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You asked for more, and so the second Jewish Literary Festival (JLF) is here, with a programme that’s been deemed ‘quite remarkable’. We are proud and grateful to be a beneficiary this year of the United Communal Fund of the United Jewish Campaign (UJC), as this puts us firmly on the Jewish communal calendar in . Private donors have again rallied to support us, and while they prefer to be anonymous, we offer our heartfelt thanks to them for giving so generously. The organisations which comprise the Gardens Community Centre not only provide the venue platform for the JLF but are valuable partners. Thanks to campus manager Joanne Benjamin for her vision in ensuring that the JLF goes from strength to strength. The Jacob Gitlin Library, our anchor, partnered with us once more, and we profess deep admiration for their ongoing commitment to the world of Jewish literature. Lester Hoffman and Lindy Diamond of the Cape Jewish Chronicle provided invaluable media support in the run-up to the festival as well as on the day, and we greatly value the collaboration. Darryl Cotton put up with website revisions and updates, while Lorraine de Villiers and Kyle Richards of Opechee Design Studio deserve a medal for their patience and creativity while handling our marketing material. Thanks to the ‘power’ women at C-below the Line and Sistas Act for pulling the event together, and to our volunteers-on-the-day who enable the smooth running of sessions. Until you have organised a literary festival, it is almost impossible to understand how much work goes into it. This work is primarily done by volunteers and it’s almost impossible to adequately thank them. The JLF would simply not exist without our core team, all of them professionals in their own right who give hours of dedicated effort to the JLF dream. PR genius Beryl Eichenberger again went above and beyond, managing marketing and publicity, assisting with programming and even handling some manufacturing! The JLF programming committee not only arranged the incredible line-up of speakers, but juggled that with other essential roles: Caryn Gootkin for social media management, Vanessa Valkin for fundraising and Melissa Fagan for managing our database and editing our brochure. Miriam Schiff stepped up to direct and manage the wonderful Children’s Programme – no mean feat! To these, our incomparable committee members, no amount of thanks is enough. All that’s left is to invite you, our valued festivalgoers, to join us in celebrating the creative power of words in the tradition of Jewish life.

JLF management team, Joanne Jowell, Cindy Moritz, Viv Anstey and Gary Anstey ALEXANDER, RABBI GREG ANCER, JONATHAN ANCER, JUDITH Progressive Using literature Using literature Judaism: Its to help children to help history and grow and heal; children grow impact in Spies, lies and and heal; the search for Between the a pink rabbit tiger and the Rabbi Greg Alexander was born abyss: Victor Frankl and the and raised in Johannesburg, Jonathan Ancer is an author wild strawberry a third generation Progressive and freelance journalist who Jew. After 10 years of living and has held various positions on Judith Ancer is a Johannesburg- studying abroad, and graduating a variety of publications: based clinical psychologist. from The Melton Centre for reporter on The Star, editor of She has worked at Tara Hospital, Jewish Education at the Hebrew Grocott’s Mail, deputy editor of Crossroads Remedial School and University of Jerusalem and Bicycling magazine, and as a supervisor and trainer of Leo Baeck College in London, crossword columnist for the mental health professionals. he has spent the past decade in Cape Times. He has won awards Her company Shrink Rap offers Cape Town with his amazing wife for hard news, features, columns continuing professional Andrea and three kids Mani, and creative writing. Jonathan education to healthcare and Tantan and Yasmin. has the largest Billy Bunter human resource professionals He is part of the rabbinic team collection in South Africa. and provides training and at the Cape Town Progressive He has written two books – counselling services to small Jewish Congregation. The Victor Within and Spy: companies. Uncovering Craig Williamson. She is currently writing a book on mental health in the workplace.

AWERBUCK, DIANE BARRIS, KEN BELLING, NOA Book reviews: Writing and The mindful How to do it identity body: How and why we all does your mind should; Ken Barris is a live in your Alternative writer, book critic, body? And how forms of NRF-rated can body publishing academic, and photographer. His awareness change your work has been translated into experience of life? Diane Awerbuck wrote Gardening Turkish, Danish, French, German and Slovenian, and has appeared at Night, for which she won Noa Belling is a psychotherapist in about 30 anthologies. He has Commonwealth Best First Book and bestselling author. Her won the Ingrid Jonker Prize, the Award (Africa and the previous books include the M-Net Book Prize, and most Caribbean). Her short story international bestseller, The Yoga recently, the University of collection, Cabin Fever, was Handbook, Yoga: A Union of Mind Johannesburg Prize for his novel shortlisted for the 2014 Caine and Body, and Yoga for Ideal Life Underwater. Prize and ‘Leatherman’ won the Weight and Shape. Noa holds a 2015 Short Story Day Africa He has published five novels, masters degree in Somatic competition. As Frank Owen, two collections of poetry, and Psychology, which is a field that she also writes a frontier-fiction two collections of short stories. incorporates body awareness series with Alex Latimer. The most recent, The Life of and physical movement in the Her latest solo novel is Home Worm & Other Misconceptions, psychotherapeutic process. Remedies and she is busy with was released in 2017. Her latest book, The Mindful her poetry project, Six Months Body, offers practical strategies with Solomon. for building emotional strength and managing stress through body mindfulness. BERRY, ORIELLE BLACK, AYELLET BREYTENBACH, GLYNNIS Book reviews: Discussing ‘Rule of law’: How to do it Herzl’s How life in and and why we ‘Alteneueland’ out of court all should; and vision for shaped me ‘Rhapsody in Israel relative schmaltz: to today Glynnis Yiddish food and why we Breytenbach was born in can’t stop eating it’ Ayellet Black is Deputy Head of Kimberley and after Mission of Israel to South Africa, matriculating from Kimberley Orielle Berry is the books editor Lesotho, Mauritius and Girls’ High School, received her of Independent Newspapers and Swaziland. Previously she served B. Iuris and LLB from the also writes on entertainment in Israel’s Ministry of Foreign University of the Free State. and lifestyle. She has over 30 Affairs in a variety of She has been a public years of journalism experience. departments including public prosecutor, a state advocate and She lived in Israel in the 1980s affairs and EuroAsia. Black was Senior Deputy Director of where she worked as a worked as an informal educator public prosecutions until 2014. translator, an interpreter for at an Israeli girls’ high school She is now a DA Member of the foreign press and wrote for before that. She studied political Parliament in the National The Jerusalem Post. In South science, communications and Assembly and is Shadow Africa, she has worked as an arts Judaism at Bar-Ilan University Minister of Justice and reporter for The News and received her MA in Constitutional Development. and also for Cape Community international relations. She is also the chairperson of Newspapers. She’s an avid She is married to Elliott Black the Federal Legal Commission reader and is a passionate and has two children. of the Democratic Alliance. collector of cookery books.

