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@electricbook Weekly Twitter Updates for 2010-03-15
by Arthur Attwell on 15 Mar 2010 |
- (My last tweet was unnecessarily sarcastic. Frustration born from a long, long wait. Wouldn't want to be a Plastic Logic exec.) #
- QUE ship-date delayed to 'fine-tune' UX http://ow.ly/1l04r (Does 'fine-tune' = 'let iPad dust settle so we can sell a $650 e-ink device?') #
- Pains me to waste tweet space on the mountain-molehill that is iPad text-to-speech, but just so you know: http://ow.ly/1kZWy #
- Whew. RT @andrewsavikas RT @adamwitwer Woot! "…readers will be able to load non-DRM ePUB titles to their iPad" http://bit.ly/9GfLKi #
- Thanks! And good choices! RT @alfaqueque #FF … @Ediciona @katerados @sleekness @sarahw @R_Nash @brianoleary @electricbook @BookNet_Canada #
- RT @digiminds: Nice overview of optimism in Africa about the future of digital publishing, by @ckreutz http://ow.ly/1iq8b #
- When books become ebooks become software, what rights are covered by author–publisher contracts? http://ow.ly/1ipKP #
- Nice update on OPDS/BookServer by @Hadrien http://ow.ly/1hj0Q OPDS now being used in at least 14 interesting places. #
- Very important issue. RT @draccah Macmillan CEO: library ebook model needs to change. http://bit.ly/9RDRCp (via @cart) #
- RT @Personanondata Cengage Learning Unveils Suite of Digital Solutions [for] Improving Student Engagement http://bit.ly/bhbEDu #
- If you're stuck making epubs from InDesign CS3, here's a third useful post about fixing those epubs from @webvivant http://ow.ly/1gWAu #
- In case you missed it: Peter Collingridge's excellent #toccon prez about the value of user analytics in ebooks http://ow.ly/1gBMC #
- Great overview of Kalahari.net's new ebook store by @e_relevant http://ow.ly/1gy5s (One of SA's first two ebook stores launched this week) #
- SA gets two ebook stores in a week! RT @e_relevant http://is.gd/a7ZwV South Africa’s Romance eBook Store, eBook Diva, launches #
Readings and Quotes from the 2010 Time of the Writer (Videos, Tweets)
by Sharlene on 15 Mar 2010 | 
The 13th annual Time of the Writer International Literature Festival concluded on Saturday after a week that was a veritable literary blur. BOOK SA livetweeted the final four sessions on Friday and Saturday evenings, and recorded readings from the four authors who appeared on stage. We bring you the best of BOOK SA’s coverage:
BOOK SA’s livetweeted photos
BOOKSA Sihle Khumalo & Ndumiso Ngcobo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbK8P- BOOKSA The new Wordsetc cover – ‘Crime’ issue, featuring Margie Orford #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbML8
- BOOKSA The Ningizimu Steel & Marimba band #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KfV6C
- BOOKSA Priya Narismulu, Elana Bregin & Thando Mgqolozana #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kcezx
- BOOKSA Imraan Coovadia, Ndumiso Ngcobo, Sihle Khumalo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kd19t
- BOOKSA Zakes Mda, Sally-Ann Murray, Johan Jacobs #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Ku8vG
- BOOKSA Aher Arop Bol, William Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KufBj
Readings: videos
Thando Mgqolozana reads from A Man Who is Not a Man
Elana Bregin reads from Shiva’s Dance
- Not playing? Watch on BOOK SA TV
More livetweets – session highlights
Ndumiso Ngcobo and Sihle Khumalo in conversation with Imraan Coovadia:
- BOOKSA #tow10 …and we’re back! On stage now: Ndumiso Ngcobo (Is it Cos I’m Black) and Sihle Khumalo (Heart of Africa) hosted by Imraan Coovadia
- BOOKSA #tow10 Ngcobo: Let’s quickly correct the name of the province. The name of the province is KwaZuma Natal.
- BOOKSA #tow10 Ngcobo: definitely, because, unlike in other countries where sex sells, in SA, *race* sells
- BOOKSA #tow10 Khumalo: “Obviously if someone has touched your goat, you’re going to want the lobola”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Coovadia: “One more question from me before we allow the audience to make 10 minute speeches”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Now Elinor Sisulu has the mic, makes the point that in many African countries – incl Zim – the men on stage might well be in jail
- BOOKSA #tow10 Ngcobo, answering a question about whether Castle Lager makes him more creative: “Yeah, pretty much.”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Khumalo: “My family don’t laugh at funerals. We take it as against the… the culture”. Ngcobo: “You’re boring.”
Andile Mngxitama and William Gumede in conversation with Karabo Kgoleng:
- BOOKSA #tow10 The title of tonight’s first panel is “Writing, Truth and Power”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Mngxitama: in SA, the truth is intertwined with the “black excluded”, who are outside of power
- BOOKSA #tow10 Mngxitama “One problem is that we are cowards in this country. Look at the ANC/Eskom scandal. It’s robbery. We do nothing.”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Mngxitama: “And look at the 2010 World Cup. We’ve been robbed again. And this time by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Gumede: “If you live in a rural part of Africa, how much of the truth, as it relates to power, can you actually know?”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Gumede: “If we’re not going to speak truth to power, we’re not going to prosper”
- BOOKSA #tow10 Mngxitama: “I promised to attack black SA writers this evening” so here goes. Post-1994 black writing – its underlying politics….
- BOOKSA #tow10 Mngxitama …is very problematic. Black writers chase white women readers – the main reading demographic – too hard.
- BOOKSA #tow10 Mngxitama moves on to Zakes Mda’s Black Diamond. By writing about BEE the way Mda does, the black bourgeoisie is highlighted…
- BOOKSA #tow10 Mngxitama: …and the unequal system powered by white wealth that created it is normalised. The danger is that we’ll reinternalise it
@PenguinbooksSA Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14
by Tracey on 14 Mar 2010 | - Penguin Books SA Uwem Akpan on Morninglive: Catch Uwem Akpan author of Say You’re One of Them on SABC 2 Morning L… http://bit.ly/9M31bL #
- Michaelhouse School Turns Film Set For Spud the Movie http://book.co.za/3XCU #
- On the Couch: uMlungu Steven Otter at The Rainbow Experience http://book.co.za/Cm2K #
- We attended the Exclusives.co.za media launch yesterday and were super impressed with their new online offering!The… http://bit.ly/cne3Ej #
- We attended the Exclusives.co.za media launch yesterday and were super impressed with their new online offering!The future is now #
- Penguin Books SA Twilight Saga- Eclipse Movie Trailer Teaser!: Click below to view an exciting video clip of the … http://bit.ly/8Z6yAc #
- Helena Dolny on Choosing a Coach in the Wild World of Coaching http://book.co.za/kqyy #
- Twilight Saga- Eclipse Movie Trailer Teaser!
Click below to view an exciting video clip of the upcoming Twilight… http://bit.ly/9kaBOh #
- @TallStoriesBook the url for the Penguin Prize for African Writing update is http://www.penguinbooks.co.za/african-winners/index.php in reply to TallStoriesBook #
- The Penguin Prize for African Writing update is up, check it out! http://bit.ly/9vOgY6 #
- The Penguin Prize for African Writing is Up- check it out! http://bit.ly/bcY6D3 #
- Damon Galgut's Newest: In a Strange Room http://book.co.za/qwYx #
- Penguin Books SA Penguin Prize for African Writing Update!:
Penguin Prize for African Writing Update!
10th… http://bit.ly/9g73i3 # - Finally, the Penguin Prize for African Writing Update!
Penguin Books has been both delighted and overwhelmed at… http://bit.ly/aOAbus #
- Penguin Books SA Joburg to Jozi Launch Cancellation!: Unfortunately due to unforseen circumstances, the Joburg to … http://bit.ly/90uhYZ #
- Joburg to Jozi Launch Cancellation! http://bit.ly/9pRuhu #
- Book Launch: From Joburg to Jozi: Stories About Africa's Infamous City http://book.co.za/pq4W #
- We will be updating you on the exciting Penguin Prize for African Writing sooner than you can say Penguin Books is… http://bit.ly/aEs5tc #
- Penguin Books SA ELEPHANTOMS – Tracking the Elephant: ‘Elephantoms is above all a celebration of scientific and in… http://bit.ly/aLHFym #
- ELEPHANTOMS – Tracking the Elephant
Elephantoms is above all a celebration of scientific and intuitive wonder, a… http://bit.ly/9TK24e #
- Meet Oprah Book Club Author Uwem Akpan at Exclusive Books Mandela Square http://book.co.za/fEvq #
- http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3977321&l=9e679b3d32&id=103381162108 #
- SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM
Penguin Books and Exclusive Books take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Uwem… http://bit.ly/dmXWt8 #
- New: A Captivating Portrait of Africa's Largest Mammal, Lyall Watson's Elephantoms http://book.co.za/C9kH #
@NBPublishers Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14
by Ronel S on 14 Mar 2010 | - Karin Brynard praat oor haar topverkoper, Plaasmoord, op kykNET se Kwêla, Woensdag 17 Maart. http://bit.ly/bZMu2E #
- Casey McCormick Interviews Fiona Ingram, Author of The Secret of the Sacred Scarab http://book.co.za/Mdzp #
- Joan Hambidge bring hulde aan digter IL de Villiers tydens die afgelope Woordfees http://book.co.za/qEf6 #
- NB sien uit na sy skrywerspartytjie môreaand, met 'n pienk markiestent en als! Met meer as 200 gaste op die lys… http://bit.ly/cFtsMw #
- NB sien uit na sy skrywerspartytjie môreaand, met 'n pienk markiestent en als! http://bit.ly/cNAReL #
- Video: Bun Booyens gesels met Annie Olivier oor Sonbrand en braaiboud http://book.co.za/ETWG #
- Murray24 gesels met digter Lina Spies oor Die skyn van tuiskoms, pienk en die hiernamaals http://book.co.za/HU9b #
- E. Kotze se roman, Toring se baai, word tans gelees op RSG se Boekvoorlesing, weeksdae 10:50-11:00, met ’n… http://bit.ly/csX7Q7 #
- Lag lekker met Piet Swanepoel se Marico se mambas http://book.co.za/tJtU #
- Malema Lashes Out at the Media for Reporting on His (Non-Existent?) Tax Returns http://book.co.za/0Xyk #
- Hierdie is die nuwe stemme in Afrikaanse poësie http://book.co.za/MMxn #
- I posted 32 photos on Facebook in the album "Nuwe stemme 4 Woordfees bekendstelling" http://bit.ly/cUEN4C #
@ReadSA Twitter Weekly Updates
by Damaria Senne on 14 Mar 2010 | - In the sixth installment of our "How To Write" series, Niq Mhlongo shares some writing tips with us. http://bit.ly/d8n0xj #
- How to Write: Tips from Niq Mhlongo http://book.co.za/baiD #
@SiberInk Twitter Weekly Updates
by Simon on 14 Mar 2010 | - Labour Law Sibergrammes issues 3, 4 and 5 of 2010 are now available: http://bit.ly/cXohEz #
- Siber Ink's Labour Law Case Summaries (SILCS) numbers 3 and 4 of 2010 are now available: http://bit.ly/d6MOT6 #
- Pressure mounts on Zuma over undeclared interests. http://bit.ly/aoukh3 #
- Paramedic's rape marks low point in SA civil society: united action against crime crucial. http://bit.ly/a2TmLH #
- Environmental: Top UN job for ex-Nat leader? Van Schalkwyk tipped for 'world's toughest job.' http://bit.ly/b8i0Wb #
- Health: UN identifies cellphones as key weapon against AIDS in Africa. http://bit.ly/cdFgqo #
- Competition Law: 'Manuel quashed probe into high bank charges.' http://bit.ly/cBkQDC #
- Malema redefines poverty in the new SA. http://bit.ly/cBqP1A #
- Constitutional law: Undeclared presidential assets 'a special case' – ANC spokesman. http://bit.ly/aM61pr #
- Police deaths in SA: 367 fatalaties in 9 months, but Minister insists "shoot to kill" policy created by Press. http://bit.ly/b52rjB #
- Wild Law Update: Construction Is Threatening the Wild Coast (on Two Fronts) http://book.co.za/DSd1 #
- UCT law students launch new newsletter. Siber Ink congratulates the initiative. http://bit.ly/9SqSZ2 #
- Zuma declares his interests. http://bit.ly/dpTlJd #
- Hate speech charges laid against Malema. http://bit.ly/diqjg3 #
- Health: Cabinet gives approval to new AIDS plan. http://bit.ly/aAjTTA #
- ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu defends Malema – 'song quoted out of context'. http://bit.ly/ddZ26f #
- Speaking of context: Mthembu defence of Malema while in custody for drunk driving. http://bit.ly/db6Y35 #
- Environmental: Johannesburg faces crisis of toxicity. http://bit.ly/aYmwNz #
- The future of reading… Where to for print? http://bit.ly/dA8k2h #
- Tender issues: Nyanda Inc earns millions from SA government. When does conflict of interest arise? http://bit.ly/9MDyv3 #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14
by Ron on 14 Mar 2010 | - Looks #Disney needs to call #Rapunzel #Tangled to attract boys..don't think they'll be fooled http://bit.ly/5Jhzq #
- #Obama naming and #branding in trouble–don't call your pharmacy "Obama Pharmacy" http://bit.ly/cfPZaV #
- Good Cape Town #tunes: #CaptainStu and the Llamas. http://bit.ly/aPQxzr #
- Calculate the #worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of #art by the harm that is spoken of it. #Flaubert #
- So #Sex.Com is being sold to the highest bidder. Looking for $16m+ Figures. How did this fail? http://bit.ly/bA8Li6 #
- Real #Church Sign: Stop, Drop and Roll Doesn't Work in Hell #
- Another real church sign: Jesus Will Never Retire or Get Traded to the Jets #
- Another real church sign: Google Doesn't Have All The Answers #
- The eBook version of Nature's Watchmaker by #genius client John Thompson is now available. Universe=explained http://bit.ly/cUmBUD #
- #Weirdest #book #title: Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter http://bit.ly/bBCers #
- F+cking plumber routed hot water through the toilet. It's like shitting in a jacuzzi. #SteamingDookie #
- Oh Jesus #onlinedating is so #weird. A female friend of mine has seen it all http://bit.ly/dpchc2 #
- How to get #laid. Step 1. http://twitpic.com/185uc7 #
- Hey Winnie #Mandela? Mother of the Nation? Iron lady? Do not drink and interview. #fatdumbfuck http://bit.ly/cjdKLc #
- http://twitpic.com/18d9ri – Camps Bay, Cape Town. Dawn. Love it. #
- Reclaimed, centuries old #wood. Great #furniture. #Flooring. Incredible. http://buffalobarnboard.com/ #
- 1st black #artist to show in the SA National Gallery. A world phenomenon. A #genius. A 60 yr old #mystery. Solved. http://bit.ly/bcx2jS #
- A new low in #branding, #naming and #trademarks: Slap Ya Mama spices just won a suit v Punch Ya Daddy. Smack 'em both. http://bit.ly/bPJtv3 #
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@BOOKSA Twitter Weekly Updates 2010-03-14
by Ben - Editor on 14 Mar 2010 | - Sunday Read: John Carlin Interviews Fatima Meer http://book.co.za/SDVW #
- Aher Arop Bol, William Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KufBj #
- Zakes Mda, Sally-Ann Murray, Johan Jacobs #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Ku8vG #
- #tow10: And on that note, we conclude – and BOOK SA's livetweeting concudes. Thanks for tuning in! #
- #tow10: Though Mda makes the point that, in the contest between writing and do-gooding, "unfortunately, one can't help everybody" #
- #tow10: A final, somewhat random discussion, centres on fostering the development of literacy and writing in SA #
- #tow10: …which ironically very much echoes Mngxitama's revival of Biko's "I write what I like" ethos #
- #tow10: Mda: "I'm going to write what I want, the way I want it, anytime I want to write it" – in response to a comment about Mngxitama… #
- @KaraboKgoleng asking a question at #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KtYvJ #
- #tow10: Murray: "And where a word that expresses what I want doesn't exist, I've made it up." #
- #tow10: …and which she used in order to reclaim some of SA English's really exciting potential, to resist its flattening #
- #tow10: …which is practically unique to the Umbilo community and which expresses a certain kind of working-class whiteness… #
- #tow10: Murray: Wants to say something about language. In Small Moving Parts, she's used a language that's almost a kind of vernacular… #
- #tow10: Mda: "I am a very staunch pan-Africanist – not politically, but as a concept. Africa and its diaspora are my concerns." #
