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Author Profile: Andy Mason

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History . Andy Mason is head of CCIBA’s Comic Art Unit. He also works as a freelance writer, cartoonist and editor. Published under the pen names N.D. Mazin and Pooh, his underground comix, some of which go all the way back to the 1970s, include Cogent & Crint, Vittoke in Azania, The Big Chillum, The […]

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Author Profile: Angela Shaw

Angela Shaw

History . Photographer Angela Shaw started her career in Hong Kong, following which she spent two years documenting the rich Buddhist traditions of Burma. Now living in South Africa, Angela works for an international trend and research company, and has had many of her photographs featured in the country’s major newspapers and magazines. . . […]

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Author Profile: Annie Bell

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History . Annie Bell trained as a chef and spent several years as cookery writer for Vogue, then as food writer on The Independent. She has been the principal cookery writer on the Mail on Sunday YOU magazine for many years, and she was winner of the Guild of Food Writers’ Journalist of the Year […]

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Author Profile: Martinique Stilwell

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History . Martinique Stilwell was born in Johannesburg in 1967. From the age of 9 until she turned 16 she sailed around the world with her family. She studied at Wits University in Johannesburg and has practiced medicine in South Africa & Canada. Stilwell currently resides in Cape Town where she works as an aneasthetist.[1] […]

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Author Profile: Anton Kannemeyer

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History . Anton Kannemeyer, AKA Joe Dog, has been publishing and exhibiting his work since 1992, the year he and Conrad Botes founded Bitterkomix as students at the University of Stellenbosch. Based in Cape Town, Kannemeyer exhibits regularly in South Africa, Europe and the United States. Previous books include Pappa in Afrika (2010) and The Big […]

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Author Profile: Anton Walker

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History . As a school boy Anton Walker traveled with his father to India and Nepal in 1984 to view the tigers and one-horned Indian rhinos in the wild. Walker largely grew up at Lapalala Wilderness where his parents assisted the late Dale Parker in the establishment of the reserve which has become an important […]

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Author Profile: Antony Frost

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History . Antony Frost’s contribution to HR management has earned him the highest respect in this field. Frost is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management, for which he also served as president for two years, and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Forum of SHRM. He served five […]

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Author Profile: Anton Osler

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Antony Osler . Antony Osler began practising and studying Tibetan Buddhism under Lama Chime Rinpoche in England in the early 1970’s. After a time in the Insight Meditation tradition with, among others, Joseph Goldstein, he ordained as a Zen monk under Joshu Sasaki Roshi in the USA and later also studied under Korean Zen Masters […]

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Author Profile: Arja Salafranca

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History . Arja Salafranca was born in Spain to a Spanish father and a South African mother. Salafranca has lived in South Africa since the age of five. In 1993 she earned a degree in African Literature and Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her fiction and poetry has been published in a number […]

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Author Profile: Ashraf Kagee

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History . Professor Ashraf Kagee is a lecturer at Stellenbosch University. He received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Ball State University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and a Master’s degree in Public Health at the University of Cape Town. [1] . […]

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