News & Events

Twenty-five special items from the ASCL Library collection were on display during the ASCL's 75th anniversary celebration on 8 September. They gave an impression of the richness of the collection over the past 75 years. 

This book is based on Tamia Botes's Master's thesis 'Where Have the Midwives Gone? Everyday Histories of Voetvroue in Johannesburg', for which she received the 2021 Africa Thesis Award. The 'voetvrou' is a black autonomous midwife who looks after the health of and nurtures new life in her community in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg.

Master and Research Master students of African Studies, as well as students of the LDE minors African Dynamics and Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development for the new academic year have started. In the first week of September they got familiar with the programmes and attended their first lectures.

On 17 September 1979, South African-Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator Neill Blomkamp was born in Johannesburg. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. Read the Library Weekly!