- #tow10: Mda: …beginning with my mother, my sisters, now with my wife…" Lots of laughter and applause. #
- #tow10: Mda: "The reason that there are women in my novels is that, well, women are there… and I've had a lot of interaction with them… #
- #tow10: Mda: On the other hand, a publisher once called his "Ways of Dying" "a feminist diatribe". So perhaps he is a feminist. #
- #tow10: Mda: "I'll leave that to the critics. Some have said I'm a feminist, and I've not disagreed with them." #
- #tow10: An audience member asks Mda if he's a feminist; many of his novels centre on women characters. #
- #tow10: Mda to Mngxitama: "This is fiction, by the way – I can't address everything." And the mini-exchange concludes. #
- #tow10: Mda: "You read page 67, then Andile, where I show the role of white capital in the issues that the novel addresses" #
- #tow10: (One of my tweets didn't fire: Kgoleng To Mda: how did the media influence the reception of Black Diamond? How should it have?) #
- #tow10: …an opinion rebutted by Mngxitama from the audience. #
- #tow10: Mda: "Now, let me move from Sandile to Andile (Mnxgitama)." Mda doesn't think that Mnxgitama has read the book… #
- #tow10: Mda: "In Canada, etc, I'm now asked why the SA govt is attacking me, telling me what to create. A false but problematic impression." #
- #tow10: Mda: "In SA, we already know who Sandile is, so it's not a problem – 'Oh, it's Sandile, OK'. But overseas it was a different thing." #
- #tow10: Mda: "The only problem I've had is with a diatribe that the DAC's Sandile Memela had that labeled me an enemy of the state" #
- #tow10: Mda: "I do get bad reviews, but with this particular novel – maybe if you've seen a bad review you can bring it to my attention?" #
- #tow10 Mda: "I was determined that the novel should be as accessible as a film" (it developed out of a film script) #
- #tow10 Black Diamond was created when Mda was on a 40-city book tour to promote Cion in the USA (it did extremely well there) #
- #tow10: Mda: South Africa is my stomping ground as far as SA is concerned. Says Black Diamond was an accident of sorts – not on his list #
- #tow10: Murray: I write about Umbilo (a section of Durban) because it's where I'm from, & "I got tired of its being always CPT, always JNB" #
- #tow10 …and asks both authors to comment on place, rather than character, in their fiction. #
- #tow10 And now we move into the discussion section. Jacobs calls Murray's book a "chronotope" – a rendered place and time… #
- #tow10 The passage Murray reads is about a man "trying to make a crazy plan fly" #
- #tow10 Now it's Sally-Ann Murray's turn to read, from Small Moving Parts #
- #tow10 It's quite a powerful passage, read very well, that relies on a kind of gently killing logic to horrify #
- #tow10 …to ensure that the latter would never become attached to, much less love, their children. #
- #tow10 Mda reads a passage from Cion that's set during US slavery times, about the strategies that owners and slave women employed… #
- #tow10 Mda: "I thought to write a novel set among the WIN people tracing their pasts, shuttling to their present(s)" #
- #tow10 Accordingly, Cion centres on Ohio's "WIN" people (White, Indian, Negro) #
- #tow10 Mda: "I'm of the school of writing that says, 'Write what you don't know', not 'Write what you know'" #
- #tow10 …his only novel that's not set in SA. It's set in Ohio, USA. #
- #tow10 Jacobs invites the writers to read from their work. Mda to begin – he'll read not from Black Diamond but from Cion… #
- #tow10 The theme of the session is "Tense: Past and Present in SA Fiction" #
- Johan Jacobs, Sally-Ann Murray, Zakes Mda #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kps2T #
- #tow10 Jacobs introduces the two writers. #
- #tow10 Johan Jacobs is facilitating the final TOW session, on stage w/Zakes Mda (Black Diamon) & Sally-Ann Murray (Small Moving Parts) #
- Sally-Ann Murray & Zakes Mda are now up on stage #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kpph2 #
- Keorapetse Kgositsile #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kti4C #
- Andile Mngxitama & Tymon Smith #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KtgnA #
- #tow10 And on that fiery note, the session concludes. 15 min interval now – back in a bit. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …and the unequal system powered by white wealth that created it is normalised. The danger is that we'll reinternalise it #
- #tow10 Mngxitama moves on to Zakes Mda's Black Diamond. By writing about BEE the way Mda does, the black bourgeoisie is highlighted… #
- #tow10 Mngxitama …is very problematic. Black writers chase white women readers – the main reading demographic – too hard. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "I promised to attack black SA writers this evening" so here goes. Post-1994 black writing – its underlying politics…. #
- #tow10 Gumede …mistakes that other liberation movements have made. #
- #tow10 Gumede: Humanity and morality are more important than ideology. If we don't get more angry, we're going to make the same… #
- #tow10 Gumede: He agrees w/Mngxitama on the question of anger. "We aren't angry enough. We need to step up and challenge the govt" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "Why do we lower our expectations of what it means to be free? Why not just give whites the govt to run? Nothing has chgd" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "You say I'm angry, but I think I'm not angry enough! How can people accept their current conditions?" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "My question is: 'what is the state of the majority?' What has happened since 94 that is good for the majority?" #
- #tow10 Sihle Khumalo now weighs in, addressing Mngxitama: "We also have to celebrate our achievements as a country, do we not?" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: It's not a question of facts and truth per se, but a Q of a system that only engages facts and truth on its own terms #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "To talk politics and transparency, discussed outside the systems that reinforce them" is a failure of analysis #
- #tow10 Gumede: "If we're not going to speak truth to power, we're not going to prosper" #
- #tow10 Gumede: At the moment, it's not even a question of culture, power is being gained by making different promises to different people #
- #tow10 …& says, "If we agree that culture is by definition hostile to stasis" are we not on shaky ground when using it to organise power? #
- #tow10 Keorapetse Kgositsile has questions "that might be a little basic". Asks for clarity on the line between truth and fact…. #
- #tow10 Gumede: "If you live in a rural part of Africa, how much of the truth, as it relates to power, can you actually know?" #
- #tow10 Gumede: It's not only to do with liberation credentials. The key thing is the way information is manipulated. #
- #tow10 Gumede: Will answer in a roundabout way. Why do people in African countries keep voting the same people into power? #
- #tow10 Now a question for Gumede. What are your views on the provinces in SA as they're presently constituted? #
- Anile Mnxgitama & @KaraboKgoleng http://flic.kr/p/7KsKeJ #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "FIFA will make all the money in the World Cup. Our children will still be paying for their stadiums." #
- @KaraboKgoleng & Mervyn Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KoNEa #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "And look at the 2010 World Cup. We've been robbed again. And this time by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu." #
- #tow10 Mngxitama "One problem is that we are cowards in this country. Look at the ANC/Eskom scandal. It's robbery. We do nothing." #
- #tow10 Mngxitama, in response to a question: "New Frank Talk was established to help change the conditions of the majority of our people" #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng senses the restlessness in the audience and opens the panel up for public questions. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …which guarantee a minority-rights protection regime. "The right wing will realise that de Klerk was not such a bad guy" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama quotes FW de Klerk on the "concessions" the ANC made pre-1994, which included the Bill of Rights and the Constitution… #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …but the AWB is allowed to exist and act on its agenda. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: For me, the question is whether democracy actually serves the majority. In SA, black-only organisations are banned… #
- #tow10 Gumede: Because of Africa's history, and colonialism's legacy of "crisis states", it's more complex than democratic vs undemocratic #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng: "Do the untruths by which we are led make Africa undemocratic?" #
- #tow10 Gumede: "If we're going to make Africa prosperous, we must switch from partial truths to full transparency" #
- #tow10 Gumede: …one example being, from southern Africa, Robert Mugabe. A man congenitally surrounded by untruths. #
- #tow10 Gumede: For me, transparency is key; honesty. In SA, people w/impeccable "struggle" credentials… #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng: What alternatives do we have, if we're to change the power situation in Africa? #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "In SA, you are illegal if you don't have papers… and are black. I'm very pessimistic about how power is used in Africa" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: Doesn't find much to laugh about re: Africa, unlike last night's panelists #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …instead we have a neo-apartheid, this time run by black people." #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "The truth of the majority tells us that the post-1994 project of democracy does not liberate… #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "My understanding of truth is an ideological one. The truth is that Africa, incl. SA, is in trouble, major trouble" #
- #tow10 Gumede says truth and power intersect, in Africa, where the tough questions about culture are asked #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: in SA, the truth is intertwined with the "black excluded", who are outside of power #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng now quotes from Vaclev Havel… you can find the quote here http://nyti.ms/dlHYuJ (cf "chief doubter of systems") #
- #tow10 Now @KaraboKgoleng reads from Gumede's co-written The Poverty of Ideas #
- #tow10 (New Frank Talk no. 1: Why Biko Wouldn't Vote) #
- #tow10 …starting with one of Mngxitama's New Frank Talk pamphlets. #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng Introduces Mngxitama and Gumede, talking them up, and says she'll give two readings… #
- Andile Mngxitama, @KaraboKgoleng, William Mervyn Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KssU5 #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng summarises the Time of the Writer week, mentioning launches, Betty Govinden, Fatima Meer and more #
- #tow10 The title of tonight's first panel is "Writing, Truth and Power" #
- #tow10 A slightly better photo of those three: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booksa/4429137615/ #
- #tow10 First up on stage will be William Mervyn Gumede and Andile Mngxitama, hosted by @KaraboKgoleng http://flic.kr/p/7Kot6v #
- The Time of the Writer finale is about to begin #tow10 #
- The Badsha Peer cemetery, Fatima Meer's final resting place http://flic.kr/p/7KqhsW #
- The last rites are concluded and people leave Fatima Meer's grave http://flic.kr/p/7KqgxL #
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi at Fatima Meer's graveside http://flic.kr/p/7Kmj5a #
- The last shovelfuls of earth are added to Meer's grave http://flic.kr/p/7KqeAm #
- Meer's body is interred http://flic.kr/p/7KmbXR #
- Meer's body at the graveside http://flic.kr/p/7Kmbv2 #
- After a stop for prayers outside the main cemetery bldg, Meer's body is borne to its fianl resting place http://flic.kr/p/7Km9bp #
- Meer's body enters the cemetery http://flic.kr/p/7Kq3aQ #
- The Meer funeral cortege approaches the cemetery http://flic.kr/p/7Km6ye #
- The Meer funeral cortege proceeds down Queen/Denis Hurley St, Durban http://flic.kr/p/7Km5mF #
- Meer's body is hoisted on the shoulders of her relatives http://flic.kr/p/7Km4hi #
- KZN premier Zweli Mhkize & the IFP's Mangosuthu Buthelezi are among the dignitaries http://flic.kr/p/7Km2Yn #
- Prayers have begun at the Meer funeral #
- the programme at Fatima Meer's funeral: prayers, then a walk to the cemetery and further formalities #
- Guests gather at the Grey Street Mosque for a prayer ahead og Fatima Meer's funeral http://flic.kr/p/7KkVUB #
- In Durban, the Winnie-Naipaul saga contnues. Here's the front pafe of the Sat Ind: http://flic.kr/p/7KoVEh #
- Finally, here's a pic of the mosque from the Grey/Yusuf Dadoo St approach http://flic.kr/p/7KjvpV #
- The mosque is at the corner of Grey & Queen Sts, aka Yusuf Dadoo & Denis Hurley Sts. Pic of corner http://flic.kr/p/7Koq7s #
- The entrance to the mosque is in Queen St, now renamed as Dennis Hurley St. Pic of entrance http://flic.kr/p/7KjtyH #
- Meer's funeral will take place at Durban's Grey St Mosque, 3h30 pm. Here's the mosque notice http://flic.kr/p/7KonES #
- Stand by for a series of illustrated tweets on the Fatima Meer funeral later today #
- On SAFM right now, Athol Fugard on Fatima Meer: young women today couldnt ask for a better role model. She was a dear friend. #
- Thanks to Zukiswa Wanner for preserving this proof of BOOK SA's existence in KZN's Mercury #winnie #naipaul http://flic.kr/p/7KiRMk #
- Good night from #tow10 – thanks for tuning in. #
- #tow10 Preview of tomorrow's events: BAT Centre workshops in the morning; book launch and Gumede, Mngxitama, Mda, Murray in the evening #
- #tow10 And that's a wrap! Good, memorable session. #
- #tow10 …there's a huge market for books in vernacular languages in SA" #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "The issue of publishing in the vernacular is very important. It seriously needs to be taken on. I seriously believe…. #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: "The only reason that I'm able to have a convo w/this aspiring funnyman over here [Coovadia] is b/c we speak English" #
- #tow10 The question had to do w/why the writers write in English, not Zulu? #
- #tow10 Now a question wholly in Zulu for the panelists. Khumalo: "Imraan will translate." Coovadia: "[erm] please respond". #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "My family don't laugh at funerals. We take it as against the… the culture". Ngcobo: "You're boring." #
- #tow10 Two young women in the audience, behind me, have been filming this entire session w/their phones. #bicepfatigue #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: "At the core of humour are some really tough, hard truths. Comedians are some of the most depressing people to be around" #
- #tow10 Ngcobo, answering a question about whether Castle Lager makes him more creative: "Yeah, pretty much." #
- #tow10 Khumalo: Felt the urge to emigrate to China and open a hotel there exclusively for black African people. #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "I was stopped by a guard at the gate, but the hotel is only and exclusively reserved for the Chinese. In Khartoum." #
- #tow10 Cedric Sissing of Adams Books ask Sihle to relate a story about a Chinese-run hotel in Sudan #
- #tow10 Ngcobo is rambling, which would be a bad thing, if it weren't funny. Pull quote: "…our friend w/the penis" (points to Mgqolozana) #
- #tow10 Now Elinor Sisulu has the mic, makes the point that in many African countries – incl Zim – the men on stage might well be in jail #
