by Amy on Feb 22nd, 2012
Jacana Media, Exclusives Books and The Mall of Rosebank cordially invite you to the launch of Lolly Jackson: When Fantasy Becomes Reality.
Join us on Thursday, 1 March, for a close-up view of the Lolly empire, the schemes, the double-dealing and the characters who made millions. TV personality Katie Mohammed will unpack the mystery with authors Sean Newman, Peter Piegl and Karyn Maughan. Please collect your entrance wrist-band at Exclusive Books The Mall of Rosebank before the event.
See you there!
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- Date: Thursday, 01 March 2012
- Time: 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM
- Venue: The marquee on the rooftop
The Mall of Rosebank
Planet Fitness Entrance | Mall map
Bath and Cradock Avenues, Rosebank | Map
- Guest Speaker: Katie Mohammed
- RSVP: matthew@jacana.co.za, 011 628 3200
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by Amy on Feb 21st, 2012
Jacana Media and Love Books are pleased to invite you to the launch of Illuminating Love by Hazel Frankel.
Frankel will be in conversation with the author and poet Arja Salafranca, supplement editor for the Sunday Independent, on Wednesday, 29 February, at 5:30 for 6:00 PM.
See you there!
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- Date: Wednesday, 29 February 2012
- Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
- Venue: Love Books,
53 Rustenburg Road,
Cnr 9th Street
Melville | Map
- Guest Speaker: Arja Salafranca
- RSVP: matthew@jacana.co.za, 011 628 3200
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by Amy on Feb 21st, 2012
On 1 March 2012, Jacana Media will release Lolly Jackson: When Fantasy Becomes Reality, the story behind the Lolly Jackson murder case. Preorder your copy from www.jacana.co.za now and have it delivered to you on 1 March. The first 100 copies bought off the website will be signed by all three authors!
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“I am here to sell a fantasy. The minute that fantasy becomes a reality, I’ve got no more business. So it is in my interest not to cross the line from fantasy to reality.” – Lolly Jackson
The Lolly Jackson murder case – a mix of elements that has grabbed the public’s imagination. Fast cars, fast money, murder, revenge, missing millions and smashed up Teazers clubs. With kilometres of newspaper headlines and a growing body count, the insatiably curious public is still no closer to the truth.
Amidst the confusing reports, money laundering on a grand scale, SARS investigations and the mafia-like killings, Jacana Media brings you the inside story.
The book opens on the night of Lolly’s murder and is a personal, inside track into the reality of Lolly’s private and business lives, never before made public. Intimate and detailed, it provides the reader with a fascinating view of a world that previously could only be imagined.
About the authors
Sean Newman began working for Lolly a year before his death and became his confidant. He lived the Teazers brand and became integral in not only the day-to-day operations as media, marketing and public relations manager, but also as a keen observer of everything that really happened. While others wrote about the Teazers lifestyle, Newman lived it.
Peter Piegl was the editor of Playboy South Africa until mid-2011 and is the writing power behind the book. Piegl brings a critical and textured approach to the book.
Karyn Maughan is a legal journalist at eNEWS in Johannesburg with a degree in psychology. With a keen eye for the forensic details, Maughan examines the facts. She’s no stranger to controversy and the dark side of the human psyche.
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by Amy on Feb 17th, 2012
The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) invites you to a public dialogue with Hawks Spokesperson McIntosh Polela, on the subject of his autobiography, My Father, My Monster.
Polela will be in conversation with Maureen Isaacson in a session chaired by Garth le Pere at the Centre for the Book on Tuesday, 21 February.
See you there!
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by Amy on Feb 16th, 2012
New African has released a lengthy extract from Susan Williams’ Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa, a investigative look at the mysterious death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. In the following passage, Williams introduces us to some of the unanswered questions that surround Hammarskjöld’s death:
Between 10 and 15 minutes after midnight on Monday 18 September 1961, a DC-6B aircraft crashed near the airport of Ndola, a town in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), not far from the Congo border. The plane had flown from Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) and was taking Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN secretary general, and his entourage, on a mission to try to bring peace to Congo. It was reported that only one of the 16 passengers was found alive – Harold Julien, chief of security, who died six days later. Questions were asked as strange details of the crash emerged. Given that Ndola air traffic control had seen the plane flying overhead and had granted the pilot permission to land, why did the airport manager close down the airport?
Why did Lord Alport, the British high commissioner in Salisbury (now Harare, the Zimbabwean capital), who was at the airport, insist that the secretary general must have decided “to go elsewhere”?
Why did it take until four hours after daybreak to start a search, even though local residents, policemen and soldiers reported seeing a great flash of light in the sky shortly after midnight?
