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SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns | Die Taalkommissie (Afrikaans for The Language Commission) is an arm of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South-African Academy for Science and Arts) that serves as the technical committee of the Nasionale Taalliggaam vir Afrikaans (NTLA, National Lang ... |
Globe Publishing | Globe Publishing is a children's book publisher situated in Denmark. The core focus of their books is skills that facilitate optimal learning for children. |
KykNET | KykNET is a South African television channel, which broadcasts in Afrikaans. |
Portchie | Portchie, born Jan Hendrik Viljoen in 1963, is a renowned South African artist. In 1991 he began painting as a hobby, but after selling 100 paintings in one night at a large art exhibition in 1994 he started his full-time art career. Since then he has held 57 solo exhibitions, locally and inte ... |
Best Books-paneel | Best Books is the educational division of NB Publishers and was established in 1996. The imprint specialises in, and is renowned for the development of integrated language texts and language series and has recently begun publishing Afrikaans and English literature with accompanying t ... |
Nataniël | Nataniël was born in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. He studied music at the University of Stellenbosch and first became popular as a cabaret and stage artist, but since the 1990’s has also built a reputation as a writer, columnist and celebrity chef. His most recent book, 150 Stor ... |
Cheeky Monkey | Cheeky Monkey Publishing Limited are a London-based children's publishing company. |
Make Believe Ideas | Make Believe Ideas has been publishing children's books for over 15 years in various languages and countries. |
Pharos | Pharos Dictionaries is the only South African publisher exclusively dedicated to South African dictionaries and language guides. Assisted by cutting-edge computer technology and expert co-workers, Pharos’s team of in-house lexicographers keep revising its printed dictionaries as well as onl ... |
Really Decent Books | Really Decent Books Limited are a UK-based children's publishing company. |
Weg!/Go! Platteland | Weg!/Go! Platteland is a very popular magazine that focuses on people who try to live a slower and more meaningful life and are mostly found in the countryside. This magazine contains travel tours/routes, original photographs, columns from Weg!/Go! specialist journa ... |
Juffrou Marelize Swanepoel | Juffrou Marelize Swanepoel (1985) matriculates at Hoërskool Elsburg and completes her BA Language Practitioner (2006) and BA (Hon.) in Afrikaans (2017) at the University of Johannesburg. She is an enthuastic and ingenious teacher and spends her time making resources available to teachers, whic ... |
Ballon Media | Ballon Media is a children's books publisher located in Anvers, Belgium. |
i am a bookworm | I am a bookworm is a UK based packager and publisher of children’s novelty books, board books, picture books and bath books. |
Cuberdon | Cuberdon is a book packager situated in Belgium specializing in children's books. |
Kuier-tydskrif | Kuier is a bi-weekly magazine aimed at Afrikaans-speaking women and strives to give them practical, realistic advice about everyday things such as finance, careers, relationships, parenting and health. Some Kuier articles and rubrics published in the Best Books Eksa ... |
Kuier-tydskrif | Kuier is a bi-weekly magazine aimed at Afrikaans-speaking women and strives to give them practical, realistic advice about everyday things such as finance, careers, relationships, parenting and health. Some Kuier articles and rubrics published in the Best Books Eksa ... |
Macmillan Children’s Books | Macmillan Children’s Books are a UK-based children's publishing company. |
SARIE-tydskrif | SARIE is the glossy magazine of choice for the Afrikaans-speaking woman with a modern view of the world. Some SARIE articles and advertisements (which includes third-party advertisers) appear in the Best Books Eksamenhulp Afrikaans Workbook Series, which provides learners with theor ... |
SARIE-tydskrif | SARIE is the glossy magazine of choice for the Afrikaans-speaking woman with a modern view of the world. Some SARIE articles and advertisements (which includes third-party advertisers) appear in the Best Books Eksamenhulp Afrikaans Workbook Series, which provides learners with theor ... |
Authors
Bronwyn Davids
Bronwyn Karen Davids was born at 10 Heatherley Road, Lansdowne and lived there until the age of fifteen. She attended St Ignatius Primary School and Livingstone High School in Claremont. In 1976 she moved with her parents to Woodlands, Mitchells Plain at the inception of the new “city for coloureds”.
After years of drifting between several courses of study and jobs, she studied for a National Diploma in Journalism at Peninsula Technikon and graduated in 1989. During the dying days of apartheid, from 1988 to 1992, she was a reporter at The Argus and Cape Times.
Highlights from her career included assignments with four Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Mother Teresa of Calcutta during her visit to Cape Town, a road trip to the Boland with Nelson Mandela just after his release from prison, and attending press conferences with former President FW De Klerk at Tuynhuys and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu at St Georges Cathedral.
After leaving newspapers she travelled extensively to twenty countries on six continents. She then spent years painting and working at a series of jobs outside of journalism. In 2016, she returned to work at Newspaper House as a general news journalist at the Cape Times, Cape Argus and Weekend Argus, until January 2018. She freelances at present.