Saturday, June 30, 2012

AA Donald


AA Donald Biography

Full Name: Allan Anthony Donald

Date of Birth: Oct 20, 1966, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State

Major Team: South Africa, Free State, Orange Free State, Warwickshire, Worcestershire
Playing Roll: Bowler
Batting Style: Right
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast



International Debut: 1991
Batting and fielding records
M Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St  
Test 72 94 33 652 37 10.69 1856 35.13 - - 66 - 18 -
ODI 164 40 18 95 13 4.32 279 34.05 - - 2 - 28 -

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M Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Eco SR 4W 5W 10W  
Test 72 129 15519 7344 330 8/71 12/139 22.25 2.84 47.03 11 20 3
ODI 164 162 8561 5926 272 6/23 6/23 21.79 4.15 31.47 11 2 -

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Test Debut: West Indies v South Africa at Barbados, 18-23, Apr 1992
ODI Debut: India v South Africa at Kolkata, Nov 10, 1991


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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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A Rose-Innes Biography
Henrietta Rose-Innes is a fiction writer based in Cape Town. She has published two novels, and her short stories have appeared locally and internationally, receiving the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing and the 2007 Southern African PEN Literary Award. Her writing has been translated into Arabic, German and Romanian.

She was a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart in 2007-8, and has held residencies at the Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne (2004), the kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt (2006) and the University of Georgetown, Washington DC (2009). Henrietta Rose-Innes has also been a writer in residence in the University of Cape Town’s Creative Writing Centre, and supervises students in the UCT Creative Writing MA course. 

Visit her website at www.henriettarose-innes.com

The author's published works includes:
* Shark's Egg, 2001 (Kwela Books)
* The Rock Alphabet, 2002 (Kwela Books)
* Homing, 2010
* Nineveh, 2011


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A Nel


A Nel Biography

Born 23 November 1977 – the year Elvis Presley died…

Aaron Nel’s singing career started at age 4 when asked to constantly sing at pre-school productions, social braais etc. He grew up in the sprawling metropolis of Marble Hall on the world famous Springbok Vlakte, about 50kms from Potgietersrus… so television work was not an option, and he was not about to become a child star.

Aaron’s career continued to blossom, and took a turbo charge when he started playing guitar at age 10. “This is cool, sounds much better than just singing alone!” He thought,(in Afrikaans, of course). When faced with the gruelling decision of what to study and, therefore, do for the rest of his life… he chose to study music. This he did at Natal Technicon in 1996, where he completed two years of the ‘Light Music’ course. His guitar playing improved tremendously, and he performed many solo gigs, as well as with bands in and around Durban and as far north as Richards Bay. A serious Durban guitarist, Gordon Jackson, took him under his wing in 1999, and the band ‘The Buttugly Flowers’ was formed. The band included legendary Durban Bass man Errol ( Smelly ) Fellows, who is now Dan Patlansky’s permanent bass player. Certain songs he had written were performed with much success around Durbs… probably most memorable was their opening slot for the touring BOO!

In 2000, Aaron moved up to Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province and worked as producer, and sound engineer at a studio named, Aviv Studio Productions for 3 and a half years. During this time a 10 song album was recorded, of which the title track “The Call” is still being playlisted on radio stations around our Rainbow Nation. Another single, ‘Jesus Saviour’ has since been released and is also playlisted.

In 2003 Aaron moved back to Durban. His activities in and around Durban include:

• Forming the showcase band ‘The Groove’, in 2006. Writing instrumental jazz tunes as well as recording, producing and releasing the album ‘Jazz Evolution’. No singles have yet been released to Radio. ‘The Groove’ has performed extensively on the Cafe and Club scene in Durban at venues like ‘The Jazzy Rainbow’ in Goble Rd. and ‘St. Tropez’ in the trendy Essenwood Rd.

• Performing as a session player, with guys like Nick Engel, Bruce Baker and Logan Byrne (ex Landscape Prayers).

