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From: keith meintjes <>
Subject: Re: [Re: New SA Biography, Volume 2]
Date: 26 May 00 06:56:10 MDT


The quoted size (210x145 mm) is the same as Vol. 1 of the new series. The
binding of Vol. 1 is what you would call a "trade paperback". I agree that it
would be nice if reference books like this were available with a better
binding. (Ditto for SA Genealogies V5.)

By the way, I am missing Vol. 3 of the original Dictionary of South African
Biography from my collection. (I have the other four volumes.) If anyone
knows where I might find Vol 3 ....??

Keith.

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A & M van Rensburg <> wrote:
Hi Keith,
Thank you for keeping us up to date with this new release. It is a pity
that Vol 1 of this News series was published in the "el cheapo" version,
I would imagine that this Vol 2 would be also also in the small paper
version. Well lets not judge a book by its cover, but it does suggest
that things have already changed.

As genealogists we are interested in the ordinary person not just the
extraordinary.
Cheers
Andr

> New dictionary of South African biography - Volume 2
> Editor.- Nelly E Sonderling
> Foreword by Kader Asmal
>
> Many South Africans who have contributed to South African history were
> overlooked in the earlier five-volume series entitled the Dictionary of
South
> African biography (DSAB). The compendium series, the New dictionary of
South
> African biography (NDSAB), of which the first volume was published in 1995,
> aims to right this wrong and to restore dignity to persons belonging to
> communities that were deliberately ignored. But the NDSAB wants to achieve
> more than that. By reflecting on the lives of noteworthy persons, it
> endeavours to show how such persons contributed to the change that has
taken
> place in South Africa. Conversely, it shows how the situation in the
country
> before 1994 impacted on individuals, shaping their dreams and aspirations,
> their outlook and their approach to life; frequently producing men and
women
> with exceptional qualities
>
> In his Foreword to Volume I of the NDSAB, former President Nelson Mandela
> wrote: 'A series such as this rescues unsung heroes from oblivion and
restores
> them as role models for our future endeavours'. Volume 2 of this
biographical
> directory continues the tradition of Volume I. Some of the personalities
> featured are unknown, but their lives were considered worth recording
because
> of their remarkable feats.
>
> Price: R105.26 (+VAT) = R120.00 296 pages (2lOxl45mm)
>
> 1999 HSRC Publishers ISBN 1-86828-133-7
>
> ==================
>


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