture and heritage. The Rorke’s Drift Symposium in April 2020. Gothenburg Book Fair 2020, will therefore The jewel in the crown, of course, will be a celebration of South Africa’s be the Gothenburg Book Fair in September remarkable literary talent, a platform to 2020. Ms Sjögren is very pleased with the initiate dialogue, celebrate our literary choice of South Africa as Guest of Honour: works and promote skills development, ‘We are steadily increasing South African social cohesion and tolerance.’ and Swedish collaboration in the cultural and creative sectors and look forward to The Swedish word lagom means showcasing South Africa’s rich literary ‘not too much, not too little’, or ‘just heritage in Sweden. This partnership with enough’. It embodies the Norse nation’s entire philosophy of life, and underpins the social democratic fiber of their welfare state, striving for a ͯͯThe SA Book Fair also featured two world where no one lacks anything Swedish poetry stars, Jenny Högstrom or owns too much. How wonderful and Nino Mick (right), as part of the then for the abundance of art in both nations to find its way to an Poetry Café hosted by Hear My Voice. appreciative audience across the seas, complimenting each other in a lagom dance. ▾

Bookmark Issue 98 11 OCTOBER 2019 Features

Sisters doing it for themselves The independent publishing scene in South Africa is slowly gaining momentum, largely driven by women. Bookmark spoke to three indies who are making waves.

AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES BOOK LINGO Clare-Rose Julius, Book Lingo owner: truly global citizen with a distinct love for Ghana, ARose Francis is not your average South African. Fiercely independent, impatient with insincerity and stylish to a tee, she commands attention whenever she enters the room. She started African Perspectives in 2005, at first focusing on African poetry. This was a bold and visionary move in a market not yet in step with the times, and Rose had all her days persuading bookshops to stock her titles. Her list included the likes of the legendary Don Mattera and Myesha Jenkins, as well as new stars such as Ntsiki Mazwai. African Perspectives widened its scope over the years to include writers from across the continent and beyond. Self-publishing creates the opportunity Their catalogue tells of a passion for for new stories to be told and shared. revolutionary icons, and includes It is important for us to catalogue our reprinted classics. Rose is a staunch stories for the future generations. supporter of Che Guevara and had It provides a way for new literature Rose Francis, founder and MD of great success with the reprint of his and controversial stories to grow African Perspectives political writings, as well as with the and prosper. seminal biography of Fela Kuti by Carlos Moore. In 2016, she published A Giant Tree Clare-Rose started Book Lingo in Has Fallen, a collection of tributes to Kenyan legend Ali Mazrui written by prominent 2016 as a side project, but it quickly African scholars and dignitaries. blossomed into a fulltime occupation: This year, she reprinted THE TRIAL OF J.J. RAWLINGS: A Revolutionary Moment in Initially, I started Book Lingo as a side- Post-Colonial Ghana by Kojo Yankah, who visited the SA Book Fair for the relaunch. hustle in 2016. This was born out of the For next year, she is reworking a biography of Salif Keita. frustration of seeing authors constantly One gets the sense that South Africa is too small for Rose and her large spirit, that burning their fingers and wasting money the market here will only later catch up with her continental thinking, in the same way with vanity publishers and service it did with poetry. providers. So, from what started as Linda Mvusi in conversation with Kojo Yankah and SANDF Colonel Josephine Mudau. a typesetting service for authors and small publishers, we evolved into a publishing imprint. Clare-Rose handpicks titles from those published through her services to fall under the Book Lingo imprint, and these all carry the logo. She also provides consultation services to small publishers. She very quickly noticed a need for distribution services, which prompted her to start a second business. A month into running Book Lingo, I still felt that there was still something missing. The authors I work with needed

