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Jacana Media and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni’s The Poverty of Ideas.

In a country where it has been suggested that the distinction requirements at schools be moved down from 80% to 70%, it is of grave importance that we evaluate the role of knowledge and what significance we attach to it. Do we respect and value the production of knowledge, or is contemporary South African society being “dumbed down”? And if knowledge is no longer an essential commodity, do we have a need for a “thinking class”; the intellectuals?

Where are our great South African minds?

Come hear the editors in discussion with two of their book’s contributors, James Matthews and Helga Jansen Daugbjerg:

Event Details

• Date: Monday, 16 November 2009
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland
  Cnr Buitenkant
  Cape Town | Map
• Guest Speakers: James Matthews and Helga Jansen-Djaugberg
• RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com, 021 462 2425

Book Details

• The Poverty of Ideas: South African Democracy and the Retreat of Intellectuals edited by William Gumede, Leslie Dikeni
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  EAN: 9781770097759
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