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by Amy on Feb 15th, 2012
Professor Edgar Pieterse, editor of the sustainability manual Counter Currents, delivered the first in a series of lectures for UCT Summer School on urban sustainability and food security.
The series, entitled “Sustaining Cape Town”, was organised by Gordon Pirie, Deputy Director of the African Centre for Cities and also featured Ismail Farouk and Jane Battersby-Lennard. UCT OpenContent has made two of three lectures available online, including Pieterse’s lecture, “Urbanisation dynamics”:
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by Amy on Feb 13th, 2012
Jacana and Adams Books invite you to tonight’s launch of Roberts Guide to the Nests and Eggs of Southern Africa by Warwick Tarboton. Dave Allan of the Durban Natural Science Museum will lead a discussion on the book.
Join us for wine, snacks and a whole range of eggs!
See you there!
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- Date: Monday, 13 February 2012
- Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
- Venue: Adams Books,
Musgrave Centre,
Musgrave Road,
Durban | Map
- Guest Speaker: Dave Allan
- Refreshments: Refreshments will be served
- RSVP: Cedric, cedric@adamsbooks.co.za,
031 319 4450 or 082 873 2702
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by Amy on Feb 10th, 2012
Caine Prize winner NoViolet Bulawayo recently spoke at a conference hosted by the University of British Columbia’s Africa Awareness Initiative.
Bulawayo read from her short story “Diaspora Christmas” and delivered a keynote address, titled “Open a Book, Read Africa”. She thanked the Initiative “on behalf of Africa” for its presence on the campus and especially for insisting on “our relevance, and our relevance, and our relevance”:
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by Amy on Feb 10th, 2012
In a special report for The New Age, De wet Potgieter focuses on one staggering revelation made by Susan Williams in her recently released book, Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa.
In her book on the conspiracy-laden death of UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, Williams claims that the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR) had close ties with Britain’s MI5 and MI6, and America’s CIA – all of which were involved in the plot to kill Hammarskjöld:
The South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR) – a sinister international organisation, based in South Africa during apartheid – was linked to the British secret services.
British historical researcher Dr Susan Williams makes this shocking revelation in her latest book, Who Killed Hammarskjöld?
Williams claims that SAIMR was, since the ’60s, closely linked to Britain’s MI5 and MI6 intelligence agencies, the American CIA, as well as the Israeli Mossad and that British and American agents were part of the plot to kill Hammarskjöld, because he had “become troublesome”. This shadowy organisation was headed during the apartheid years by a “Commodore” Keith Maxwell – a quack obsessed with Aids research.
Potgieter explores this revelation further in a companion article in The Southern Times:
Damning evidence of alleged foul play in the fiery death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash in Zambia more than 50 years ago has been uncovered in South Africa.
The “hit squad” that allegedly bombed Hammarskjöld’s plane was linked to the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR) during the apartheid years.
This is the same organisation that had close ties with jailed Polish assassin Janusz Walus four years before he killed Chris Hani, who was the leader of the South African Communist Party.
British historical researcher Dr Susan Williams stumbled upon this evidence by chance in the archives of the National Intelligence Agency.
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by Amy on Feb 9th, 2012
A new exhibition curated by artist and academic Pippa Skotnes opens 10 February at the Wits Origins Centre. The exhibition celebrates 100 years since the publication of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd’s seminal book, Specimens of Bushman Folklore, from which Skotnes has drawn much of the inspiration for her own work, including the 2007 book Claim to the Country.
Titled The Courage of ||Kabbo: Landscape to Literature, the exhibition consists of photographs, notebooks, maps, and other articles in honour of Bleek and Lloyd and their Xam teacher, ||Kabbo.
It is just over a century since Lucy Lloyd, on behalf of herself and Wilhelm Bleek, published the book Specimens of Bushman Folklore, the realisation of a lifetime’s work in the study of |xam and !kun, two Bushman languages of Southern Africa.
In the preface to the book, published by George Allen and Company and sold at a price of £1.1s, Lucy Lloyd, then 76 years old, wrote: “With all its shortcomings, after many and great difficulties, this volume of specimens of Bushman folklore is laid before the public … the selections which have been made for it form but a very small portion of the Bushman native literature collected.”
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- Time: Mon-Fri 9.00 AM to 15.00 PM;
Sat 9.00 AM to 1.00 PM
- Date: 10 February to 10 April 2012
- Venue: The Gallery, Origins Centre
University of the Witwatersrand,
corner Yale Road and Enoch Sontonga Avenue,
Braamfontein, Johannesburg | Map
- Cost: R45 (exhibition only), R50 (walkabouts),
R75 (Origins Centre access)
- Queries: 011 717 4700, ask@origins.org.za
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