BRICKER, BATYA BRODIE, NECHAMA CHAIT, LISA ‘Wisdom from ‘Rule of law’: ‘Lost and the South’; How life in and found in The pursuit of out of court Johannesburg’ happiness – or shaped me; the happiness ‘Knucklebone’ Lisa Chait is a of pursuit former radio talk Nechama Brodie is a journalist show host and is co-producer of Batya Bricker makes books and academic, and has written the SAFTA award-winning TV come to life. She has a degree five best-selling, non-fiction series I Am Woman-Leap of Faith, in Architecture, has worked in books including the acclaimed chronicling pivotal moments of the book industry for 20 years, urban histories The Joburg Book change in South African women’s and has served as Programme and The Cape Town Book. lives. She founded the Life Stories project, which captures Director for various bookfairs. She is the co-author of Glynnis personal stories and family She is now a freelance publisher Breytenbach’s gripping memoir, memory on film, audio recording and is passionate about making Rule of Law, and recently and in book form. stories jump off the page. published her first full-length The Academy of Jewish Thought work of fiction, a crime thriller Lisa recently produced Legacy and Learning has provided called Knucklebone. of Light, a film honouring the fertile ground for a combined extraordinary life of ‘Der Blinde exploration of her two passions Chazzan’, Cantor Abraham – Jewish heritage and Torah, Immerman z”l. books and narratives. COHEN, ANDY COHEN, CHARLOTTE COHEN, ESHED Children’s Poetry: Distiller Fugitive programme of emotion criminals in South Africa: Andy Cohen is Charlotte Cohen The law a community writes poetry, art counsellor, memoirs, Eshed Cohen is a psychoanalytic candidate (SAPA), inspirational articles, short recent graduate of UCT, where he author and artist who is stories and political completed degrees in law and passionate about self-repair commentary. She has won two philosophy. In 2017 he finished through containment and the Toastmaster awards, run creative first in his LLB class. His interests arts. She works with a wide range writing courses, and adjudicated include human rights law, of patients and her curiosity inter-schools debating contests. constitutional law, and about the power of the Her literary achievements international law. unconscious mind led to a include first prize in the Gitlin’s As of July 2018, Eshed will be Masters in Fine Arts. This, and 25th Anniversary short-story clerking at the Constitutional becoming a psychoanalyst, writing competition; a national Court of South Africa for continues to hone her approach award for a book on substance Justice Leona Theron. to her work. abuse; the first three-time “Art is not always about pretty winner of the English Association things. It’s about who we are, short-story competition; winner what happened to us and how of Old Mutual’s Siyakuhla poetry our lives are affected (E. Broun).” competition, and winner of various West Coast Writer’s poetry and writing contests.

COHEN, ZMIRA COHEN DE VILLIERS, DAVIS, DENNIS ‘Jewish MARILYN ‘’s Salonica: Book launch: Dream’ Between the ‘Deceive and Ottoman Defend’; Dennis Davis empire and Alternative is Judge modern Greece’ forms of President of publishing Competition Appeal Court Zmira Cohen studied social work presently Acting Judge of Appeal in Supreme Court of appeal. at UCT and also received her Marilyn Cohen de Villiers has Honorary Professor of Law Honours in the Hebrew Bible and always been a writer – a at UCT. Dead Sea Scrolls there. She journalist by training, and a worked as a social worker in decade of daily news reporting His latest book Prevent and Loss Cape Town until 2011, both followed by many, many, (too) of possibility to be published in general and Jewish many years in public relations. December 2018. He has environments. Today she earns her daily bread published nine books and over Her interests include Jewish and as a freelance wordsmith. 200 academic articles, and hosted TV programme human identity, universal and But fiction writing is her passion Judge for Yourself. Jewish history, music, colour in and she regards the publication its varied and profound of her novels – A Beautiful Dennis is an alumnus of Herzlia expression, gardening, the Family, When Time Fails, and School and is married to miracle of Eretz Yisrael and the now, Deceive and Defend, the Claudette. They have two wonder of human resilience. final book in theSilverman Saga children, Lisa and Joshua. trilogy – as her greatest writing accomplishment. DE KOCK, FIONA EDELSTEIN, JILLIAN EICHENBERGER, BERYL Writing as SAFIM presents: Fiction, fact therapy ‘Here and and friendship; there’: Making a Fiona de Kock is A photographic creative space a 58-year-old chronicle of in a practical Jewish mother of human life three adult children. She has had displacement a myriad of careers which have Founder of HIPPO paid the bills and filled the Jillian Edelstein’s award-winning Communications in 2000, fridge but nothing gives her work has been published and Beryl Eichenberger has worked more satisfaction than sitting at exhibited internationally. in the PR/events industry for her favourite coffee shop, Her book Truth and Lies about over 40 years, both in Cape Town writing, reading and people South Africa’s Truth and and Johannesburg. Since watching. This, she says, doesn’t Reconciliation Commission won ‘retiring’ in 2015 she works in a pay the bills. From a PTA Mom the Visa D’Or in Perpignan freelance capacity indulging her and Accounts Administrator at and the John Kobal Book Award love of words through books, the Hebrew Pre-primary Schools in 2002. radio and theatre. An avid through to her role as Facilities reader, she initiated three and Project Manager with United Over 100 of her photographs currently reside in the National Waterfront book festivals in Herzlia Schools and, most the early 2000s. recently, as personal assistant to Portrait Gallery. She was involved with JLF 2016 an Orthodox Rabbi, her 35-year and has been working again involvement with the Jewish with the team for the success community has been interesting, of JLF 2018. richly ethnographic and eclectic.

FELDMAN, HOWARD FENSTER, PNINA FRIEDMAN, JENNIFER Fear of saying ‘Mapping my ‘Queen of the the wrong thing: way home’: Free State’: Writing in a A memoir Growing up post-humour Jewish in a society Pnina Fenster is small town an award-winning Howard Feldman is the author journalist, style commentator Jennifer Friedman grew up in of Carry-On Baggage – The story and the former launch a small Afrikaans town in the of a man who thought he Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire Free State in the 1950s and ’60s travelled light and Tightrope and Glamour magazines in and studied at UCT. Her memoir, – Musings of Circus South Africa. South Africa. Queen of the Free State, was He is a weekly columnist on She has contributed to a variety published by Tafelberg in 2017, News24 and Times of Israel and of local and international and her Afrikaans poetry has his articles have appeared in glossies, and is currently been published in the academic publications around the world. studying towards a Masters in journals Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, He has a daily talk show host Creative Writing at the University Akademie en Kuns & on Chai Fm. Howard is a lawyer of Cape Town. Standpunte, as well as in by qualification but spent Rooi Rose and Buurman. 15 years building a global She lives in Australia where she chrome trading business. flies her Grumman Tiger to ‘wherever the sun’s shining.’ FURNISS, MEGAN GALGUT, DAMON GALGUT, ELISA Scriptwriting Fiction, fact Sources of AMA and friendship inspiration; Sourcing Megan Furniss is Damon Galgut poems within a playwright, was born in everyday life actor, writer, Pretoria in 1963 director and improviser. Since and published his first novel Elisa Galgut teaches in the graduating from UCT (1986), she when he was 18. He has Philosophy Department at has spent her life involved in published eight books in total, the . theatre and make-believe. She his latest being Arctic Summer She has a PhD in Philosophy has written and co-written and his work has been translated from Rutgers University and an numerous plays and musicals, into many languages. MA in Creative Writing from UCT. performed and directed theatre He has been shortlisted for Her research interests include and she improvises and teaches several international prizes, the philosophy of art and improv. She also self published a including the Dublin IMPAC literature, the philosophy of novel, writes short stories for Award, the Walter Scott Prize psychoanalysis, and animal competitions and has won and the Man Booker Prize. ethics. Her poetry has appeared numerous theatre awards. He lives in Cape Town. in various literary journals Megan achieved critical acclaim and anthologies. for her tiny role in the Showmax Her debut collection, smash hit Tali’s Wedding Diary. The Anthology of Poetry, was published by Modjaji Books in 2015.