- #tow10 Now we're talking corporate culture vs writing culture. Both writers (who have transitioned) much prefer the latter. #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: the worst thing that can befall satire, however, is when it becomes belaboured, as can happen w/Malema & Zuma #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: those who satirise Malema might be racist – prob are – but he's a legit target b/c he's the Pres of the ANCYL #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: Only insofar as we are all intrinsically racist. The classic SA gesture is: to look over one's shoulder before commenting #
- #tow10 Tough first Q from the audience: is current SA satire simply the new racism (wrt Malema, etc)? #
- #tow10 Again, I'll tweet the better Q&A exchanges. (They can get deadly.) #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "One question tha'ts now allowed is 'what's the point of all of this'" #
- #tow10 Coovadia: restriction on questions for this session: they have to be funny #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: this guy, CSZ Ntuli (?) once wrote an entire piece "just talking about beers and it was funny as hell" #
- #tow10 Coovadia asks about Ngcobo and Khumalo's early influences. A number of Zulu writers and performers are named. #
- #tow10 Coovadia: "One more question from me before we allow the audience to make 10 minute speeches" #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "Obviously if someone has touched your goat, you're going to want the lobola" #
- #tow10 Good lord, now we're talking about the defiling of goats #
- #tow10 Sitting next to @TymonSmith, who's recording the session. Hopefully a podcast is in the offing. #
- #tow10 …can't help being what they are. "I'm one of the few people who still defend Julius Malema, for instance." #
- #tow10 Ngcobo, referring to the S Friedmann article on satire (cf Business Day), says he doesn't mock and ridicule anyone who… #
- #tow10 Khumalo: True, but sometimes people do such stupid things they deserve to be cartooned about every week #
- #tow10 Coovadia: the painful side of humour: it can be used to enforce hierarchies and can be used to hurt. Ideas on that? #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: definitely, because, unlike in other countries where sex sells, in SA, *race* sells #
- #tow10 Coovadia: In politics, race can be a problem; in humorous writing, is it an opportunity? #
- #tow10 Coovadia: Zuma certainly does have a marvelous efficiency. #
- #tow10 …running a country, I ask myself, 'how does he have the time, and not me?'" #
- #tow10 …with his exercising his right to insert his… ahm… machine gun – I got angry, because for a man who is supposedly… #
- #tow10 Ngcobo (still on Zuma) "Right after his BS apology, which everyone knows he really didn't mean – and I don't have a problem… #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: "Hey, who wrote the funny book here?" #
- #tow10 Ngcobo, telling about a school visit, is interrupted by Coovadia: "were the kids all part of the President's family?" #
- Hm, one of my tweets seems to have gone astray. Don't know where it went. Sorry for the break in narrative. #tow10 #
- Imraan Coovadia, Ndumiso Ngcobo, Sihle Khumalo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kd19t #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: Let's quickly correct the name of the province. The name of the province is KwaZuma Natal. #
- #tow10 …we can't forget about Citizen Number One. Sometimes you can't help but hear him and think "Yes, this is our brother". #
- #tow10 Khumalo: There are quite a few things that are funny about KZN, for instance, but most importantly… #
- #tow10 …but what *is* funny about SA is the most moronic animals on the landscape, its human beings" (Ngcobo) #
- #tow10 Coovadia: the title of the talk tonight is "What's so funny about Africa". He asks: what is so funny, after all? #
- Chirikure Chirikure (rather dark pic, sorry) http://flic.kr/p/7KcTCP #
- #tow10 Interval time. Just met Zim's Chirikure Chirikure in the lobby! Alas, he's not performing this year. #
- #tow10 The TOW has a trad of looooong questions from the audience, just revived by a gent sitting on t'other side of the theatre. 5+ mins. #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: if the diff is artificial, it calls into question the usefulness of a practice that kills 100s each year #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana answers a question w/one of his own: 'What's the diff btw a man who's been circumcised and who's not been?' #
- #tow10 …meaning "girl", because she doesn't have a ring on her wedding finger. It grates. #
- #tow10 Bregin: "I hate being perceived as a race group rather than as an individual". Mentions that Zulus call her "ntombazana"… #
- #tow10 Both writers express their frustration at encountering so many "no go areas" in South African culture. #
- #tow10 The readings having concluded, it's Q&A time at the Time of the Writer. I'll tweet the most interesting questions. #
- #tow10 "…we were all embarrassed by the strong smell of rot that came from underneath those sheets" #mgolozana #circumcision #
- #tow10 …and encounter nothing but scorn from the hospital nurse, along with shamed silence towards one another. #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana reads from chapter 18 in his book, set in a hospital, where a handful of initiates recover from botched circumcisions… #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: …inside the culture, you were selling something no one wanted to buy" (i.e., an expose on circumcision) #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: "The dialogue that my book opened was one that didn't exist before. Outside the culture, you didn't know about it…. #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: "But there is nothing 'ayoba' about hundreds of children dying of botched circumcisions every year." #
- #tow10 Thando Mgqolozana's turn. "I wish I had written a book about something that was 'ayoba'", he starts. #
- #tow10 Applause as Bregin's reading concludes. #
- #tow10 Bregin's reading sketches a 1st-time convo between a white woman, Jerry, and a subcontinental Buddhist, Adiga #
- #tow10 …which gets Bregin rather a lot of silent
s from the audience. # - #tow10 Now Bregin begins to read from her novel. Turns out the Shiva of the title is actually the name of one of the characters' dogs… #
- #tow10 Bregin: "If you are a dancer, you are not a victim." #
- #tow10 Now Bregin addresses her novel, Shiva's Dance, explaining that the title is more abstract than one might think: #
- #tow10 …which boils down to 'too much say, so little space to say it in'. #
- #tow10 So instead of talking about her book and reading from it, Bregin begins by reaffirming the writer's dilemma in SA… #
- #tow10 Bregin: …and am hijacking the proceedings a little bit" #
- #tow10 Now the Zulu category winners are announced. "In an age when expression in indigenous languages is stifled and sidelined… #
- #tow10 Now, the TOW Schools Short Story winners. The four winners in the English category are named and three are here to appear on stage #
- #tow10 Here are my five main tweets regarding Fatima Meer, RIP 1928 – 2010, http://www.quoteurl.com/ubyi5 #
- #tow10 …and competent as you can be. And never respect any person, organisation or institution that wants to tell you what to write." #
- #tow10 Kgositsile: "What I would advise any young writer is that: your business as a writer is to write. To be as productive… #
- #tow10 Kgositsile: "Languages are the product of peoples' collective genius, and we have to respect that with humility" #
- #tow10 Kgositsile: "Stories are important, not only because of what one might want to say, but *how* one tells it" #
- #tow10 The very welcome stand-in is none other than national poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, who takes the podium #
- #tow10 Wonder if Xingwana's pulling out had anything to do w/Mike van Graan's keynote address (wink, wink). See: http://book.co.za/lggS #
- #tow10 The awards were meant to have been given by minister for arts and culture, Lulu Xingwana, but she's pulled out #
- #tow10 Before the main events, it's time to announce the Time of the Writer Schools Short Story award winners #
- #tow10 Fatima Meer was actually on the TOW programme earlier this week – but didn't appear #
- The Ningizimu Steel & Marimba band #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KfV6C #
- #tow10 As they say, the show must go on. The emcee calls out the Ningimizu Steel and Marimba band #
- #tow10 A moment of silence is observed in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Durban, to commemorate the life of Fatima Meer, 1928 – 2010 #
- #tow10 The three most useful Fatima Meer links: news: http://bit.ly/aDdKtC, wiki: http://bit.ly/94wLpx KZN Lit tourism: http://bit.ly/8YOYH3 #
- #tow10 Fatima Meer was born 12 Aug 1928 in Grey Street, Durban. News results on her death: http://bit.ly/aDdKtC #
- #tow10 Meer will receive a state funeral tomorrow in Durban – the rites will conclude with a service at the Grey St Mosque. #
- #tow10 Fatima Meer, the author, activist and biographer of Nelson Mandela, has passed away. #
- #tow10 The emcee takes the podium… and makes an extraordinary and tragic announcement #
- #tow10 …and Sihle Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo, in convo w/Imraan Coovadia. #
- We're in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, waiting for proceedings to start. On stage tonight: Elana Bregin & Thando Mgqolozana… #tow10 #
- The new Wordsetc cover – 'Crime' issue, featuring Margie Orford #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbML8 #
- Wordsetc on display #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KfEQA #
- Sihle Khumalo & Ndumiso Ngcobo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbK8P #
- #tow10 Anton Krueger just launched his Sunnyside Sal w/an invigorating reading #
- Have made it ti the Time of the Writer in Durban at last. Will be sending tweets via #tow10. #
- Now on BOOK SA: Notes and galleries from three recent Time of the Writer events: http://book.co.za/iqhD #tow10 #
- Ann Donald Voices Cover Blurb Skepticism http://book.co.za/0SsY #
- Rustum Kozain in Conversation with Breyten Breytenbach http://book.co.za/iybA #
- I posted 33 photos on Facebook in the album "The Launch of Testing Democracy and Lobby Books" http://bit.ly/bqUeqR #
- I posted 46 photos on Facebook in the album "Rustum Kozain in Conversation with Breyten Breytenbach" http://bit.ly/9kqEpT #
- @KevBloom Agree – terrific piece by Sampson on Fugard. http://book.co.za/7w6r in reply to KevBloom #
- @forteeseven I was told next week, or the following one. You could ask @exclusivescoza – they might have more accurate info in reply to forteeseven #
- Link Love: Spier Contemporary 2010 and Wrap Day http://book.co.za/yqv2 #
- Now on BOOK SA: an excerpt from Mike Nicol's Time of the Writer keynote address, The State of the Arts: http://book.co.za/lggS #
- James Mitchell Reviews Truth by Peter Temple http://book.co.za/ZT6T #
- Lin Sampson Profiles Athol Fugard http://book.co.za/7w6r #
- @LaurenBeukes tweeted this post about SA sci-fi – but H Rose-Innes got to it first http://book.co.za/ysqD http://bit.ly/ajzTLo #
- #x1s That does indeed appear to be the end of the formalities. Will tweet anything else of interest. #
- #x1s Exclusives branded water, w00t http://flic.kr/p/7K3Bjo #
- #x1s …and Morris wraps up with a traditional "watch this space". Not sure if that's the formal end of proceedings, will keep a-tweeting #
- #x1s I might put in a punt for Little White Bakkie here: we'll also be carrying local Pan Mac titles very soon #lwb #ebooks #
- #x1s Morris (Terry) was introduced by Morris (Evan), who mentioned that local Pan Mac ebooks will be for sale on http://www.exclus1ves.co.za soon #
- #x1s Morris mentions Pan Mac US's recent battle with Amazon over ebook pricing, presents a short pro-Pan Mac case. #
- #x1s …on Amazon UK. #
- #x1s Morris mentions the "free download" marketing strategy created around Twitter and "Men Who Stare at Goats" – took the book to no 1… #
- #x1s Morris: Risk-taking, decisiveness and innovation are going to be imperative for publishers. #
- Terry Morris #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYuXP #
- #x1s "In contrast to traditional publishing," however, "the internet is going to be a great leveller in this space." #
- #x1s Morris launches straight into ebooks and ereaders. Amazon, Apple and Google are going to be fearsome competitors for booksellers #
- Pippa Tshabalala #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYtvV #
- Pippa Tshabalala #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K3pew #
- #x1s Next and last, Terry Morris on books. She's the MD of Pan Macmillan. "The great thing for us is that books and reading are sexy again" #
- #x1s Tshabalala: In short, gaming can – and will – change the world. And that's a wrap for her. #
- #x1s Tshabalala mentions http://thepiratebay.org No one particularly squirming, though. #
- #x1s Tshabalala: Gaming is the ultimate in online collaboration. Common theme among all speakers is SA's terrible web connectivity. #
- #x1s Tshabalala mentions the controversies surrounding DRM and gaming. She seems anti-DRM, which is a refreshing stance #
- #x1s Example: who knows that MMORPG = "massively multiplayer online role playing game"? Not too many in this room #
- #x1s Tshabalala starts off with a tech-and-gaming show-of-hands quiz to separate the gamers from the rest of us #
- #x1s Next up, The Verge's Pippa Tshabalala on gaming and #digital. #
- #x1s Kenan: Conclusions: music is on the rebound, better positioned than it has been in years. Biz is up, in fact, in Australia and Sweden. #
- #x1s Kenan: New online revenue models: 1. "A La Carte" (iTunes) 2. "Subscription" (hasn't done so well) 3. "Ad supported" (iffy) 4. "Hybrid" #
- @kenyanpundit Very much agree. It's a long way off in Africa, though. in reply to kenyanpundit #
- #x1s Kenan: "Customers are in control, and attention is the new currency." Build and audience first, then target revenue. #digital #
- #x1s Kenan: "Understanding the context of content is the key to unlocking the value of copyright." #digital #
- #x1s BTW, @exclusivescoza is also livetweeting the presentation, using #exclusives #
- #x1s Kenan: How do you fight against free? #digital Answer: by adding value for the customer. #
- #x1s Kenan: Keep inventing. If you're not doing it, someone else is. #digital Don't try to control the future, work to be part of it. #
- #x1s Kenan: When it comes to digital, embrace change, embrace tech. Expect further disruption. (Good thing a lot of publishers are here #
- #x1s Kenan: Good news is that music is built to be social. Where are we going? What can we learn from the likes of Susan Boyle? #
- #x1s Kenan: 6 major music companies in 97, 4 in 2010, soon to be 3? 5 mil bands on MySpace, & 95% of music downloaded is illegal, he says. #
- #x1s Kenan: 2001: final disruption: the iPod. Global music industry stats: from $40 bn to $17 bn 1997 – 2010, which includes digital. #
- #x1s Kenan: 1999: another disruption, named "Napster", which "we in the music industry handled disastrously" #
- Yoel Kenan #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYecg #
- #x1s Kenan starts by recalling a "disruption" in the music industry, launched in 1997 in Germany: the mp3 file format. #
- #x1s Next up, Yoel Kenan, who ran http://www.mp3.com in Europe, and is now based in SA. He's to speak about… you guessed it… music #
- #x1s Human: "2010 might be a big year for football, but watch out for the download-to-own or -rent revolution soon." #
- #x1s Human predicts that DSTV will launch a direct-download video service in the new future. A competitor of http://www.exclus1ves.co.za – ? #
- #x1s Human: "The DVD market in South Africa currently comprises 6 mil homes w/DVD players." Purchases peaked in 2006-07. #
- #x1s Human now talking about digital flim, likely more up http://www.exclus1ves.co.za's alley #
- Ricky Human #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JY8Jk #
- #x1s Must confess am not sure how 3D relates to http://www.exclus1ves.co.za producs – is 3D possible on DVD? #
