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AIDS denialism, false AIDS-cures, quacks, charlatans and the dexterous activism of the Treatment Action Campaign as a result. The story of the TAC is one of the great triumphs of citizen activism for social justice and human rights.

Jacana Media and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Nathan Geffen’s Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign.

Join the author and Andile Madondile, presenter of Khayelitsha radio show on HIV, Radio Zibonele, as they are interviewed by editor of the Cape Times, Alide Dasnois.

Event Details

• Date: Tuesday, 09 March 2010
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland
  cnr Buitenkant
  Cape Town | Map
• Guest Speakers: Andile Madondile, Alide Dasnois
• RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com, 021 462 2425

Book Details

• Debunking Delusions: The TAC campaign against AIDS denialists by Nathan Geffen
  EAN: 9781770097810
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The Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) invites you to a panel discussion chaired by Prof Steven Friedman, as Xolela Mangcu discusses his new book, The Democratic Moment: South Africa’s Prospects under Jacob Zuma.

Join the author with Professor Raymond Suttner, a former political prisoner and author of The ANC Underground, and Sipho Seepe, columnist at the Business Day, in a discussion.

Event Details

• Date: Tuesday, 23 February 2010
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: University of Johannesburg Council Chambers, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
  Cnr Kingsway Ave & University Road
  Johannesburg | Map
• Guest Speaker: Steven Friedman, Raymond Suttner, Sipho Seepe
• RSVP: Johnny Alubu Selemani, jaselemani@uj.ac.za, 073 553 0726

Book Details

• The Democratic Moment: South Africa’s Prospects under Jacob Zuma by Xolela Mangcu
  EAN: 9781770097742
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The Daily Dispatch, in partnership with the University of Fort Hare, invite you to a dialogue with Xolela Mangcu – the first Dispatch Dialogue of 2010.

The Ginsberg-born and raised academic, author and public commentator will be speaking on the theme of his new book The Democratic Moment: South Africa’s Prospects Under Jacob Zuma.

Copies of the book will be available at a discounted rate of R170 and questions will be taken from the floor. See you there!

Event Details

• Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
• Time: 6:15 PM for 6:45 PM
• Venue: The Guild Theatre, Oxford Street
  East London | Map
• RSVP: Mzamo, The Daily Dispatch, 043 702 2089
  blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/

Book Details

• The Democratic Moment: South Africa’s Prospects under Jacob Zuma by Xolela Mangcu
  EAN: 9781770097742
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The launch of Don’t Joke: The Year in Cartoons at the Book Lounge was one of the last events of the year at the popular bookshop – but true to form, it was packed out. Andy Mason, with co-editor John Curtis, spoke of the rapid course of events leading to the book’s publication.

Back in May, just seven months ago, Mason made a call to fellow political cartoonists to join him at the (now relocated) Olive Station in Muizenberg. There a group that called themselves the Jesters’ Space enjoyed one another’s company, showing slides of their work and making rash promises to establish a community of cartooning practitioners. They also dreamed of collaborating in a combined annual that would show the diversity of their styles and humour.

Following this informal gathering, Mason spoke to Keith Dietrich, head of Stellenbosch University’s department of visual arts, and the dream became reality, quickly and effortlessly, as very soon the Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts (CCIBA) was established. Mason paid tribute to Dietrich’s efforts for creating the enabling conditions of this vital initiative.

Just a month later, Mason spoke to Bridget Impey of Jacana at the Cape Town Book Fair, proposing the annual publication. By July the decision had been taken to go ahead – and the book had to be launched in time for Christmas! The next few weeks were “an impossible task” wherein the duo of Curtis and Mason whittled more than 3000 cartoons into a selection of 387 by 29 different artists with a wide range of styles and graphic approaches.

Mason said that all South Africa’s top political cartoonists were represented in the book, with one notable exception. “That irrascible curmudgeon, Dov Fedler, chose not to participate and so, with very real regret, we missed one of the greatest South African political cartoonists of all times,” he said.

The two co-editors went on to welcome the cartoonists present at the event and handed them each a contributor’s copy of the book. Thereafter a slideshow was presented with many of the cartoons in the book shown on screen.

Zapiro – doubtless South Africa’s most famous cartoonist – paid special tribute to Curtis and Mason for their contribution by way of the publication. He said, “John is a fantastic ‘ideas’ man who provides wonderful ideas for many of us. When that blank piece of paper is staring up at you, it’s good to have John at the other end of the phone.

Andy Mason, meanwhile, “is a goldmine for South African cartoonists.” Hear-hear!

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Book details

• Don’t Joke: The Year in Cartoons edited by Andy Mason, John Curtis
  EAN: 9781770097582
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Boekehuis’ last Saturday Voices event of the year is a CELEBRATION! Join us for some bubbly!

Jacob Dlamini, author of the memoir Native Nostalgia and Maggie Davey, publisher, writer and a WISER Fellow at Wits University from 2010, will chat about what it means for black South Africans to remember their lives under apartheid with fondness.

We’ll see you there!

Event Details

• Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009
• Time: 12:00 PM for 12:30 PM
• Venue: Boekehuis, cnr Lothbury & Fawley Sts
  Auckland Park
  Johannesburg | Map
• Guest Speaker: Maggie Davey
• RSVP: boekehuis@boekehuis.co.za, 011 482 3609

Book Details

• Native Nostalgia by Jacob Dlamini
  Book Homepage
  EAN: 9781770097551
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Don’t miss the Khanya College launch of William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni’s The Poverty of Ideas – a book that storms South Africa’s intellectual citadels:

Event Details

• Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009
• Time: 11:30 AM for 12:00 PM
• Venue: House of Movements, 123 Pritchard Street
  (cnr Mooi)
  Johannesburg | Map

Book Details

• The Poverty of Ideas: South African Democracy and the Retreat of Intellectuals edited by William Gumede, Leslie Dikeni
  Book Homepage
  EAN: 9781770097759
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Jacana Media and the Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Don’t Joke! edited by Andy Mason and John Curtis.

