"The proceedings of a symposium held at the South African Library, Cape Town, in November 1990. Subjects covered include censorship, publishing in a multicultural South Africa, educational publishing, children's book publishing, literacy and development, and marketing and distribution. The papers we
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re given by a wide selection of professionals including publishers, academics, librarians and educationalists." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1091)
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"Annotated listings of over 4,600 libraries, publishers, booksellers, magazines and periodicals, and major newspapers throughout Africa." (commbox)
"Discusses the project ‘Christian Literature for Africa’ launched by the International Association of Reformed Faith and Action in conjunction with the Institute for Reformational Studies in 1987. Includes various contributions discussing the readership, publishing, and distribution of Christian
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literature in a number of African countries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1725)
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"This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry, focusing on domestic production, but also discussing int
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ernational film companies who use South Africa as a location. It explores tensions between English-language and Afrikaans-language films, and between films made for blacks and films made for whites. Going behind the scenes the author looks at the financial infrastructure, the marketing strategies, and the works habits of the film industry. He concludes with a discussion of independent filmmaking, the obstacles facing South Africans who want to make films with artistic and political integrity, and the possibilities of progress in the future. Includes comprehensive bibliography and filmography listing all feature films made in South Africa between 1910 and 1985 together with documentary films by South Africans, non-South Africans, and exiles about the country." (Abstract)
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"This review of the literature on educational radio covers reports on research from many areas of the world. Prepared as an internal report for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and Educational Radio and Television (ERTV), it was intended to provide a basis for both fruitful discussi
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ons and more specific and practical local research. The topics reviewed are organized under seven major headings: (1) The Functions of Broadcasts (the potential of radio); (2) Ideas That We Can Implement (understanding radio, health education programs, pre-school children, learning to listen, and disabled children); (3) Educational Radio Formats (open broadcast, open broadcasts with print, radio campaigns, radio school, radio forum farms, the radio animation groups, radio-vision, and interactive radio); (4) Educational Radio Style (in holding children's attention, program presentation, learning materials, "interactive" radio, and humor); (5) Educational Radio Management (cost control, systematic instructional development, distributed learning, research design, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, research in ERTV and SABC, organization and utilization in SABC); (6) Educational Radio Target Audience (teenagers and young adults, children, the teacher's role in infant and primary schools, role of parents, the teacher/radio partnership, Radio Teacher Training Programme, and radio audience); and (7) Radio Classroom. Brief descriptions of several educational radio programs that were presented in a series from January to April 1974 are appended." (ERIC ED304096)
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"Provides a history of the Kuruman Press in South Africa, founded by Lutheran Methodist Society missionary Robert Moffat, together with a list of publications produced there between 1831 and 1870." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1715)
"The Ciskei "Homeland" has long been a center of African nationalism and of conflict between whites and blacks. Switzer's examination of the press in this area also shows on a larger national scale, how the South African privately owned commercial press promotes dependency of blacks upon whites by p
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erpetuating the values of the white governing class. The introduction briefly surveys South Africa's communications industry." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 423)
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"The fourth and final volume of the Book Trade of the World, a series of books that aimed to provide a convenient reference tool to the world's publishing and bookselling industries, and to the institutions, organizations, and journals which are associated with them. The information on each country
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is contributed by a leading authority in the field and is presented under 35 thematic headings. The African volume contains an extensive introductory essay by Hans Zell, and an index to all four volumes in the series, compiled by Caroline Bundy. While now inevitably very dated, the books is still useful as source showing the historical development of the book trade in African countries, from the earliest times up to the period of the early 1980s." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 318)
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"This is a study both of measures taken by the South African government to control its mass media and of the efforts of its journalists and others to express their views and resist those restreints," (introduction). The authors examine the conflict between government and press in a social, economic,
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and political context derived from forces rooted deeply in history, showing the depth of hostility and describing in detail the various organizations used by government to influence opinion and to censor. One chapter is devoted to "The Afrikaans Press, Freedom within Commitment." The two authors draw upon different backgrounds - Hachten, a specialist on mass communications in Africa and Giffard, a South African journalist now at the University of Washington." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 165)
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"The editors attempt to provide "comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information, in both English and French, on libraries, publishers and the retail book trade, research institutions with publishing programs, book industry and literary associations, major periodicals and newspapers, government a
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s well as commercial printers, throughout Africa, South Africa excepted for the last name group." In all, 4,621 institutions and organizations are represented. Data varies according to the type of organization or institution and completeness and accuracy also vary because, the editors tell us, 45 percent of addresses failed to update their entries or retum the questionnaire. These cases are indicated with a dagger or asterisk. Even so, it provides a formidable amount of information. Librarians proved the best respondents; consequently data about libraries is more likely to be the most complete. Arrangement is alphabetical by country. Appendixes include a subject index to special libraries and to periodicals and magazines, and listings of book clubs, awards and principal dealers in African books in Europe and the U.S. Text is in English and French." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1127)
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"Country chapters identify and describe major and selected specialized newspapers and mass circulating magazines. Tables provide basic information for the dailies. Each chapter also carries a discussion of press laws, censorship, state-press relations, and attitudes toward foreign media. Detailed su
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bject, title, and personal name index." (Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York et al.: Greenwood Press, 1992, nr. 5522)
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"Description of broadcasting systems in 18 countries: South Africa, Poland, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Guyana, India, Federal Republic of Germany, Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia. Each chapter has been written by an individua
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l involved in broadcasting in that particular country or has been contributed by the official broadcast system of the country. Information varies for each, but concise and fairly extensive. An appendix suggests additional reading." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 712)
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"Provides an insight into the early work of Lovedale Press in South Africa from 1823 onwards, when Lovedale was the focal point of the literate Christian culture that emerged among the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape region, and which up until the turn of the century concentrated on evangelical and educat
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ional texts. Describes the change in the press and its publication policies after R.H.W. Shepherd took charge of its operations in 1929, until his departure in 1950. Contains five case studies of editorial interference culled from the detailed records of the Lovedale Press. Peires contends that while the Lovedale Press undoubtedly published manuscripts in Xhosa which would otherwise never have been published, “the effective monopoly of the Lovedale Press [...] stifled the development of a meaningful vernacular historiography." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2132)
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"In assembling this bibliographic guide of 712 items the authors' primary aim was to find material which had received little or no attention from researchers writing about the black experience in South Africa and Lesotho. Selection was made in terms of black rather than white readership, and include
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s newspapers, newsletters and magazines issued serially with a frequency anywhere from daily to annual. Publications are arranged according to subject matter, with each entry containing full title, place of publication, dates, frequency, language, contents, and holdings. In addition to English and Afrikaans nine major African languages are represented, as well as four major Indian languages, and French, Dutch, Portuguese and Arabic. Added features are a section of bibliographies and a history. Index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1703)
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