- #x1s Human is talking about 3D films – comparing it to the switch from B&W movies to colour ones in the 20th century #
- #x1s First up, on movies, is Ricky Human of Nu Metro films (which, unless I'm wrong, is owned by the same company as EB, Avusa). #
- #x1s …and there will now be a speaker to address each one of those four items (music, movies, games and books). #
- #x1s The http://www.exclus1ves.co.za strapline: "Where movies, music, games and books live together" #
- Evan Morris of http://www.exclus1ves.co.za #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JY4Kz #
- #x1s Morris: http://www.exclus1ves.co.za is very tightly integrated into the EB "Fanatics" system; you can now spend Fanatics vouchers online #
- #x1s Delivery of books, etc., from http://www.exclus1ves.co.za to any EB store is… free! Nice. #
- #x1s Morris: "The site has an elegant design… for grownups… and is backed up by EB's world class supply chain and distribution systems #
- #x1s …comments, lists, social sharing, etc. #
- #x1s …"best of breed" search engine, plus a set of tools that allows users to "co-create" content on the site/catalogue. Reviews… #
- #x1s …that we're excited about is ebooks, which we'll be selling by the thousand." Morris mentions the new site's… #
- #x1s Morris "The product catalogue as it stands will please most people – and it's constantly expanding. One product category…. #
- #x1s But what's in the store? Books, obviously – by the millions (literally). DVDs, from all the movie houses. Games across all platforms #
- #x1s Morris is talking video embeds, podcasts, game previews, and much more: not just a store, but an online entertainment centre. #
- #x1s ….that was integrated into existing social networks, that people would visit even if they didn't want to purchase anything." #
- #x1s Evan Morris is EB's online retail guru: he's the man behind http://www.exclus1ves.co.za. "We wanted to build a website… #
- #x1s …and online retail meet. Evan Morris: "Fortunately, at EB, we've been running a social network since 1951" #
- #x1s And let the games begin. A rather loud video announces http://www.exclus1ves.co.za, a new portal where social networking… #
- We've been herded by Superman, Mario, C3P0 and Freddy Kruger into the presentation room #x1s #
- @TallStoriesBook The day you get a small bookshop retail presence that I can index on scale, we'll add it to our BOOK Finder in reply to TallStoriesBook #
- Pan Macmillan and Jonathan Ball people at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K2D9o #
- The Penguin Books team at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JXFPF #
- Evan Morris, Yoel Kenan, Ricky Human, Pippa Tsabalala and Terry Morris at the EB do #1xs http://bit.ly/d8b0xk #
- @TallStoriesBook Not in terms of having microsites, but we do sell books through our online affiliates, Kalahari, EB and Loot in reply to TallStoriesBook #
- Welcome to Exclus1ves.co.za http://book.co.za/l5QB #
- Evan Morris, Yoel Kenan, Ricky Human, Pippa Tsabalala and Terry Morris at the EB do #1xs http://flic.kr/p/7K2bQm #
- The speakers and entertainment at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K279f #
- Evan Morris and Yoel Kenan at the Exclusives do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K24PE #
- Mario, Freddy Kruger, Evan Morris, Superman and Batya Green-Bricker at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K24Jb #
- You'll have noticed I'm tweeting w/ #x1s – for a good reason to be revealed shortly. Hi to @ArthurJonesSA, from Men's Health #
- In the kombi with me is @megankakora from Cosmopolitan.co.za #x1s #
- En route to the Exclusive Books do – the relaunch of their online retail portal #x1s #
- Christy Weyer Reviews Halfborn Women by Colleen Higgs http://book.co.za/gte9 #
- Some serious 'Native Nostalgia' on @KaraboKgoleng's #safm show #music #
- #cwp10africa That concludes our Commonwealth Writers' Prize – Africa Region coverage. Thanks for tuning in! http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa Congratulations to both winners! Heese from SA and Nwaubeni from Nigeria. http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa To clarify an error in a prev tweet: Best Book = Marie Heese; Best First Book = Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa Marié Heese and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Win the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize – Africa Region Awards http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa Elmarie Stodart from @JonathanBallPub, which distributes Nwaubani's book, accepts the award on her behalf. #
- #cwp10africa …who hails from (and still lives in) Nigeria. The announcement was made by Acting India HC Shambhu Kumaran. #
- #cwp10africa Now it's time to announce the Best First Book winner… and it's I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani… #
- #cwp10africa Now Heese is speaking extempore – very well one might add. #
- #cwp10africa …which is The Double Crown by Marie Heese, published by Human & Rousseau. She's in the audience and looks delighted. #
- #cwp10africa British High Commissioner Nicola Brewer announces the winner of the Best First Book prize… #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu: choosing winners was an enormous challenge, but it's time to get on w/it. #
- #cwp10africa …are in the CWP Africa committee's thoughts. #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu mentions the recent violence in Jos, Nigeria, connects it to SA's xenophobic violence, says Africans under duress… #
- #cwp10africa Also mentions @BOOKSA! Thanks, ES …and of course the emcee, Lebo Mashile. #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu also thanks @VictorDlamini and @Mimi0 of Chillibush, and Thebe Investments, who put the event together #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu: Thanks to the SABC, the British High Commissioner, my fellow judges and India's Acting High Commissioner (just arrived) #
- #cwp10africa Mashile now calls up Elinor Sisulu, the CWP chair for the Africa Region. #
- #cwp10africa Mashile: "African literature can't be put into a box. It's an exciting time to be an African writer." #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: But the judges were very pleased by the emphasis on our common humanity in all the texts. And he concludes. #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "With the exception of SA, the strongest entrants came from publishers in Europe and the USA" #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "These problems all draw attention to the state of the publishing industry on the African continent" #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: On the minus side, many entrants' texts exhibited technical and stylistic flaws: poor grammar, fragmented plots #
- #cwp10africa …of human experience." Ojwang continues that it was a joy, therefore, to find so much humour among the shortlistees. #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "One key complaint about African writing is that it tends to be perceived as sad, rarely capturing the full range… #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang mentions that Eric Babu (sp?) an entrant, but not a shortlistee, is a writer to watch #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang notes moments of comic relief in the shortlistees, incl a book, set in 16th C, that features Land Rovers & blue jeans #
- #cwp10africa …about the other shortlistees ( http://book.co.za/BMYF ) #
- #cwp10africa Dan Ojwang, CWP Africa judge, live at the announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JZv8W #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: singles out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Erica Emdon for especial praise, but also has good words to say… #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "In spite of the harrowing experiences in the novels, none of them resort to neat endings" that might be expected #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: broad African lit trends: high number of entries that concentrated on human trafficking (incl SA's A Brown's Refuge) #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang notes that 10 of the 14 shortlistees come from women writers. #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: SA and Nigeria continue to dominate African literary production. Ojwang himself is from East Africa. #
- #cwp10africa Now an overview of the competition. One of the 3 CWP Africa judges, Dan Ojwang, takes the podium. #
- #cwp10africa And Brewer concludes. Mashile mentions that she saw the British govt's commitment to culture at a poetry dinner last night. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer "One thing that all CW members have in common is English". The written word has the power to cross national boundaries. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer: "Last year we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth". It covers 1/3 of the world's population. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer thanks the SA Dept of Arts & Culture for supporting SA's involvement in #lbf10, mentions that Min Xingwana will be there #
- #cwp10africa Brewer is now on to the London Book Fair (#lbf10) "It demonstrates how, in this year, the spotlight is very much on SA" #
- #cwp10africa Brewer receives the Man Booker Prize shortlisted books every year from her father. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer: Diplomacy, development and diversity represent the three mandates of her profession #
- #cwp10africa …on the SABC? <Applause> Mashile then introduces the keynote speaker, the British High Commissioner, Nicola Brewer. #
- #cwp10africa Molefe wishes the winners best of luck in the overall competition. Mashile: what about a lit show, a "Lebo's book club"… #
- @urbanrenewal #cwp10africa Ah, Soli, what a memorable performance he gave at the 2008 CWP finals in Franschhoek. Just pirouetted on the edge in reply to urbanrenewal #
- #cwp10africa Molefe: CWP is one of the world's premier literary awards – its significance can be seen in the success of Uwem Akpan #
- #cwp10africa Molefe: "Freedom of literary expression is paramount in a democratic state". The SABC is pleased to host the CWP awards. #
- #cwp10africa Molefe "I'm pleased to inform you that in April, the SABC will be hosting the Commonwealth Broadcasting Assoc" #
- #cwp10africa Mashile asks the SABC's Phil Molefe to say a few words. #
- #cwp10africa The British High Commissioner is here and Mashile mentions the #lbf10. The HC has brought along #lbf10 programmes. #
- #cwp10africa And now we begin in earnest. Mashile formally welcomes the guests – media and literary and political dignitaries. #
- #cwp10africa Here, by the way, are the two shortlists for the 2010 Best Book and Best First Book CWP prizes: http://book.co.za/BMYF #
- #cwp10africa And the reading concludes. Now Lebo Mashile reads from Best First Book shortlistee Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon. #
- Lebo Mashile, emcee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVpkR #
- … The Double Crown: Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh, by Marie Heese, a Human & Rousseau author. It's up for Best Book. #cwp10africa #
- Lebo Mashile, emcee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVpaB #
- #cwp10africa Emcee Lebo Mashile takes the podium, introduces Amina Blackwood-Meeks of Jamaica, who reads from one of the shortlisted books.. #
- Dawn Garisch, a CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JZhE7 #
- Marie Heese, CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVmHt #
- Andrew Brown, a CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa awards http://flic.kr/p/7JVm5V #
- Follow #cwp10africa for the latest tweets #
- Carrots for Three from the Humour Section http://book.co.za/ybwn #
- Apparently, our Nadira Naipaul / Winnie Mandela piece – http://book.co.za/wWaU – was on pg 2 or 3 of The Mercury today. Anyone see it? #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (4) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/wukPGuGTozU?a #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (3) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/rkHuwbVsb2c?a #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (2) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/fmZYHBwuRSY?a #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (1) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/1umG67cHP1I?a #
- BB: If you want to know anything about history, go to the poetry. – And that's a wrap. #readsa #
- BB quotes fellow sojourner Edward Said: 'A good man is at home anywhere; a better man, nowhere.' #readsa #
- … it's to do right by the Palestinians (which doesnt mean do wrong by the Israelies). #readsa #
- Now we're into Q&A. BB, on the USA, says that if there's one thing he'd ask the US to do #readsa … #
- …through continued action to bring about a new politics. #readsa #
- BB: all of us – descendants of slaves, of conquerors – have a duty to pay homage to those who brought SA out of apartheid… #reads #
- BB agrees w/RK & calls for a compassionate activism. #readsa #
- RK to BB: How do all the brokenhearted people speak to one another about their brokenheartedness? #readsa #
- RK to BB: Im starting to wonder whether love isn't the best metaphor with which to approach SA. #readsa #
- RK to BB: what struck me most was the essay's emotional tone. I read it as a love letter from the broken-hearted. #
- Now we're on to BB's essay 'Mandela's Smile' #readsa #
- RK to BB – I read your essays as written by a Romantic, w/a capital 'R'… it's one element of a literature of testimony. #readsa #
- Human beings need contradiction & ambiguity… Malema says he's a communist, for example. -BB (to laughter) #readsa #
- To become creolised… and not to realise it, validate it, is a tremendous loss, because what do we have to fall back on? – BB #readsa #
- RK refers to BB's examination of the 1st use of the term 'Afrikaner', which designated a creolised person (racially, linguistically). #reads #
- I cant take more than two months of this country [at a time]. – BB #readsa #
- The mistake we make is to think that we are normal now. People become willfully blind to the unresolvedness of things. -BB #readsa #
- What we call 'identity' is a kind of stasis… a crystalisation of certainties… there's no movement there. – BB #readsa #
- What's the use of a mind if you can't even change it? – BB #readsa #
- RK & BB at the BL #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JLb5r #
- Mervyn Sloman announces that BB has won the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish literary award #readsa #
- RK & BB at the BL #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JQ2ML #
- RK & BB @ The Book Lounge #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JQ14h #
- The Book Lounge is PACKED for Breyten Breytenbach's convo w/Rustum Kozain #readsa #
- A short story about the Google of the future, "Robot Exclusion Protocol" by Paul Ford: http://bit.ly/9wILfz #
- Verushka Louw resenseer Daddy's Girl deur Margie Orford http://book.co.za/nd3Z #
- Something Wicked This Way Goes http://book.co.za/PP82 #
- If you haven't seen it yet, here's the update on the Penguin Prize for African Writing: http://book.co.za/X5o2 #
- Uganda's Daniel Omanya won a short story competition organized by the African Writers' Trust: http://bit.ly/c0wlUx #
- Enter the 2nd Annual SA Wine Writers Award http://book.co.za/kdfw #
- How to: Write Your Book and Self Publish It: http://book.co.za/F6JD #
- Now on BOOK SA: Margie Orford gets a UK Times carrot & filming for @JohnvandeRuit's Spud movie starts http://book.co.za/ #
- Now on BOOK SA: Notes, photos and podcast from the opening of the 13th Time of the Writer lit fest in Durban: http://book.co.za/RkxU #
- Book Excerpt: Kings of the Water by Mark Behr http://book.co.za/6ikW #
- Now on BOOK SA: the 2010 Franschhoek Literary Festival programme: http://book.co.za/QcnJ #
- The programme for the 2010 Franschhoek Literary Festival. Note: events are subject to change.