GEFFEN, HAYLI GEFFEN, SHARON GEVISSER, MARK Children’s Poetry: Distiller ‘Lost and programme of emotion found in Johannesburg’ Hayli Geffen is Sharon Geffen a 20-year-old is a children’s Mark Gevisser student in her librarian and is one of South third year of biochemistry and drama teacher at Herzlia Africa’s foremost authors and genetics at the University of Highlands Primary School journalists. His previous books Cape Town. She graduated from specialising in pre-literacy skills include Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Herzlia High School in 2015 with for young children. Her interests Deferred, which won the Sunday seven distinctions and many include ballroom dancing, Times Alan Paton Prize in 2007, awards including: the subject painting, military history, and Lost and Found in prizes for both Jewish Studies swimming, literature and poetry. Johannesburg: A Memoir, and Dramatic Arts as well as the She finds an outlet for her shortlisted in 2014. He writes Helen Zille award for the general knowledge at quiz nights about sexuality, gender, culture Promotion of Democracy. and has taken part in various and politics, and has been She has also achieved Gold courses given by the Academy of published in many major Level status in The Duke of Jewish Thought and Learning. international magazines and Edinburgh’s International Award. newspapers. A passionate reader and writer, He is currently working on she is in the top 50 reviewers in The Pink Line: The World’s Queer South Africa on Goodreads. Frontiers, to be published in 2019. GLASS, ALAN GOLDSTUCK, ARTHUR GOODMAN, RALPH Children’s The future of Poetry: Distiller programme the book of emotion

Alan Glass Arthur Goldstuck Ralph Goodman co-created the is an award- taught English children’s music winning writer, Literature at series Beautiful Creatures with analyst and technology universities for more than 40 Ed Jordan and Paul Choritz. commentator. A winner of SA’s years. Since retiring in 2010, he They released seven albums, five Distinguished Service in ICT does editing work and on writes children’s books and have two Award, he is author of 19 books poems, some of which have been platinum and four gold albums and editor-in-chief of South published. He was recently in SA, two SAMA nominations and Africa’s longest-running online appointed to a research post by a Naledi award. His children’s consumer technology magazine, the University of Stellenbosch. book Oliver’s Outline was Gadget.co.za. His weekly gadgets He hopes that his poetry carries published by Pan Macmillan in column is the most widely an inquisitiveness about all 2015. Alan’s career began writing syndicated technology column in living creatures – the quirky, and performing with the acapella South Africa and he writes a the serious and the numinous. group, Not the Midnight Mass, weekly trends column for the which has won a Dalro Award, Sunday Times. an Evening Post Award and He is founder of World Wide a Vita nomination. Worx, leading groundbreaking Alan is a voice artist, and market research, and presents produces corporate events. his insights to audiences across the globe.

GORDON, LYNDALL GRADNER, RICHARD HANDLER, ROSEMUND Women writing Alternative Women writing about women; forms of about women ‘Outsiders’: Five publishing women writers Rosemund who changed Richard Gradner Handler has a the world is a director at degree in English Mustard creative and digital literature from Wits University Lyndall Gordon is a biographer agency. He was the first Red Bull and an MA in Creative Writing whose books include The marketing director in South from UCT. She has written four Imperfect Life of TS Eliot and Africa and has a passion for novels, Madlands, Katy’s Kid, most recently, Outsiders, about brands and branding. He is also Tsamma Season and Us and five women writers (one being the author of Return to Lemuria, Them, published by Penguin the South African, Olive Unicorn and Servant of Memory, Books. She has also written Schreiner); also two Jewish which fall under the mythical many short stories, poems and memoirs with scenes of the fiction genre. Richard is an articles published in literary Cape: Shared Lives and Divided ex-Kung Fu and Tai Chi teacher, journals and collections. Lives: Dreams of a Mother with a deep connection to all Tsamma Season was shortlisted and Daughter. things spiritual. for the Commonwealth Prize, Lyndall is a fellow of the Royal He lives life to the full, Africa. She is currently working Society of Literature and maintaining a healthy mind on a fifth novel. St Hilda’s College, Oxford. and body through the daily practice of Yoga. HARBER, ANTON HAYMAN, JUNE HELLMAN, BRYAN ‘Ministry of Children’s Writing as crime’: Delving programme therapy into South Africa’s June Hayman Bryan Hellman underworld; studied music at has been a Fake news: Spot UCT and UNISA clinical it and stop it! and has been an educator for 40 psychologist in Cape Town for years in pre-primary, primary and the past 12 years, providing Anton Harber is a journalism high schools but her passion is integrative psychotherapy to professor at Wits University, a early childhood education and individuals, couples and groups journalist, author and editor. development. She teaches Active privately, as well practising in He was founder-editor of the Music at Herzlia pre-schools and clinics, learning institutions and Mail&Guardian; editor-in-chief Phyllis Jowell Pre-School. Active NGOs. He has treated patients of news channel eNCA; and CEO Music incorporates rhythm, over a broad spectrum of mood of Kagiso Broadcasting. melody, speech, movement and and personality disorders as well His books include Diepsloot imagination using percussion as working closely with (2011), The Gorilla in the Room instruments to involve and individuals grieving a loss. In (2013); co-editing the first two develop the whole child. She is 2008 he wrote Soul Conductor: editions of The A–Z of the musical director and A Tale of Grieving and Healing South African Politics (1994/6); conductor of Shalom Voices Choir which documents his personal What is Left Unsaid: Reporting and participates in Tivoli Variety experience of the grieving the South African HIV Epidemic concerts to entertain Jewish and process. Bryan is most (2010), and Troublemakers: other seniors. passionate about his beautiful The best of SA’s investigative twin children, Luke and Khloe. journalism (2010).