Bookmark Issue 98 12 OCTOBER 2019 IMPEPHO PRESS

BOOK LINGO guidance in getting their books on the bookshelf. Since this was my actual ex- pertise in my previous job, I thought how hard can it be to open another company? This gave birth to Turn the Page. Bestselling authors who have made use of Clare-Rose’s services include Jackie Phamotse Rosie Motene and Zukiswa Wanner. Under the Book Lingo Impepho Press founders Vangile Gantsho, Tanya Pretorius and Sarah Godsell (above) imprint, a highlight has been Lebo Pule’s bestselling Aloe series. he impepho plant is a sacred African which tracks her travels between Africa For Clare-Rose the biggest challenge Therb burnt in cleansing ceremonies and America as a mother, daughter, is the high cost of producing quality and when communicating with one’s teacher and scholar. books: ‘Many of the authors I work with ancestors. Historically, women were The Impepho team is keen to don’t have the budget to self-publish. not allowed to burn the plant, although challenge convention without In order to produce a quality product, in recent times this has changed. How compromising on quality: Book Lingo uses the best industry apt then that Vangile Gantsho, Tanya We believe in championing brave, freelancers, which in many cases makes Pretorius and Sarah Godsell chose particularly feminist, voices committed it unaffordable for the average author. Impepho as the name of their fledgling to literary excellence. We want each Some end up using the services of feminist publishing house. book to look and feel beautiful and tell competitors with low-service models. Vangile is a healer herself and a star brave stories. We commit to quality This often means shortcuts are taken poet on the local scene. Her powerful on every level, and to what it takes to not only with editing, but also other performance at the South African Book produce this, out of respect for both our important elements such as cover Fair on the day of Uyinene Mrwetyana’s authors and our readers. This sometimes design, typesetting, proofreading funeral served as a kind of exorcism means production takes longer because and printing. Many contact me for the collective pain in the room – editing is also an art form. It sometimes afterwards for bookshop distribution an event talked about for weeks after. makes us take decisions that go against but too often I’ll have no choice but Sarah Godsell holds a doctorate in traditional sales advice, like not putting to turn the book down due to its poor history from Wits University, where the author’s name on the cover, if that production quality.’ ▾ she also lectures. She weaves her look is right for the feel of the book. experience as educator and historian Two more poetry collections followed into her poetry, ‘trying to understand in 2018: Liquid Bones by Sarah Godsell, Clare-Rose Julius (left) at the South how we think about narrative and power, and Surviving Loss by Mamelodi poet African Book Fair with one of her how the past is alive in the present, and Busisiwe Mahlangu. authors, Rosie Motene. how we are alive in each other’. This year, with Vangile becoming a Tanya Pretorius is a publisher and mother and Sarah co-parenting, the trio designer, and a constant presence on took a hiatus, but Tanya promises big the feminist scene in Tshwane. She things are underfoot. Asked about their is one of the organisers of book club biggest challenges, they cite distribution ConFembulate, which takes place at as a major obstacle: Exclusive Books, Brooklyn on the last Getting our books in stores without Thursday of each month. a recognised distributor has definitely Impepho launched in 2018 with two forced us to be more creative around poetry collections: Vangile’s own Red sales. Funding and spreading ourselves Cotton, which explores what it means to thin is also a challenge. There really is be black, female and queer in today’s never enough money to do all we want South Africa, and Feeling and Ugly by with the books and to publish all the Zimbabwean writer Danai Maputso, books we want to publish.

Bookmark Issue 98 13 OCTOBER 2019 and no explanation has been given for not copyright users to assess whether their Features taking this report into consideration. reproduction, reuse or remixing of At the heart of the debate is the copyright works is lawful or not.’ Easy access – or a gateway adoption of fair use or ‘the expropriation Professor Keyan Tomaselli, researcher for exploitation of intellectual property without in Cultural and Media Studies at UJ, feels compensation,’ as Dlamini puts it. Under that the Bill ‘will create a cut and paste By: Heleen Liebenberg the new Bill, fair use is any copying of culture in academia.’ He further said that he Copyright Amendment Bill is copyrighted material done for a limited the Bill ‘will cut them (creators) off from their Tcurrently before President Ramaphosa and revisionary purpose and can be done income, resulting in a disincentive to create for signing after it was passed by both without permission of the copyright owner. educational works in SA.’ the National Assembly and the National ReCreateSA, which represents over Council of Provinces earlier this year. In the Bill, the four criteria framework of 20 organisations – writers, filmmakers, ‘The bill was intended to benefit the the term ‘fair use’ explores the following: photographers, educational content South African creatives but there is a ͯͯThe purpose and character of use producers, software and video game chance that it will cut of their income,’ says ͯͯThe nature of the copyrighted work developers, and artists and poets, has Collen Dlamini of The Coalition for Effective ͯͯThe amount and sustainability of expressed support for the Bill. They argue Copyright in South Africa. the portion used that the current Bill doesn’t protect the He states that the bill is unconstitutional, ͯͯThe effect upon the rightsholder’s interest of the South African creators. SA will lose R12 billion in export revenue, potential market It makes the commissioner or funder discourage global investment in the local of many works the default owner. They creative sector and that it is not compatible The principle of fair use has long been want fair use or open fair dealing, and to with South Africa’s obligations under endorsed by library, education, freedom promote their rights to own and earn from international treaties. of expression, disability and other public their works. PASA, also a member of the Coalition, interest organisations in South Africa ReCreateSA further argues that the new welcomes and supports the need for and abroad. Bill will make the cost of studying cheaper. copyright reform and bringing the Bill The Bill outlines several fair use provi Fair use and the exceptions for education into the digital age. Actively involved with sions and exceptions for the educational, will assist the students to make copy proposed amendments to the Bill, PASA research and library sectors. Several extracts from copyrighted works or the commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers to local and international institutions for institution can give the students a course conduct an economic impact assessment ‘fair use’ welcome this ‘because fair-use pack which could include extracts from of the ‘education exceptions’ and ‘fair use’ provisions will facilitate better access to books, journal articles, video or sound provisions of the Bill. The report’s finding information and resource sharing, along clips for blended learning. is that the Bill ‘would impose significant with other benefits like allowing accessible negative consequences on the South formats for persons with disabilities,’ says That a revision of the current copyright African publishing industry.’ Despite Denise Rosemary Nicholson, Scholarly status is necessary is not disputed, but these findings, no significant change to Communications Librarian at Wits. ‘Fair will this Bill disempower corporate players the provisions of the Bill have been made use is not piracy, it is lawful.’ According and empower the creators? Does it protect to Nicholson, ‘this framework allows and incentivise the industry? ▾

