Cape Town Book Fair offers international networking

This will give trade visitors an opportunity to share ideas and trade well into the night with representatives from India, Bangladesh, the US, Nigeria, Turkey, Ghana, China, the UK, Uganda, Pakistan and the Netherlands.

It caters for all bibliophiles, trade visitors and publishers, with over 200 events, including meet the author sessions, panel discussions, literary forums, book launches and symposiums.

One of Africa's most prolific writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, will be participating in the opening session and visitors can look forward to a book reading and signing session as well. He is a prominent novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature, most well-known for Decolonising the Mind.

Panel discussions on ANC policies

The Van Riebeeck Society will be launching AB Xuma Autobiography and Selected Works, a compilation of former-ANC leader, Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma's correspondence and prose, edited by Peter Limb.

Two books on Jacob Zuma will be launched during the Fair as well. There will also be panel discussions on ANC policies - with Susan Booysen, Glenda Daniels and Anthony Butler, who will be leading some of these debates.

Established academic and educational publishers and exhibitors will be returning this year. Wits University Press, Juta & Co, Unisa Press, UCT Press will be launching and selling books as well as hosting some of the debates.

Copyright symposium

The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors' Association of South Africa (ANFASA), together with the Publishers' Association of South Africa (PASA), host the copyright symposium. This year it will focus on what makes a fair and reasonable publishing contract. ANFASA and PASA have been working on a blueprint document on this subject, which they plan to launch at the Fair.

Download the full programme from www.capetownbookfair.com.