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NEWS(Ed) degree with NEWS Two new members join the BIBLIOTEKE Selection Team the University of the Western Cape Earlier this year two new members of staff and completed his joined the Selection Section. Though new to studies in 1999. AMATHALA EENCWADI the Section, they both come from different He says: ‘My sections within the Service and bring rise to success has a wealth of library not been an easy Steenvliet Biblioteek hou experience. one. I started my poppekas Previously with career in 1996 as a the Publications and library assistant at Promotions Section, Town Centre Public Cherezaan Basadien Library in Mitchell’s was appointed as the Plain while still busy with my studies. My audiovisual selector thanks to Ganief Hendricks, Farried and in March (read more Denville Fourie for introducing me the about her in the world of information. In 2000 I became a January/February 2009 substitute English educator at Masiyile High issue of this journal, School in , and in 2001 I moved p.4.) Cherezaan says to Manzomthombo High School, , as she feels lucky in her a History/English educator. In 2002 I was job and is very happy employed as a contract teacher/librarian at as she never ceases to tell us with a big smile! Thembelihle Senior Secondary School in Khayelitsha, teaching English from Grades Theresa Sass joined 10-12. In June 2007 I became a librarian, the Section in April second in charge, at Masakhane Public Library as the children’s in Khayelitsha, under the mentorship of the selector. Born and courageous, progressive and inspiring senior bred in Ravensmead, librarian, mrs Nomonde Lumka. I am the , she has father of two children, Azania and Elethu. worked in public My hobbies are football and jazz music, libraries for nineteen particularly that of the late Sipho Gumede, years (and in between who sang When days are dark friends are completed her B.Bibl. few. I believe that life is a challenge. As Mao degree through Unisa). Tse Tung says: ‘The future belongs to those Theresa started off as who prepare for it.’ To my ex-colleagues at a library assistant at Masakhane I wish to say thanks very much Avondale Library in for what you have done for me. You proved Atlantis in 1990, moving on to the post of some people wrong and gave me a chance reference services librarian at Mamre Public to prove what I’m made of. I am where I Library in 1999. She joined the Library am today because of you. A journey of a Service in 2009 as the regional librarian in thousand miles begins with one step.’ Worcester. Asked to comment on her new post and A warm welcome and congratulations to all the old and its challenges, Theresa remarked that since she new faces. We wish you all the best. ED started working as a selector, she has begun to look at from a different perspective and that her present challenge is ‘to describe a book so that librarians can see it with their A fi rst eyes closed’. Welcome to you both - we wish you a The fi rst ever combined meeting of the Provincial Library Service’s Metropole regional librarians long, happy and productive stay in our section. and LIS’s district managers was held on 19 May this year.

Johanna de Beer Assistant Director, Selection and Acquisitions

New regional librarian Front (ltr): Ethney Waters (Blaauwberg Region), Sophia Rickett ( Region), Nkosinathi Mahala (Cape A warm welcome to Nkosinathi Mahala Town Region). Back (ltr): Carmen Holtzman (District 1), who joined the Service as the new regional Bronwen Abrahams (Southern Region), Cheryl Heymann librarian in Cape Town Region on 1 February (District 2), Brenda Kyle ( Development), this year. Edwina Africa ( Region), Lalie le Roux (District He was born in Surrey Estate in Athlone, 6), Dorothy Bothman (District 3), Flippie van der Walt and spent most of his childhood in the small (District 4), Pieter Hugo (Assistant Director: Metropole) Eastern Cape town of Fort Beaufort. He matriculated at Luhlaza Senior Secondary School in Khayelitsha, enrolled for a B.Bibl 44 Cape Librarian, May/June 2010 NUUS INDABA

