Awethu.... Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:53:32 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Boekehuis Closing Down Sale
Maatla! Sent by AlexM -----Original Message----- From: Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:04:35 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Boekehuis Closing Down Sale _*Boekehuis Bookshop*_ is closing forever on Saturday 28 January 2012. Boekehuis Bookshop was more than a business venture. It was a project "arguing for the continuation of public culture and public intellectual life". Corina van der Spoel now says, below, while announcing the closure, that "The life of ideas and letters continues regardless". As true as this no doubt is, yet one wants to ask, in that case, why did this bookshop have to close? Its closure means one less institutional participant in the "life of ideas and letters" and in "public culture". Two of the possible answers are: * Books are not the main medium that people are using any more. /and/or:/ * Boekehuis was not oriented towards the actual "public intellectual life" of the country, which is not your Mark Gevissers and your Anton Harbers any more, or your Black Consciousness crowd or PAC, or Adam Habib, but is young, gifted, black, and *_communist_*. Asikhulume! *VC* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Boekehuis* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Date: 2012/1/1 Subject: BOEKEHUIS is wishing you the very best for 2012 and announcing its Closing Down Sale To: * BOEKEHUIS BOOKSHOP* *Bookshop for South African and World Literature* *2000-2012* Dear Friends of BOEKEHUIS BOEKEHUIS wishes you health, happiness and lots of reading time for 2012! It is with sadness that I have to announce that BOEKEHUIS Bookshop will be finally closing its doors on Saturday 28 January 2012. It has been decided by its owner, Media24 that the shop will close down. We have received so many encouraging messages and phone calls supporting and expressing appreciation for the project that was BOEKEHUIS, too many to thank each individually. Thank you for demonstrating your solidarity with everything BOEKEHUIS stands for so eloquently. It has been very heartening, both personally and, more importantly, in terms of arguing for the continuation of public culture and public intellectual life.Do know your voice has not been a solitary one but that the friends of BOEKEHUIS form a network from Joburg to Cape Town, Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam and further afield. It has been wonderful to be part of this bookshop project. The life of ideas and letters continues regardless. May your reading journey be interesting and inspiring! With very best wishes and thanks, *Corina van der Spoel & the BOEKEHUIS team: Leandri, Bettie, and Eunice* *OPENING HOURS*: BOEKEHUIS re-opens on 4 January, keeping our normal hours; Monday to Saturday 9am to 6pm. BOEKEHUIS Closing down Book Sale starts Tuesday 17 January 2012 All stock will be marked down 50%-60% and will be marked down even more after a week. Come pick your long-coveted books from the best selection in town! This sale must end 28 January 2012!! *BOEKEHUIS Bookshop, * *Cnr. Lothbury Street and Fawley Avenue, Auckland Park* *011 482 3609* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