• Performing solo. This has become Aaron’s main thrust of late. He has produced ‘backing tracks’ with strong guitar influences which he performs at venues around Durban. His most thrilling gig came when he was asked to perform for the touring All Black side, with their recent Tri-Nations test in Durban. It was an all exclusive event, and since he is a big rugby fan, a memorable one indeed!! This took place at ‘Havana Grill’ at the Suncoast Casino. He had easy conversations with some of the world’s top sportsmen, and they are really nice guys, easy to chat to – they looove The Eagles and Bob Dylan!! So nice to hear a bunch of rugby players singing the night away… from beginning to end!!

• In April 2008 Aaron had the awesome priviledge of touring with Melanie Lowe, backing her on guitar with Durban muso legend Andy Turrell on bass. A great experience of forging friendships with great names in the industry, including Adventure Music, Alan Liebowitz etc… friendships he am still grateful for everyday!

• Released and performed his first solo album “Jump the Traffic” at Spleshy Fen 2008. The stage sound manager bought an album from him personally as he came off the stage, and this regularly positive feedback from audiences, after hearing his original compositions, especially, has been a great encouragement for him… Aaron regularly sells up to 5 “Jump The Traffic” albums at unassuming venues like restaurants, coffee shops, sports clubs etc…

• Joined the Dockyard Theatre, in Durban’s Musgrave Centre, in August 2008. He took on the role of “singing guitarist” in variuos productions. They were

• “British Invasion”

• “Tribute to the Eagles”

• “Eric Clapton and Friends”

• “Let’s get this Party Started”

During these performances he met some more awesome people, 2 of whom he have since collaborated with at an astoundingly long list of premiere Durban Venues since January 2009. Song writing, co writing, arranging and recording, 2009 had been an incredibly busy year! Various projects on the go, and desperately wanting to record his original material with the right people! Performing in the local scene at acoustic gigs like the NSA Art Gallery in Durban and the Mtunzini Music Festival on the Kwa Zulu Natal north coast.

• Besides the above, he have performed for various wedding ceremonies, receptions, exclusive birthday parties, corporate functions, pubs, restaurants etc

• In 2009 he formed a production company with his wife called Vintage Productions SA, this is to mainly promote and produce various stage productions, Aaron’s own music as well as promote local artists whom he performs with. Shows already devised: Vintage Rocks! And a tribute show called “Sting/Adams and U2”.

• In 2009 he also became a part of a duo called Graffiti Bridge with well known Durban singer Shanthan Pillay – together we performed originals and covers opening for Barry Hilton and Dozi in Pietermaritzburg.

• Singer/guitarist for Barnyard Productions – Rocking All Over the World, Feb/March 2010 Vereeniging.

• May 2010 – A Tribute to Sting, Adams and U2 – Izulu Theatre, Sibaya. Musical Director, lead Guitar and all Bryan Adams Vocals as well as backing vocals

• May 2010 – UNCOVERED, 27-30 May – Rowan Stuart and Aaron performed, as the title suggests, original music only.

• July 2010 – Vintage Rocks! Singer/Guitarist and Musical Director. The Pumpkin Theatre Club, Ballito

• Aug/Sept/Oct 2010 – Diamonds and Pearls – 2 weeks Barnyard Vereeniging, 1 week Zimbabwe and 6 weeks Sun City – Lead Guitarist

• Oct/Nov 2010– A Tribute to Sting/Adams and U2. Lead Guitarist – Bryan Adams(songs) – Vocals. Musical Director. The Pumpkin Theatre Club, Ballito

• Dec 2010/Jan 2011 – Born 2B Wild, Singer, Guitarist and Musical Director. The Pumpkin Theatre Club, Ballito

• 2 Nights Born 2B Wild , 2011– at the Westville Theatre Club Venue.

* 2 Nights Born 2B Wild – Woodcutter’s Warehouse, 31 Mar and 1 Apr 2011

• Various solo gigs

* Currently working on “Memoirs: The music of Simon and Garfunkel”

Contact me at southafricanism@gmail.com, or on Face Book – Aaron Nel…
079 188 4499

All the best… and let’s meet up!

