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Big Books • Readers • Teacher's Support Material Helping Young Children Learn How to Read and Spel www.sabooksellers.com Issue 97, Jun – Aug 2019 Big Books • Readers • Teacher’s Support Material PUBLISHERS Helping young children learn how to read and spell in a fun and engaging way. Also available in Afrikaans. A Shuter & Shooter Company NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION NEW OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! 4th Edition OXFORD SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOL DICTIONARY 4TH EDITION – THE ‘MORE’ EDITION The most popular South African school dictionary for learners in Grades 4 to 12! More words More colour More support More activities BESTSELLER More curriculum terms The world’s most trusted dictionaries Scan to peek inside the Oxford South African School Dictionary 4th edition! 021 596 2300 www.oxford.co.za OxfordSASchools @OxfordSASchools SCH_CAL_14661_19.indd 1 2019/03/29 2:11 PM Contents REGULARS EVENTS EDUCATION 4 • SA Booksellers National 8 Jozi Book Fair 21 Huge shortfall in school Executive Committee The quest for a reading culture textbooks… • Bookmark in KwaZulu-Natal 10 South African Book Fair • SA Booksellers Association Coming Soon! 22 Word Warrior Competition 5 From the Editor Be a part of it Sharpening literary skills 12 Open Book Returns 23 Read Institute INDUSTRY AWARENESS 4–8 September 2019 Unlocking a successful career in 6 Van Schaik launches Early Childhood Development Added Benefits Initiative TRADE Exclusive to Rewards Members TRENDS 18 The Year of Facing Fire 7 Self-Published or Published? A journey within 24 The Cheeky Natives Here is the difference Taking the love for books to 18 Vagabond another level 14 A Tribute to Stephen Johnson Wandering Through Africa on Faith A Book Industry Legend 25 Support SA Business 15 Careers in the Book Industry INTERNATIONAL Source textbooks from local companies Being a Media Manager 19 IMF report slams SA’s 16 The Dinaane Debut Fiction Award education folly and Kraak Writing Grant winners Deep Dive into State of Affairs PHONIC READING SERIES DUZI BUG BOOKS are based on sound phonic principles, where learners sound out words. As the series grows, and learners become more confi dent readers, sight words are also introduced. Also available in Afrikaans as Duzi-Goggas. WHITE LEVEL RED LEVEL BLUE LEVEL YELLOW LEVEL • Learning the • Simple • Progression • Focus on oral basic vowel sentences from simple to and reading sounds a e i o u more complex comprehension • Use of repetition sentences • Practising the to consolidate • Fiction and vowel sounds concepts • Stories are non-fi ction using words engaging and component and pictures age appropriate www.duzibugs.co.za Customer Service: 033 8468721 / 22 / 23 / 24 << baCK TO CONTENTS SA Booksellers National Executive Committee NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT AND CENTRAL REGION CHAIRPERSON Issue 97 • Jun – Aug 2019 Guru Redhi [email protected] • 032 945 1240 EDITOR Maiyo Febi EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING VICE PRESIDENT AND NORTHERN REGION +27 (0)84 824 7757 • [email protected] CHAIRPERSON SUBSCRIPTIONS SA Booksellers Office Riaz Hassim +27 (0)21 003 8098 • [email protected] [email protected] • 011 482 843 FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Claire Bisseker, Bongani Nkosi, Frederik De Jager TREASURER PHOTOGRAPHS Thanks to all for photographic contributions Jonathan Ferreira [email protected] • 0861 229 229 Design and Layout: Through the Looking Glass Printed by: Impress Litho HONORARY SECRETARY Peter Adams [email protected] • 086 134 1341 EASTERN REGION CHAIRPERSON Sydwell Molosi SA Booksellers, PO Box 870, Bellville, 7535 [email protected] • 072 220 5311 Tel: 021 003 8098 [email protected] www.sabooksellers.com Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 09h00 to 13h00 EDUCATION AND SOUTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON Hentie Gericke Website Design: Through the Looking Glass [email protected] • 021 981 1270 Website Development: Country Digital Website Hosting: Databias ABOUT THE SA BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION ACADEMIC CHAIRPERSON The SA Booksellers Association represents a united front Mohamed Kharwa for booksellers. Through strategic liaison with the different [email protected] • 031 337 2112 sectors of the industry and provinces, SA Booksellers strives to regulate the book-trade, reminding publishers to act as wholesalers and booksellers as retailers. The annual SA Booksellers AGM has historically been co-located with DIGITAL SECTOR CHAIRPERSON the Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA) AGM. Melvin Kaabwe The AGM is open to all members of SA Booksellers and is [email protected] • 083 408 7414 a conference full of information, energetic discussions, pertinent topics and eloquent speakers. This is an opportunity for education for all, keeping members at the cutting edge of developments in our ever changing industry. GENERAL TRADE CHAIRPERSON SA Booksellers works closely with government departments, Olinka Nell educational