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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
 Thomas Baines, the explorer and artist, is buried in the city of Durban. KZN Literary Tourism project leader Lindy Stiebel, a Baines aficionado, co-ordinated the development of a collaborative, CD-Rom project on his 'Great Map' of the Northern Goldfields.
This CD, Thomas Baines and the ‘Great Map’ is the result of a joint project comprising South African and Australian scholars working on Thomas Baines’s “Map of the Gold Fields of South Africa" . In 1875, Baines made two trips up to modern day Zimbabwe in search of gold bearing sites for the Natal Land and Colonisation Company at the time of the Lobengula succession crisis. One of the large maps which he drew on this trip is the subject of study for this interdisciplinary team coordinated by Dr Lindy Stiebel (English Studies, University of KwaZulu- Natal, Durban). The other team members are Dr.Jane Carruthers (History, UNISA), Prof. Vivian Forbes (chief cartographer, University of Western Australia), Prof. Norman Etherington (History, University of Western Australia) and the Campbell Collections staff (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban). |
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 Witness staffer Stephen Coan has helped to unearth another facet to Henry Rider Haggard. SHARON DELL reports.
"Good idea ... but what about the others?", was Stephen Coan's response to American economist and Haggard aficionado Alfred Tella when the latter suggested they collaborate on the publication of Star of Egypt, a play by Henry Rider Haggard based on his Ancient Egyptian romance novel Morning Star. |
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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
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 Engagements Across the Indian Ocean:
Amitav Ghosh in Conversation
Chaired by Xolela Mangcu with discussants Achmat Dangor and Pamila Gupta
Date: 23 August 2007
Time: 5.30 for 6.00 pm
Venue: Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand
For more information contact Rita Kruger on Tel no. (011) 717 4245 or email
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Framing the Conversation
Amitav Ghosh is a world writer in all senses of the word. Not only is he recognized as a prize-winning international figure in contemporary English literature, but his work illuminates planetary themes of globalisation and transnationalism.
The plots of his novels rove across the world: India, Egypt, Algeria, the Gulf States, Burma, Malaya and England. As this list indicates, Ghosh is a storyteller of the global south, interested in epic plots that illuminate non-western forms of globalisation. |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
 Close the door softly behind you… is Emmaleen Kriel’s first book, and it is full of a fresh candour rarely seen in more established writers. The mother of seven children, she finds herself somewhat stranded when her husband dies, leaving her searching for a way to provide for her future.
Instead of relying on the kindness of others, she decides to take matters into her own hands (a characteristic trait, as we find out during the course of the book) and moves to England to work as a carer, cook and housekeeper for various individuals. |
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
 Read by Suria Govender.
Part one covers the history of Grey Street Street and biographies of writers included on the trail.
Click here to listen!
Part two covers the places listed on the Grey Street Writers Literary Trail.
Click here to listen! |
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