South Africa’s cartooning maestros join forces with the new post-apartheid generation to tell the story of the most event-filled year since 1994. Hard-hitting and hilarious, Don’t Joke! brings it all back in a rush of satires, parodies, caricatures and flights-of-fancy that’ll rearrange your head. Featuring nearly 400 cartoons by Zapiro, Madam and Eve, Fred Mouton, Brandan, Yalo, Jerm, Dr Jack, Mgobhozi and many more, Don’t Joke! is living proof that South African cartooning has come of age.

Don’t miss the launch:

Event Details

• Date: Tuesday, 08 December 2009
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland
  cnr Buitenkant
  Cape Town | Map
• RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com, 021 462 2425

About the book

It’s all here – the astonishing ascent of Jacob Zuma, Mbeki’s vanishing act, the Zuma showerhead and the rape of Justice, Malema’s mouth, Zille’s Botox, the global meltdown, the Obama miracle, the Gaza bombings, the Somali pirates, swine flu, Mugabe’s madness, Madiba’s 90th, the Dalai Lama’s no-show, Eskom’s excuses, the SABC’s collapse, Joost’s embarrassment, Niehaus’ humiliation, the last twitch of the Scorpions, the 2010 build-up, the Cope let-down…and much, much more.

Hard-hitting and hilarious, Don’t Joke! brings it all back in a rush of satires, parodies, caricatures and flights of fancy that’ll rearrange your head.

Featuring nearly 400 cartoons by Zapiro, Madam & Eve, Fred Mouton, Brandan, Yalo, Jerm, Dr Jack, Mgobhozi and many more, Don’t Joke! is living proof that South African cartooning has come of age.

Featured cartoonists:

Andy
Brandan
Chip
Dr. Jack
Frans
Findlay
Fred Mouton
Grogan
Jerm/Nell
Mangena
Mynerd Vosloo
Mgobhozi
Miles
Mothowagae
Nanda Soobben
Qaps
Siwela
Stent
Stidy
Weyni Deysel
Wiggett
Yalo
Zapiro
Madam & Eve
Mama Taxi
Trek Net

Book Details

• Don’t Joke: A Year in Cartoons edited by Andy Mason, John Curtis
  EAN: 9781770097582
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Xubera Group invites you to join in conversation with William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni, editors of The Poverty of Ideas.

The editors will engage in a panel discussion with Fikile Mbalula, Prince Mashele and Pearl Sithole.

“The progressive intellectual appears by many accounts to have lost his or her voice; their silence deafening.” (more…)

Jacana Media and The Book Lounge invite you to the Cape Town launch of Xolela Mangcu’s The Democratic Moment.

This book comprises a wide-ranging discussion of the state of our democracy at the moment, with particular attention to institutions such as the political opposition, the courts and the media from a writer who is never afraid to be provocative and to speak his mind.

The author will be introduced by political commentator Richard Calland. See you there!

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, 26 November 2009
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland St,
  Cape Town
• Guest Speaker: Richard Calland
• RSVP: The Book Lounge, booklounge@gmail.com, 021 462 2425
  www.booklounge.co.za

Book Details

• The Democratic Moment: South Africa’s Prospects under Jacob Zuma by Xolela Mangcu
  EAN: 9781770097742
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The launch on Friday night of TRANS: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa, at the South African Museum’s Whale Well was a splendid affair. Emcee Simone Heradien, resplendent in violet and gold satin and voile, opened the event by welcoming divas and darlings, queens and kings – and anybody inbetween.

She pointed out the wash rooms: “For tonight’s purposes we’ll interpret the signs on the Gents as a woman wearing pants and the sign on the Ladies as a man wearing a kilt!”

The first speaker she introduced was Robert Hamblin, Chairperson of the Gender DynamiX Management Committee and a celebrated photographer who contributed the images to the book. He spent a few sombre minutes noting that the launch coincided with International Transgender Day of Remembrance, and recalled with sorrow the shame and suffering that had befallen brothers and sisters of the LGBTI community in Africa. He paid homage to Aunty Victoria in particular.

Next up was Liesl Theron, who sported the most desirable footwear (second only to Nazmah Achmat). She celebrated the accomplishments that had been made by co-operative endeavours between GALA and Gender DynamiX; and she encouraged everyone present to take on the challenge of spreading the message of hope that is available to people seeking to change their gender.

Other speakers who graced the podium for the rest of the evening included GALA Director, Anthony Manion, and the book’s editors Charl Marais, Ruth Morgan, former director of GALA, and Joy Rosemary Wellbeloved, a pioneer of the LGBTI movement in South Africa. Collectively, they celebrated the writing included in TRANS – both the challenges that had been overcome and the joy that has emerged in the lives of those who were brave enough to find the way to exist authentically and tell their individual stories.

While guests arrived they were serenaded by the fantastic energy of the marimba band of the Field Band Foundation. The evening was rounded off as quaffed wine and dined on delicious edibles by a stunning performance by Odidiva, a fitting highlight for a beautiful evening.

• Gender DynamiX Website

• GALA (Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action) website

• ODIDIVA’s website

• Field Band Foundation’s website

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Book details

• TRANS: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa edited by Ruth Morgan, Charl Marais, Joy Rosemary Wellbeloved
  EAN: 9781920196226
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