authorities, and the state tender boards [email protected] • 082 873 4200 concerning matters that affect the trade. More than 50% of SA Booksellers members are previously disadvantaged and SA Booksellers is well positioned to LIBRARY CHAIRPERSON lobby government on all issues pertinent to the book trade. SA Booksellers provides access to information for all its Vic Lopich members, through the commissioning of research papers [email protected] • 0861 229 229 and the gathering of news, to the effective dissemination of this information via the industry magazine Bookmark and through www.sabooksellers.com. The Executive Committee of SA Booksellers and the Editor thank all Bookmark, the official magazine of SA Booksellers, is those who contributed to this issue of Bookmark through articles distributed free of charge to all members as well as to all and/or advertising. influential people in the book trade from publishers to government departments. The digital edition is sent to an ever increasing subscriber database. This magazine SA Booksellers National Office is a mouthpiece for SA Booksellers members as much as [email protected] it is a source of information. Send a letter to the editor at [email protected] to get your views published. 021 003 8098 << baCK TO CONTENTS << baCK TO CONTENTS From the Editor Welcome to this edition of Bookmark. We are half way through 2019 and there are some exciting events to look forward to in the second half of the year. South Africa’s most celebrated book festivals are almost here and I hope you have taken time out to check how you can be involved or to simply buy a ticket and attend the event. The 11th Jozi Book Fair (JBF) will be taking place from 29 August – 1 September 2019 at Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg. The event is free and the theme for this year is literature and newspapers. The objective of the JBF is to provide a public platform for key social partners to promote a culture of reading and writing. These social partners are readers, writers, publishers and NGOs. From 4–8 September is the Open Book Festival in Cape Town. The hubs will once again be the Fugard Theatre, The District 6 Museum Homecoming Centre and much-loved indie bookshop, The Book Lounge. Some of the local authors that will participate in the festival are Rekgotsofetse Chikane, Haji theatre performances, interspersed with The year of facing fire by Helena Kriel Mohamed Dawjee, Caryn Dolley and author discussions at book signings and is a brilliantly penned memoir about a Zimitri Erasmus, Ishay Govender-Ypma readings. Read more about the founders dynamic South African family. In this and Kelly-Eve Koopman. Read more on page 24. world-class chronicle, award-winning about other authors participating on writer Helena Kriel is commissioned to page 12. “South Africa’s most write the screenplay for what will later The South African Book Fair is set become the hit movie Kama Sutra based to happen from from 6–8 September at celebrated book festivals on the ancient Indian manuscript on sex Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, the Fair are almost here and and love. will build on the fresh approach of the In the year she travels to India to do past two years in reimagining an all- I hope you have taken her research, back home in South Africa encompassing South African Book Fair time out to check how her beloved brother Evan is diagnosed for readers and industry alike. with AIDS. Little does she know that The South African Book Fair is you can be involved or to everything she seeks to learn about love situated within National Book Week, simply buy a ticket and will be revealed in the battle to keep Evan and so is uniquely broad in its appeal, alive, read more about this fascinating drawing book buyers, readers and literary attend the event.” memoir on page 18. enthusiasts from all walks of life, read The late Stephen Johnson dedicated more on page 10. Van Schaik Rewards members are most of his life to the book industry. The Cheeky Natives have been in for some great benefits. Van Schaik He contributed immensely and some steadily reinventing what it means to Bookstore, in partnership with ten key roles he held were publisher and be a book lover. The Cheeky Natives is stationery companies, are now offering managing director of Exclusive Books a literary podcast primarily focused on Rewards members the chance to win a and CEO of Penguin Books SA, until it the review, curatorship and archiving weekly cash prize of R2 500 by simply integrated with Random House Struik of black literature. Founded by Dr. buying any item from one of the in 2014. He was the founding managing Alma-Nalisha Cele and Letlhogonolo partnered brands. One lucky Rewards director of the new publisher. We salute Mokgoroane, the podcast is a platform member will also stand the chance to win him with a tribute on page 14. dedicated to the celebration of all things a grand prize of R15 000 at the end of the literary. This is done through the reviews promotion which runs between 13 May of books, poetry and occasionally and 17 August 2019.
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