general books CD-Rom

SONGS WORTH SINGING, WORDS WORTH SAYING, reconciling through music & poetry
ESongbook, CD, DVD, , 2007. R235
The Songs Worth Singing, Words Worth Saying Project in Cape Town sees music and poetry as a powerful way for children from different communities to learn about each others lives and cultures. Through a series of summer music and poetry workshops, panel discussions and seminars young people in Cape Town were exposed to the different musical and poetry traditions of the various cultural groups in the Western Cape.
This educational resource, consisting of DVD, CD and E-Songbook, includes the performances of seven musical groups and ten young poets from communities such as Kensington, Nyanga, Khayelitsha. Elsies River, Nomzamo and Lwandle informal settlements. Macassar, Imazamo Yethu and Hout Bay, Athlone and Pinelands at the Reconciliation Presentation 2007.
Hugo (M.L.) ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, an ecological guide to sustainable living in southern Africa
24 minutes, CD-Rom, Pretoria, 2004. R230
Integrates basic ecology with local management issues.

Prof. Leon Hugo teaches in the Dept. of Geography, Geo-informatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria.
Shell (R.) comp. FROM DIASPORA TO DIORAMA, the old slave lodge in Cape Town
CD-Rom + 29 pp. introductory booklet, Cape Town, . R165
A CD-Rom that contains over 1,000 pages of interpretations, newly unearthed eyewitness accounts, three newly commissioned aquarelles by John English, sketches and photographs by model builder Peter Laponder and an appendix of 6,000 entries: slaves, political exiles, slave voyages to the lodge, slave cargo lists, lodge censuses, slave lodge deaths and lodge manumissions.

Contributors include Gabeba Abrahams-Willis, Margaret Cairns, Gerald Groenewald, Margaret Lenta, Jackie Loos, Robert Ross, Christopher Saunders, Robert Shell, Mansell Upham & Nigel Worden.
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