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Bookmark Issue 98 14 OCTOBER 2019 Features Book Clubs are Back ook Clubs are once again fashionable Bin South Africa and they have evolved significantly to beat to a much more local rhythm. Bookmark interviewed three A ConFemBulate meeting (above) at BookWorms Book Club, Gauteng clubs in Gauteng, each with their own Exclusive Books, Brooklyn. ‘Our Started: 2011 distinct flavour. discussions take a moment to sweep the Members: 16 outside world trash into a pile and then we Founder: Lorraine Fortknight Book Club, Mamelodi focus on letting the woman inside each of Sithole Started: 2017 us be present in the room for each other Venue: Home of the Members: 60 and the book.’ hosting member Founders: Sibongile Rakgatjane and ’We read, we talk, (it rotates) or at a Kgothatso Ngako we unpack themes venue chosen by the member. Members Venue: Mo’s Bakery & Coffee Shop in in literature and we are from all over Gauteng, from Soweto to Mamelodi West appreciate worlds Sandton to Pretoria. Frequency: On a good month, twice a created through Frequency: Once a month, on the first month (hence the name). books. After a long Saturday of every month. How it works: Members take turns to day or dreary week, How it works: A single title is chosen, curate a meeting and have to choose three there is something very comforting which is bought and read by all members books, articles, videos or even social about ConFemBulate discussions.’ in preparation. Authors are often invited. media posts to discuss. Selected titles are Azeeza Rangunwala (left), co-founder of Titles range from J.K. Rowling to Zakes often self-published. Books are on sale at ConFembulate. Mda, including self-published books. Mo’s Bakery. Every month members contribute to a Philosophy: Make reading fashionable! ConFemBulate Book Club, Pretoria community project chosen by the club. Advice to new clubs: Starting a book club Started: 2018 Once a year, the club goes on a 4-day takes patience. It’s not an overnight Members: No fixed members, all are breakaway weekend to ‘evaluate our success. Reading for most people is not welcome to attend discussions. There is a efforts for the year, unwind as daughters, fashionable, so starting a book club WhatsApp group with 46 participants. mothers, aunts, wives and plan for the means you are changing that stereotype Founders: Azeeza Rangunwala and Tanya following year.’ and it will take time. Pretorius Philosophy: To foster the love for lifelong Venue: Exclusive Books, Brooklyn reading for leisure Frequency: Last Thursday of every month Advice for new book clubs: Just do it and How it works: Books and topics related never lose sight of the end goal. to intersectional feminism are chosen, BookWorms Book Club started with three local authors are preferred, and genres women and now has a 16-strong range from poetry, fiction, and non-fiction membership. There were snags along the to biographies. Themes are threaded way but if you are steadfast in your from the books into discussions to whet mission, the pieces will start to fall into the reading appetites of those who came place. Also believing in your mission goes for the discussion and who haven’t read a long way. You cannot sell what you don’t the book. believe in. ▾ Philosophy: At its core, ConFemBulate Founding member Lorraine Sithole Sibongile Rakgatjane (right) in her believes that the revolution will be (above): ‘The book club has opened bakery and coffee shop, Mo’s. She used intersectional or it won’t happen. Folks me up to a lot more opportunities, to be an analyst at Microsoft but always who do not identify as feminists join expanded my circle of dependable and loved baking. Inspired by a cupcake the discussion and we learn from each influential women and has given me the shop at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, other during each engagement. We share opportunity to make lifelong friends across she decided to start her own business in relatable moments without creating a generations. Book clubs are important Mamelodi. Today she supplies many other hierarchy of relevance. because they create structural reading, businesses with cakes and delicacies from Advice for new book clubs: Book clubs forces one to really engage with the texts her factory outlet in Tshwane China Mall are sustainable if you discuss topics you and sustain healthy reading habits.’ and hosts a fortnightly book club at Mo’s. are passionate about and if expectations ‘Books expose us to different worlds and of buying a new book every month are they make us better people. They keep our buffered by alternating discussions and brains healthy and we acquire knowledge book reading every second month. that pushes us ahead in most of our areas of interest.’ – Sibongile Rakgatjane

