Luncheon – Thursday 3 March 2016
Guest Speaker - Steven Robins
12 noon for 12h30
Catharina’s at Steenberg
Launching
‘This is a most exceptional and unforgettable book’ – Antjie Krog
Steven Robins is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. He has written on a wide range of topics, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the politics of land and identity, and social movements and popular politics in South Africa. Apart from his academic writings, Steven also is a regular newspaper op-ed contributor on issues of public concern.
As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room. Steven became obsessed with finding out what happened to the women but had little to go on.
Letters of Stone tracks Steven’s journey of discovery about the lives and fates of the Robinski family, in southern Africa, Berlin, Riga and Auschwitz. It also explores the worldwide rise of eugenics and racial science before the war, which justified the murder of Jews by the Nazis and caused South Africa and other countries to close their doors to Jewish refugees
Lunch is at Catharina’s at Steenberg which serves up contemporary comfort food, presented beautifully by Executive Chef Garth Almazan. He will be creating 2 courses especially for this lunch which will be accompanied by the elegant Klein Steenberg Sauvignon Blanc and the flavourful and full bodied Klein Steenberg Cabernet Sauvignon.
Price per person is R325 per person inclusive.
To book please email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone 021 685 8016 seating is limited so first come first served.
Letters of Stone
Published by Penguin Random House South Africa 