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From: "Kammie" <>
Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] FYI: Top Ten South African books - call for nominations
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:53:26 +0200

Hi SA HISTORY participants


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Kammie
Cape Town
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> Date: 18 November 2003
> From: Ingrid Thomson
> []
>
> [cross-posted from ]
>
> ** Please distribute widely to all colleagues working in libraries and
> who may not have access to email. You do not have to be a LIASA member
> to nominate titles. Nomination forms are also available from your
> local branch and will also be sent to you in the latest LIASA-In-Touch.
> The nomination form is at the end of the email message**
>
> In celebration of the theme for SA Library Week 2004 "1994 - 2004:
> Libraries in a Decade of Democracy", library workers across South Africa
> are invited to nominate the top ten South African books published during
> this period which should be available to all South Africans through
> their Libraries.
>
> The titles (fiction or non-fiction, adult or children)
> * should focus on issues of democracy or contribute to the
> consolidation of our new democracy; should examine who we are and where
> we are going, and should be available to all South Africans through
> their Libraries;
> * must be written by a South African author in one of our official
> languages;
> * must have been published during the period 1994 - 2003.
>
> You may nominate up to ten titles. The winning titles will be those
> which receive the most nominations.
> The list will be announced at the Launch of SA Library Week 2004 in Cape
> Town on 13 March.
> Nominations close 31 December 2003.
>
> Here are some titles that have been nominated thus far which could get
> you thinking about which titles every South African should have access
> to through their Libraries. Any of these make your top ten?
>
> * World that made Mandela : a heritage trail
> * Disgrace
> * Country of my skull
> * Mother to Mother
> * Long walk to freedom
> * Welcome to our Hillbrow
> * Vatmaar
> * What does our constitution say?
> * Sachs Street
> * At the fireside
> * Group Portrait South Africa
> * The day Gogo went to vote (has been nominated in Xhosa as well)
> * Beyond the miracle
> * Clued up on culture
> * History of inequality in South Africa
> * Triomf
> * Madiba Magic
>
>
> For further information, contact the LIASA National PRO, Nohra Moerat at
> (021) 481 4614 or on email at . Alternatively, contact
> the
> LIASA Western Cape PRO, Ingrid Thomson , at (021) 650 3703 or on email
> at
>
>
>
> Please send nomination forms to:
> Top Ten SA Books
> LIASA Western Cape
> P O Box 34181
> RHODES GIFT
> 7707
>
> Or fax it to (021) 689 7568 (Attention: Ingrid Thomson) or email it to
> with "TOP TEN SA BOOKS NOMINATION" in the
> message line.
> --


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