Bookmark Issue 98 15 OCTOBER 2019 Tribute Jill van Zyl at her 70th birthday party All the World’s a Stage in 2006 (right) Photos: John Fawcett-Peck to introduce an author, or to gently correct behaviour, but to say goodbye. Always asking about the welfare and interests of others, yet never one to speak of herself, Jill van Zyl was an enigma. Most people had no idea that she had suffered extensive burns when she was young, or that she had married a Karoo farmer, or that her maiden name was Lawlor. Elusive to a fault, most people can’t even recall what Jill used to read. What they remember is how Jill van Zyl she made them from the Anderson family circa 1987, after (right) at her feel: noticed, which it moved to Sandton. farewell party in important, As manager of the Sandton store, Jill 2007 and eager to be was highly regarded by her colleagues: ‘The voice of their best selves. some will call it fear. You did not phone Exclusive Books’, Sandton to ask for an ‘ISBN’, ever. You (below) never referred to a book as a ‘product’. It ntil very recently, if was taboo to talk about ‘kids’ books’ – Uyou phoned Exclusive they were CHILDREN. A launch was never Books Head Office and were a ‘function’ – only bodies had functions. put on hold, you would be greeted by the And no matter where you featured in the deep and quintessential English voice of ranks, you were always a ‘bookseller’. Jill van Zyl – “Good day, you’ve reached Later, when she was promoted to the Exclusive Books …” – followed by Enya’s board and took on the role of Literary 80’s hit Sail Away. Although Jill retired in Manager, the ‘fear’ of Jill gradually 2007, no one ever had the heart to change softened into deep admiration and the voice message. Enya could be endured respect. Many recall receiving personal for the sake of keeping this one last notes of encouragement and frequent connection to a forgotten world. phone calls to enquire about one’s In May of this year, the news of wellbeing. Each Christmas, Jill would send Jill’s death spread like brushfire in the sherry and mince pies to every branch. trade. Most people had not seen her in The much-loved Boeke Prize was years, except for those most loyal of her Jill’s brainchild, originally called the companions: Heather Smit, Marie Canin, A whole generation of managers at AmaBoeke-Boeke Prize. Launched in 1998, Penny Hochfeld and John Fawcett-Peck. Jill Exclusive Books regards her as mentor it was a tongue-in-cheek take on the UK’s was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s shortly and mother, having learned from her the Booker Prize, celebrating page-turners as after her retirement, a terribly tragic fate old school ethics, skill and philosophy of opposed to the high-brow literary works for such a brilliant mind. Despite the 12 bookselling. critics tend to pick. years since her departure, and the illness Jill was born in London and moved to Jill loved Donna Leon’s writing, and to which she was lost, people had not South Africa in 1961. She was a teacher that of Ian McEwan. One of her favourite forgotten. They turned out in droves for by profession, but after the move stayed books was Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong. her memorial at The Service Station in at home to raise her two daughters, first A staunch fan of the classics, her favourite Melville, a knowing look on their faces: in Somerset West and later in Tulbagh. Shakespeare was As You Like It. this truly was the end of an era. Her career in books only started in 1982, After her retirement, she whittled down Jill’s daughter Jane was first to speak. when she moved to Johannesburg to work her personal library to the essentials: the At the first word, people gasped: Jill’s at City Books in Hillbrow at the age of 46. complete Shakespeare, and all the Harold voice came rushing through the years to City Books later became the Bookworm, Blooms. In beautiful synchronicity, Harold fill the room in all its teacherly formality run by Anne Brookes alongside Jill. The Bloom bowed out in October this year, and mischievous affection. This time not Bookworm was bought by Exclusive Books short on the heels of his greatest admirer.

Bookmark Issue 98 16 OCTOBER 2019 Bookmark spoke to people who worked closely with Jill to try and capture the essence of her great spirit.

