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Important Notice with regard to Programme Events / Presentations held on First Floor

This notice applies to events held in the following venues (1st Floor of Convention Centre):

Room 1.41 • Room 1.42 • Room 1.43 – 1.44 • Room 1.61 • Room 1.62 • Room 1.63 – 1.64

Since seating in these venues is limited, all attendees at the event / presentation are required to obtain an Event Booking Ticket from the Event
Ticket Collection Area outside Hall 2 on the Ground Floor of the Convention Centre.

• All tickets are available on a first come, first served basis

• Two tickets per person
• Event Tickets are only obtainable on the day that the event is being held
• The duration of each event is 45 minutes - the time indicated on the programme is the start time of the event.
• Attendees arriving more than 5 minutes after the start of an event will not be allowed entry to the room since this disrupts the speaker / panellists

Events on the Exhibition Floor / Main Hall (Stand Events) do not require tickets and can be accessed on a first come, first served / space availability basis.

TIME VENUE EVENT DESCRIPTION

G3 - MML Educational fun on interactive whiteboards. Regular, 30 minute, hands-on sessions
available every hour, on the half-hour - 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30, 15:30, 16:30
and 17:30.
10:00 F7 - Via Afrika Travel like a Local: An insider’s guide to exploring the Mother City.
11:00-11:30 H2 - Paarl Media Press and Printing demonstration.
11:00-11:45 Rm 1.41 Kevin Brooks will do a reading from his latest book Black Rabbit Summer.
11:00-11:45 Rm 1.42 How Green is My Bookshelf? Living Organic - with Christine Stevens (Harvest: Recipes
from an Organic Farm); Pat Featherstone (Grow to Live) and professional food photographer
Russel Wasserfall (Harvest: Recipes from an Organic Farm).
11:00-11:45 Rm 1.43 - 1.44 John van de Ruit , bestselling author of Spud and Spud -The Madness Continues... reads an
extract from his new book Spud - Learning to Fly and chats about his writing life.
11:00-12:00 K11 - Macmillan HIV and Aids in the South African Classroom. An informative talk on challenges teachers
face dealing with HIV and Aids in the classroom, with an introduction to materials to
facilitate the process with Dr Ann Smith.
11:00-12:45 F6 - Dalro Forum Prof Mahmood Mamdani, author of Saviours & Survivors: Darfur, Politics & the War on
Terror (HSRC Press) talks about Darfur: the problem and the way out of it.
11:00 G3 - MML Early Reading for Babies and Toddlers. Join a prominent educationist on this exploration of
how books can entertain and educate, making story-time very special for the family.
11:00 F7 - Via Afrika Socrates & the Fox. Clem Sunter talks about a new methodology for scenario planning.
12:00 G3 - MML Longman South African Schools’ e-Dictionary. Find out why this is the best dictionary for
South African schools!
12:00-12:45 Rm 1.41 A workshop on indexing by John Linnegar.
TIME VENUE EVENT DESCRIPTION
12:00-12:45 Rm 1.42 We will never be a better nation until our African learners can master their first language
literacy levels. A discussion with Nompucuko Pam Ncapai & Nodumo Euginia Mabece.
12:00-12:45 Rm 1.43 - 1.44 Adele Parks, bestselling author of 8 novels, reads an extract from her new book Love Lies
and chats about her writing life.
12:00-13:30 K1 - Penguin John van de Ruit signs books at the Penguin stand.
12:30-13:00 H2 - Paarl Media Press and Printing demonstration.
13:00 G3 - MML Early Reading for Babies and Toddlers. Join a prominent educationist on this exploration of
how books can entertain and educate, making story-time very special for the family.
13:00-13:45 Rm 1.41 Falling Off The Edge. Join Alex Perry, TIME’s Africa Bureau Chief, who will take you on an
exhilarating journey to some of the planet’s remotest and most dangerous places to explore
the sharp end of globalisation.
13:00-13:45 Rm 1.42 Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe discuss their latest books Johannesburg: The Elusive
Metropolis and Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid.
13:00-13:45 Rm 1.43 - 1.44 Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw talks about his first novel Little Ice Cream Boy,
a chilling crime story based on real events.
13:00-13:45 F6 - Dalro Forum SA Partridge will talk about her new novel Fuse.
13:30 F4 - Shuter & Shooter Let there be Peace. These beautifully illustrated prayers bring together the world’s major
religions in one united plea for understanding. With Jeremy Brooks, illustrated by Jude Daly.
13:30-14:00 M8 - International Short introduction and presentation of the offers of translation grants by Helene Schär
Translation Grants (Swissbooks) and Sabine Erlenwein (Goethe Institute).
13:45-14:30 K1 - Penguin Adele Parks signs books at the Penguin stand.
14:00 E7 - Wits University Meet Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe, editors of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis
Press
14:00-14:30 H2 - Paarl Media Press and Printing demonstration.
14:00-14:45 Rm 1.41 Panel discussion: Copy editors do make a difference to published non-fiction Where do the
author’s and the editor’s roles and responsibilities begin and end?
14:00-14:45 Rm 1.42 One Mom, Two Kids and Three Years of a Back Page Column - meet Giselle Willcox, award-
winning writer of the Living & Loving back page column and, now author of Three.
14:00-14:45 F6 - Dalro Forum Louise Grantham (Publisher at Penguin Books) chats to Fiona Coyne (author of Who Moved
My Ladder?)and Kiki Theo (author of Money Alchemy) about making money and moving
through the proverbial ‘glass ceiling’.
14:00 G3 - MML Interactive materials for whiteboards. Parents, teachers and learners from grades 4 to
12 are invited to a presentation on a range of interactive materials available for language,
reading, mathematics and science.
14:45-15:30 K1 - Penguin Jacques Pauw signs books at the Penguin stand.
15:00 G3 - MML The Longman Exams Dictionary. Find out how this dictionary can improve your exam results.
15:00-15:45 F6 - Dalro Forum Hip Hop artists Jitsvinger, Teba, Crosby and Godessa perform poetry and songs from their
newly released 2nd album, Rogue State of Mind, Part II.

DISCLAIMER : Unless stated otherwise, all events are open to the public. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure accuracy,
the programme remains subject to change