http://www.flf.co.za
htt… http://bit.ly/90ggkr # - The Day-to-Day "One Nation Many Voices" London Book Fair SA Cultural Programme http://book.co.za/WiZj #
- Karina Magdalena Szczurek Reviews Counting Sleeping Beauties by Hazel Frankel http://book.co.za/YNX3 #stick #
- @Grondwerk Duidelik? Oh, wait… in reply to Grondwerk #
- @Grondwerk Hm, "ace" doesn't quite do it. What about "heavy"? BB is a heavy – ? in reply to Grondwerk #
- RT @e_relevant http://is.gd/a2VRI South Africa's most expensive eBook <- Just R137,313.86 #
- @Grondwerk En so, hy moet sweet? in reply to Grondwerk #
- Nadira Naipaul Writes on Her Visit (with VS) to South Africa, Opens Can of "Winnie vs Nelson Mandela" Worms http://book.co.za/wWaU #
- Registration for the 2010 Jozi Book Fair is Now Open http://book.co.za/JWlg #
- Zandra Bezuidenhout resenseer Bloot mens deur Jelleke Wierenga http://book.co.za/gC4d #
- Debashine Thangevelo Reviews Maha, Ever After by Sumayya Lee http://book.co.za/qwqn #
- @PenguinbooksSA Says that an update on the Penguin Prize for African Writing is imminent – follow them if you've submitted an MS. in reply to PenguinbooksSA #
- Also now on BOOK SA: Aernout Zevenbergen writes for self-publishers on how to get books into Kenya http://book.co.za/Dvap #
- Now on BOOK SA: 2 syndicated columns: Denis Beckett on BEE http://book.co.za/jtru & Mark Gevisser on Zuma & the UK http://book.co.za/RK2m #
- @laurenbeukes I would know it #tomthumbs in reply to laurenbeukes #
- It was posted rather early this a.m., so I'm giving it another too: Niq Mhlongo's "How to write" tips, via @ReadSA: http://book.co.za/baiD #
- RT @blacklooks @kenyanpundit @geekrebel:9 million cellphone users in Uganda, 2.7 m mobile internet users. #digitalafrica #
- More digital reporting from @GuardianBooks: book apps outstrip game apps on the iPhone: http://bit.ly/alrNx8 #
- Dramas, skrywers en skole wen by die 2010 Woordfees http://book.co.za/74dv #
- Via @GuardianBooks, the NYT is to start offering its book review pages on e-readers: http://bit.ly/9NC3H3 #
- @e_relevant has excellent further analysis on the Kalahari.net ebook store ( http://book.co.za/YkfD ) at http://bit.ly/9hhRFt in reply to e_relevant #
- The U of Pretoria's 4th creative writing winter school costs R5000, starts 24 May, and features Krog, Tadjo & others: http://bit.ly/aneu5C #
- Damon Galgut's The Impostor now avail as an audiobook (8 hrs 18 mins!) narrated by Humphrey Bower: http://bit.ly/bImBHd #
- Denis Hirson to give a poetry reading at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore in Paris on 15 April: http://bit.ly/dswpKL #
- Andre Brink headed to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival: http://bit.ly/da0KAg #
- Kalahari Launches its eBook Store http://book.co.za/YkfD #
- Carol Brammage Reviews Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon http://book.co.za/lG93 #
- Now on BOOK SA: How to Write: Tips from Niq Mhlongo http://book.co.za/baiD (RT @ReadSA) #
- Now on BOOK SA: Liesl Jobson's post on International Women's Day (8 Mar): http://book.co.za/YqKo #
- Here's the first Apple iPad advertisement, which aired during yesterday's #oscars: http://bit.ly/93i7yi #
- @LanceArmstrong's 1st #africa #capeargus tweets: http://www.quoteurl.com/39cuo <- Almost sent back by Home Affairs: http://bit.ly/cUKlfB #
- Liam Kruger and Sophy Kohler http://flic.kr/p/7JhSyv #
- @KevBloom writes sympathetically on Ryszard Kapuscinski http://bit.ly/cYV9GE #
- Poets Yvette Christiansë and Gabeba Baderoon Respond to Minister Lulu Xingwana http://book.co.za/9GFZ #
- Breytenbach se 70ste lewensjaar gevier met Verse in my vingers (Foto's en Video) http://book.co.za/98fF #
- I posted 15 photos on Facebook in the album "Tonele uit "Verse in my Vingers"" http://bit.ly/dpJdtT #
- @blacklooks Call for short stories: new queer African fiction: http://bit.ly/anI6GD #
- Call for short stories: new queer African fiction: http://bit.ly/anI6GD #
- I posted 7 photos on Facebook in the album "Hennie Aucamp by Woordfees" http://bit.ly/d6pkMT #
- The Great Texts / Big Questions lecture this week will be by RoseLee Goldberg, a global authority on performance art: http://bit.ly/dmx72I #
- Via @modjaji_bks, the most poorly attended Small and Indie Press book fair in NYC in recent memory: http://bit.ly/93NOrO #
- Shimmer Chinodya on the Political and the Personal at Woordfees http://book.co.za/24FL #
- Celeb alert! Basetsana Kumalo is reading The Monk who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma: http://bit.ly/cQFEi7 #
- Petina Gappah Shortlisted for the £25 000 Sunday Times (UK) Short Story Award; and Set to Write for the ST in SA http://book.co.za/BDsn #
- BOOK SA's Week in Liveblogging: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, EB Web Portal Launch and the 13th Time of the Writer http://book.co.za/w7eU #
- @nabukay Hey, that's brilliant news – congratulations! in reply to nabukay #
- Palesa Morudu Reviews The Honour to Serve: Recollections of an Umkhonto Soldier by James Ngculu http://book.co.za/ZcJ9 #
- @art2gee Congrats! & It's never too late for a single malt. Have a wee one. in reply to art2gee #
- @BorowitzReport That would be a 'yes'. And from Cape Town, SA, no less. in reply to BorowitzReport #
- @urbanrenewal It's glorious! I'm soaked! Thank the deity! in reply to urbanrenewal #
- RT @BorowitzReport Oscar producers say if he wins tonight, James Cameron's ego will be presented in IMAX. <- Ho ho #
- See comments on this post – http://book.co.za/MYHO – for details of the 2011 El Gouna, Egypt writers residency. App deadline is 31 June. #
@BOOKSA Twitter Weekly Updates 2010-03-14
by Ben - Editor on 14 Mar 2010 | - Sunday Read: John Carlin Interviews Fatima Meer http://book.co.za/SDVW #
- Aher Arop Bol, William Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KufBj #
- Zakes Mda, Sally-Ann Murray, Johan Jacobs #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Ku8vG #
- #tow10: And on that note, we conclude – and BOOK SA's livetweeting concudes. Thanks for tuning in! #
- #tow10: Though Mda makes the point that, in the contest between writing and do-gooding, "unfortunately, one can't help everybody" #
- #tow10: A final, somewhat random discussion, centres on fostering the development of literacy and writing in SA #
- #tow10: …which ironically very much echoes Mngxitama's revival of Biko's "I write what I like" ethos #
- #tow10: Mda: "I'm going to write what I want, the way I want it, anytime I want to write it" – in response to a comment about Mngxitama… #
- @KaraboKgoleng asking a question at #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KtYvJ #
- #tow10: Murray: "And where a word that expresses what I want doesn't exist, I've made it up." #
- #tow10: …and which she used in order to reclaim some of SA English's really exciting potential, to resist its flattening #
- #tow10: …which is practically unique to the Umbilo community and which expresses a certain kind of working-class whiteness… #
- #tow10: Murray: Wants to say something about language. In Small Moving Parts, she's used a language that's almost a kind of vernacular… #
- #tow10: Mda: "I am a very staunch pan-Africanist – not politically, but as a concept. Africa and its diaspora are my concerns." #
- #tow10: Mda: …beginning with my mother, my sisters, now with my wife…" Lots of laughter and applause. #
- #tow10: Mda: "The reason that there are women in my novels is that, well, women are there… and I've had a lot of interaction with them… #
- #tow10: Mda: On the other hand, a publisher once called his "Ways of Dying" "a feminist diatribe". So perhaps he is a feminist. #
- #tow10: Mda: "I'll leave that to the critics. Some have said I'm a feminist, and I've not disagreed with them." #
- #tow10: An audience member asks Mda if he's a feminist; many of his novels centre on women characters. #
- #tow10: Mda to Mngxitama: "This is fiction, by the way – I can't address everything." And the mini-exchange concludes. #
- #tow10: Mda: "You read page 67, then Andile, where I show the role of white capital in the issues that the novel addresses" #
- #tow10: (One of my tweets didn't fire: Kgoleng To Mda: how did the media influence the reception of Black Diamond? How should it have?) #
- #tow10: …an opinion rebutted by Mngxitama from the audience. #
- #tow10: Mda: "Now, let me move from Sandile to Andile (Mnxgitama)." Mda doesn't think that Mnxgitama has read the book… #
- #tow10: Mda: "In Canada, etc, I'm now asked why the SA govt is attacking me, telling me what to create. A false but problematic impression." #
- #tow10: Mda: "In SA, we already know who Sandile is, so it's not a problem – 'Oh, it's Sandile, OK'. But overseas it was a different thing." #
- #tow10: Mda: "The only problem I've had is with a diatribe that the DAC's Sandile Memela had that labeled me an enemy of the state" #
- #tow10: Mda: "I do get bad reviews, but with this particular novel – maybe if you've seen a bad review you can bring it to my attention?" #
- #tow10 Mda: "I was determined that the novel should be as accessible as a film" (it developed out of a film script) #
- #tow10 Black Diamond was created when Mda was on a 40-city book tour to promote Cion in the USA (it did extremely well there) #
- #tow10: Mda: South Africa is my stomping ground as far as SA is concerned. Says Black Diamond was an accident of sorts – not on his list #
- #tow10: Murray: I write about Umbilo (a section of Durban) because it's where I'm from, & "I got tired of its being always CPT, always JNB" #
- #tow10 …and asks both authors to comment on place, rather than character, in their fiction. #
- #tow10 And now we move into the discussion section. Jacobs calls Murray's book a "chronotope" – a rendered place and time… #
- #tow10 The passage Murray reads is about a man "trying to make a crazy plan fly" #
- #tow10 Now it's Sally-Ann Murray's turn to read, from Small Moving Parts #
- #tow10 It's quite a powerful passage, read very well, that relies on a kind of gently killing logic to horrify #
- #tow10 …to ensure that the latter would never become attached to, much less love, their children. #
- #tow10 Mda reads a passage from Cion that's set during US slavery times, about the strategies that owners and slave women employed… #
- #tow10 Mda: "I thought to write a novel set among the WIN people tracing their pasts, shuttling to their present(s)" #
- #tow10 Accordingly, Cion centres on Ohio's "WIN" people (White, Indian, Negro) #
- #tow10 Mda: "I'm of the school of writing that says, 'Write what you don't know', not 'Write what you know'" #
- #tow10 …his only novel that's not set in SA. It's set in Ohio, USA. #
- #tow10 Jacobs invites the writers to read from their work. Mda to begin – he'll read not from Black Diamond but from Cion… #
- #tow10 The theme of the session is "Tense: Past and Present in SA Fiction" #
- Johan Jacobs, Sally-Ann Murray, Zakes Mda #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kps2T #
- #tow10 Jacobs introduces the two writers. #
- #tow10 Johan Jacobs is facilitating the final TOW session, on stage w/Zakes Mda (Black Diamon) & Sally-Ann Murray (Small Moving Parts) #
- Sally-Ann Murray & Zakes Mda are now up on stage #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kpph2 #
- Keorapetse Kgositsile #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kti4C #
- Andile Mngxitama & Tymon Smith #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KtgnA #
- #tow10 And on that fiery note, the session concludes. 15 min interval now – back in a bit. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …and the unequal system powered by white wealth that created it is normalised. The danger is that we'll reinternalise it #
- #tow10 Mngxitama moves on to Zakes Mda's Black Diamond. By writing about BEE the way Mda does, the black bourgeoisie is highlighted… #
- #tow10 Mngxitama …is very problematic. Black writers chase white women readers – the main reading demographic – too hard. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "I promised to attack black SA writers this evening" so here goes. Post-1994 black writing – its underlying politics…. #
- #tow10 Gumede …mistakes that other liberation movements have made. #
- #tow10 Gumede: Humanity and morality are more important than ideology. If we don't get more angry, we're going to make the same… #
- #tow10 Gumede: He agrees w/Mngxitama on the question of anger. "We aren't angry enough. We need to step up and challenge the govt" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "Why do we lower our expectations of what it means to be free? Why not just give whites the govt to run? Nothing has chgd" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "You say I'm angry, but I think I'm not angry enough! How can people accept their current conditions?" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "My question is: 'what is the state of the majority?' What has happened since 94 that is good for the majority?" #
- #tow10 Sihle Khumalo now weighs in, addressing Mngxitama: "We also have to celebrate our achievements as a country, do we not?" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: It's not a question of facts and truth per se, but a Q of a system that only engages facts and truth on its own terms #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "To talk politics and transparency, discussed outside the systems that reinforce them" is a failure of analysis #
- #tow10 Gumede: "If we're not going to speak truth to power, we're not going to prosper" #
- #tow10 Gumede: At the moment, it's not even a question of culture, power is being gained by making different promises to different people #
- #tow10 …& says, "If we agree that culture is by definition hostile to stasis" are we not on shaky ground when using it to organise power? #
- #tow10 Keorapetse Kgositsile has questions "that might be a little basic". Asks for clarity on the line between truth and fact…. #
- #tow10 Gumede: "If you live in a rural part of Africa, how much of the truth, as it relates to power, can you actually know?" #
- #tow10 Gumede: It's not only to do with liberation credentials. The key thing is the way information is manipulated. #
- #tow10 Gumede: Will answer in a roundabout way. Why do people in African countries keep voting the same people into power? #
- #tow10 Now a question for Gumede. What are your views on the provinces in SA as they're presently constituted? #
- Anile Mnxgitama & @KaraboKgoleng http://flic.kr/p/7KsKeJ #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "FIFA will make all the money in the World Cup. Our children will still be paying for their stadiums." #
- @KaraboKgoleng & Mervyn Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KoNEa #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "And look at the 2010 World Cup. We've been robbed again. And this time by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu." #
- #tow10 Mngxitama "One problem is that we are cowards in this country. Look at the ANC/Eskom scandal. It's robbery. We do nothing." #