John Fawcett-Peck: ‘Jill’s passion for Lauren Watson (back), Rob life and storytelling could be summed Shortt and Jill van Zyl in up by her doing the Macarena at London on the yacht of Penguin’s launch of the Penguin remainder dealer Writers Series, a few months after Tim Finch (front) a hip operation.’To quote Jennifer Ferguson, ‘mum you taught me how to sing.’

Louret Bell: ‘Jill taught us to imagine a curtain about to be raised, and to prepare for the show: music to set the mood, staff welcoming and knowledgeable, everything perfectly arranged and ready to share the magic. It’s all theatre, you know,

she used to say.’ Terry Morris: ‘Looking back through all of my email correspondence, spanning almost 20 years, I could not find a single email Heather Smit:. ‘Jill’s knowledge of sent by Jill herself. She always seemed literature was unsurpassed and to find someone else to engage with she was always ready to share that “technology” on her behalf. I did find Batya Bricker ‘I remember her many knowledge with fellow bibliophiles, the many thank you letters she had calls to managers . She also handled no matter what their ages. Jill could meticulously and regularly sent after all the difficult customer complaints – be relied on for information about dinners hosted by Pan Macmillan or I remember her fantasy of telling her books; the correct pronunciation of events we had held. Jill was caring, last difficult customer to “Fuck off!”. names that were not in our everyday concerned about others, had a wicked I remember her, “can I have a word?” vocab; which publisher had published sense of humour, was always a picture and “Gawd”. I remember how she which book; consoling staff members of elegance and charm, and was the one always had an “apple-only” for lunch on in distress with the utmost discretion; person we could seat next to a rather the days when she had a fancy author keeping the boardroom library topped- tricky guest knowing she would handle or publisher dinner that night. “Have to up and tidy amongst other tasks too any situation with impeccable grace.’ consider my middle,” she would say … numerous to list.’ As we faced the dawn of the digital era and the panic around the future of the book, I remember her standard line, Rob Shortt, recalling the where to put your hymens in the “Books will always be Y2K compliant.” launch of the new Oxford right place”. Jill always hated the term “passed Dictionary: ‘Jill steps A pin could have dropped. away”. She preferred “died”, for it is up and with that Jill drops her head, gets what it is. She always ended dmc’s commanding that giggle that only (deep meaningful conversations) with “Shhhhhh”, the she could produce, store goes quiet. utters “Gawd” under in the end, She welcomes Shhh her breath. Takes there is only love.’ all and then goes a second, looks up on to explain how and says, “I mean pleased she was that hyphens”. Even the finally a new Oxford greatest can make a was out and “that at long mistake. Much applause last, we have a book that explains and we were back on track.’

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Lieze Kotze – Lifetime She was an astute business Achievement person who led Oxford University Press (OUP) Southern Africa to The Nick Perren Foundation and the the position as second biggest Publishers’ Association of South educational publisher in South Africa are pleased to present the Nick Africa. She was ambitious and Perren Foundation-Publishers’ entrepreneurial and it was through Association Lifetime Achievement her efforts that new business Award posthumously to: ventures were launched in Southern Lieze Kotze Africa. Despite Lieze’s well- for her outstanding contribution to the developed business sensibility publishing industry. she always remained completely Lieze was passionately committed committed to OUP’s mission to to improving the lives of people and further scholarship and education especially children through education. through publishing. She inspired a generation of young Within PASA, Lieze was an publishers to produce innovative and influential figure and actively market leading content. sought to improve the relationship After Lieze’s completion of her studies, between the Department of Basic she worked for a short period for Naspers Education and publishers. She built as a sales executive from 1991 to 1994 enduring friendships with many of before joining Macmillan Publishers. In the people with whom she worked 1999 she joined Heinemann Publishers as and mentored many of the younger Sales and Marketing Director and in 2005 leaders in the industry. was appointed as Managing Director of Lieze was an activist in the community other activities like cycling contributed to OxfordSCH_AD_15102_19_Safika_Bookmark_Ad_2019.pdf University Press South Africa. 1 whose 2019/09/30 involvement 8:24 AM with environmental some of the underpinning principles that rights issues, human rights concerns and guided her work in publishing. ▾ Thank you for voting for us

