THE 2008 ANFASA GRANT SCHEME FOR AUTHORS' WINNERS ARE:

Professor Keyan Tomaselli chairs the programme in Culture, Communication and Media Studies (CCMS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He is the author of numerous books and articles on South African media, semiotics and African cinema, editor-in-chief of 'Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies', and series editor of 'Critical studies in African Media and Culture', published by International Academic Publishers, Colorado Springs. His project, Cultural Tourism and the Indigene offers some CCMS graduate students the opportunity to appear in print in a blind peer-reviewed edited anthology on a single theme. The chapters will be drawn from their respective dissertations, enabling them to develop their own writing and publishing skills under Prof Tomaselli’s supervision.

Professor Marie Huchzermeyer is associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research over the past decade has focussed on housing policy, with an emphasis on informal settlements. Her project is provisionally entitled ‘Cities with slums: the struggle against informal settlement eradication’ and provokes a critique of the global campaign ‘Cities Without Slums’ of the World Bank and the United Nations, which has unwittingly legitimised large-scale evictions from informal settlements in many African cities. As the 2010 World Cup nears, and the South African target to eradicate informal settlements by 2014, the book is an urgent call for a change in course. It engages with informal settlement struggles and locates them in larger global dynamics.

David Neves has completed research projects for a number of bodies including the National Research Foundation, provincial and local governments and the Water Research Commission. He is a researcher in the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He is working on a book that examines poverty and vulnerability in South Africa, drawing on a detailed research report and qualitative fieldwork examining the lives and survival strategies of impoverished South Africans. An accessible discussion of poverty and marginality is grounded within a number ofdetailed life history narratives collectedfrom post-apartheid ‘migrant networks’ of urban Cape Town and the rural Eastern Cape.

Professor Nogwaja Zulu lectures in African languages at Stellenbosch University. He is currently undertaking research in cultural translation and has published articles on narratology, persuasion, and racial healing and reconciliation. The grant is for a standard monolingual dictionary of SeSotho. Professor Zulu started work on the dictionary in the second half of 2007, and aims to finish by 2010.

Zimitri Erasmus is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include understanding and disrupting ‘race’ and racism(s), building anti-racist praxis, creolisation and the idea of ‘mixed race’, and qualitative methods. She has published on the place of ‘race’ in post-apartheid South Africa and is editor of Coloured by History, Shaped by Place: Re-imagining Coloured Identities in Cape Town published by Kwela Books in 2001. Her project is a journal article on a comparative analysis of South Africa’s Immorality Act and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and Miscegenation Laws in North America. This will be from a sociological point of view, drawing on archival research to answer three questions: what can we learn from USA knowledge on the administration of ‘interracial sex’ and marriage that is of relevance to such administration in colonial and apartheid South Africa; how was knowledge of the crime of interracial intercourse produced; and why did interracial marriage require administration.

Helen Douglas and her husband were recruited in 1987 by Mac Maharaj to leave their home in Vancouver and move to Johannesburg to run a safe house as part of Operation Vula, the secret underground network that infiltrated top ANC leaders back into the country to open reliable communications between the leadership in Lusaka and London, on Robben Island, and in the internal military structures and the mass movements. They did this for three years until Vula was uncovered in 1990 and they had to flee back to Canada. Helen is writing about these experiences and going beyond them to explore various aspects of life underground — double consciousness, internationalism and foreignness,comradeship, secrecy, romance and revolution.

Joline Young is a part-time researcher at the Heritage Museum in Simonstown and is writing a book on the forgotten people of Simonstown that will be a historical monograph looking at the people of colour who formed a vibrant community in Simonstown, starting from the first runaway slaves in the 1800s to the last person of colour to be forcibly removed from Simonstown in 1975.

Jan Theron is an attorney in his own practice and coordinator and senior researcher at the Labour and Enterprise Policy and Regulation Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. He is a part-time senior commissioner at the CCMA and is on the Tokiso panel of arbitrators, mediators and facilitators. Jan was general secretary of the Food and Canning Workers Union for ten years and of the Food and Allied Workers Union for three years. His project is a history of unions in South Africa, both a personal account of his involvement in the unions and a historical account of the unions themselves, representing a critique of the development of the trade union movement as a whole which will be related to the state of the movement today and specifically its inability to address inequalities in the contemporary workplace.

Helen Moffett is a Research Fellow at the African Gender Institute of the University of Cape Town. She has also worked in publishing, and was Oxford University Press’s academic editor for four years. She also works as a freelance academic, writer, editor and trainer. Her project is a monograph consolidating essays that she has published on the extraordinary spike in sexual violence against women, men and children in post-apartheid South Africa. It will look at the correlation between the violently enforced and vertically structured hierarchies of apartheid and South Africa’s new pandemic of rape and child abuse. It will examine the impact of apartheid on gendered spaces of all races – the spill-over into intimate and domestic spaces, which have become the new battleground.

Moky Makura is a Nigerian-born South African actress and presenter best known for her work on the news and actuality show Carte Blanche. With an honours degree in politics, economics and law from Buckingham University, she worked in the UK for Redwood Publishing, Paragon Communications, Hill & Knowlton, PGC Promotions and Lynne Franks PR and is currently starring in the M-Net drama series Jacob's Cross. Her book on Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs was published by Penguin. It looks at entrepreneurs in several African countries and asks how they started their businesses and what their defining moments, challenges and achievements were. Moky is re-working this book to include more individuals in several other countries.

Nicholas Ashby studied drama at the University of Cape Town and, skipping military conscription, he set forth on his travels immediately upon graduating – mostly in the Middle East, working for a time as an English teacher in Cairo. In 1988 he returned to South Africa to work as an actor, doing theatre, TV and film work. In 1998 he moved on to Russia, and later Taiwan, to work as a language trainer. His project is a book on the setting up of a radio station in Port St Johns in 1979. This was the first ‘independent’ multiracial broadcaster to attempt to break the monopoly of the SABC, taking advantage of the apartheid regime’s system of Bantustans. The book will be partly an inquiry into the nature and origins of the SABC’s projection of separate development through programming.