HIGGS, COLLEEN HONIKMAN, INFELD, AVRAHAM Alternative MARILYN (MJ) Jewish forms of ‘A black South peoplehood, publishing African soldier leadership, won a medal? identity and Colleen Higgs is a In World War II? challenges publisher, First I’ve heard publishing activist and writer. of black soldiers!’ Avraham Infeld was the founder Modjaji Books, the publishing of Melitz Centres of Jewish company she started 11 years MJ Honikman started writing Zionist Education; director of the ago, is an award-winning, when she was 60. Before that Shalom Hartman Institute; internationally recognised small, she taught, and then worked for director of the Jewish Agency for independent feminist press. Ravan Press, David Philip, Weekly Israel’s Youth Department for She compiles an African Mail/M&G and BigNews as a English-speaking Europe; Catalogue of Small Publishers marketer, not a writer. director of planning, Taglit every few years, which will soon She ran marketing workshops Birthright and CEO of Hillel. be available online and is a for independent newspaper In recognition of his database to increase the publishers in Sudan, Iraq, contributions to Jewish visibility of small and Rwanda, North Vietnam and education, Avraham won Hebrew independent publishers in Africa. South Africa. University’s Samuel Rothberg She has had two collections of Prize for Jewish Education, Her books, The Mystery of the poems and a collection of short Hillel’s Renaissance Award, and SS Waratah and the Avocado stories, Looking for Trouble, honorary doctorates from Tree (for children) and published. She lives in Cape Muhlenberg and Hebrew There Should Have Been Five Town with her teenage daughter. Union College. (for young adults), were published by Tafelberg. JOSEPH, RAYMOND JOWELL, JOANNE KANTOR, BRIAN Fake news: Spot ‘Winging It’: ‘Get South it and stop it! From world- Africa growing’ class ref to Beginning as a rookie solo dad Brian Kantor, cadet reporter for author of Get the Rand Daily Joanne Jowell South Africa Mail, Raymond Joseph went on published her first book, Growing, had a long academic to to work for newspapers and Managing the Quarterlife Crisis, career at the University of Cape magazines in senior editorial in 2003. After completing her Town where he served as positions. A former ICFJ/Knight Masters in Creative Writing at lecturer and professor of International Journalism Fellow, UCT, she wrote On the Other Side Economics and dean of the and editor and board member of of Shame: An Extraordinary Faculty of Commerce. He is now The Big Issue South Africa, he Account of Adoption and professor emeritus and chief headed Code for South Africa’s Reunion in which she investment strategist at Investec (now OpenUp) media programme established her signature Wealth and Investment. and Data Journalism Academy. biographical storytelling style. He received accolades for his Since 2017 he has freelanced as Next came Finding Sarah, about work as founding chairman of a journalist, trainer and media bulimia and addiction, and The the V&A Waterfront Company consultant, specialising in Crazy Life of Larry Joe, the story (1988–2001). fact-checking and using social of a gangster made good. Her Brian’s research on monetary media as journalism tools. He recent book, Winging It, looks at and financial economics has also works as an assessor for life change, surrogacy and been widely cited. He writes the US-based International parenting as a solo dad. Joanne a popular blog zaeconomist.com. Fact-Checking Network. is a founder and director of the Jewish Literary Festival.

KANTOR, STUART KAPILEVICH, AMI KAPLAN, JONATHAN Sourcing ‘Rhapsody in ‘Winging It’: poems within schmaltz: From world- everyday life Yiddish food class ref to and why we rookie solo Stuart Kantor is can’t stop dad; Winning: an independent eating it’ What’s luck got financial adviser with a deep to do with it? love for poetry and the power of Ami Kapilevich was born in Haifa, language. He began writing in but grew up in Johannesburg, Jonathan Kaplan is a recent dad 1997 as part of a personal search and has been living in Cape Town doing his best; an ex Rugby Test for meaning. for 22 years. Over the course of referee; a marathon runner and Stuart has self-published a book his journalistic career, his work a bulldog dad of three pretties; titled Poetry for the Corporate has appeared in numerous a bonsai collector and a braai Coffee Table which captures publications and websites, master extraordinaire. Jonathan key moments of his personal including Men’s Health, Sports is the subject of biographies journey into the follies of love; Illustrated and Eat Out. Call it Like it is by Mike Behr life as a working man; and He lives with his wife and two and Winging It: Jonathan the grand-dish of family life. children, and enjoys surfing, Kaplan’s Journey From backgammon, and shouting at World-Class Ref to Rookie Solo cricketers on the television. Dad by Joanne Jowell. He co-authored Always Believe in Magic with Kevin Musikanth and Prof Tim Noakes. KATZ, ANTON KENTRIDGE, ELIZA KLASS, TRACY Fugitive Poetry: Distiller ‘Memories of criminals in of emotion; a mayd’le’; South Africa: Sources of In conversation The law inspiration with Rochelle Maisel Anton Katz is a Eliza Kentridge senior advocate in Cape Town, was born in Johannesburg in Tracy is known for her ‘growing involved in human rights issues 1962. She is an artist and a up disgracefully’ stance on life concerning international and writer; her poetry collection, and being dragged towards constitutional law. He also Signs for an Exhibition (2015), middle age – kicking and advises and represents clients was co-winner of the UJ Debut screaming rather than floating on public law. He represents Prize in 2016. Her visual work gracefully on a cloud of Clarins States, NGOs, multinational includes stitched, collaged and botox. She has co-starred in corporations and individuals. figurative drawings on fabric and two full length shows and He has consulted for the United paper, as well as an ongoing appeared in her first full length Nations Office on Drugs and signs project, connecting words stand up show, Klass Struggle Crime and the African Union on that govern us in the outside in 2011. the Prevention and Combating of world with her own writing about As one of the few female Terrorism. Since 2011 he has our interior world, experience stand-ups in South Africa, Tracy been a member of the United and memory. takes an irreverent look at what Nations Human Rights Council She is working on a new poetry women find funny – themselves. Working Group on mercenaries. collection. Katz has also presided as a High Court judge.

