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Printskill Ltd. is an international publishing firm specialising in promotional books on countries in many languages. Printskill has published the WorldToday Series in Iceland, Greenland, The Faroe Islands, Shetland Islands and Slovenia.

The latest book in the series is on South Africa.

http://www.icelandtoday.net/?p=book_preview&book=sa

There is chapter in the book on South African cinema.

Authors:

Dr Felicia Mabuza-Suttle: host of ‘Conversations with Felicia' on the Africa Channel, which airs in the United States, United Kingdom and the Caribbean.

Ahmed Bawa is Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was previously Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Program Officer for Higher Education at the Ford Foundation.

The Chapter on Soccer is authored by Lucas Radebe, our renowned footballer and ambassador with a remarkable record of sporting achievements on the football pitch in Africa and Europe. He continues to make, a major contribution as a leader beyond the soccer field, with involvement in non-racial projects, community work and literacy programmes.

The author of the Music chapter is Eugene Mthethwa, a cultural revolutionary, artist, producer and record company executive. He has spearheaded the development of young entrepreneurs within the South African music industry and the emergence of proudly South African independent record companies post-1994.

Other authors include: Jabulani Sithole, a lecturer in history at the University of KwaZulu-Nata;

Bill Nasson, Professor of history at the University of Stellenbosch;

Peter Joyce, a Cambridge graduate and bestselling author of some 70 titles, most of them about South Africa, its people, its history and its wildlife heritage;

Dr Ian Player, educator, conservationist, pioneer canoeist and activist who has founded and influenced international conservation links and relationships throughout Africa, Europe and the United States of America;

Signe Rousseau, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town; South African painter Reshada Crouse who was commissioned to paint Nelson Mandela while he was still in prison;

Dr Martin P. Botha, Associate Professor in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has published five books on South African cinema as well as numerous articles, reports and papers on the South African media. He is currently working on a historical dictionary of South African cinema;

Wim Hollander Professor and Executive Director of Sport at the University of Johannesburg. He has obtained two doctorates: a D.Ed in the Science of Teaching as well as a D.Com in Sport Management. Since 1997 he has specialised in impact studies and has co-authored ten research reports;

Wendy Tlou, Global Manager: Communications at SA Tourism. Wendy joined SA Tourism in October 2003 as Marketing and Communications Manager in Frankfurt, Germany before being promoted in March 2006 to Marketing Communications Manager in London, SA Tourism's biggest overseas source market;

Vishnu Padayachee, Senior Professor and Head of the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research interests cover a variety of disciplinary fields, including macroeconomic policy; finance, banking and monetary policy; and the politics of race and sport. He is a former non-executive director of the South African Reserve Bank (1996-2007); Professor Renuka Vithal is Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She gained an Mphilin Mathematical Education from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and a Doctoral Degree of Natural Sciences from Aalborg University in Denmark. She is a professor in mathematics education and publishes widely in this area; Robert Fincham holds a Master's degree from Western Michigan University, a PhD from Rhodes University and is Professor Emeritus at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has held numerous fellowships at universities in the USA, Canada, UK and Europe and has developed a range of research programmes with counterparts in several African countries;

Brij Maharaj is Professor and discipline chair (geography) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (PMB). He has received widespread recognition for his research on urban politics, segregation, local economic development, migration and diasporas. He was elected President of the Society of South African Geographers for the period 2005-2007, and serves on the Public Policy (Vice-chair since 2004) and Human Mobility Commissions of the International Geography Union.