NEWSin the middle of the children’s section for Happy birthday to Bellville story-telling and a space with comfy sofas Library! where the Born to Read programme for Bellville Library recently celebrated its 20th mothers and babies takes place every week. birthday with a fun-fi lled birthday week from The reference section, situated downstairs, 16 to 21 November 2010. And it should offers a large array of reference material, celebrate, as it is the busiest library in the including an awe-inspiring collection of clip- Western Cape, with 45-50 000 people pings on a huge variety of particularly South crossing its doors every month. The library African subjects. Ilze has painstakingly built is situated in a large, modern building in up this collection, 22 newspapers a Elizabeth Park and opened its doors to the week and scanning magazines for relevant public in 1989. articles. One of the reasons the building works so The building also includes three meeting well as a library is that the staff was involved rooms for hire and for community use, an Ninnie Steyn with Friends chairpersons Joy Koekemoer in the planning from the start, working with art gallery and art centre, as well as a coffee (), Pat McGowan (Central Library) and Frans the architects to create a facility that would shop run by the Friends of the Library. van der Merwe (Bellville) be able to house all the requirements of a Ilze commented: ‘The Friends of the successful library. Library have offered us support for almost Ilze Swart, chief librarian, said, ‘We planned 40 years by providing moral support, and the layouts, chose furniture and equipment, sponsoring new facilities such as photocopi- liaised with suppliers and, most scarily, had ers, resources, furniture and, for our birthday, to decide on a colour scheme with which a newly landscaped garden.’ (see page 48) borrowers could live for years to come.’ Another of the overwhelming factors in The result is a light and spacious, welcoming the success of Bellville Library is the staff and library that suits the needs of all members of the quality of service they provide. Nine the public. The lending library offers a vast staff members have worked there for 20 array of books, DVDs, CDs and . years or more, including Ilze who has been People sit quietly in easy chairs reading the there for over 40 years. latest newspapers and periodicals. Members Commenting on the library’s success Ilze are able to use the photocopiers and make said: ‘We have been identifi ed as a fl agship use of the SmartCape computers, of which library in the City of Cape Town, together there will soon be 15. with the Central Library. This means our Ingrid Brunke, Johan van Popta, Wolfgang Hammer The children’s section welcomes kids with staff will be increased and building and facili- and Ansie Barry during the birthday celebrations bright balloons, fun murals, and a small table ties will be upgraded next year. Our chal- with puzzles on it. There is a tented area lenge in the future is to harness technology to improve and diversify our service.’

Easter holidays at The Easter programme at included several interesting activities. Amongst others there were story-telling sessions with an Easter theme; the making of a paper-craft Easter egg tree; (children made a handprint trunk and fi lled the branches with eggs); and a cute bunny-shaped Easter basket using a paper plate. The basket was fi lled with Easter eggs as a treat. The youngsters were also entertained The little ones displaying their by a fabulous frog catching a fl y; and some cute frogs A story-telling session wonderful frog stories whereafter they could Making the fabulous frogs create their own frogs. required serious concentration This was followed by a story-telling ses- sion with a pirate theme and the making of a cute pirate with an eye patch. All in all a creative and fun-fi lled pro- gramme!