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Farewell to a Gentleman Andrew Marjoribanks, founder of Wordsworth Bookshop he South African book trade said Tgoodbye to yet another giant in February this year. Andrew Marjoribanks who worked within that industry only will forever be remembered for his grew more. He had a fantastic memory for excellent and quirky chain of bookshops, things he read and could find something Wordsworth, which he founded in the interesting in most books.’ 1970’s in Cape Town. Maureen Hargraves remembers him as Andrew started his bookselling career ‘a gentle man and a gentleman. He had in Harare (then Salisbury) in Zimbabwe, a vast knowledge of books and authors. where he worked for Victor and Eleanor I loved listening to his book reviews on Tarica. When they moved to Cape Town the radio.’ after buying Pilgrim’s Booksellers in In 2010, after the financial crash which St. George’s Street in 1974, he followed decimated the book trade in South Africa them south. Maureen Hargraves was also and so Wordsworth was born. The chain and everywhere, Bargain Books bought with Pilgrim’s at that time, but left shortly expanded over the years to open shops Wordsworth, with Andrew continuing after to open Exclusive Books with Philip in Waterfront, Gardens, Stellenbosch, in the driving seat. Today it remains a Joseph. Andrew stayed at Pilgrim’s, which Somerset West, George and Longbeach. thriving business with good profits. Loved moved to Cavendish Square and was Wordsworth also owned half of Hargraves by book clubs and discerning customers, eventually sold after Victor’s death. Library Service, who opened their doors the Wordsworth managers and staff have An Afrikaans consortium was interested in 1996 (Hargraves later bought the become legends in the trade. in opening an English bookshop in Wordsworth share). Andrew served on various committees Tygervalley at that time, and asked Andrew Andrew’s wife Frieda, who he met while of the SA Bookseller’s Association, to assist. Right before it was due to open, working at Pilgrim’s, describes him as ‘a including as National Chair for the General SCH_AD_15102_19_Safika_Bookmark_Ad_2019.pdf 1 2019/09/30 8:24 AM they decided against it and offered the book person through and through, and his Trade. His contribution to the industry shop for sale to him. He and his partners interest and fascination with books and was and still is enormous. 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Jakes 4 580 4 Becoming Michelle Obama 21 365 Power 5 King of Kings Wilbur Smith 14 106 30 Simple Yotam Ottolenghi 4 410 for voting for us 6 Stellenbosch Mafia Pieter du Toit 13 243 31 How to Win Friends and Influence Dale Carnegie 4 322 7 Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Sam Beckbessinger 12 645 People Grown-Up 32 The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris 4 235 8 Born a Crime Trevor Noah 12 057 33 An Elephant in My Kitchen Francoise Malby-Antony 4 169 9 Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki 10 107 34 Sex, Lies & Stellenbosch Mazza, Eva 4 119 National Education Publisher of the Year 10 Everything Is F*cked Mark Manson 9 791 35 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Harari, Yuval Noah 4 110 11 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown Jeff Kinney 9 250 Tomorrow 12 The Alchemist Paulo Coeloho 9 190 36 The Binding Bridget Collins 3 719 National Academic Publisher of the Year 13 Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Jeff Kinney 8 799 37 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 3 676 Rowley 38 Five Love Languages Gary Chapman 3 641 14 Sapiens: A Brief History of Yuval Noah Harari 8 005 39 Art of Hustling DJ Sbu 3 617 Humankind 40 Armand Kook Kaal Armand Aucamp 3 584 15 The Choice Edith Eger 7 877 41 City of Girls Elizabeth Gilbert 3 552 16 Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 7 061 42 Start With Why Simon Sinek 3 531 17 The Mister E.L. James 6 899 43 Steinheist Rob Rose 3 526 18 Lazy Makoti’s Guide to the Kitchen Mogau Seshoene 6 819 44 Healing the Soul of a Woman Joyce Meyer 3 319 19 The Butterfly Room Lucinda Riley 6 674 45 Shoe Dog Phil Knight 3 289 20 Ghost Fire Wilbur Smith 6 117 46 Fighting for the Dream R.W. Johnson 3 264 21 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 6 111 47 Christo Wiese T.J. Strydom 3 216 22 Who Moved My Cheese Spencer Johnson 5 933 48 Platter’s 2019 South African Wine John Platter 3 179 23 5 Ingredients – Quick & Easy Food Jamie Oliver 5 570 Guide 24 The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari Robin Sharma 5 193 49 The Beekeeper of Aleppo Christy Lefteri 3 103 25 Prooi Deon Meyer 5 160 50 Every Breath Nicholas Sparks 3 052 Committed to transforming lives through education Bookmark Issue 98 19 OCTOBER 2019 The year to date Data compiled by Publications Network (Pty) Ltd t/a SAPnet The subtle art of NOT panicking PANEL – INCLUDING SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIC Value Units ISBN ASP 2019 R1 244 153 362 6 996 143 327 507 R177,83 8.2 Nielsen Panel Sales 2019 million 2018 R1 248 543 184 7 437 272 327 408 R167,88 Week 1 – 39 2017 R1 281 619 151 7 769 395 322 545 R164,96 7.7 2016 R1 304 737 026 8 288 365 316 327 R157,42 million YEAR ON YEAR % GROWTH PANEL 7.4 % Value Units ISBN ASP million 18–19 –0,35% –5,93% 0,03% 5,93% R1 304 17–18 –2,58% –4,27% 1,51% 1,77% billion 6.9 16–17 –1,77% –6,26% 1,97% 4,79% R1 281 million Country of Publication 2019 billion Week 1 – 39 R1 248 UK billion 40.1% RSA R1 244 33.1% billion 017 2018 2 2 019 USA 6 18.8% Other 01 2 Value Units 8.1% Top 20 SA Titles Week 1 to 39 Author QTY 1 Gangster State Pieter-Louis Myburgh 34 909 2 Stellenbosch Mafia Pieter du Toit 13 243 3 Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grown-Up Sam Beckbessinger 12 645 4 Born a crime Trevor Noah 12 057 5 Lazy Makoti’s Guide to the Kitchen Mogau Seshoene 6 819 6 Prooi Deon Meyer 5 160 7 Sex, Lies & Stellenbosch Eva Mazza 4 119 8 An Elephant in My Kitchen Francoise Malby-Antony 4 169 9 Armand Kook Kaal Armand Aucamp 3 584 10 Art of hustling DJ Sbu 3 617 11 Steinheist Rob Rose 3 526 12 Fighting for the Dream R.W. 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Children Fiction 8.58% Adult Non-Fiction 51.16% 5 titles about corruption in SA 56 589 units