- #tow10 Mngxitama, in response to a question: "New Frank Talk was established to help change the conditions of the majority of our people" #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng senses the restlessness in the audience and opens the panel up for public questions. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …which guarantee a minority-rights protection regime. "The right wing will realise that de Klerk was not such a bad guy" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama quotes FW de Klerk on the "concessions" the ANC made pre-1994, which included the Bill of Rights and the Constitution… #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …but the AWB is allowed to exist and act on its agenda. #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: For me, the question is whether democracy actually serves the majority. In SA, black-only organisations are banned… #
- #tow10 Gumede: Because of Africa's history, and colonialism's legacy of "crisis states", it's more complex than democratic vs undemocratic #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng: "Do the untruths by which we are led make Africa undemocratic?" #
- #tow10 Gumede: "If we're going to make Africa prosperous, we must switch from partial truths to full transparency" #
- #tow10 Gumede: …one example being, from southern Africa, Robert Mugabe. A man congenitally surrounded by untruths. #
- #tow10 Gumede: For me, transparency is key; honesty. In SA, people w/impeccable "struggle" credentials… #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng: What alternatives do we have, if we're to change the power situation in Africa? #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "In SA, you are illegal if you don't have papers… and are black. I'm very pessimistic about how power is used in Africa" #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: Doesn't find much to laugh about re: Africa, unlike last night's panelists #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: …instead we have a neo-apartheid, this time run by black people." #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "The truth of the majority tells us that the post-1994 project of democracy does not liberate… #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: "My understanding of truth is an ideological one. The truth is that Africa, incl. SA, is in trouble, major trouble" #
- #tow10 Gumede says truth and power intersect, in Africa, where the tough questions about culture are asked #
- #tow10 Mngxitama: in SA, the truth is intertwined with the "black excluded", who are outside of power #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng now quotes from Vaclev Havel… you can find the quote here http://nyti.ms/dlHYuJ (cf "chief doubter of systems") #
- #tow10 Now @KaraboKgoleng reads from Gumede's co-written The Poverty of Ideas #
- #tow10 (New Frank Talk no. 1: Why Biko Wouldn't Vote) #
- #tow10 …starting with one of Mngxitama's New Frank Talk pamphlets. #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng Introduces Mngxitama and Gumede, talking them up, and says she'll give two readings… #
- Andile Mngxitama, @KaraboKgoleng, William Mervyn Gumede #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KssU5 #
- #tow10 @KaraboKgoleng summarises the Time of the Writer week, mentioning launches, Betty Govinden, Fatima Meer and more #
- #tow10 The title of tonight's first panel is "Writing, Truth and Power" #
- #tow10 A slightly better photo of those three: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booksa/4429137615/ #
- #tow10 First up on stage will be William Mervyn Gumede and Andile Mngxitama, hosted by @KaraboKgoleng http://flic.kr/p/7Kot6v #
- The Time of the Writer finale is about to begin #tow10 #
- The Badsha Peer cemetery, Fatima Meer's final resting place http://flic.kr/p/7KqhsW #
- The last rites are concluded and people leave Fatima Meer's grave http://flic.kr/p/7KqgxL #
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi at Fatima Meer's graveside http://flic.kr/p/7Kmj5a #
- The last shovelfuls of earth are added to Meer's grave http://flic.kr/p/7KqeAm #
- Meer's body is interred http://flic.kr/p/7KmbXR #
- Meer's body at the graveside http://flic.kr/p/7Kmbv2 #
- After a stop for prayers outside the main cemetery bldg, Meer's body is borne to its fianl resting place http://flic.kr/p/7Km9bp #
- Meer's body enters the cemetery http://flic.kr/p/7Kq3aQ #
- The Meer funeral cortege approaches the cemetery http://flic.kr/p/7Km6ye #
- The Meer funeral cortege proceeds down Queen/Denis Hurley St, Durban http://flic.kr/p/7Km5mF #
- Meer's body is hoisted on the shoulders of her relatives http://flic.kr/p/7Km4hi #
- KZN premier Zweli Mhkize & the IFP's Mangosuthu Buthelezi are among the dignitaries http://flic.kr/p/7Km2Yn #
- Prayers have begun at the Meer funeral #
- the programme at Fatima Meer's funeral: prayers, then a walk to the cemetery and further formalities #
- Guests gather at the Grey Street Mosque for a prayer ahead og Fatima Meer's funeral http://flic.kr/p/7KkVUB #
- In Durban, the Winnie-Naipaul saga contnues. Here's the front pafe of the Sat Ind: http://flic.kr/p/7KoVEh #
- Finally, here's a pic of the mosque from the Grey/Yusuf Dadoo St approach http://flic.kr/p/7KjvpV #
- The mosque is at the corner of Grey & Queen Sts, aka Yusuf Dadoo & Denis Hurley Sts. Pic of corner http://flic.kr/p/7Koq7s #
- The entrance to the mosque is in Queen St, now renamed as Dennis Hurley St. Pic of entrance http://flic.kr/p/7KjtyH #
- Meer's funeral will take place at Durban's Grey St Mosque, 3h30 pm. Here's the mosque notice http://flic.kr/p/7KonES #
- Stand by for a series of illustrated tweets on the Fatima Meer funeral later today #
- On SAFM right now, Athol Fugard on Fatima Meer: young women today couldnt ask for a better role model. She was a dear friend. #
- Thanks to Zukiswa Wanner for preserving this proof of BOOK SA's existence in KZN's Mercury #winnie #naipaul http://flic.kr/p/7KiRMk #
- Good night from #tow10 – thanks for tuning in. #
- #tow10 Preview of tomorrow's events: BAT Centre workshops in the morning; book launch and Gumede, Mngxitama, Mda, Murray in the evening #
- #tow10 And that's a wrap! Good, memorable session. #
- #tow10 …there's a huge market for books in vernacular languages in SA" #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "The issue of publishing in the vernacular is very important. It seriously needs to be taken on. I seriously believe…. #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: "The only reason that I'm able to have a convo w/this aspiring funnyman over here [Coovadia] is b/c we speak English" #
- #tow10 The question had to do w/why the writers write in English, not Zulu? #
- #tow10 Now a question wholly in Zulu for the panelists. Khumalo: "Imraan will translate." Coovadia: "[erm] please respond". #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "My family don't laugh at funerals. We take it as against the… the culture". Ngcobo: "You're boring." #
- #tow10 Two young women in the audience, behind me, have been filming this entire session w/their phones. #bicepfatigue #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: "At the core of humour are some really tough, hard truths. Comedians are some of the most depressing people to be around" #
- #tow10 Ngcobo, answering a question about whether Castle Lager makes him more creative: "Yeah, pretty much." #
- #tow10 Khumalo: Felt the urge to emigrate to China and open a hotel there exclusively for black African people. #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "I was stopped by a guard at the gate, but the hotel is only and exclusively reserved for the Chinese. In Khartoum." #
- #tow10 Cedric Sissing of Adams Books ask Sihle to relate a story about a Chinese-run hotel in Sudan #
- #tow10 Ngcobo is rambling, which would be a bad thing, if it weren't funny. Pull quote: "…our friend w/the penis" (points to Mgqolozana) #
- #tow10 Now Elinor Sisulu has the mic, makes the point that in many African countries – incl Zim – the men on stage might well be in jail #
- #tow10 Now we're talking corporate culture vs writing culture. Both writers (who have transitioned) much prefer the latter. #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: the worst thing that can befall satire, however, is when it becomes belaboured, as can happen w/Malema & Zuma #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: those who satirise Malema might be racist – prob are – but he's a legit target b/c he's the Pres of the ANCYL #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: Only insofar as we are all intrinsically racist. The classic SA gesture is: to look over one's shoulder before commenting #
- #tow10 Tough first Q from the audience: is current SA satire simply the new racism (wrt Malema, etc)? #
- #tow10 Again, I'll tweet the better Q&A exchanges. (They can get deadly.) #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "One question tha'ts now allowed is 'what's the point of all of this'" #
- #tow10 Coovadia: restriction on questions for this session: they have to be funny #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: this guy, CSZ Ntuli (?) once wrote an entire piece "just talking about beers and it was funny as hell" #
- #tow10 Coovadia asks about Ngcobo and Khumalo's early influences. A number of Zulu writers and performers are named. #
- #tow10 Coovadia: "One more question from me before we allow the audience to make 10 minute speeches" #
- #tow10 Khumalo: "Obviously if someone has touched your goat, you're going to want the lobola" #
- #tow10 Good lord, now we're talking about the defiling of goats #
- #tow10 Sitting next to @TymonSmith, who's recording the session. Hopefully a podcast is in the offing. #
- #tow10 …can't help being what they are. "I'm one of the few people who still defend Julius Malema, for instance." #
- #tow10 Ngcobo, referring to the S Friedmann article on satire (cf Business Day), says he doesn't mock and ridicule anyone who… #
- #tow10 Khumalo: True, but sometimes people do such stupid things they deserve to be cartooned about every week #
- #tow10 Coovadia: the painful side of humour: it can be used to enforce hierarchies and can be used to hurt. Ideas on that? #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: definitely, because, unlike in other countries where sex sells, in SA, *race* sells #
- #tow10 Coovadia: In politics, race can be a problem; in humorous writing, is it an opportunity? #
- #tow10 Coovadia: Zuma certainly does have a marvelous efficiency. #
- #tow10 …running a country, I ask myself, 'how does he have the time, and not me?'" #
- #tow10 …with his exercising his right to insert his… ahm… machine gun – I got angry, because for a man who is supposedly… #
- #tow10 Ngcobo (still on Zuma) "Right after his BS apology, which everyone knows he really didn't mean – and I don't have a problem… #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: "Hey, who wrote the funny book here?" #
- #tow10 Ngcobo, telling about a school visit, is interrupted by Coovadia: "were the kids all part of the President's family?" #
- Hm, one of my tweets seems to have gone astray. Don't know where it went. Sorry for the break in narrative. #tow10 #
- Imraan Coovadia, Ndumiso Ngcobo, Sihle Khumalo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7Kd19t #
- #tow10 Ngcobo: Let's quickly correct the name of the province. The name of the province is KwaZuma Natal. #
- #tow10 …we can't forget about Citizen Number One. Sometimes you can't help but hear him and think "Yes, this is our brother". #
- #tow10 Khumalo: There are quite a few things that are funny about KZN, for instance, but most importantly… #
- #tow10 …but what *is* funny about SA is the most moronic animals on the landscape, its human beings" (Ngcobo) #
- #tow10 Coovadia: the title of the talk tonight is "What's so funny about Africa". He asks: what is so funny, after all? #
- Chirikure Chirikure (rather dark pic, sorry) http://flic.kr/p/7KcTCP #
- #tow10 Interval time. Just met Zim's Chirikure Chirikure in the lobby! Alas, he's not performing this year. #
- #tow10 The TOW has a trad of looooong questions from the audience, just revived by a gent sitting on t'other side of the theatre. 5+ mins. #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: if the diff is artificial, it calls into question the usefulness of a practice that kills 100s each year #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana answers a question w/one of his own: 'What's the diff btw a man who's been circumcised and who's not been?' #
- #tow10 …meaning "girl", because she doesn't have a ring on her wedding finger. It grates. #
- #tow10 Bregin: "I hate being perceived as a race group rather than as an individual". Mentions that Zulus call her "ntombazana"… #
- #tow10 Both writers express their frustration at encountering so many "no go areas" in South African culture. #
- #tow10 The readings having concluded, it's Q&A time at the Time of the Writer. I'll tweet the most interesting questions. #
- #tow10 "…we were all embarrassed by the strong smell of rot that came from underneath those sheets" #mgolozana #circumcision #
- #tow10 …and encounter nothing but scorn from the hospital nurse, along with shamed silence towards one another. #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana reads from chapter 18 in his book, set in a hospital, where a handful of initiates recover from botched circumcisions… #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: …inside the culture, you were selling something no one wanted to buy" (i.e., an expose on circumcision) #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: "The dialogue that my book opened was one that didn't exist before. Outside the culture, you didn't know about it…. #
- #tow10 Mgqolozana: "But there is nothing 'ayoba' about hundreds of children dying of botched circumcisions every year." #
- #tow10 Thando Mgqolozana's turn. "I wish I had written a book about something that was 'ayoba'", he starts. #
- #tow10 Applause as Bregin's reading concludes. #
- #tow10 Bregin's reading sketches a 1st-time convo between a white woman, Jerry, and a subcontinental Buddhist, Adiga #
- #tow10 …which gets Bregin rather a lot of silent s from the audience. #
- #tow10 Now Bregin begins to read from her novel. Turns out the Shiva of the title is actually the name of one of the characters' dogs… #
- #tow10 Bregin: "If you are a dancer, you are not a victim." #
- #tow10 Now Bregin addresses her novel, Shiva's Dance, explaining that the title is more abstract than one might think: #
- #tow10 …which boils down to 'too much say, so little space to say it in'. #
- #tow10 So instead of talking about her book and reading from it, Bregin begins by reaffirming the writer's dilemma in SA… #
- #tow10 Bregin: …and am hijacking the proceedings a little bit" #
- #tow10 Now the Zulu category winners are announced. "In an age when expression in indigenous languages is stifled and sidelined… #
- #tow10 Now, the TOW Schools Short Story winners. The four winners in the English category are named and three are here to appear on stage #
- #tow10 Here are my five main tweets regarding Fatima Meer, RIP 1928 – 2010, http://www.quoteurl.com/ubyi5 #
- #tow10 …and competent as you can be. And never respect any person, organisation or institution that wants to tell you what to write." #
- #tow10 Kgositsile: "What I would advise any young writer is that: your business as a writer is to write. To be as productive… #
- #tow10 Kgositsile: "Languages are the product of peoples' collective genius, and we have to respect that with humility" #
