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FOUNDATION PHASE Aligned Teaching and Learning With www.sabooksellers.com Issue 100 April – June 2020 Enhance CAPS FOUNDATION PHASE aligned teaching and learning with Available in Afrikaans and English Spelling Made Fun: Interactive full-colour games for budding spelling champions. Maths Made Fun: Worksheets, practice pages and full-colour games to master basic numeracy skills. Learn to Read and Write: Give children a head start in reading and handwriting in their home language. Series also includes Learner’s Books, Phonics Books, Teacher’s Guides, Big Books and a Graded Reading Series. Grade 1-3 NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION CAPS aligned Catch up on schoolwork with X-kit Achieve Get the study help you need so you can be ready for tests and exams. Achieve your goals with study guides and exam practice books for a wide range of subjects from grade 8 to 12. STUDY GUIDES GRADE 8 –12 Step-by-step explanations and worked examples. 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Customer Services: Email: [email protected] Tel: 021 532 6000 www.x-kit.co.za XKit Achieve A4 Ad 06_19.indd 1 2020/06/01 09:33 CONTENTS REGULARS EVENTS Bookmark ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 2 International Book Fairs: �������������������������������������������������������� 5 SA Booksellers Association ���������������������������������������������������� 2 SA Booksellers National Executive Committee ������������������������� 2 AWARDS Letter from the President �������������������������������������������������������� 3 Breaking barriers �������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 Members listing ������������������������������������������������������������������� 15 Afritondo Short Story prize ����������������������������������������������������11 FEATURES PROFILE Literary love in a time of a biological war ��������������������������������� 4 Angela Makholwa Moabelo ��������������������������������������������������� 12 Local talent – Illustrators �������������������������������������������������������� 6 The old book smell ���������������������������������������������������������������� 7 TRIBUTE Books finding readers ������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Elsa Joubert, timeless lessons ���������������������������������������������� 14 Bookdealers and book dealing ����������������������������������������������� 8 Jeanne Goosen, her voice will never be silent ������������������������ 14 Upcoming topics in the Bookmark June newsletter: • A world re-imagined – how booksellers are adapting to the new ‘normal’ • B ooksellers survey – by Tuks School of Informatics Contributions to the Bookmark Magazine • BK Publishing donates Supernova hampers to and Newsletter are welcome: needy children Please contact the editor at • SA Book Fair 2020 to go virtual [email protected] Bookmark Issue 100 1 APRIL – JUNE 2020 SA Booksellers National Executive Committee MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION Issue 100 • 2nd Quarter 2020 PRESIDENT AND DIGITAL SECTOR HEAD Melvin Kaabwe EDITOR Heleen Liebenberg [email protected] • 021 918 4000 EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING +27 (0)82 787 9837 • [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT AND NORTHERN REGION SUBSCRIPTIONS SA Booksellers Office CHAIRPERSON +27 (0)21 003 8098 • [email protected] Riaz Hassim [email protected] • 011 726 8208 FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Melvin Kaabwe, Shafinaaz Hassim, Heleen Liebenberg, Cobi Labuscagne , Doron Locketz, Lee Maddeux, Siphiwo Mahala, Mandla Zibi VICE-PRESIDENT AND ACADEMIC SECTOR HEAD Mohamed Kharwa PHOTOGRAPHS [email protected] • 031 337 2112 Thanks to all for photographic contributions Design and Layout: élan Concepts TREASURER Printed by: Impress Litho Jonathan Ferreira [email protected] • 086 122 9229 SECRETARY AND LIBRARY SECTOR HEAD ABOUT THE SA BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION Vic Lopich The SA Booksellers Association represents a united front [email protected] • 0861 229 229 for booksellers. Through strategic liaison with the differ- ent sectors of the industry and provinces, SA Booksellers strives to regulate the book-trade, reminding publish- ers to act as wholesalers and booksellers as retailers. CENTRAL REGION CHAIRPERSON The annual SA Booksellers AGM has historically been Guru Redhi co-located with the Publishers Association of South [email protected] • 032 945 1240 Africa (PASA) AGM. The AGM is open to all members of SA Booksellers and is a conference full of information, energetic discussions, pertinent topics and