Bookmark Issue 98 20 OCTOBER 2019 Profile Spoken Word Wizards

aking waves from Mamelodi to MGothenburg, Hear My Voice is at the forefront of the exploding poetry scene in South Africa. Started in Pretoria by MoAfrika Mokgathi, Ishmael Sibiya and Phomolo Sekamotho in 2016, they are a non-profit group dedicated to bringing performance poetry to the masses. In their short history, they have racked up an impressive list of collaborations with fairs, festivals, cultural exchanges and government programmes. Performers themselves, they identified a need to Phomolo Sekamotho connect spoken word artists with curators and event organisers Phomolo loved writing from who are keen to find the latest a young age, not realising talent on the street scene. he was creating poetry until Hear My Voice has a close someone told him so. At relationship with the Swedish university he was exposed Embassy, nominating local to the spoken word scene in poets for exchange programmes Pretoria – he calls it a ‘cult of in Sweden while also hosting poets’ – but lost touch with Swedish poets, writers and it when he formed a band. academics in South Africa. This Poet Tshepo Molefe at the Playing music with Ishmael year the group facilitated the South African Book Fair at one day, their mutual love of participation of poets Nino Mick Constitution Hill rhyme sparked new interest and Jenny Högstrom at the South and led them to establish African Book Fair, as well as respected Phillips concluded her reading of lyrical Hear My Voice. Phomolo is concerned journalist and author Elisabeth Åsbrink. masterpiece ‘tong-trilogie’. that poetry is too often seen as a sub- South African poets Busisiwe Mahlangu, The dynamic trio further facilitates genre or interlude and sees Hear My Voice Raphael D’Abdon, Masai Sepuru and poetry sessions for the Poetry & Jazz as a way to create work for performers Emma Mabye, along with MoAfrika and Picnics at Nirox Sculpture Park, Last in a quest to turn it into a sustainable Phomolo themselves, travelled to Sweden Thursdays at the American Corner and full‑time occupation. to strut their stuff on the stage. the Vavasati International Women’s Arts Ishmael hated poetry at school, not The City of Tshwane also collaborates Festival at the State Theatre in Pretoria. relating to the way it was dissected and with Hear My Voice in organising interpreted in prescriptive ways. MoAfrika Mokgathi at the Tshwane Speak Out Loud Poetry He only fell in love with the art at the Swedish Embassy Competition and Festival, the winners varsity street sessions in Pretoria, in Pretoria of which are given the opportunity to knowing right away he wanted to be take part in international exchange MoAfrika hails from part of the scene. Not a writer himself, programmes. In addition, they are Mamelodi and is a star he wanted to create platforms for awarded a lucrative cash prize of R50 000. on the local scene. others to express themselves. During In September 2019, Hear My Voice She credits her diverse this time he worked with the City of curated two flagship events at the South upbringing for her ear Tshwane on an exchange programme African Book Fair: the Constitution Hill and style of writing, from with America, which paved the way for Poetry Tour and the Keorapetse Kgositsile the Sepedi novels her Hear My Voice. ▾ Poetry Café. The latter headlined by grandfather read to the Jamaican dub poet, D’bi Young. Both ‘college English’ of her Ishmael Sibiya events were sold out and received rave uncle. At family gatherings in rural areas, reviews. Highlights included twins Fumo she was fascinated by the language and and Fumane Ntlhabane emerging from customs, especially as performed by her the cells in the Old Fort as they chanted great aunt, which laid the foundation for their haunting poem ‘Victim’s Apology’ her own work. She believes poetry links and precinct security guards barging the old and the new, ‘the oral tradition is a into the Constitutional Court just as Jolyn way to preserve culture and heritage’.

