by Ceri on 29 May 2012
Slackpacking author, Fiona McIntosh, shares her winter hiking essentials on the Getaway blog:
I love winter and whenever there’s a snowfall I seek it out. A few years back, I spent a month in Antarctica and recall telling the base camp manager I could never cope with the cold.
‘There’s only one reason you get cold,’ he said. ‘Bad gear.’
The good news is gear just gets better and better. Here’s the gear I take on my winter hiking trails.
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by Chris on 29 May 2012
Sapphire Press, an imprint of Kwela Books, has two new titles in its collection of romance novels, Dreams and Desires by Louise Make and The Reluctant Princess by Kholo Matsha.
Between her job as the features editor for a successful magazine and planning parties to keep her family happy, thirty-year-old Moyomhle Duma feels like she has it all figured out. She’s busy, content, and she gets her dose of romance from watching romantic comedies, where the endings are always blissful and there’s no risk involved.
Zakhele Nkosi is anything but safe. He strides into Moya’s world, overwhelms her with his charm and confidence, and immediately turns all her rules upside down. He challenges her to welcome life’s adventures – and couldn’t care less about being two years younger than she is. Zakhele offers her his heart and is determined to have hers in return. But is Moya ready to take the most magical adventure love has to offer?
About the author
Louise Make is thirty, Xhosa and Capetonian by birth. She comes from a family of strong women. Her mother taught her the meaning of relentless tenacity wrapped in humility and compassion. Her father got her hooked on reading when she was young. She now needs reading like she needs air to breathe.
Louise spent most of her life in Cape Town and studied Theatre and Performance at UCT. She then moved to Joburg where she worked in sales, marketing and finally production positions at magazine publishing companies. After the births of her two sons, she slowed down a little and now works on a freelance basis, while focusing on her family, her writing, and her home in the friendly West Rand.
As the only social worker in the village of GaTloung in Limpopo, Lesedi Tshukudi is constantly putting the needs of others before her own. She had always hoped that one day the man of her dreams would come to sweep her off her feet and finally make her forget how Prince Mogale Tloung had broken her heart so many years ago. But when Mogale’s father, the ruling monarch, requests that she marry his son, Lesedi knows that it is her duty to agree.
Marrying Prince Tloung would bring peace and prosperity for her people and bring her one step closer to getting funding for the Outreach Programme she wants to establish. Could Lesedi forget about the past and vow to love and honour Mogale for all the days of her life?
About the author
Kholo Matsha – a pseudonym – is a twenty-five-year-old graduate. She has been writing since the age of sixteen and fell in love with acting because it turns the drama she has in her head into real life.
After completing a degree in drama at the University of Pretoria, she decided to study Environmental Sciences though Unisa.
Originally from Limpopo, Kholo now lives in Pretoria, and loves reading romances.
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by Luso on 28 May 2012
Verdict: carrot
This book is a collection of essays about contemporary artists in South Africa, first published in German, as part of a German series on how art responds to globalisation.
Or in the editor’s words, “how artists face the challenge of engaging with the past while making sense of the present”.
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by Chris on 25 May 2012
In a recent issue of O Magazine, Mamphela Ramphele, author of Laying Ghosts to Rest, talks about her love for books and the titles that have shaped her life. From Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, and Sun Shuyun’s Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud to Julius Nyerere’s The Declaration of Dar es Salaam, Ramphele says books have always been her “very best friends”:
I relate to books the same way I relate to my best friends. I grew up in a rural environment, but while other kids were playing in the streets, I was curled up in bed reading books.
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by Mafeno on 24 May 2012
The book set South African Landscape Architecture: A Compendium and A Reader, edited by Hennie Stoffberg, Clinton Hindes and Liana Muller, is the first in what may possibly become a new series entitled South African Landscape Architecture.
There is a need to collectively celebrate and document the achievements of South African landscape architecture academia and practice. The breadth of the profession sees practitioners and academics creating value in widely different spheres of the built environment.
South African Landscape Architecture: A Compendium
This publication is a collection of professional landscape architecture projects which have received awards of merit from the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa. This represents some of the most significant landscape interventions the profession has produced over more than 25 years.
Over the last three decades only five publications on South African landscape architecture are available in print. These form the only source of written material for research purposes on many topics related to the profession in South Africa. If such resources are not conserved in some way, it will inevitably become increasingly fragmented and ultimately very difficult to collect. The Compendium thus collects this published material on the 63 Merit Award projects in its original form, in order to document this resource, given its historical and cultural value.
South African Landscape Architecture: A Reader
The discipline of landscape architecture in South Africa has been covered in five main popular printed media in the form of trade related journals and magazines. South African Landscape Architecture: A Reader is however the first collection of papers written by academics actively involved with landscape architecture research. The Reader serves as a platform for current South African landscape architecture research and theory to be locally and internationally distributed, making it widely accessible to peers involved with research. Publishing through Unisa Press (the largest local academic publishing house) is for these reasons an appropriate choice.
All the papers have undergone editorial review and every paper was double-blind peer reviewed (a process independently facilitated by Unisa Press). This book provides an accessible vehicle for the dissemination of this research.
While the longer papers are more theoretical, the shorter project descriptions focus more on the application of theory to design projects and are usually more comprehensively illustrated. Several of the authors are involved in practice and supplement their research with results from inquiry undertaken through practice – design as research. These project descriptions add tremendous value to the discipline and to an integration of academia and the profession.
This book will significantly add to the dialogue on the developing discourse of South African landscape architecture and enhance the reciprocal dynamic between praxis and academia.
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by Amanda on 22 May 2012
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