Eileen Cupido Children’s Librarian, Rondebosch Library Cute bunny baskets were fi lled with Easter eggs

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NEWS author JM Coetzee will be knighted in the NEWS SHARE Geletterheidskool is 20! SKRYWERS EN BOEKE Order of the Dutch Lion. This high-ranking Nog ’n suksesvolle aand in Somerset-Wes award is presented to only a few people Biblioteek tydens die SHARE Geletterd- BOOKS AND AUTHORS annually and is very rarely given to someone heidskool se biblioteekaand. Hierdie IINCWADI NABABHALI born outside the Netherlands. byeenkoms vind tussen sewe en nege in die aand plaas. Die personeel doen vrywillige Coetzee received the award for his diens en die SHARE Adult Education Centre Digter oorlede impressive oeuvre, his special bond with wat op Lifelong Learning fokus, het hierdie Die digter Vernie Plaatjies (47) is onlangs the Netherlands and his efforts to promote jaar sy 20e bestaan gevier. oorlede. Dutch literature and poetry at the Is this JM Steward van Wyk, voorsitter van die Coetzee? Festival that took place between Talita de Klerk departement Afrikaans en Nederlands aan 13-16 May 2010 in Amsterdam. The festival Senior Bibliotekaris, Somerset-Wes Biblioteek die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland, het gesê marked the seventieth birthday of Coetzee Plaatjies was ‘’n begaafde digter wat met sy who closed the festival with a reading from onthutsende beeldgebruik ’n skerp kyk in die an unpublished work. Links en onder: lewens van werkersklasmense kon gee. ‘Hy kon die alledaagsheid maar ook die Booktrade.info Die SHARE Gelet- verskrikkinge van die township op ’n meele- terdheidskool in wende manier uitbeeld. Gedigte het sonder aksie inspanning uit hom gevloei; sy besonderse aanvoeling vir die poësie kan gesien word in ‘Lost’ novel nets Booker sy briljante studie oor Breyten Breytenbach A tragi-comic historical novel about the en sy besielende lesse as Afrikaans-onder- relationship between Britain and Ireland wyser aan verskeie skole.’ won literature’s prestigious Booker Prize Joan Hambidge, professor in kreatiewe four decades after missing out because of a skryfwerk aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad, scheduling quirk. JG Farrell’s Troubles was vertel sy het Plaatjies se gedigte in Nuwe awarded the ‘lost’ Booker Prize for works Stemme 1, onder redaksie van Anastasia de published in 1970, a year when no prize was Vries en wyle George Weideman, ontdek. handed out. Set in 1919, the novel is about an English army offi cer ensconced in a crum- Die Burger bling Irish hotel, scarcely aware of the war for independence breaking out around him. Farrell was chosen over fi ve other fi nal- LITERÊRE TOEKENNINGS ists: Patrick White’s The vivisector, Mary Renault’s Fire from heaven, Nina Bawden’s LITERARY AWARDS The birds on the trees, Shirley Hazzard’s AMABHASO WONCWADI The bay of noon and Muriel Spark’s The driver’s seat. Farrell, who drowned while fi shing on the Nobel Prize laureate receive Irish coast in 1979, also won the Booker in Knighthood 1973 for The siege of Krishnapur. The Royal Civilian Order of the Netherlands The shortlist was selected by a jury has decided that internationally acclaimed whose members were all born ‘in or around’ 1970. Caledon Biblioteek