Bookmark Issue 98 21 OCTOBER 2019 Profile

Lunch with Malebo Sephodi By: Olinka Nell ‘There is nothing wrong with science,’ she says, ‘we just need to decolonise it. We meet at ARTIVIST in Reserve Street in Braamfontein, a favourite spot of We need conscious engineers. No point in Malebo’s. The industrial décor and street vibe, combined with the upstairs art you being an engineer with no clue what’s exhibition, jazz music and students gathered around MacBooks, lends it a very going on in society.’ New York feel. For many years, she did social work alebo is wearing a black summer encountering all these systems, whether in men’s prisons. Until, she says, she Mdress with flower print, boldly it’s racism or classism or any other -ism, realised it was not her duty to change accentuating her ‘open book’ shoulder and to do it in an accessible manner. In men. It was then she started Lady Leader, tattoo, amethyst necklace and rainbow the social sciences, people do important a group of women who commune around wrist beads. Her demeanour is warm work and research, yet this never reaches the issues they face every day. Individuals and welcoming, and she laughs easily ordinary people. As academics we love who question the norm are often isolated – a fierce intellect, yet so infused with sounding clever – we use words like by their communities, and she wanted to awareness that it never retreats into its ‘epistemology’ and ‘hegemony’ and offer a space for such women. own safety. Grounded, yet fluid. call it ‘academic rigour’. The waiter comes and we both opt Although I respect that, for the Good Life Veg Bowl – hers with I see the university as a haloumi. She declares that it’s never too microcosm of society, and early for a cocktail, and promptly goes for everything we do there a Penicillin, a mix of 12-year-old Dewar’s, should translate into apple juice and lemon. society. We are there to We talk about her rollicking interview solve issues. So if we work with Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng at the South in isolation, it does not African Book Fair. Malebo fearlessly make sense to me.’ opened the session with the line ‘My I signal to the waiter clitoris is still pumping!’ to uproarious to bring Malebo another laughter from the audience. Penicillin. The restaurant ‘Oh my, did I say that?,’ she chuckles. has come alive as lunch ‘Yeah, I wanted to be serious about the patrons pour in, each whole thing you know, especially because greeted personally by one of where we were at that week, with all the of the owners. gender violence. But I also wanted to bring ‘I lived in a world in the other side she writes about, about where things started to the pleasure, and it was easiest to break make sense because the ice using myself as an example.’ of the education I was Exploring one’s own body is one receiving. Theories of of the topics Malebo writes about in feminism, of racism etc. Miss Behave, a genre-bending book And I wanted to have a which shook the establishment in 2017. conversation with people Arguably the watershed moment when who wouldn’t understand bookshops became aware of a thriving words like ‘autonomy’. Illustration by: Nathi Ngubane – Think Ahead Comix new middle-class readership, it resonated About African feminism and with book clubs far and wide. I ask her social constructivism, how we normalise ‘If you do want to see change, you must about its impact. certain things like patriarchy, body first start with YOU, and make an impact ‘At the heart of my activism, it’s always issues, colourism. I wanted to break on society that way. Protest is not just been about social justice. When I come it down through storytelling. I did an something which happens in the streets, across a space where people are denied autoethnography where I used myself, my it can be personal interactions.’ dignity – physically, spiritually or emotion- body to explain society.’ At this, we dig into our bowls. The ally – I take issue with it. We live in a society She is currently busy with her doctorate conversation goes on for another hour, where we normalise things, and we don’t in information systems. Her main interest ranging from her grandfather as accidental recognise the systems that are in place is development economics, especially how feminist to the day she took on Tembeka which enable injustices to appear normal.’ this intertwines with other areas of study Ngcukaitobi. We both end up waxing Our food arrives, but I am relieved when traditionally thought of separate, such as lyrical about the genius of Teju Cole, until Malebo continues undeterred. She is just architecture and engineering. 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