Peter Merrington Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I have a ceramic studio where I specialise at present in ceramic sundials.These are calibrated to work in the greater Cape Town area, but I can set up dials for any locality on request.The dial plates and gnomons are slip cast stoneware and they stand on an obelisk-shaped pedestal made in slabbed white stoneware. Clients can specify their own mottos and.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Sunbird Solar has designed a tough, flexible, practical solar light and power kit, for off-grid domestic use or safari, holiday cottages, field workers. Static or portable use. LED lights plus cell phone charging. 24V model for charging laptops. Preferred MOQ of 100. Capacity to produce 1000 pm. Contact me info@sunbirdsolar.com for pdf brochure, price.

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Viral Flame is a broad project that I am starting. It is based on a series of e-books that I shall post on the net later this year (2013) but it is a lot more than writing.It is a project, maybe a campaign, for renewal and revision in the faith-based imagination, the idiom of Christian Protestant faith in the 21st century.My sense of things is broadly.

Cape Town

I published my first book of fiction, an episodic novel called 'Zebra Crossings, Tales from the Shaman's Record', with Jacana Media in 2008. In 2009 I received a writing fellowship from the University of Cape Town that enabled me to complete the first sequel. 'The Zombie and the Moon: more tales from the shaman's record' was published in July 2011. I am.

Cape Town, South Africa

My new novel, _The Zombie and the Moon: more tales from the Shaman's record_, is now published (July 2011) with Jacana Media (Cape Town and Johannesburg). It is the first sequel to my first book, _Zebra Crossings, tales from the shaman's record_, published by Jacana in 2008. The launch is at Kalk Bay Books, Kalk Bay (Cape Peninsula) on Friday 5 August.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

World Africa Writers is an online network and platform for all aspects of the culture of letters across the continent of Africa and the global African diaspora. It is not ethnic-based but premised on a wide global set of experience, history and heritage, talent and imagination, emerging out of and speaking towards a different global sphere than the.

Honorary position in the Faculty of Arts, UWC. I teach there on contract as and when required, and I receive research support from the faculty.

I teach courses in the English Department at UCT as and when required, on a contract basis.

I have served on three occasions as co-facilitator at the annual two-week writers' workshops of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Authors who win, or are shortlisted, for the Caine Prize, are invited to the annual workshop where they are enabled for two weeks, to develop new work with facilitators.

The Heritage Council of the Western Cape is a statutory body within the Western Cape Provincial Government, established in terms of the South African Heritage Resources Act of 1999. I served as a Council member and member of the Appeals Committee as well as the Archaeology, Palaeontology and Meteorites Committee.

I tutored and gave lectures to first-year students, and worked on the concept for my MA thesis.

I had a Rockefeller fellowship at the Center for the Study of Public Culture. I was tracking archival material relating to Jan Juta, South African artist and writer, who settled in New Jersey in the 1920s. I bought an old Honda CB550 and travelled 18 states, 10 000 miles, and worked at the New York Public Library, Princeton Library, and the Harry Ransome.

I was working on my doctoral thesis on SA Union, 1910, heritage, public culture, and memory.

Archival research in Cairo concerning newspapers, ephemera, issues relating to the Cape and South Africa, circa 1890-1920.

Ma, Phd, Literary History

Ba; Hons; Phd, English Literature And Literary History

My MA thesis was on Thomas Hardy's poetry, and my doctoral thesis was about the 'inventing of heritage' for the Union of South Africa in.

Matriculation Certificate