Die biblioteekpersoneel van Caledon het behoorlik die Yolanda Julies van Caledon Biblioteek besoek Uitsig Kleuter- Agter (lnr): Ellen Januarie, Yolanda Julies, Gerhard van Wyk sokkergees onderlede en die publiek was ook welkom om skool in Mei vanjaar om die uitstalling wat verskillende beroepe Voor (lnr): Helène Viljoen en Rhona Plaatjies die uitstallings te besoek as tema gehad het, te besigtig

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NEWSThe winner was decided by public vote Haar Sjona-kultuur blyk duidelik uit haar Library begins new chapter for on the Booker web site. Organisers said werk, en elke storie fokus liefdevol op ’n school Farrell’s book had 38 percent of the votes, faset van die Zimbabwiese kultuur - of dit Oaklands High School in Lansdowne fi nally more than double the support of any nou opvoeding, humor, die totaal belaglike other title. has a library. of die lewe van ’n straatkind is. The school has transformed one of its (Gappah woon op die oomblik in Cape Times old classrooms into a library with one Genève, waar sy vir ’n internasionale librarian and is among the eight percent of regshulpmaatskappy werk.) WOORDtroFEES government schools that has a serviceable Bettina Wyngaard en Karin Brynard was library. die eerste skrywers in die kategorie ALLERLEI For ten years the 50-year-old school debuutteks om die nuwe ATKV Prys had been using a makeshift system, where by die Woordfees in Stellenbosch, die MISCELLANY pupils would borrow material from teach- WOORDtroFEES, te ontvang. Die IINCWADI EZAHLUKENEYO ers’ classrooms. trofees is spesiaal deur Sanna Swart Two major contributors, a bank execu- vir die geleentheid geskep. Die trofees tive who had been a pupil at Oaklands, vereer spesifi ek woord- en visuele End of the book and the executive chairman of a consulting kunstenaars om sodoende skeppende While the e-book is still at an infant stage fi rm who had begun his career as a high werk in die kunste te ondersteun en te - especially in developing countries - a school principal, were the major contribu- bevorder. Karin Brynard het die prys vir recent pilot project by the Shuttleworth tors. haar diepgaande gesprek oor haar roman Foundation about mobile literature reveals However, the school’s collection of Plaasmoord ontvang, terwyl Bettina some new trends likely to have a profound 1 500 books does not fi ll the library’s Wyngaard se gesprek oor haar boek, effect on the industry as new media gain shelves and Richard Conyngham, co- Troos vir die gebrokenes, vereer is. popularity. ordinator of the Bookery, that has helped The project - called m4Lit (mobiles for the Thembelihle High School and Homba Statebond Skrywers Prys literacy) - sets out to explore whether Primary School in Khayelitsha to stock South African teens would read a story on their library shelves, said he was willing to Die Statebond Skrywers Prys 2009 vir die their cellphones. An interactive m-novel, work with Oaklands to expand its library. beste boek in Afrika is aan Mandla Langa called Kontax - about the entertaining Oaklands was to have been the third van Suid-Afrika toegeken vir sy boek The adventures of a teenage graffi ti crew - school to benefi t from the Equal Educa- lost colours of the chameleon. Die prys attracted a surprising number of young tion campaign for a library in every school, vir beste debuutboek het aan Uwem people who showed interest in read- but took the initiative in creating its own Akpan van Nigerië gegaan vir sy boek Say ing lengthy stories on their cellphones. library. you’re one of them. Vir meer hieroor Around 63 000 subscribers signed up to gaan na www.commonwealthfoundation.com/ read the story, which included 28 000 e-boeke die in-ding culturediversity/writersprize/ teenagers aged between 11 and 18. It Die New Holland Digital- estimated 7 200 teens read the whole DEKAT span het pas aangekondig dat hulle ’n story - quite a substantial fi gure. e-boekwinkel gaan oopmaak, Diva While the study was geared at measur- An elegy for easterly (www.ebookdiva.com). eBook Diva sal in ing reading interest in teenagers, m4Lit romantiese fi ksie spesialiseer - by verre die Die Zimbabwiese advokaat Petina Gappah team leader Steve Vosloo says the project gewildste soort e-boek - en sal aanvanklik het in 2008 verskeie koerantopskrifte ge- has given insight into how book publish- 1 200 titels beskikbaar hê teen minder as haal met haar ope brief aan die destydse ers could take advantage of the emerging R20 per boek. eBook Diva gaan ook sorg Suid-Afrikaanse president, Thabo Mbeki. trend in new media. ‘What we’ve found is vir ’n skrywersgemeenskap wat aanhang- Gappah het nou ’n versameling kortver- that people will read longer texts if they ers van romantiese fi ksie in staat sal stel hale, An elegy for easterly - haar eerste fi nd the content interesting and affordable,’ om self te skep en hulle werk gratis in bundel - by haar lys skryfwerk gevoeg. says Vosloo. e-boekformaat met lesers te deel, wat dan Dit het die Britse Guardian First Book We don’t see it as something that will kommentaar op hulle werk sal kan lewer. Prys gewen, is al in Hollands, Noorweegs replace books, but publishers, for example, Nog ’n positiewe stap in die en Fins vertaal en verskyn eersdaags in could use mobile media as a teaser for e-boekrigting is Kalahari.net se belegging in Chinees, Frans, Italiaans, Japannees, Serwies their books. meer as 60 000 e-boektitles, wat nou by en Sweeds! hul aanlynwinkel beskikbaar is. En nuwe Finweek titels word daagliks bygevoeg. As jy dus