KLOPPER, SANDRA KNIGHT, NATALIE LAPEDUS-BREST, ANNE SAFIM presents: SAFIM presents: Writing as Irma Stern: ‘THE BIG therapy; Her life and PICTURE’: An ‘Catastrophe: art through art-o-biography Oy vey my child her letters is gay (and an Natalie Knight is addict)’ Sandra Klopper, former Deputy a renowned collector and Vice-Chancellor at UCT, has had documenter of Ndebele and Anne Lapedus-Brest was born in a long career as an art historian Shangaan art. At the Natalie Dublin, Ireland and came to and administrator at several Knight Gallery in Hyde Park, South Africa in 1961. She is a major universities in (1980–1995), she exhibited photographer, a genealogist/ South Africa. international art and promoted family historian and an author. She has written extensively on little-known black artists who Catastrophe: Oy Vey My Child is art and culture in South Africa, have now made names for Gay (and an Addict) is her first notably the art of traditional themselves. She has written and book. Her hobbies include communities; the expressive edited several art books, and organic vegetable gardening, culture of marginalised groups, served as art curator at the Wits dancing, and listening to music. Campus. The Knight/Priebatsch including the urban homeless; Anne has two adult children, Ndebele collection has been African fashion, textiles and Angela and Gregory Brest. sourced for international beadwork and the art of She lives in Morningside, exhibitions and catalogues. contemporary local artists. Sandton with her son Greg and Items are represented globally the two dogs. at amongst others: the Wits Art Museum, the British Museum and the Israel Museum. LAZARUS, GREG LEVESON, MARCIA LEVIN, NICOLE Writing and ‘The human Children’s identity predicament’: programme Identity and Greg Lazarus is healing Nicole Levin is a the pen name of children’s book husband-and- Marcia Leveson author, wife writing duo Greg Fried and retired from the English storyteller and educator. She has Lisa Lazarus. Greg is a Department of the University of published six picture books as philosopher at UCT teaching the the Witwatersrand. She has well as stories, plays, poetry and philosophy of mathematics and researched and published non-fiction for children and the history of philosophy. Lisa is widely, particularly in the area of young adults. In addition, she a psychologist and freelance Jewish South African fiction. She works as a learning materials writer. The couple have written is director of Quartz Press. She developer and has written and the novels Paradise (2014) and was president of the English directed various educational When in Broad Daylight I Open Academy of Southern Africa and programmes. My Eyes (2012), and a memoir, is chairperson of the University She has a Master’s Degree in The Book of Jacob: A Journey into of the Third Age Johannesburg. Creative Writing from the Parenthood (2009). She serves on the Editorial University of New South Wales They have also published various Board of Jewish Affairs. in Sydney, Australia and short stories in anthologies. She continues to publish, edit, a BA Honours from the The story This Could Get Messy teach and lecture. University of Cape Town. won a National Arts Festival Award.

LEVY, LORNA LEWIS, STACEY LIEBENBERG, RABBI ‘Hidden life of Cancer… MATTHEW a smous’ Divorce… ‘Wisdom from Survive and the South’ In her book, thrive Lorna Levy has Rabbi Matthew uncovered an Stacey Lewis Liebenberg was interesting personal story in her is a qualified physiotherapist, born in Johannesburg and research into her Jewish roots. author of Divorce 101: Survive studied there at the Yeshivah She is a well known political and Thrive and founder of Gedolah. In 1999 he became activist who was active together www.thedivorcesource.co.za. rabbi at the Schoonder Street with her husband Leon Levy in She is a trained mediator and is Shul in Cape Town and in 2001 the struggle against apartheid. currently studying towards her became rabbi of the Claremont A consequence of this was a LLB. She is passionate about Wynberg Hebrew Congregation. prolonged exile in England assisting people in healing from Rabbi Liebenberg is a former from 1963 for more than divorce. She also works with chair of the Rabbinical three decades. other organisations, assisting Association of the Her well-received memoir abused women. and the current chair of the Radical Engagements (2009) Her second book: From Break-up Board of Governors of the documents her life in exile, her to Breakthrough (co-authored Phyllis Jowell School and the involvement in politics in with Philippa Levitt) is due for Simcha Fund. England as well as her life as an release in July 2018. He delivers weekly messages on exiled South African. The Levys his own YouTube channel, and is moved to Cape Town in 1997. a practising mohel. MAISEL, ROCHELLE MANN, IAN MANOIM, IRWIN Book launch: ‘The Executive Progressive ‘Memories of Update: The Judaism: Its a mayd’le’; latest business history and In conversation ideas distilled impact in with Tracy Klass into one South Africa practical guide’ Rochelle Hurwitz Maisel grew up Irwin Manoim has been in Groot Drakenstein, a country Ian Mann is the MD of Gateways researching the history and village nestled between Paarl which consults to businesses in impact of Progressive Judaism in and Stellenbosch in the Western 14 countries. Ian writes a weekly South Africa, in partnership with Cape. She was educated at business book review for the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Rhenish Girls’ High School, Fin24.com and is interviewed Studies at UCT. The project will Stellenbosch and then studied monthly by Bruce Whitfield on culminate in a book, to be teaching. She taught at Wynberg Radio 702/Cape Talk about the published next year. Manoim has Boys’ School until she and her best ideas from the latest also written the leading article husband started their family: business books. Ian is the author in the latest edition of Jewish a son, daughter, twin daughters of South Africa’s largest- Affairs, dealing with his research and now several grandchildren. selling books on strategy into Jewish involvement with Over the years she has implementation, Managing South African media. submitted ‘letters to the editor’ with Intent, and of Strategy Manoim was joint founder and covering topical subjects, which that Works. editor of the Mail&Guardian have been published in various His latest book Executive Update, newspaper. newspapers and magazines. is an overview of the most important, recent business insights and issues.

MATISONN, JOHN MENDELSOHN, RICHARD MILLAN, ROBERTO Journalists ‘Cemetries and Children’s as agents synagogues’ programme of political change Richard Roberto Millan Mendelsohn is a is a visual John Matisonn retired member narrative and began as a political reporter at of the Department of Historical communications designer. His the Rand Daily Mail in 1974, and Studies at the University of Cape skills include illustration, digital received a prison sentence for Town. He is a former head of colouring and visual refusing to divulge a source. He department and long-serving communication design. was Rand Daily Mail foreign deputy dean of the Faculty of Roberto’s passion lies in digital correspondent in Washington Humanities. He is the co-author, publishing and print with and worked for National Public with Milton Shain, of The Jews in particular mention given to Radio in Johannesburg. He was South Africa. visual narrative illustration a broadcast regulator in the Since retirement he has walked and design. Mandela administration and the Camino twice as well as its Within his portfolio, he has the United Nations’ Chairperson Tankwa Karoo counterpart. worked with master cartoonist of the Electoral Media Zapiro and other commercial Commission in Afghanistan. comic book studios as well as He wrote God, Spies and Lies in worked on pedagogical content, Franschhoek and now lives safety comic books for in Cape Town. semi-literate audiences and editorial projects. MOFFETT, HELEN MOTENE, ROSIE MUSIKANTH, KEVIN Book reviews: Inter-racial Winning: How to do it and inter-faith What’s luck got and why we adoption to do with it? all should; during The truth apartheid Kevin Musikanth behind fiction: is a professional Researching magical stories Rosie Motene is a Pan African rugby coach, with 20 years in the media proprietor, who graduated coaching game. He has served as Helen Moffett is an author, from Wits University with a BA in head coach at Rugby editor, academic and activist. Dramatic Arts. Rosie grew up club and directed rugby at She has published university during the apartheid era; her Wynberg Boys’ School and textbooks, a treasury of mother was a domestic worker St John’s College. In 2014, at UCT, landscape writings; a book on for a white Jewish family, who his team Ikey Tigers was cricket; an animal charity took it upon themselves to raise Cup winner and in 2015, World anthology, Stray, with Diane her. As a great as this University Cup winner. Musikanth Awerbuck; the Girl Walks In opportunity was, it also brought was recently named head coach erotica series, with Paige Nick many challenges and sacrifices of the Israeli men’s national and Sarah Lotz; two poetry to both families. team, which he calls the ultimate Jewish privilege. collections, Strange Fruit and Ten years ago, Rosie embarked Prunings; the Short Story Day on a journey of self discovery, His book Always Believe in Magic, Africa anthologies; and other which she documented in her was co-authored with Prof Tim books including 101 Water book: Reclaiming the Soil. Noakes and Jonathan Kaplan, Wise Ways. journeying through an exciting She is easily bored and loves time in rugby history. collaborations.