- #tow10 Kgositsile: "Stories are important, not only because of what one might want to say, but *how* one tells it" #
- #tow10 The very welcome stand-in is none other than national poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, who takes the podium #
- #tow10 Wonder if Xingwana's pulling out had anything to do w/Mike van Graan's keynote address (wink, wink). See: http://book.co.za/lggS #
- #tow10 The awards were meant to have been given by minister for arts and culture, Lulu Xingwana, but she's pulled out #
- #tow10 Before the main events, it's time to announce the Time of the Writer Schools Short Story award winners #
- #tow10 Fatima Meer was actually on the TOW programme earlier this week – but didn't appear #
- The Ningizimu Steel & Marimba band #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KfV6C #
- #tow10 As they say, the show must go on. The emcee calls out the Ningimizu Steel and Marimba band #
- #tow10 A moment of silence is observed in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Durban, to commemorate the life of Fatima Meer, 1928 – 2010 #
- #tow10 The three most useful Fatima Meer links: news: http://bit.ly/aDdKtC, wiki: http://bit.ly/94wLpx KZN Lit tourism: http://bit.ly/8YOYH3 #
- #tow10 Fatima Meer was born 12 Aug 1928 in Grey Street, Durban. News results on her death: http://bit.ly/aDdKtC #
- #tow10 Meer will receive a state funeral tomorrow in Durban – the rites will conclude with a service at the Grey St Mosque. #
- #tow10 Fatima Meer, the author, activist and biographer of Nelson Mandela, has passed away. #
- #tow10 The emcee takes the podium… and makes an extraordinary and tragic announcement #
- #tow10 …and Sihle Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo, in convo w/Imraan Coovadia. #
- We're in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, waiting for proceedings to start. On stage tonight: Elana Bregin & Thando Mgqolozana… #tow10 #
- The new Wordsetc cover – 'Crime' issue, featuring Margie Orford #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbML8 #
- Wordsetc on display #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KfEQA #
- Sihle Khumalo & Ndumiso Ngcobo #tow10 http://flic.kr/p/7KbK8P #
- #tow10 Anton Krueger just launched his Sunnyside Sal w/an invigorating reading #
- Have made it ti the Time of the Writer in Durban at last. Will be sending tweets via #tow10. #
- Now on BOOK SA: Notes and galleries from three recent Time of the Writer events: http://book.co.za/iqhD #tow10 #
- Ann Donald Voices Cover Blurb Skepticism http://book.co.za/0SsY #
- Rustum Kozain in Conversation with Breyten Breytenbach http://book.co.za/iybA #
- I posted 33 photos on Facebook in the album "The Launch of Testing Democracy and Lobby Books" http://bit.ly/bqUeqR #
- I posted 46 photos on Facebook in the album "Rustum Kozain in Conversation with Breyten Breytenbach" http://bit.ly/9kqEpT #
- @KevBloom Agree – terrific piece by Sampson on Fugard. http://book.co.za/7w6r in reply to KevBloom #
- @forteeseven I was told next week, or the following one. You could ask @exclusivescoza – they might have more accurate info in reply to forteeseven #
- Link Love: Spier Contemporary 2010 and Wrap Day http://book.co.za/yqv2 #
- Now on BOOK SA: an excerpt from Mike Nicol's Time of the Writer keynote address, The State of the Arts: http://book.co.za/lggS #
- James Mitchell Reviews Truth by Peter Temple http://book.co.za/ZT6T #
- Lin Sampson Profiles Athol Fugard http://book.co.za/7w6r #
- @LaurenBeukes tweeted this post about SA sci-fi – but H Rose-Innes got to it first http://book.co.za/ysqD http://bit.ly/ajzTLo #
- #x1s That does indeed appear to be the end of the formalities. Will tweet anything else of interest. #
- #x1s Exclusives branded water, w00t http://flic.kr/p/7K3Bjo #
- #x1s …and Morris wraps up with a traditional "watch this space". Not sure if that's the formal end of proceedings, will keep a-tweeting #
- #x1s I might put in a punt for Little White Bakkie here: we'll also be carrying local Pan Mac titles very soon #lwb #ebooks #
- #x1s Morris (Terry) was introduced by Morris (Evan), who mentioned that local Pan Mac ebooks will be for sale on http://www.exclus1ves.co.za soon #
- #x1s Morris mentions Pan Mac US's recent battle with Amazon over ebook pricing, presents a short pro-Pan Mac case. #
- #x1s …on Amazon UK. #
- #x1s Morris mentions the "free download" marketing strategy created around Twitter and "Men Who Stare at Goats" – took the book to no 1… #
- #x1s Morris: Risk-taking, decisiveness and innovation are going to be imperative for publishers. #
- Terry Morris #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYuXP #
- #x1s "In contrast to traditional publishing," however, "the internet is going to be a great leveller in this space." #
- #x1s Morris launches straight into ebooks and ereaders. Amazon, Apple and Google are going to be fearsome competitors for booksellers #
- Pippa Tshabalala #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYtvV #
- Pippa Tshabalala #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K3pew #
- #x1s Next and last, Terry Morris on books. She's the MD of Pan Macmillan. "The great thing for us is that books and reading are sexy again" #
- #x1s Tshabalala: In short, gaming can – and will – change the world. And that's a wrap for her. #
- #x1s Tshabalala mentions http://thepiratebay.org No one particularly squirming, though. #
- #x1s Tshabalala: Gaming is the ultimate in online collaboration. Common theme among all speakers is SA's terrible web connectivity. #
- #x1s Tshabalala mentions the controversies surrounding DRM and gaming. She seems anti-DRM, which is a refreshing stance #
- #x1s Example: who knows that MMORPG = "massively multiplayer online role playing game"? Not too many in this room #
- #x1s Tshabalala starts off with a tech-and-gaming show-of-hands quiz to separate the gamers from the rest of us #
- #x1s Next up, The Verge's Pippa Tshabalala on gaming and #digital. #
- #x1s Kenan: Conclusions: music is on the rebound, better positioned than it has been in years. Biz is up, in fact, in Australia and Sweden. #
- #x1s Kenan: New online revenue models: 1. "A La Carte" (iTunes) 2. "Subscription" (hasn't done so well) 3. "Ad supported" (iffy) 4. "Hybrid" #
- @kenyanpundit Very much agree. It's a long way off in Africa, though. in reply to kenyanpundit #
- #x1s Kenan: "Customers are in control, and attention is the new currency." Build and audience first, then target revenue. #digital #
- #x1s Kenan: "Understanding the context of content is the key to unlocking the value of copyright." #digital #
- #x1s BTW, @exclusivescoza is also livetweeting the presentation, using #exclusives #
- #x1s Kenan: How do you fight against free? #digital Answer: by adding value for the customer. #
- #x1s Kenan: Keep inventing. If you're not doing it, someone else is. #digital Don't try to control the future, work to be part of it. #
- #x1s Kenan: When it comes to digital, embrace change, embrace tech. Expect further disruption. (Good thing a lot of publishers are here #
- #x1s Kenan: Good news is that music is built to be social. Where are we going? What can we learn from the likes of Susan Boyle? #
- #x1s Kenan: 6 major music companies in 97, 4 in 2010, soon to be 3? 5 mil bands on MySpace, & 95% of music downloaded is illegal, he says. #
- #x1s Kenan: 2001: final disruption: the iPod. Global music industry stats: from $40 bn to $17 bn 1997 – 2010, which includes digital. #
- #x1s Kenan: 1999: another disruption, named "Napster", which "we in the music industry handled disastrously" #
- Yoel Kenan #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JYecg #
- #x1s Kenan starts by recalling a "disruption" in the music industry, launched in 1997 in Germany: the mp3 file format. #
- #x1s Next up, Yoel Kenan, who ran http://www.mp3.com in Europe, and is now based in SA. He's to speak about… you guessed it… music #
- #x1s Human: "2010 might be a big year for football, but watch out for the download-to-own or -rent revolution soon." #
- #x1s Human predicts that DSTV will launch a direct-download video service in the new future. A competitor of http://www.exclus1ves.co.za – ? #
- #x1s Human: "The DVD market in South Africa currently comprises 6 mil homes w/DVD players." Purchases peaked in 2006-07. #
- #x1s Human now talking about digital flim, likely more up http://www.exclus1ves.co.za's alley #
- Ricky Human #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JY8Jk #
- #x1s Must confess am not sure how 3D relates to http://www.exclus1ves.co.za producs – is 3D possible on DVD? #
- #x1s Human is talking about 3D films – comparing it to the switch from B&W movies to colour ones in the 20th century #
- #x1s First up, on movies, is Ricky Human of Nu Metro films (which, unless I'm wrong, is owned by the same company as EB, Avusa). #
- #x1s …and there will now be a speaker to address each one of those four items (music, movies, games and books). #
- #x1s The http://www.exclus1ves.co.za strapline: "Where movies, music, games and books live together" #
- Evan Morris of http://www.exclus1ves.co.za #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JY4Kz #
- #x1s Morris: http://www.exclus1ves.co.za is very tightly integrated into the EB "Fanatics" system; you can now spend Fanatics vouchers online #
- #x1s Delivery of books, etc., from http://www.exclus1ves.co.za to any EB store is… free! Nice. #
- #x1s Morris: "The site has an elegant design… for grownups… and is backed up by EB's world class supply chain and distribution systems #
- #x1s …comments, lists, social sharing, etc. #
- #x1s …"best of breed" search engine, plus a set of tools that allows users to "co-create" content on the site/catalogue. Reviews… #
- #x1s …that we're excited about is ebooks, which we'll be selling by the thousand." Morris mentions the new site's… #
- #x1s Morris "The product catalogue as it stands will please most people – and it's constantly expanding. One product category…. #
- #x1s But what's in the store? Books, obviously – by the millions (literally). DVDs, from all the movie houses. Games across all platforms #
- #x1s Morris is talking video embeds, podcasts, game previews, and much more: not just a store, but an online entertainment centre. #
- #x1s ….that was integrated into existing social networks, that people would visit even if they didn't want to purchase anything." #
- #x1s Evan Morris is EB's online retail guru: he's the man behind http://www.exclus1ves.co.za. "We wanted to build a website… #
- #x1s …and online retail meet. Evan Morris: "Fortunately, at EB, we've been running a social network since 1951" #
- #x1s And let the games begin. A rather loud video announces http://www.exclus1ves.co.za, a new portal where social networking… #
- We've been herded by Superman, Mario, C3P0 and Freddy Kruger into the presentation room #x1s #
- @TallStoriesBook The day you get a small bookshop retail presence that I can index on scale, we'll add it to our BOOK Finder in reply to TallStoriesBook #
- Pan Macmillan and Jonathan Ball people at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K2D9o #
- The Penguin Books team at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7JXFPF #
- Evan Morris, Yoel Kenan, Ricky Human, Pippa Tsabalala and Terry Morris at the EB do #1xs http://bit.ly/d8b0xk #
- @TallStoriesBook Not in terms of having microsites, but we do sell books through our online affiliates, Kalahari, EB and Loot in reply to TallStoriesBook #
- Welcome to Exclus1ves.co.za http://book.co.za/l5QB #
- Evan Morris, Yoel Kenan, Ricky Human, Pippa Tsabalala and Terry Morris at the EB do #1xs http://flic.kr/p/7K2bQm #
- The speakers and entertainment at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K279f #
- Evan Morris and Yoel Kenan at the Exclusives do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K24PE #
- Mario, Freddy Kruger, Evan Morris, Superman and Batya Green-Bricker at the EB do #x1s http://flic.kr/p/7K24Jb #
- You'll have noticed I'm tweeting w/ #x1s – for a good reason to be revealed shortly. Hi to @ArthurJonesSA, from Men's Health #
- In the kombi with me is @megankakora from Cosmopolitan.co.za #x1s #
- En route to the Exclusive Books do – the relaunch of their online retail portal #x1s #
- Christy Weyer Reviews Halfborn Women by Colleen Higgs http://book.co.za/gte9 #
- Some serious 'Native Nostalgia' on @KaraboKgoleng's #safm show #music #
- #cwp10africa That concludes our Commonwealth Writers' Prize – Africa Region coverage. Thanks for tuning in! http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa Congratulations to both winners! Heese from SA and Nwaubeni from Nigeria. http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa To clarify an error in a prev tweet: Best Book = Marie Heese; Best First Book = Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa Marié Heese and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Win the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize – Africa Region Awards http://book.co.za/2qEb #
- #cwp10africa Elmarie Stodart from @JonathanBallPub, which distributes Nwaubani's book, accepts the award on her behalf. #
- #cwp10africa …who hails from (and still lives in) Nigeria. The announcement was made by Acting India HC Shambhu Kumaran. #
- #cwp10africa Now it's time to announce the Best First Book winner… and it's I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani… #
- #cwp10africa Now Heese is speaking extempore – very well one might add. #
- #cwp10africa …which is The Double Crown by Marie Heese, published by Human & Rousseau. She's in the audience and looks delighted. #
- #cwp10africa British High Commissioner Nicola Brewer announces the winner of the Best First Book prize… #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu: choosing winners was an enormous challenge, but it's time to get on w/it. #
- #cwp10africa …are in the CWP Africa committee's thoughts. #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu mentions the recent violence in Jos, Nigeria, connects it to SA's xenophobic violence, says Africans under duress… #
- #cwp10africa Also mentions @BOOKSA! Thanks, ES …and of course the emcee, Lebo Mashile. #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu also thanks @VictorDlamini and @Mimi0 of Chillibush, and Thebe Investments, who put the event together #
- #cwp10africa Sisulu: Thanks to the SABC, the British High Commissioner, my fellow judges and India's Acting High Commissioner (just arrived) #
- #cwp10africa Mashile now calls up Elinor Sisulu, the CWP chair for the Africa Region. #
- #cwp10africa Mashile: "African literature can't be put into a box. It's an exciting time to be an African writer." #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: But the judges were very pleased by the emphasis on our common humanity in all the texts. And he concludes. #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "With the exception of SA, the strongest entrants came from publishers in Europe and the USA" #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "These problems all draw attention to the state of the publishing industry on the African continent" #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: On the minus side, many entrants' texts exhibited technical and stylistic flaws: poor grammar, fragmented plots #