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NEWSverkies om op skerm te lees, moet jy vin- NEWS Book selectors have the GEES! nig ’n draai by Kalahari gooi: net vier mak- like stappe en ’n nuwe e-boek is joune. Two days before kick-off and the book selectors already have the GEES! Seen here are some of our book selectors who attended the adult book selection meeting held on 9 June this year. (Ltr): Book DEKAT Selectors Ethney Waters, Nomonde Ngqoba, Theresa Sass, Linda Ngaleka and Stanley Jonck with Johanna de Beer, assistant director, selection in front leading the pack! Minister supports Minister of Arts and Culture Ms Lulu Xingwana has lent her support to the Cape Town Book Fair. Speaking during the Budget Vote of the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) in Parliament in May, the minister said the department was ‘committed to participation in the home-grown Cape Town Book Fair in July’. ‘The fair has become the biggest book fair in Sub-Saharan Africa. This year the CTBF will celebrate its 5th anniversary,’ said Xingwana. She said, ‘This year’s theme is Where the story begins ... ‘In line with its aspirations to become the pan-African book fair, this year the organisers are working with the Goethe ON WRITING the hefty The writers’ & artists’ yearbook Institut to bring 15 publishers from 2010 at the bottom of the pile. Talk about other African countries to the fair.’ Ms SKRYFGEDAGTES food for thought! A mean little voice Xingwana said it was unfortunate that the EZABABHALI sounds: ‘And next time, who knows from ban on flying into Europe had prevented which menu you will be reading?’ her ministry from attending the London So where to start? Another pile that lies Book Fair, where was the The agony and the irony in wait - a nasty thing called ‘work’ - acts as Market Focus Country. The minister An e-mail from Riki of the Book- the decider. I take the smallest book: Writ- thanked South Africa’s ambassador in shop: Come and get it! I have R3000 in my ing fi ction. There is a picture of a crumpled London for representing the country at budget and the shop is closing down. After page on the cover. Not very encouraging, the fair. Director of the CTBF Claudia ten years somebody suddenly decided to but perhaps candid - honesty in a blunt way. Kaiser said she welcomed the support kill it - for this is how bibliophiles experience Despite the ‘Linda Anderson is an award- offered by the minister to the CTBF. the death of a book shop: it’s bloody murder. winning novelist …’ and ‘Dick Neale is an award-winning fi ction writer …’ the authors ‘This year the focus of the fair will be on And that also killed the joy of anticipating the kid-in-a-candy-store experience; of are described as knowledgable about the art trade on the first day, 30 July, with the literally starting at one end of the shop and of writing and indeed it seems that most of theme Where books mean business . . . piling up books while the shop assistant taps what they have been writing was about writ- and we are looking forward to a dynamic away at her calculator. Eventually I take 18 ing. I pause to refl ect on how many books programme which will put publishers books away in a medium-sized box and drag there are on the subject. I must have read from around the world and especially it to my lair on the seventh fl oor of Media a dozen myself and here are some more. from Africa in touch with each other to City - knowing this would be the last time, This can only mean that there are hundreds do business,’ said Kaiser. really like kissing a cousin. Eventually I sit of thousands of aspiring writers out there, Kaiser said that while it was unfortu- down, sigh (for different reasons) and open as there must be many many more in many nate that the London Book Fair had been the box. There are books on history, politics, many languages written over quite a long a missed opportunity for the South Afri- literature, general knowledge, journalism - period … So the next question is: who really can publishers, authors and book sellers, and writing. I lift George Orwell: critical benefi ts from all this? she believed that the CTBF would offer a essays out to reveal underneath a batch of One of the writers interviewed in the chance for business relationships to grow, books on writing: How to write book advocates staring out of the window. and would be a showcase for African (P Oltermann, 2009), Writers talk (P Tew, So I do. And then start reading. Because publishing and a ‘truly African fair of note’. F Tolan & L Wilson, 2008) and Writing I am intrigued. I was when I read the fi rst fi ction (L Anderson & D Neale, 2009), with ‘How to write’ a decade ago and still am. 88 Cape Librarian, May/June 2010 NUUS INDABA

