Literary Entrepreneur Daisy White provides a marketing platform for independent publishers and self-published authors to showcase their work on the High Street. The Bookshop 'pops up' in empty shops/community spaces and includes a rapidly expanding Booktique section, and a Gallery for emerging artists and illustrators.

Authors and artists can interact with their readers/customers, book signings and launches, and generally enjoy a host of creative chat and advice. The internet provides a vast opportunity for 'indie' authors, but the Bookshop takes their creativity down to a human level, and provides the kind of exposure needed to 'stand out from the crowd'. Readers today are knowledgable and discerning, and this venture enables them to chat to authors before they buy, discovering the personality behind the book.

Daisy White's Pop-Up Indie Bookshop is currently appearing in the PopUp Britain retail showcase in Ashford, Kent, before moving to Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre, Guildford, Surrey for six weeks.

One of the oldest Mercedes-Benz in the world, a 1905 Simplex 28/32 HPs Phaeton, is to be auctioned by Coys at their True Greats sale on December 3rd. This Mercedes is one of the oldest surviving examples of the marquee in the world today that is still complete and roadworthy, and was for many years [...]Oldest Mercedes-Benz To Be Sold is a post from: Auto n Spire



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The Department of Environmental Affairs has welcomed the sentencing of two rhino poachers in KwaZulu-Natal.

The Vryheid Magistrate’s Court this week sentenced Philani Khanyile and Nhlathu Siyaya to 10 years in prison for poaching black rhino after they were arrested at a roadblock in 2010 for being in possession of rhino horns.

In a statement, the department also commended the arrest of 13 rhino poaching suspects across the country over the past two weeks.

“This brings to 285 the number of alleged rhino poachers arrested since January this year. A total of 267 alleged poachers were arrested in 2012.

“It is due to the combined efforts of SA National Parks rangers, the SA National Defence Force and the police that the battle against rhino poachers, particularly in the Kruger National Park, will be won.

“Were it not for these men and women working at the coalface of rhino poaching in South Africa, many more of these iconic animals will have been poached this year,” the department said.

The department urged members of the public to report any suspicious poaching activities to the police. – SAnews.gov.za

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Nigel - South Africa has donated tons of maize to Lesotho to help victims of hunger in that country.

In July 2012, Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane declared an emergency food crisis and formally requested support from development partners and the international community.

Following a meeting with President Jacob Zuma in October 2012, the South African government, through the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, responded to the appeal with a donation of R180 million.

South Africa had struck a deal with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to buy maize from the country's smallholder farmers as part of the R180-million donation to Lesotho.

On Friday, maize from the Zivuseni agricultural co-operative and the Ziyibane farming project -- milled at the Pride Milling plant in Nigel, Gauteng -- was loaded into four trucks and is on its way to Maseru.

The maize includes 4 920 bags, each weighing 25 kilograms and is expected to arrive in Maseru later today.

Smallholder farmer from Zivuseni agricultural co-operative, Themba Congwane, said: “It is feels great to see our first batch of maize as smallholder farmers in Gauteng being transported to help our Lesotho neighbours.

“To us, it means that the job that we are doing of fighting hunger is recognised and appreciated. This gives us [encouragement] to keep working very hard in order to produce more food for our people in the Southern Africa region.”

The cooperative was in the process of trying to get more land and wanted to buy land through the Land Bank.

“We are hopeful that by the end of next year, we will get about 200 hectares of land.”

Congwane said the plan was to plant 300 to 400 hectares of maize next year.

Zivuseni comprises four women and two men and has created four permanent jobs for the unemployed locals, with an additional 15 to 20 temporary jobs for seasonal workers during harvest.

More maize to be donated

Today’s consignment is the first of many that are planned for Lesotho. Several donations will be made in January next year with maize from smallholder farmers from the Eastern Cape, the North West and Limpopo.

The WFP, which is an internationally recognised agency of the United Nations, will distribute the maize meal to the school meals programme as well as health and nutrition activities in Lesotho.

WFP Deputy Regional Director Brenda Barton said 15% of the rural population in Lesotho could experience food shortage between October this year and February 2014.

“With the contribution made by the South African government, WFP will be assisting 226 000 children, pregnant and nursing women in Lesotho, who are malnourished.

“This support is essential to break the cycle of poverty, which is driven by malnourishment and food insecurity,” she said.

WFP Senior Programme Assistant in Lesotho, Kekeletso Mabaleng, said the humanitarian aid has been received with excitement by the beneficiaries.

“When we inform those Basotho communities currently experiencing the food crisis that their neighbour South Africa will be helping them with maize, they were so excited.

“As from next week, we will be distributing the maize consignment to the mountainous and foothills districts of Mokhotlong, Thaba-Tseka, Qacha’s Nek and Berea,” Mabaleng said. – SAnews.gov.za

All learners will have textbooks by the start of 2014, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Friday. “We are confident that at the start of the school year, all learners will have a textbook in their hands,” said the minister, who was briefing reporters on developments at the department. The Department of Education (DBE) [...]Pupils to have textbooks is a post from: All4Data



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