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A Bacher

A Bacher Biography
Full Name: Aron Bacher
Date of Birth: May 24, 1942, Johannesburg, Transvaal
Major Team: South Africa, Transvaal
Playing Roll: Batsman
Batting Style: Right
Bowling Style: Legbreak



International Debut: 1965
Batting and fielding records
M Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Test 12 22 1 679 73 32.33 0 - - 6 - - 10 -

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M Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Eco SR 4W 5W 10W
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Test Debut: England v South Africa at London, 22-27, Jul 1965
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A Melville


A Melville Biography

(Aug. 1, 1819-Sept. 28, 1891)

Family Background


Herman Melville, the third child of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill's eight, was born into a socially connected New York family. To his socialite parents, from his youth Herman did not seem to fit their mold of a good, God-fearing, noble and refined child.

In 1826 Allan Melvill wrote of his son as being "backward in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension . . . of a docile and amiable disposition." After the collapse of the family's import business in 1830 and Allan Melvill's death in 1832, Herman's oldest brother, Gansevoort, assumed responsibility for the family and took over his father's business. After two years as a bank clerk and some months working on the farm of his uncle, Thomas Melvill, Herman joined his brother in the business. About this time, Herman's branch of the family altered the spelling of its name.

Travels

By the mid-1830s, the young Melville had already begun writing, but continued financial problems for the family forced Herman to focus primarily on work. In 1837, his brother declared bankruptcy and arranged for Herman to ship out as cabin boy on the St. Lawrence, a merchant ship sailing in June 1839 from New York City for Liverpool.

Although he seemed to enjoy the life of sailing, Melville did not dedicate himself to the sea immediately after the summer voyage. Instead he continued to seek out ways of helping his family taking a series of teaching positions and then following his uncle out west in hopes of finding steady work. He never found the work he sought; so, in January 1841, he returned east and sailed on the whaler Acushnet on a voyage to the South Seas.

In June of the following year, the ship anchored in the Marquesas Islands in present-day French Polynesia. Melville's adventures here, somewhat romanticized, became the subject of his first novel, Typee (1846). In July Melville and a companion jumped ship and, according to the novel, spent about four months as guest-captives of the reputedly cannibalistic Typee people. Actually, in August he was registered in the crew of the Australian whaler Lucy Ann. Whatever its precise correspondence with fact, however, Typee was faithful to the imaginative impact of the experience on Melville: despite intimations of danger, the exotic valley of the Typees was for Melville an idyllic sanctuary from a hustling, aggressive civilization.

When the Lucy Ann reached Tahiti, Melville joined a mutiny led by dissatisfied shipmates who had not been paid. The mutiny landed Melville in a Tahitian jail from which he escaped. On these events and their sequel, Melville based his second book, Omoo (1847). Lighthearted in tone, with the mutiny shown as something of a farce, it describes Melville's travels through the islands, accompanied by Long Ghost, formerly the ship's doctor, now turned drifter. The novel revealed Melville's bitterness against what he saw as the debasement of the native Tahitian peoples by so-called "civilizing" forces.

These travels, in fact, occupied less than a month. In November he signed as a harpooner on his last whaler, the Charles & Henry, out of Nantucket, Mass. Six months later he disembarked in Hawaii only to sign on as an ordinary seaman on the frigate United States, which in October 1844 returned him to Boston.

Mid-Century Popularity

When Melville rejoined his family, he found their fortunes had much improved. Gansevoort, had been appointed James K. Polk's secretary to the U.S. legation in London and was earning political renown. With this family's encouragement, Herman recorded his tales of the South Seas and began to seek out a publisher.

Both Typee and Omoo provoked a mix of enthusiasm and outrage, but Herman, now left with the responsibility of providing for the family following his oldest brother's sudden death, committed himself to writing for support. In the summer of 1847, Melville added the responsibility of marriage when Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the chief justice of Massachusetts, agreed to wed. For more steady income, he became a regular contributor of reviews and other pieces to a literary journal. Melville also began a third book in 1847 that would become Mardi.,p> Rather self-consciously, Melville conceived of his third book as quite different from both Typee and Omoo. It began as another Polynesian adventure but quickly set its hero in pursuit of the mysterious Yillah, "all beauty and innocence," a symbolic quest that ends in anguish and disaster. Upon its publication in 1847, public and critics alike received it coolly. Concealing his disappointment at the book's reception, Melville quickly wrote Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850) in the manner expected of him. The critics acclaimed White-Jacket in particular; but both novels, however much they seemed to revive the Melville of Typee, revealed Melville's growing melancholy.