NEWSPage one poses a few hard core questions but a habit.’ Inspiration comes most often pig swill.’ I halt in my tracks, thinking: Good with the fi rst salvo being ‘Do you have what ‘through the habit of work, unexpectedly …’ grief - I hope I learn something more than it takes to become a novelist?’ One John and the Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburõ Õe that, reading this! But Cowan went on about Gardner wrote an essay under this title and talked of ‘accumulated practice’. Indeed. how he fi rst does all the possible chores asked: ‘Do I have enough talent? Enough The authors warn against procrastination around the house, how he never has a time? Adequate life experience or educa- and praise stamina, high tolerance of ‘raw, plan when he writes and how he rewrites tion? Anything new or important to say?’ messy fi rst drafts and a series of imperfect the fi rst sentence until he is satisfi ed with These are examples of the questions writers subsequent drafts’. All good advice, to be that before continuing with the next one struggle with; the doubts that can sabotage sure. Waiting for the muses, having that one - and right in the beginning of the book even the greatest of talents. Which reminds more cuppa, even going in search of them by the authors explain that the aspiring writer me - the writer-painter Johannes Meintjes going shopping, taking a walk, et cetera, are should not, like that character who dreamt declared (as a teenager!) that ‘talent is greatly exposed for being Satan whispering in your of the hatless editorial staff, get bogged overrated’. He believed that all comes down ear. ‘Writers must not think of themselves down at the fi rst sentence: ‘He worries at to ‘the fi re that drives the real artist’. And as writers, but as receivers.’ Sounds like every detail of it, ponders the derivation and this rings true, because all these books re- something by Poe or Stevenson, but okay, I meaning of words, frets over the tastefulness, peat variations on the same theme: applying can imagine myself being a ‘kind of medium’ the rhythms, the factual accuracy.’ Oh. My. the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair, without lighting black candles or chanting Word! I do a Michael J Fox and page back et cetera. Anderson and Neale start off by from inside a pentagon - I pray that I will to the front - Cowan waxes about rhythm: undertaking to teach the reader how to get never become that desperate, though. ‘I will read through the whole thing for him/her ‘writing routinely and effortlessly’. There are certain methods recommended, rhythm and then I will start revising the fi rst Mention is also made of a writer’s notebook like freewriting, background research, reading sentence so that the whole thing fl ows.’ And and developing an own voice. Gee, where the classics . . . I wonder whether Cowan should read this have I heard this before? I diligently underline everything that even book - or not! Amusing anecdotes, like Camus’s character vaguely resemble pearls of wisdom. Then To be fair, the authors stated (page 9): (in The plague, 1947) who dreamt of a I realise I have to get back to work, as my ‘Start experimenting to fi nd whatever suits publisher reading his book and being so lunch hour had almost expired. I page you in terms of allocating time. Find out thunderstruck that he stands up and says to through the book a last time - and then I what works for you.’ Right. I close the book. his staff ‘Hats off, gentlemen’ (jaaa … dream notice an interview with the writer Andrew But with the knowledge that I will open it on, buddy) and inspiring quotes, like Virginia Cowan in the last chapter. I know of his again, soon. It is far too entertaining not to - Woolf’s admission: ‘I walk making up phrases; novel Pig and that it does not refer to the and, writers should know all about irony! sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick life of a policeman, but that is about all. I of the greatest rapture known to me’ are decide to take a quick peek while ambling Dr Francois Verster sprinkled over the pages. Not developing back to my work station. Correspondent a habit is described as ‘self-sabotage’ and And the fi rst thing I read is: ‘… I did fi nd Aristotle is quoted: ‘Excellence is not an act, out from that experience how you boil

Cape Librarian 40 YEARS AGO ... Stefan Wehmeyer Deputy Director: Regions

 Bee Jordaan, librarian from Montagu wrote about their collection  The year 1970 marked the 100th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s on local history. In this article she gave tips on how to organise a death. The CL commemorated this occasion with a scholarly local history collection. One of the artefacts in the library was, as article by Geoffrey Haresnape, a senior lecturer in English Litera- she mentioned, ‘a delightfully gruesome object in the form of the ture of the (UCT) and a fi lmography of skull of a local murderer’. (I wonder if Montagu still has the skull?) Dickens’s fi lms. More delights in Bee Jordaan’s article are anecdotes about an  Karel Schoeman (sy eintlike naam was Tromp) wen die 1970 geologist’s maps and stones that were in the collection ‘X marked Hertzog Prys vir Prosa vir Fakkellig, Lug vol wolke en Spiraal. Dit the spot where oil might be’ and Prince Alfred whose Russian was die eerste keer in ses jaar dat prosa die toekenning ontvang. bride was the ‘original Marie from Marie biscuits’. Die vorige was in 1964 toe Etienne Leroux met Sewe dae by die  The CL reprinted an article from Doorway, January 1968. In this Silbersteins die toekenning ontvang het. article, Psychology course for librarians by Barbara M Hudgins, she  ID du Plessis word 70 en Tafelberg gee sommer drie boeke uit. mentions the psychological state of various users. Time Warp syn- Sjeg Joesoef, Drie wêrelde en Versamelde verse. Du Plessis was drome is where a user requests an article which according to him/ baie bemind in die Moslem-gemeenskap van Kaapstad. Ek onthou her appeared in a March of a periodical whilst it actually baie goed in Desember 1981 het ek spesiaal in Waalstraat gaan appeared in the January edition. The Switched Author syndrome kyk hoe sy kis in Moslemtradisie vanaf die Bo-Kaap na die Groote is where a user would insist that for instance Steinbeck and not Kerk gedra is. Hemingway wrote For whom the bell tolls. Other maladies  Ek het ‘n teorie dat 80% van manlike bibliotekarisse wat trou, die are also the Switched Name syndrome and the Department of geliefde in die biblioteek ontmoet het. Hier is nog ene: ‘Ons beste Utter Confusion. In an example for the last one she mentioned wense vergesel mnr Pierre de Villiers, streekbibliotekaris van Oos- a college girl looking for short stories in the authors catalogue. Londen en mej Ria Gerber wat in Mei in die huwelik getree het. ‘I’ve gone through all the Harpers and Rows in the catalogue and Mej Gerber was voorheen as assistent aan die streekbiblioteke van couldn’t fi nd it.’ Mosselbaai en Graaff-Reinet verbonde.’ Kaapse Bibliotekaris, Mei/Junie 2010 99 NEWSNUUS INDABA NEWS New publications

