THE 2007 ANFASA GRANT SCHEME FOR AUTHORS’ WINNERS ARE:

Thozama Kwinana-Mandindi has a Master’s in Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences from Western Sydney University, Australia, and lectures at Walter Sisulu University of Technology. Her research interest is Food Safety and Public Health. She has been looking at the safety of indigenous food plants of the Amahlathi district of the Eastern Cape and has registered for a PhD in this field. She has completed research towards a book on the value of Xhosa traditional foods and has been dying to see it published.

Dr Hanri de la Harpe is a senior lecturer in Creativity Studies and Illustration at North West University. Her PhD thesis investigated cognitive and behavioural strategies that could be used to train and stimulate creativity in the context of graphic design education and to establish a course in creative thinking skills. Her proposed book, Creative Intelligence: the designer’s creativity handbook resulted from this doctoral study.

Philippa Greenwas educated at University of Cape Townand theGraduate School of Journalism, ColumbiaUniversity. She has been a journalist since 1982. In 2006, shewas appointed Visiting Professor of Journalism at PrincetonUniversity. She was the political editor at SABC Radio1994-1997. Her project is a biography on the Finance Minister, Trevor Manuel.

Beth Cooperwas a journalist for 12 years and now writes for local and international magazines and websites, and tutors hard news journalism for an online college. She is writing a book for the UK-based publishing house The Greatest in the World Ltd. Her first book in the company’s Greatest Tips series, on breastfeeding, will be launched in May 2008. She is also currently researching tips on personal image for another book in the series.

Professor Nogwaja Zulu lectures in African languages at Stellenbosch University. He is doing research in cultural translation and has published research articles on narratology, persuasion, and racial healing and reconciliation. The grant is for a standard monolingual dictionary of SeSotho. He started work on the dictionary in the second half of 2007, and aims to finish by 2009.

Professor Thelmah Malulekeis Head of the Department of Public Health at the University of Venda. Her research topics are youth health, women’s health, HIV/AIDS, sexuality and indigenous knowledge systems, about which she has written extensively. Her project comprises two books. Puberty rites for girls among Vatsonga/Manchanganaprovides accurate information for people interested in indigenous knowledge systems. Indigenous foods for health is a collection of healthy indigenous recipes of the Vatsonga/Manchangana of Limpopo Province. The nutritional value of the foods and recipes will promote healthy eating habits and improve the nutritional status of the communities. The aim of the book is to preserve indigenous recipes for the generations to come.

Professor H. P van Coller is Head of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State. He has published widely and was editor of a literary history in Afrikaans, Perspektief en profiel. 'n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis. He has been visiting professor at various universities including the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven in Belgium. He has been awarded the prestigious Gustav Preller Prize for his contribution to literary criticism in Afrikaans. The grant will be used in conducting research towards a new South African literary history.

Susan Harrop-Allin is a pianist and teacher-educator who has worked in music development and teaching for twenty years. She has recently completed a master’s degree in music education and ethnomusicology at Wits University, where she lectures in the music department. Her current research interest is the relationship between township children’s musical practices and arts and culture curriculum implementation. Her project focuses on the implications of children’s musical games for teaching music and will be an ethnographic study documenting children’s musical games in contemporary South Africa, describing and analysing them as multimodal cultural forms that children create; how the games function and are meaningful for children.

Professor Juan Bornman is at the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests are in speech therapy. Exploring ways in which verbal communication of people with very limited or no expressive speech can be facilitated and enhanced by means of augmentative communication strategies and issues related to educators' knowledge and skills in coping with interaction with children, as well as curriculum adaptation to facilitate inclusive schooling. She is co-author of an upcoming scholarly workbook which looks at inclusive education; a child’s participation patterns in terms of his personal abilities (skills) and health status, as well as the environmental and personal factors.

Lewis Nkosi worked for many years as a magazine editor and broadcast journalist. He is the author of several collections of essays, two plays, and the novels Mating Birds (1986) and Underground People (2002), originally published in Dutch in 1994. His latest book is Mandela's Ego. His career as Professor of Literature has included positions at Universities in Africa (Zambia), the USA (Wyoming, California), and Europe (Warsaw). Now resident in Switzerland, Lewis Nkosi frequently travels to literary seminars and conferences as an invited guest. He has revisited South Africa regularly since 1994. His current project is an autobiography, Memoirs of a motherless child. It is intended to be more than an autobiography; a contribution to South Africa’s intellectual and historical development during the apartheid years at home, life in exile and decolonization in the parts of Africa where he lived and taught. He hopes to finish writing by the end of 2008.