Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa

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Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa
EditorsVolumes 1–7
Dirk J. Potgieter
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LC Class
DT729 .S7

The Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa (SESA) is a 12-volume

Republic of South Africa and nearby countries. About 1400 people contributed to the encyclopaedia.[1]
The first two volumes were published in August 1970; the 12th and final volume was published in September 1976.

Scope

Originally, SESA was to be written in

African countries in the Southern Hemisphere.[1]
(Eventually, the Afrikaans edition was abandoned.)

Central Africa
  Eastern Africa
  Southern Africa

Although South Africa remains the central focus, the scope of the encyclopaedia extends through the

South-West Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia, into the Central and East African countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire.[1]

Owing to an editorial decision, all of the biographies in the encyclopaedia are about people who were deceased at the time of writing.[3]

Editing and publication

SESA was published by the

trading name, Nasou. Nasou (est. 1963)[4] was an educational publishing subsidiary of media conglomerate Naspers
.

The editor-in-chief of the first seven volumes of the encyclopaedia was Dirk Jacobus Potgieter, who had previously co-edited the fifth edition of Afrikaans for English-speaking Students (1949)

entomologist Sydney Skaife.[7] Nasou published the seventh volume of the encyclopaedia in 1972, and du Plessis and J. J. Spies assumed general editorship for the remaining five volumes.[8][9]

Some years after the publication of the final volume, Nasou was acquired by a holding company, and was merged with South African publisher Via Afrika (est. 1949).[4] The new company, Nasou Via Afrika, is a publisher for the education market.[4]

Publication history

  • Volume 1: Aan-Bac (1970)[10]
  • Volume 2: Bac-Cal (1970)[11]
  • Volume 3: Cal-Dev (1971)[12]
  • Volume 4: Dev-For (1971)[13]
  • Volume 5: For-Hun (1972)[14]
  • Volume 6: Hun-Lit (1972)[15]
  • Volume 7: Lit-Mus (1972)[16]
  • Volume 8: Mus-Pop (1973)[17]
  • Volume 9: Pop-Sla (1973)[18]
  • Volume 10: Sle-Tun (1974)[19]
  • Volume 11: Tur-Zwe (1975)[20]
  • Volume 12: Supplement and Index (1976)[21]

Related publications

In addition to Animal Life in Southern Africa (1971), Nasou published another book that made use of the encyclopaedia research: English and South Africa, edited by Alan Lennox-Short (a senior lecturer at the

White South African writers. The eighth chapter, "Coloured and African Writing in English", was for non-Whites.[23]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Major S. African Publishing Project Completed". The Argus. Cape Town. 29 September 1976. Retrieved 13 March 2016 – via Artefacts.co.za.
  2. ^ a b "A Great Achievement". Cape Times. Cape Town. 9 October 1976. Retrieved 13 March 2016 – via Artefacts.co.za.
  3. ^ "Lexicon: Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa". Artefacts.co.za. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "About Us". Via Afrika. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  5. ^ Afrikaans for English-Speaking Students in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  6. ^ Foreign Language—English Dictionaries, Volume II: General Language Dictionaries. Library of Congress. 1955. p. 9 – via Google Books.
  7. OCLC 226521
    .
  8. ^ "Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  9. OCLC 938668701
    . Retrieved 26 March 2017 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 2: Aan-Bac in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  11. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 2: Bac-Cal in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  12. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 3: Cal-Dev in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  13. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 4: Dev-For in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  14. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 5: For-Hun in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  15. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 6: Hun-Lit in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  16. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 7: Lit-Mus in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  17. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 8: Mus-Pop in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  18. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 9: Pop-Sla in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  19. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 10: Sle-Tun in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  20. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 11: Tur-Zwe in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  21. ^ Standard Encyclopædia of Southern Africa, Volume 12: Supplement and Index in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  22. OCLC 462708383
    – via Google Books.
  23. ^ a b "English and South Africa". UCT Studies in English (4). University of Cape Town: 65. 1973 – via Google Books.
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