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The EXECUTION OF AFRICA OUTLINE BY STREET BEADS+WIRE ARTIST The Cape of Good Hope EXECUTION OF AFRICA OUTLINE BY STREET BEADS+WIRE ARTIST Kameroen Kenia Lesotho Liberië Libië Madagaskar Malawi Mali Marokko Mauritanië Mosambiek Namibië Niger Nigerië Republiek van Republiek van Rwanda São Tomé en Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of Republic of Rwanda São Tomé and l Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of Republic of Rwanda São Tomé and l die Kongo Suid-Afrika Principe Congo South Africa Principe Congo South Africa Principe AFRIKA-RAAMWERK IN KRALE DEUR STRAAT-KRALEKUNSTENAAR l © ©

Senegal Sentraal- Sierra Leone Somalië Soedan Swaziland Tanzanië Togo Tsjad Tunisië Uganda Western Sahara Zambië Zimbabwe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe Afrikaanse Rep In 1957 was Ghana die eerste Afrika-land suid van die Sahara Op 15 April 1958 het regeringsverteenwoordigers van agt Die Afrika Unie het besluit om Afrika-dag te vier om integrasie Georganiseerde gebeure Ngowe-1957 iGana, kumazantsi wesahara, yaba lilizwe lokuqala ukuba luthi gqolo ukulwela inkululeko yalo kumazwe angaphandle. lweAfrika wagcinwa njengowokubhiyozela imanyano yeAfrika. Imisitho eququzelelweyo In 1957 Ghana was the fi rst African country south of the On 15 April 1958, government representatives from eight inde- The African Union has chosen to celebrate Africa Day to pro- Organised events ukufumana inkululeko phantsi kolawulo lobukoloniyali. Eli lizwe Sahara to secure independence from colonial rule. The newly pendent African states attended the fi rst Pan-African conference mote integration and development of Africa. African Liberation om onafhanklikheid van koloniale heerskappy te verkry. Die onafhanklike Afrika-state die eerste Pan-Afrika-konferensie op en ontwikkeling in Afrika te bevorder. Afrika-vryheidsdag word • Formele byeenkomste met paneelbesprekings Phakathi kowe-1958 nowe-1963 umzabalazo uye wakhula nga- • Iindibano ngokusemthethweni kunye neengxoxo • Formal gatherings with panel discussions pas onafhanklike nasie het sy naam gekry van ‘n ryk wat tussen die vasteland bygewoon. Tussen 1958 en 1963 het die stryd deur baie Afrika-gemeenskappe dwarsoor die wêreld gevier - ‘n lohlutha igama lalo kubukumkani obabuzinze kula mmandla Kumbhiyozo walo nyaka iManyano yeAfrika ichonge ukukhuthaz- independent nation took its name from an empire that had on the continent. Between 1958 and 1963 the nation and class Day is celebrated by many African communities around the • Straatoptogte kumbi eAfrika nasehlabathini ngokubanzi. Kwesi sithuba, amazwe wa kwentsebenziswano nophuhliso lweAfrika. USuku lokuKhu- • Iintetho zeenkokheli zopolitiko nezokuhlala • Speeches by political and social leaders die 4de en die 10de eeu daar naby gedy het. Hulle het aan tussen nasies en klasse al hoe hewiger geword, nie net in Afrika permanente massa-instelling van die wêreldwye Pan-Afrika- • Toesprake deur politieke en maatskaplike leiers phakathi kwenkulungwane yeminyaka yesi-4 neye-10. • Imibhiyozo yasesitalatweni fl ourished near that region between the 4th and 10th centuries. struggle grew stronger both in Africa and around the world. world – a permanent mass institution within the world-wide ali-17 aseAfrika athe aluphumelela udabi lwawo lwenkululeko ze luleka kwamaAfrika lubhiyozelwa zizizwe ezininzi zaseAfrika • Street marches Afrika-vryheidsdag die nuwe naam ‘Afrika-bevrydingsdag’ nie, maar dwarsoor die wêreld. In hierdie tydperk het 17 lande beweging. • Spesiale universiteitslesings • Iintetho ezikhethekileyo kumaziko emfundo enomsila. The citizens renamed ‘Africa Freedom Day’ as African Liberation During this period, 17 countries in Africa won their indepen- Pan African Movement. Abahlali baluthiya ngokutsha uSuku lweNkuleloko yeAfrika bathi unyaka we-1960 wachazwa njengoNyaka weAfrika. kwilizwe liphela – iziko elisisigxina lesininzi kwilizwe jikelele iPan • Special university lectures gegee. Daar word ook na die stigtingsdatum van die OEA in Afrika hul onafhanklikheid verkry en 1960 is tot Afrika-jaar • Byeenkomste met kulturele vermaak, digkuns en luSuku lweNkululeko yamAfrika. Umhla wokusungulwa kweOAU • Iindibano zemibhiyozo yenkcubeko, imibongo, nezithethi Day. The founding date of the OAU is also referred to as ‘Africa dence and 1960 was proclaimed the Year of Africa.