Melville had promised his publishers for the autumn of 1850 the novel first entitled The Whale, but he delayed delivery of the manuscript that would become Moby Dick. He had formed a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and their relationship reanimated Melville's creative energies. Though the two men would gradually grow apart, their time as neighbors in 1850 -- Melville had bought a farm near Hawthorne's in Pittsfield, MA -- helped shape what is widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature.

Moby Dick was finally published in London in October 1851 and a month later in America, but it brought its author neither acclaim nor reward.  Increasingly a recluse to the point that some friends feared for his sanity, Melville embarked almost at once on Pierre (1852). When published, it was yet another critical and financial disaster. Only 33 years old, Melville saw his career in ruins. Near breakdown, and having to face in 1853 the disaster of a fire at his New York publishers that destroyed most of his books, Melville persevered with writing. Israel Potter was published in 1855, but its modest success, clarity of style, and apparent simplicity of subject did not indicate a decision by Melville to write down to public taste. Rather, his contributions to Putnam's Monthly Magazine--"Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853), "The Encantadas" (1854), and "Benito Cereno" (1855)--reflected an increasing despair and contempt for human hypocrisy and materialism.

In 1856 Melville traveled to Europe to renew his spirits. The most powerful passages of the journal he kept are in harmony with his final novel published in his lifetime The Confidence-Man (1857), a despairing satire on an America corrupted by the shabby dreams of commerce. Three American lecture tours were followed by his final sea journey, in 1860, when he joined his brother Thomas, captain of the clipper Meteor, for a voyage around Cape Horn. He abandoned the trip in San Francisco.

Withdrawal

Melville abandoned genre of the novel in favor of poetry, but the prospects for publication were not favorable. In 1861, with two sons and daughters to support, Melville sought a consular post, but did not receive the appointment. When the Civil War broke out, he volunteered for the Navy, but was again rejected. Melville got a bit of relief from an inheritance upon his father-in-law's death, and by the end of 1863 was living in New York City.
The war was much on Melville's mind and furnished the subject of his first volume of verse, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). Four months after it appeared, an appointment as a customs inspector on the New York docks finally brought him a secure income.

Despite poor health, Melville began a pattern of writing evenings, weekends, and on vacations. In 1867 his son Malcolm accidently shot himself after a quarrel with his father the night before his death. 

His second son, Stanwix, who had gone to sea in 1869, died in a San Francisco hospital in 1886 after a long illness. Throughout these painful events, and for the whole of his nineteen years in the customs house, Melville's creative pace was understandably slowed.
By the time his second collection of verse, John Marr, and Other Sailors; With Some Sea-Pieces, appeared in 1888, Melville had been in retirement for three years. His new leisure he devoted, he wrote in 1889, to "certain matters as yet incomplete." Among them was Timoleon (1891), a final verse collection. More significant was the return to prose that culminated in his last work, the novel Billy Budd, which remained unpublished until 1924. Though the manuscript ends with the date April 19, 1891 -- merely five months before Melville's death -- the work had not been completely edited (click here for a more full discussion of the manuscript). Melville's life was one more of valleys than of peaks. By the end of the 1840s he was among the most celebrated of American writers, yet his death evoked but a single obituary notice. After years of neglect, modern criticism has secured once again secured his reputation with that of the great American writers.

Novels

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847)
Mardi and a Voyage Thither (1849)
Redburn, His First Voyage (1849)
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War (1850)
Moby Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
Pierre; or The Ambiguities (1852)
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855)
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)
Billy Budd (written between 1888 and 1891; published posthumously 1924).
Other Stories, Sketches, and Journals

The Piazza Tales (1856), includes "The Piazza," "Bartleby the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," "The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles," and "The Lightning-Rod Man"
The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches (1922), contains 10 pieces first published in periodicals between 1850-56
Journal up the Straits, October 1, 1856-May 5, 1857 (1935)
Journal of Melville's Voyage in the Clipper Ship, Meteor (1929).
Verse

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)
John Marr, and Other Sailors; With Some Sea-Pieces (1888)
Timoleon (1891)
Poems unpublished during Melville's lifetime are included in later collections and selections.
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