NAUDÉ, FANIE SJ NERWICH, RUS NICOLSON, AMBRE Fiction, fact and Children’s Alternative friendship programme forms of publishing SJ Naudé is the Hailing from author of short Cape Town, Ambre Nicolson story collection, saxophonist, is a recovering The Alphabet of Birds, and a composer and producer magazine editor who lives and novel, The Third Reel, published Rus Nerwich is one of the writes in Cape Town. Before and in Afrikaans, English and Dutch. country’s most creative and after obtaining degrees in He studied at Cambridge prolific recording and performing English and journalism at the University and Columbia Law artists. Crossing genres from jazz university currently known as School. He won the University of and funk to world music and Rhodes, she was a cleaner in Johannesburg Debut Prize and a neo-soul, Rus’s style is diverse, London, a wall painter in South African Literary Award, and engaging and constantly Barcelona, a language student in was awarded the Jan Rabie and evolving. Shanghai and a book researcher Marjorie Wallace Writing Grant Rus published his first children’s in New York. for 2014. book titled One Fine Day, Her latest book is The A-Z of His work has appeared in various Love Came to Visit in 2016 and Amazing South African Women. international journals. Having is currently working on worked as a lawyer in New York a second, titled The Dark Hat. and London for many years, he currently lives in Johannesburg. NOVICK, BARBARA NUDELMAN, JILL OPPERMAN, SU Children’s The self Children’s programme between the programme lines: How Barbara Novick autobio- Su Opperman is lives with her graphical is a multi- husband Dave writing? disciplinary artist in beautiful South Africa. She has whose focus rests predominantly four children and her jewels are Jill Nudelman came to writing in on painting as a form of gestural her 12 grandchildren. She is an her 50s, after bringing up her expression and underground artist, writer, social worker, lover children. She has a masters in comic art as a unique aesthetic of nature and delights in swirling English and one in Creative tool through which to question on the dance floor. Writing; the latter resulting in the current South African society. She taught art to eight- and novel, Inheriting the Earth (2012), A love of comics is what first 80-year-olds and is enthused by which won the Olive Schreiner inspired her to explore other their contributions of fantasy Prize in 2015. She is currently art-making processes as and colour. doing a PhD in Creative Writing alternative ways to convey through Birmingham University meaning and aspects of story. in the UK, its outcome being a She has participated in various publishable novel. projects and exhibitions, both She lives in Johannesburg with locally and internationally. her husband and has two children in Johannesburg, two in Cape Town and grandchildren in both cities.

PALTE, LAUREN PAM, HELENE PHILLIPS, HOWARD ‘Maus’ the Children’s ‘Cemetries and graphic novel programme synagogues’ by Art Spiegelman A passionate Howard Phillips author and BA Hons (UCT), Lauren Palte is a mother of three, MA (London), Cape Town-based painter and Helene Pam, together with her PhD (UCT) taught in the History teacher. daughter Sheleen Lepar, create Department at UCT for 40 years products and experiences that until his retirement in 2014. His She is head of Visual Art at touch the hearts and minds of writing has largely been in two Herzlia High School and holds children around the world. Their fields: the history of health, a Masters in Fine Art from mission is to spread happiness disease and medicine and the University of Cape Town. and inspiration by teaching kids history of universities. to become deep thinkers, He is currently working on a helping them to believe in history of UCT from 1948 to 1968. themselves, and empowering them to achieve their dreams. Their products include two Amazon.com best-selling children’s journals, My Gratitude and Dream Journal and My Happy Place. POPLAK, RICHARD POSEL, DEBORAH PURKEY, MALCOLM Fake news: Spot ‘Hidden life of a The Jewish girl it and stop it! ; smous’ in ‘Sophiatown’ Journalists as agents of Deborah Posel is Malcolm Purkey political change a research is one of the professor at the pre-eminent Richard Poplak is a filmmaker, Institute for Humanities in exponents of workshop-based journalist and author of Africa (HUMA) at University of theatre development in Ja, No, Man, and The Sheikh’s Cape Town. South Africa. He is particularly Batmobile, and co-authored She researches and writes known for his exciting and Continental Shift with about various aspects of influential work with Junction Kevin Bloom. South Africa’s past Avenue Theatre, most especially and present. Sophiatown. As a Fulbright Scholar, he received an MA Theatre Studies (State University of New York). He taught Dramatic Art at Wits for 20 years, the last part as head of department. This was followed by nine years as artistic director of The Market Theatre and he is currently dean emeritus at AFDA, Johannesburg.