- #cwp10africa …of human experience." Ojwang continues that it was a joy, therefore, to find so much humour among the shortlistees. #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "One key complaint about African writing is that it tends to be perceived as sad, rarely capturing the full range… #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang mentions that Eric Babu (sp?) an entrant, but not a shortlistee, is a writer to watch #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang notes moments of comic relief in the shortlistees, incl a book, set in 16th C, that features Land Rovers & blue jeans #
- #cwp10africa …about the other shortlistees ( http://book.co.za/BMYF ) #
- #cwp10africa Dan Ojwang, CWP Africa judge, live at the announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JZv8W #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: singles out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Erica Emdon for especial praise, but also has good words to say… #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: "In spite of the harrowing experiences in the novels, none of them resort to neat endings" that might be expected #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: broad African lit trends: high number of entries that concentrated on human trafficking (incl SA's A Brown's Refuge) #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang notes that 10 of the 14 shortlistees come from women writers. #
- #cwp10africa Ojwang: SA and Nigeria continue to dominate African literary production. Ojwang himself is from East Africa. #
- #cwp10africa Now an overview of the competition. One of the 3 CWP Africa judges, Dan Ojwang, takes the podium. #
- #cwp10africa And Brewer concludes. Mashile mentions that she saw the British govt's commitment to culture at a poetry dinner last night. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer "One thing that all CW members have in common is English". The written word has the power to cross national boundaries. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer: "Last year we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth". It covers 1/3 of the world's population. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer thanks the SA Dept of Arts & Culture for supporting SA's involvement in #lbf10, mentions that Min Xingwana will be there #
- #cwp10africa Brewer is now on to the London Book Fair (#lbf10) "It demonstrates how, in this year, the spotlight is very much on SA" #
- #cwp10africa Brewer receives the Man Booker Prize shortlisted books every year from her father. #
- #cwp10africa Brewer: Diplomacy, development and diversity represent the three mandates of her profession #
- #cwp10africa …on the SABC? <Applause> Mashile then introduces the keynote speaker, the British High Commissioner, Nicola Brewer. #
- #cwp10africa Molefe wishes the winners best of luck in the overall competition. Mashile: what about a lit show, a "Lebo's book club"… #
- @urbanrenewal #cwp10africa Ah, Soli, what a memorable performance he gave at the 2008 CWP finals in Franschhoek. Just pirouetted on the edge in reply to urbanrenewal #
- #cwp10africa Molefe: CWP is one of the world's premier literary awards – its significance can be seen in the success of Uwem Akpan #
- #cwp10africa Molefe: "Freedom of literary expression is paramount in a democratic state". The SABC is pleased to host the CWP awards. #
- #cwp10africa Molefe "I'm pleased to inform you that in April, the SABC will be hosting the Commonwealth Broadcasting Assoc" #
- #cwp10africa Mashile asks the SABC's Phil Molefe to say a few words. #
- #cwp10africa The British High Commissioner is here and Mashile mentions the #lbf10. The HC has brought along #lbf10 programmes. #
- #cwp10africa And now we begin in earnest. Mashile formally welcomes the guests – media and literary and political dignitaries. #
- #cwp10africa Here, by the way, are the two shortlists for the 2010 Best Book and Best First Book CWP prizes: http://book.co.za/BMYF #
- #cwp10africa And the reading concludes. Now Lebo Mashile reads from Best First Book shortlistee Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon. #
- Lebo Mashile, emcee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVpkR #
- … The Double Crown: Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh, by Marie Heese, a Human & Rousseau author. It's up for Best Book. #cwp10africa #
- Lebo Mashile, emcee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVpaB #
- #cwp10africa Emcee Lebo Mashile takes the podium, introduces Amina Blackwood-Meeks of Jamaica, who reads from one of the shortlisted books.. #
- Dawn Garisch, a CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JZhE7 #
- Marie Heese, CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa announcement http://flic.kr/p/7JVmHt #
- Andrew Brown, a CWP shortlistee, live at the #cwp10africa awards http://flic.kr/p/7JVm5V #
- Follow #cwp10africa for the latest tweets #
- Carrots for Three from the Humour Section http://book.co.za/ybwn #
- Apparently, our Nadira Naipaul / Winnie Mandela piece – http://book.co.za/wWaU – was on pg 2 or 3 of The Mercury today. Anyone see it? #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (4) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/wukPGuGTozU?a #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (3) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/rkHuwbVsb2c?a #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (2) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/fmZYHBwuRSY?a #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Conversation from the Middle World (1) Breyten Breytenbach with Rustum K… http://youtu.be/1umG67cHP1I?a #
- BB: If you want to know anything about history, go to the poetry. – And that's a wrap. #readsa #
- BB quotes fellow sojourner Edward Said: 'A good man is at home anywhere; a better man, nowhere.' #readsa #
- … it's to do right by the Palestinians (which doesnt mean do wrong by the Israelies). #readsa #
- Now we're into Q&A. BB, on the USA, says that if there's one thing he'd ask the US to do #readsa … #
- …through continued action to bring about a new politics. #readsa #
- BB: all of us – descendants of slaves, of conquerors – have a duty to pay homage to those who brought SA out of apartheid… #reads #
- BB agrees w/RK & calls for a compassionate activism. #readsa #
- RK to BB: How do all the brokenhearted people speak to one another about their brokenheartedness? #readsa #
- RK to BB: Im starting to wonder whether love isn't the best metaphor with which to approach SA. #readsa #
- RK to BB: what struck me most was the essay's emotional tone. I read it as a love letter from the broken-hearted. #
- Now we're on to BB's essay 'Mandela's Smile' #readsa #
- RK to BB – I read your essays as written by a Romantic, w/a capital 'R'… it's one element of a literature of testimony. #readsa #
- Human beings need contradiction & ambiguity… Malema says he's a communist, for example. -BB (to laughter) #readsa #
- To become creolised… and not to realise it, validate it, is a tremendous loss, because what do we have to fall back on? – BB #readsa #
- RK refers to BB's examination of the 1st use of the term 'Afrikaner', which designated a creolised person (racially, linguistically). #reads #
- I cant take more than two months of this country [at a time]. – BB #readsa #
- The mistake we make is to think that we are normal now. People become willfully blind to the unresolvedness of things. -BB #readsa #
- What we call 'identity' is a kind of stasis… a crystalisation of certainties… there's no movement there. – BB #readsa #
- What's the use of a mind if you can't even change it? – BB #readsa #
- RK & BB at the BL #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JLb5r #
- Mervyn Sloman announces that BB has won the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish literary award #readsa #
- RK & BB at the BL #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JQ2ML #
- RK & BB @ The Book Lounge #readsa http://flic.kr/p/7JQ14h #
- The Book Lounge is PACKED for Breyten Breytenbach's convo w/Rustum Kozain #readsa #
- A short story about the Google of the future, "Robot Exclusion Protocol" by Paul Ford: http://bit.ly/9wILfz #
- Verushka Louw resenseer Daddy's Girl deur Margie Orford http://book.co.za/nd3Z #
- Something Wicked This Way Goes http://book.co.za/PP82 #
- If you haven't seen it yet, here's the update on the Penguin Prize for African Writing: http://book.co.za/X5o2 #
- Uganda's Daniel Omanya won a short story competition organized by the African Writers' Trust: http://bit.ly/c0wlUx #
- Enter the 2nd Annual SA Wine Writers Award http://book.co.za/kdfw #
- How to: Write Your Book and Self Publish It: http://book.co.za/F6JD #
- Now on BOOK SA: Margie Orford gets a UK Times carrot & filming for @JohnvandeRuit's Spud movie starts http://book.co.za/ #
- Now on BOOK SA: Notes, photos and podcast from the opening of the 13th Time of the Writer lit fest in Durban: http://book.co.za/RkxU #
- Book Excerpt: Kings of the Water by Mark Behr http://book.co.za/6ikW #
- Now on BOOK SA: the 2010 Franschhoek Literary Festival programme: http://book.co.za/QcnJ #
- The programme for the 2010 Franschhoek Literary Festival. Note: events are subject to change.
http://www.flf.co.za
htt… http://bit.ly/90ggkr # - The Day-to-Day "One Nation Many Voices" London Book Fair SA Cultural Programme http://book.co.za/WiZj #
- Karina Magdalena Szczurek Reviews Counting Sleeping Beauties by Hazel Frankel http://book.co.za/YNX3 #stick #
- @Grondwerk Duidelik? Oh, wait… in reply to Grondwerk #
- @Grondwerk Hm, "ace" doesn't quite do it. What about "heavy"? BB is a heavy – ? in reply to Grondwerk #
- RT @e_relevant http://is.gd/a2VRI South Africa's most expensive eBook <- Just R137,313.86 #
- @Grondwerk En so, hy moet sweet? in reply to Grondwerk #
- Nadira Naipaul Writes on Her Visit (with VS) to South Africa, Opens Can of "Winnie vs Nelson Mandela" Worms http://book.co.za/wWaU #
- Registration for the 2010 Jozi Book Fair is Now Open http://book.co.za/JWlg #
- Zandra Bezuidenhout resenseer Bloot mens deur Jelleke Wierenga http://book.co.za/gC4d #
- Debashine Thangevelo Reviews Maha, Ever After by Sumayya Lee http://book.co.za/qwqn #
- @PenguinbooksSA Says that an update on the Penguin Prize for African Writing is imminent – follow them if you've submitted an MS. in reply to PenguinbooksSA #
- Also now on BOOK SA: Aernout Zevenbergen writes for self-publishers on how to get books into Kenya http://book.co.za/Dvap #
- Now on BOOK SA: 2 syndicated columns: Denis Beckett on BEE http://book.co.za/jtru & Mark Gevisser on Zuma & the UK http://book.co.za/RK2m #
- @laurenbeukes I would know it #tomthumbs in reply to laurenbeukes #
- It was posted rather early this a.m., so I'm giving it another too: Niq Mhlongo's "How to write" tips, via @ReadSA: http://book.co.za/baiD #
- RT @blacklooks @kenyanpundit @geekrebel:9 million cellphone users in Uganda, 2.7 m mobile internet users. #digitalafrica #
- More digital reporting from @GuardianBooks: book apps outstrip game apps on the iPhone: http://bit.ly/alrNx8 #
- Dramas, skrywers en skole wen by die 2010 Woordfees http://book.co.za/74dv #
- Via @GuardianBooks, the NYT is to start offering its book review pages on e-readers: http://bit.ly/9NC3H3 #
- @e_relevant has excellent further analysis on the Kalahari.net ebook store ( http://book.co.za/YkfD ) at http://bit.ly/9hhRFt in reply to e_relevant #
- The U of Pretoria's 4th creative writing winter school costs R5000, starts 24 May, and features Krog, Tadjo & others: http://bit.ly/aneu5C #
- Damon Galgut's The Impostor now avail as an audiobook (8 hrs 18 mins!) narrated by Humphrey Bower: http://bit.ly/bImBHd #
- Denis Hirson to give a poetry reading at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore in Paris on 15 April: http://bit.ly/dswpKL #
- Andre Brink headed to the Hong Kong International Literary Festival: http://bit.ly/da0KAg #
- Kalahari Launches its eBook Store http://book.co.za/YkfD #
- Carol Brammage Reviews Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon http://book.co.za/lG93 #
- Now on BOOK SA: How to Write: Tips from Niq Mhlongo http://book.co.za/baiD (RT @ReadSA) #
- Now on BOOK SA: Liesl Jobson's post on International Women's Day (8 Mar): http://book.co.za/YqKo #
- Here's the first Apple iPad advertisement, which aired during yesterday's #oscars: http://bit.ly/93i7yi #
- @LanceArmstrong's 1st #africa #capeargus tweets: http://www.quoteurl.com/39cuo <- Almost sent back by Home Affairs: http://bit.ly/cUKlfB #
- Liam Kruger and Sophy Kohler http://flic.kr/p/7JhSyv #
- @KevBloom writes sympathetically on Ryszard Kapuscinski http://bit.ly/cYV9GE #
- Poets Yvette Christiansë and Gabeba Baderoon Respond to Minister Lulu Xingwana http://book.co.za/9GFZ #
- Breytenbach se 70ste lewensjaar gevier met Verse in my vingers (Foto's en Video) http://book.co.za/98fF #
- I posted 15 photos on Facebook in the album "Tonele uit "Verse in my Vingers"" http://bit.ly/dpJdtT #
- @blacklooks Call for short stories: new queer African fiction: http://bit.ly/anI6GD #
- Call for short stories: new queer African fiction: http://bit.ly/anI6GD #
- I posted 7 photos on Facebook in the album "Hennie Aucamp by Woordfees" http://bit.ly/d6pkMT #
- The Great Texts / Big Questions lecture this week will be by RoseLee Goldberg, a global authority on performance art: http://bit.ly/dmx72I #
- Via @modjaji_bks, the most poorly attended Small and Indie Press book fair in NYC in recent memory: http://bit.ly/93NOrO #
- Shimmer Chinodya on the Political and the Personal at Woordfees http://book.co.za/24FL #
- Celeb alert! Basetsana Kumalo is reading The Monk who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma: http://bit.ly/cQFEi7 #
- Petina Gappah Shortlisted for the £25 000 Sunday Times (UK) Short Story Award; and Set to Write for the ST in SA http://book.co.za/BDsn #
- BOOK SA's Week in Liveblogging: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, EB Web Portal Launch and the 13th Time of the Writer http://book.co.za/w7eU #
- @nabukay Hey, that's brilliant news – congratulations! in reply to nabukay #
- Palesa Morudu Reviews The Honour to Serve: Recollections of an Umkhonto Soldier by James Ngculu http://book.co.za/ZcJ9 #
- @art2gee Congrats! & It's never too late for a single malt. Have a wee one. in reply to art2gee #
- @BorowitzReport That would be a 'yes'. And from Cape Town, SA, no less. in reply to BorowitzReport #
- @urbanrenewal It's glorious! I'm soaked! Thank the deity! in reply to urbanrenewal #
- RT @BorowitzReport Oscar producers say if he wins tonight, James Cameron's ego will be presented in IMAX. <- Ho ho #
- See comments on this post – http://book.co.za/MYHO – for details of the 2011 El Gouna, Egypt writers residency. App deadline is 31 June. #
@Brent_Meersman Twitter Weekly Updates
by Brent on 14 Mar 2010 | - New page: Pizza: Col'Cacchio (http://oncebitten.co.za/?page_id=285) #
- New post: Out the Box Festival – March 20 to 28 (http://cli.gs/DeGg6) http://cli.gs/DeGg6 #
- Post Edited: Celebrity Chefs’ Gourmet Pizzas for Charity (http://oncebitten.co.za/?p=277) #
- New post: Celebrity Chefs’ Gourmet Pizzas for Charity (http://oncebitten.co.za/?p=277) #
- @bonganinb hope to see you home in Cape Town soon; missing you down here! in reply to bonganinb #
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