2019 Programme
| Date & Time | Discussants | Theme | Venue |
| 25 May 2019
13H00 – 15H00
|
Phehello Mofokeng
Author and Publisher
Facilitator:
Ms Lorraine Sithole Book reviewer and founder of Book Worms Book Club |
Book Reading and Discussion
Book title: SANOMOTA: An Ode in One Album
Author: Phehello J Mofokeng |
The wRite associates 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge |
| 20th April 2019
13H00 – 15H00 |
Ms Victorine Mbong Shu – Author of 4 books, Motivational Speaker and Business woman
and
Ms Stacy Fru – Award winning Author of 3 books
Facilitator:
Ms Sindiswa Seakhoa – Accounts Executive Director – wRite associates and Convener of the Miriam Tlali Reading and Book Club |
“Parents’ involvement is the number one predictor of early literacy success and future academic achievement”
And Book Reading:
STOP COMPLAINING: BRING BACK INVOLVED PARENTING
and
SMELLY CATS ON VACATION
A celebration of World Book Day, a UNESCO-declared occasion taking place all over the world to recognize the magical power of books – a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures, where international organizations representing the three major sectors of the book industry: publishers, booksellers, libraries and the community at large gather to engage on matters of literature every year on 23rd April.
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The wRite associates 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge |
| 16th March 2019
13H00 – 15H00 |
Mr Mubanga Lumpa – Zambian librarian and columnist
And
Prof Vuyisile Msila – Academic and author
Facilitator:
Ms Malebo Sephodi – Award winning Author |
Theme:
“Literacy in Indigenous Languages as the Foundation of Community, Economic, Social and Political Advancement” The discussion is in line with the United Nations Education and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) declaration of 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019).
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The wRite associates 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge |
Invitation
THE MIRIAM TLALI READING & BOOK CLUB
Invites you to a book discussion with the author,
Mandla Langa
Book title:
Facilitator:
Duma Ndlovu
Date:
Saturday, 21 February 2015
Time:
14H00 – 16H30
Venue:
Museum Africa, Newtown Cultural Precinct, 121 Bree Street, Newtown
About the book:
The Texture of Shadows is set at the turn of the decade 1989-90, a highpoint of hope in South Africa’s political history. The nation is abuzz with rumours of Nelson Mandela’s imminent release, the dismantling of guerrilla camps by the African National Congress and the possibility of a realistic peace process. The central plot concerns the return of a band of exiled Umkhonto we Sizwe soldiers to South Africa in 1989. Their expectation after years of training and fighting in Angola is to find a changed and improved society, one which they were instrumental in bringing about. They have been ordered to carry and deliver a sealed trunk to an unspecified destination in South Africa and it soon becomes evident that this trunk makes them a target. A number of different parties set out to separate the men from the trunk and its mysterious contents. The novel recognises the hopefulness of the time, but focuses on the violence. Langa’s characters are hardened guerrilla fighters, corrupt police officers, ex-political prisoners and the victims of abuse by a system of taboos, bannings and beatings. There are cracks in this steel-edged world that love, beauty, poetry and dance are allowed
Authors’ profile:
Mandla Langa was born in Stanger in Northern KwaZulu-Natal in 1950. He grew up in KwaMashu, a township on the outskirts of Durban. He is one of nine children. Among his siblings are honourable Judge Pius Langa and South Africa’s ambassador to Russia, Bheki Langa.
Langa attended Gardner Memorial School and Sibonelo High School in Durban. After completing high school, he enrolled at Fort Hare University. He was actively involved in the South African Students’ Organisation, and his studies were disrupted by political strikes at the time. He returned to Durban and worked as teacher at Nhlakanipho School.
In 1976, Langa was arrested on a charge of trying to leave the country without a permit. He subsequently spent 101 days in jail. While they may have arrested Langa, his mind was free and he sharpened his pen to expose the evils of the system. He began to take his writing seriously, knowing that it served a very important role. Soon after his sentencing, he escaped to Botswana where he went into exile. In those days, at the height of apartheid, exile offered an alternative avenue to continue challenging the apartheid order through other means, by among other things, mobilising the international community.
| Publication: | September 2014 |
| ISBN: | 9781770103863 |
| e-ISBN: | 9781770103870 |
| Price: | R240.00 |
| ePrice: | R192.00 |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Format: | TPB (234 x 153 mm) |
| Extent: | 384 pp |
| Rights: | World |
For enquiries:
The wRite associates, 011 791 3585 or info@writeassociates.co.za