RAPHAELY, JANE RICHARDS, NANCY ROTH, ADINA Books as a Women writing Eve, Lilith & Jewish legacy about women; Holde Book launch: Jane Raphaely ‘Deceive and Adina Roth has moved to South Defend’ studied Bible Africa in 1960 and Talmud after studying at the LSE and Nancy Richards is a freelance extensively and has two masters Columbia University in New York. print and radio journalist, degrees in Literature with a She joined as founding speaker, media trainer and focus on Bible as Literature. editor of the first English founder of Woman Zone, an She runs B’tocham Education, women’s magazine, Fairlady. NPO connecting women. a Bar and Batmitzvah school In 1984, she set up Jane Raphaely focused on meaningful rites of She was instrumental in the & Associates to launch passage for Jewish teens and planning, compilation and Cosmopolitan magazine. she is a clinical psychologist editing of Being a Woman in House and Leisure and several in private practice. Adina was Cape Town: Telling your Story, other international titles involved in writing parts of which was published in 2015. followed, including the only Bat Mitzvah made by Me, edition of O, The Oprah Magazine edited by Daniella Jaff and outside the US. Jane is the Juliet Simmons. recipient of numerous awards She is a Melton faculty educator, for professional and a mom to Maya and Adam, and humanitarian achievements and writes on her blog, Jewgal. has seven grandchildren, all of whom live in Cape Town. Her memoir Unedited was published in 2012. SACHS, ALBIE SACKSTEIN, HOWARD SCHIMMEL, GAIL ‘Oliver Tambo’s ‘The knock on Book reviews: Dream’ the door: The How to do it story of the and why we Albie Sachs is an Detainees’ all should; activist and Parents Support Making a former judge on Committee’ creative space the Constitutional Court of South in a practical life Africa. Beginning as an advocate, Howard Sackstein is chair of the defending people charged under SA Jewish Report and the Jewish By day, Gail Schimmel is the CEO the laws of apartheid, he was Achiever Awards. A lawyer by of the Advertising Standards arrested and placed in solitary training and entrepreneur by Authority and a qualified confinement for months. Sachs profession, Howard is the attorney. By night she is a went into exile in England. In self-proclaimed ‘King’ of social mother of two children. She’s not 1988, he lost an arm and sight in media, explosive political activist really sure when she found the one eye when a bomb was and official photographer to life time to write a children’s book, placed in his car in Mozambique. itself. He has visited 75 counties, three novels and a textbook, but Returning from exile, he served has an LLB from Wits, a Masters if you could explain it to her, as a member of the from Brandeis University and she’ll be very grateful. Constitutional Committee and studied Conflict Resolution at Her latest novel is The Park and the National Executive of the Harvard. He was executive ANC. He is the author of The Jail she has another book coming director of the Independent out in early 2019. Diary of Albie Sachs, and We, the Electoral Commission, and led People: Insights of an Activist the only ANC delegation to ever Judge, amongst others. His latest visit Israel. book is Oliver Tambo’s Dream.

SCHONSTEIN, PATRICIA SCOTT LEVIN, SHARLENE SEGAL, LAUREN Sources of Writing as Cancer… inspiration; therapy Divorce… Sourcing poems Survive and within everyday Sharlene Scott thrive; life; Tasking Levin was ‘The knock on fictitious adopted at four the door: The characters with unpacking days old through an unqualified story of the Detainees’ Jewish history doctor’s ‘baby yard’. Her foster Parents Support Committee’ parents were a wealthy, detached couple and her Patricia Schonstein is a critically Lauren Segal has written several upbringing was littered with acclaimed novelist, poet and books, produced drama and deception and lies. Levin’s life author of children’s books. factual television series, and was filled with torment and Her works have been translated since 2002, specialised in abuse. She married an abusive into seven languages and developing and curating a man, and has faced loss endorsed by the Nobel Laureates number of heritage sites, repeatedly, none more JM Coetzee and Archbishop memorial projects and devastating than the death of Emeritus Desmond Tutu. permanent and temporary her third child. This last loss, she She is the curator of the Africa! exhibitions in South Africa and credits for removing ‘the shroud’ anthologies and the Poetry in Africa. In 2017, she published a and being the catalyst for her McGregor anthologies. memoir on her experiences as rise to courage and a cancer patient, Cancer: A Love She is co-editor of the poetry determination. quarterly, Stanzas and holds an Story and co-authored The Knock Stranger in the Guest House: MA in Creative Writing from the on the Door: The Story of the from Survivor to Thriver, is University of Cape Town. Detainee Parents Support her memoir. Committee (2018). SEGERMAN, STEPHEN SEREBRO, HAROLD SHAIN, MILTON Searching for ‘The Canopy’: Writing the Sugarman A story of history of warriors for anti-semitism Stephen ‘Sugar’ justice facing in South Africa Segerman is a the ticking Cape Town-based time bomb Milton Shain is music writer and co-owner of the professor emeritus of Historical iconic record store, Mabu Vinyl. Dr Harold Serebro specialised Studies at the University of Cape He is the co-author, together in gastroenterology before Town and the former director of with Craig Bartholomew Strydom, becoming an executive at the the Kaplan Centre for Jewish of Sugar Man: The Life, Death Altron Group where he spent Studies. He has written and and Resurrection of Sixto 20 years. He has researched edited over a dozen books, Rodriguez, which tells the story Nazi foreign policy and has including The Roots of of Rodriguez and their search lectured widely on the Holocaust Antisemitism in South Africa to find him, as told in in South Africa and (University Press of Virginia, Malik Bendjelloul’s 2013 internationally. In 1983 he was 1994) and A Perfect Storm. Oscar-winning documentary, invited by the Polish Minister Antisemitism in South Africa Searching For Sugar Man. of Justice as a delegate to the 1930–1948 (Jonathan Ball Polish Main Commission on Nazi Publishers, 2015) won the Recht War Crimes in Warsaw. Malan Prize for English and Afrikaans non-fiction in 2016. He has also spoken on the Arab/ Israeli conflict and the Iranian In 2014 he was elected a Fellow threat of nuclear genocide. of the Royal Society of South Africa.

SHAKINOVSKY, TERRY SHENKER, TOBY SIDLEY, STEVEN ‘BOYKEY’ ‘The knock on ‘The Executive Telling stories: the door: The Update: The Fiction, music story of the latest business and Detainees’ ideas distilled astrophysics; Parents Support into one Journalists as Committee’ practical guide’ agents of political change Terry Shakinovsky is a South After writing magazine articles African journalist, with extensive and PR material in the corporate Award-winning and multi- international experience. She world for several years, Toby shortlisted novelist Steven has lived and worked in Zambia Shenker developed a fascination ‘Boykey’ Sidley has meandered and the UK, where she worked for recording intriguing tales through careers as an animator, for the BBC and ABC News. She from yesteryear. Thus was born chief technology officer for a holds a postgraduate degree in her memoir writing business – Fortune 500 company, jazz History. She is the co-author of a ‘Tell Your Story’. She has musician, software developer, recent book on the Detainees’ ghost-written thought-provoking, video game designer, private Parents Support Committee inspirational life stories shared equity investor and technology (DPSC) in South Africa in the by a range of successful Jewish entrepreneur. He currently lives 1980s, The Knock on the Door. clients – which (among others) in Johannesburg with his wife She is currently the publications include a holocaust refugee, and two children. He has coordinator at the Mapungubwe property magnates, automotive published four novels, his latest Institute for Strategic Reflection and industrial moguls, and one being Free Association, and a (MISTRA) in Johannesburg. of SA’s top businessmen and play (with his wife Kate Sidley) much lauded philanthropists. and is published internationally. SIDLEY, KATE SILBER, GUS SILBERHAFT, RABBI ‘Knucklebone’ ‘Get South MOSHE Africa growing’; The methods Kate Sidley is a Funny you of the travelling writer, author, should mention Rabbi: Then reviewer and it! From Pip and now columnist whose Freedman to work appears in various Pieter Dirk-Uys to Deep Fried Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft began newspapers and magazines, Man: an exploration of the his career in 1988 as a Jewish online, and on radio. She reviews Jewish thread in South chaplain in the SA Defence Force. books, interviews authors and African humour In 1997, he became spiritual writes about book-related leader for the African Jewish subjects for the Sunday Times. Gus Silber is a journalist, author, Congress, a body responsible for Kate has written three books – scriptwriter, speechwriter and Jewish communities around a humorous foodie-related media trainer. He is the author of Africa. When a community ceases one called The Agony Chef; several books, covering a wide to function, it is Rabbi a children’s book called diversity of themes and subjects, Silberhaft’s job to preserve its What is It? as part of the Book from works of satire It Takes Two legacy by removing foundation Dash project; and 100 Mandela to Toyi-Toyi to mobile technology stones from synagogues and Moments – as well as a play, Mobinomics to social re-erecting them in the local which she wrote with her entrepreneurship in South Africa cemetery. He oversees the husband, Steven ‘Boykey’ Sidley. The Disruptors. He lives in restoration and maintenance of Johannesburg and also on over 20 000 Jewish graves in over Twitter and Instagram, where 220 cemeteries. you will find him @gussilber.

