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The Van Riebeeck Society
was founded in 1918 with the purpose of making primary sources available in a readable and enjoyable form to
anyone interested in Southern African history. Since then a volume
has been published every year, with very rare exceptions. The
Society depends for its survival on its members, whose fees finance
the publications; and its editors, who have selected and edited the
volumes. Society publications have achieved a high academic standard
and out-of-print volumes have become valuable
Africana.
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Our latest
publication is the following:
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Newsflash!!
Gillian Godsell
interviewed our member Gerald Groenewald (whom some of you may have
heard lecturing on our volume 36, Trials of Slavery, which he
co-edited with Nigel Worden, in January 2009 at UCT’s Summer School)
about the VRS on Radio Today, a Johannesburg radio station, on
Tuesday 22nd September 2009. We received a copy of the interview and
an edited version lasting about 20 minutes, is now available on our
webpage. If you have a sound card, click on
interview to listen in!
Extra-special
offer for members only – rock-bottom prices!!
In order to clear
some space in our store room, we have decided to make a special
offer to members only: you may order any of the back volumes
named at the top of our
orders page at a price of R50 post
free (within South Africa) – as many copies as you like and as long as stocks last!
Surprise your nearest and dearest – make your friends happy by
giving them a handsome book! Contact Cora Ovens to place your orders
at
vanriebk@mweb.co.za
or 021 423 8424 (Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays 9.30 to 13.30
or leave a message when no one is in the office).
AGM and Launch - held on Thursday 29th October at 18h00 at the Centre
for the Book, Committee Room, 62 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town.
Read all about a most successful function (with pictures) on our
Activities page.
Skype
Hot
news! You can now contact us via Skype - the address is Van
Riebeeck Society, South Africa. Remember that I am only in the
office Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9.30 to 13.30 (South African
time!).
2009 volume: Paton's Selected Letters
We
are proud to present Alan Paton Selected Letters; edited and with
an introduction by Peter Alexander, as our volume 40 for 2009. Read
about its official launch on the occasion of the 20th
Anniversary Conference organised by the Alan Paton Centre in
Pietermaritzburg on 15th to 17th July 2009, with editor Peter Alexander
as the
keynote speaker at the conference. We were there to sell
volume 40 to the international delegates and took some pictues - see
our Activities page. Read also about its Cape Town launch on 29th
October 2009.
Gift Tokens!!
Hot
off the press! Now you can buy a gift membership or gift VRS volume
for a friend or family member on the occasion of a birthday,
anniversary, Christmas or just as an unbirthday present! Contact our
office for details. Remember that a gift subscription for a child or
grandchild could be the beginning of a lifelong love affair with
books!
Book Fair
We shall be at the
Book Fair (this year from
Friday 30th July
to Monday 2nd August 2010 (so as not to interfere with the World
Cup!) and, as usual, I am asking for volunteers! Please contact me
by email or phone
((vanriebk@mweb.co.za
or 021 423 8424) to volunteer - you get in for free and it's lots of
fun!
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