African Movement. CONCEPTUALISATION+DESIGN ZU I MOPANI • Rallies featuring cultural entertainment, poetry, and speakers. CONCEPTUALISATION+DESIGN ZU I MOPANI as ‘Afrika-dag’ verwys. Afrika-bevrydingsdag het daartoe verklaar. KONSEP+ONTWERP ZU©I MOPANI optredes deur sprekers. ukwaziwa ngokuba ‘luSuku lweAfrika’. USuku lweNkululeko Ngomhla wama-25 kwinyanga kaCanzibe ngowe-1963, iinkokheli E-Amerika olu suku lukhunjulwa ngokubamba iingqungquthela Day’. African Liberation Day has helped to raise political awareness in On 25 May 1963, 31 African leaders convened a summit meet- bygedra om die politieke bewustheid van Afrika-gemeenskappe ezingama-31 zaseAfrika zabiza ingqungquthela yokusungula In the United States the day is commemorated by way of sym- Op 25 Mei 1963 het 31 Afrika-leiers ‘n beraad byeengeroep om In die Verenigde State word die dag herdenk deur middel van yamaAfrika luncede ekwaziseni banzi ngezopolitiko kuluntu apho uluntu luthi lumenyelwe ukuzimasa ze luthathe inxaxheba African communities across the world. ing to found the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On that dwarsoor die wêreld te verhoog. Die doel van hierdie dag is iManyano yeAfrika (OAU). Ngalo kanye olu suku, iinkokheli posiums where people are invited to attend and participate in die Organisasie vir Eenheid in Afrika (OEA) te stig. Op daardie simposiums waarna mense uitgenooi word om deel te neem lwaseAfrika elizweni jikelele. kwimiba yezopolitiko neyokuhlala echaphazela uluntu lwase-US The purpose of the day was to annually mark the liberation move- day, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed a om elke jaar die bevrydingsbeweging se vordering te vier en dag het 30 van die 32 onafhanklike Afrika-state ‘n stigtings- aan politieke en maatskaplike kwessies wat betrekking het op ezazizimase lo msitho ezingama-30 zamazwe angama-32 ayekhu- olungamaAfrika. political and social issues relevant to US-African communities. om die vasberadenheid van Afrikane om hulself te bevry van handves in Addis Abeba, Ethiopië onderteken. Die naam en die gemeenskappe van die VSA en Afrika. Injongo yolu suku yayikukuphawula inkqubela yemigushuzo yen- lulekile ngelo xesha zathi zatyikitya isivumelwano sokusungulwa ment’s progress and to symbolise the determination of the people of founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The name and date Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation. of Africa Day has been retained as a celebration of African unity. = Capital city of a country. oorheersing en uitbuiting deur buitelanders te simboliseer. datum van Afrika-dag is as ‘n viering van Afrika-eenheid behou. = Hoofstad van ‘n land kululeko rhoqo ngonyaka kwanokukhuthaza uluntu lwaseAfrika kwalo mbutho eAddis Ababa, eTopiya. Igama nomhla woSuku = Idoluphu elikomkhulu lelizwe

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