STUART-CLARK, LUCY SZCZUREK, KARINA TODRES, PHILIP Children’s ‘Outsiders’: SAFIM presents: programme Five women ‘THE BIG writers who PICTURE’: Lucy Stuart-Clark changed An art-o- is a Cape the world biography; Town-based ‘Rhapsody in artist, illustrator and teacher, Karina Szczurek is a Polish-born schmaltz: Yiddish food and with a BFA specialising in writer and literary critic. She why we can’t stop eating it’ printmaking from Rhodes studied in Austria and Wales, University (2009) and a MPhil VA and moved to South Africa in Philip Todres is publisher of specialising in illustration from 2005. She holds a PhD in English special-interest maps for Cape (2012). and American Studies from the Town including The Map to Jewish Lucy has illustrated two Bumble University of Salzburg. She Cape Town and this year’s 30th Books titles, ’s authored Truer than Fiction: edition Arts & Crafts Map. The Holiday (2013) and My Great Nadine Gordimer Writing interactive mapmyway.co.za Expedition (2017). Post-Apartheid South Africa and reflects a move into the digital was the editor of Touch: Stories space. Philip reviews books for of Contact by South African ’s Book Choice Writers. She is a regular reviewer and does interviews for Cape for the Sunday Independent and Diary. He is co-director of the the online art magazine Itch. musical documentary Leah, Teddy Karina’s latest book The Fifth & the Mandolin – a tribute to the Mrs Brink is her memoir of her passionate commitment of those life before, during and after involved in the Annual Yiddish her marriage to André Brink. Song Festival (2001–2010). URDANG, STEPHANIE WASSERMAN, MARLENE WEIL, DORIANNE ‘Mapping my Marriage: How ‘Winging It’: way home’: to thrive in From world- A memoir modern life class ref to rookie solo dad Stephanie Urdang Dr Marlene was born and Wasserman, Dorianne Weil is grew up in Cape Town. She is a founder of the Dr Eve brand, is a clinical and organisational journalist and writer. Her books an internationally trained clinical psychologist with over 25 years include her recently published sexologist, couples and sex experience in hospital, private memoir, Mapping My Way Home: therapist, and sexual medicine and corporate practice. She is an Activism, Nostalgia, and the consultant in private practice. internationally recognised Downfall of Apartheid An academic, educator, author, inspirational speaker, an expert South Africa. and well-known media in personal development and Her work with the United Nations personality with her own weekly human relations and has on gender equality and radio and television addressed over 100 000 people development covered three programmes, Marlene is most and facilitated workshops in decades, and included her invested in her primary role of 54 countries. position as senior advisor on clinician. In 2015 she wrote Cyber Mediator, facilitator and Gender and HIV/AIDS for UNIFEM, Infidelity: The New Seduction executive coach, ‘Dr D’ is a the UN women’s organisation. and presents papers and training household name in South Africa She lives in New Jersey, USA. on managing online behaviour. and regularly appears on In 2016 Marlene expanded her television and radio. role as a sexual health medico-legal expert and certified medico-legal mediator.

WIENER, MANDY WILKIN, JOY WINKLER, MARK ‘Ministry of Cancer… The design of crime’: Delving Divorce… writing: into South Survive and Structure, Africa’s thrive creativity and underworld; impulse in Journalists as Joy Wilkin was storytelling agents of political change born in Cape Town to a family that valued Yiddish culture, Mark Winkler is the author of Mandy Wiener reported for language and literature and who three critically acclaimed novels, Eyewitness News from 2004 to were involved in producing including Wasted and The Safest 2014 and specialises in Yiddish plays. She taught high Place You Know. Wasted was investigative reporting and legal school, and thereafter studied longlisted for the 2016 Sunday matters. She won The CNN law, becoming an attorney. Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, African Radio Journalist of the From 1990 to 2005, she practised published in French in January Year and the Rising Star, Women as an advocate. She now 2017, and worldwide as My Name in the Media award. Mandy’s first practises as a family mediator is Nathan Lucius in February book, Killing Kebble, sold over and parenting coordinator. 2018. The Safest Place You Know 100 000 copies. It was shortlisted Joy serves on the committee of was shortlisted for the 2017 Barry for the Alan Paton award, as was The Service Dining Rooms and is Ronge Fiction Prize. her second book, My Second Trustee of the Cape Town Concert His fourth novel, Theo & Flora, Initiation. She published Behind Series Trust. will be published in The Door: The Oscar Pistorius February 2019. and Reeva Steenkamp Story with her colleague Barry Bateman. Her newest book is Ministry of Crime. XENOPOULOS, RAHLA ZADOK, RACHEL ZILLE, HELEN The truth The truth ‘Not without behind fiction: behind fiction: a fight’ Researching Researching magical stories magical stories Helen Zille is a South African Rahla Xenopoulos Rachel Zadok is politician. She is is the author of A Memoir of Love the author of Gem Squash the premier of the Western Cape and Madness, and the novels Tokoloshe (Whitbread First Novel province and a member of the Bubbles and Tribe. Many of her Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Western Cape Provincial short stories have been IMPAC award) – and Sister-sister Parliament. She served as leader published in magazines and in (Herman Charles Bosman Prize, of the Democratic Alliance, the Women Flashing, Twist and Just the University of Johannesburg country’s official opposition Keep Breathing. Prize, The Sunday Times party, from 2007 to 2015 and as from 2006 She is the mother of triplets and Fiction Award). to 2009. lives in Cape Town. Her latest She is the executive director of novel, The Season of Glass, was Short Story Day Africa Her autobiography Not Without launched in May 2018. (shortstorydayafrica.org), a a Fight was published in 2016. project dedicated to the development of African writers and editors. Short Story Day Africa titles include Feast, Famine & Potluck, Terra Incognita, Water, Migrations and ID.

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