eloquent speakers. This is an opportunity for education for all, EASTERN REGION CHAIRPERSON keeping members at the cutting edge of developments in Sydwell Molosi our ever changing industry. [email protected] • 047 531 0319 SA Booksellers works closely with government departments, educational authorities, and the state tender boards concerning matters that affect the trade. EDUCATION AND SOUTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON More than 50% of SA Booksellers members are Hentie Gericke previously disadvantaged and SA Booksellers is [email protected] • 021 981 1270 well positioned to lobby government on all issues pertinent to the book trade. SA Booksellers provides access to information for all its members, through the commissioning of research papers and the gathering of GENERAL TRADE SECTOR HEAD news, to the effective dissemination of this information Grattan Kirk via the industry magazine Bookmark and through [email protected] • 083 450 8855 www.sabooksellers.com. Bookmark, the official magazine of SA Booksellers, is distributed free of charge to all members as well as to all influential people in the book trade from publishers to SABA NATIONAL OFFICE government departments. The digital edition is sent to Tashrikah Jones an ever increasing subscriber database. This magazine [email protected] • 021 003 8098 is a mouthpiece for SA Booksellers members as much as it is a source of information. Send a letter to the editor at [email protected] to have your views published. The Executive Committee of SA Booksellers and the Editor thank all those who contributed to this issue of Bookmark through SA Booksellers, PO Box 870, Bellville, 7535 articles and/or advertising. Tel: 021 003 8098 [email protected] www.sabooksellers.com SA Booksellers National Office Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 13:00 [email protected] 021 003 8098 Bookmark Issue 100 2 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Regulars Letter from the President ear readers, to have a secure book eco-system for DBooksellers are the curators of our all readers in South Africa both online local community’s primary knowledge and offline� resources� This is more of a calling than Books are essential� They will continue a job� It is not for the faint-hearted nor to be, even beyond the current Covid-19 those averse to risk� In fact, as with our containment restrictions� Booksellers are compatriots on the front-lines of the war encouraged to continue in doing their against Covid-19 in medical care casualty vocation for the literacy of all our people� wards, few in this profession would be Reading is an overwhelmingly accessible practising for the sake of self-enrichment� and efficient transmission of concepts� It Technologies to shield Point of Sale It is a higher desire than profit to educate is therefore a pre-requisite for health, civic staff such as perspex screens are a must� our young, inspire our adults and exercise and community activism, active citizenry, We will look to engage with Government the minds of our aged� national development, law and order, on assisting small businesses with Our doctors depend on books, so inter-generational wealth, socialisation, funding for such in the future interests too every facet of our lives is influenced safety and security� Let us not shrink from of our staff and reading customers� by readership� If it were not so, every our responsibility, this is a time to show Some chains may also be well placed to post-apocalyptic scenario would our commitment as agents of positive implement contactless payment at their not depict freedom of speech and change� POS as well as emailing or SMS invoices information as being essential to be Last year at the London Book Fair, I as receipts to customers thus avoiding attacked, manipulated or controlled� In was fortunate to have met Trevor Goul- manual exchanges of paper� Our online Fahrenheit 451, in Animal Farm, in the Wheeker, Chair of Blackwell’s� In the orders would endeavour to sanitise very hieroglyphs at Giza we see the power discussion and subsequent visits to their packages in despatch to clients and of communicating thoughts� In early bookstores, it was clear that the business offer front-door and curb-side drop off of evidences of human activity: recording life of books is irrepressible� Booksellers parcels or contactless collection via locker via a cave wall, stone tablet or paper was will adapt and survive accordingly� The outposts at fuel stations and such� indeed the expression of people relaying challenges Booksellers face regarding In short, a good business can survive thought
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