Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa: Verskil tussen weergawes
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Die personeel was besig met die voorbereiding van dié kernensiklopedie, wat as ''KERN'' bekend sou staan, toe die Afdeling Ensiklopedieë in 1989 ontbind is weens geldelike oorwegings en die verskuiwing van die jeug se belangstelling na tuisrekenaars en ander bedrywighede.
== Berig in die ''Cape Argus '' ==
Die volgende beroep het op Woensdag [[29 September]] [[1976]] in die ''[[Cape Argus]]'' verskyn onder die opskrif "Major S African publishing proejct completed":
<blockquote>"MAMMOTH South African publishing project reaches completion this week with the appearance of the 12th volume of the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. The final volume contains a short supplement and an index.
Work on the encyclopaedia, the most ambitious private publication ever undertaken in this country, began in 1957 and the first two volumes were published in 1970. Others followed at regular publishers are Nasou.
About 1400 experts have contributed to the encyclopaedia, which is estimated to have cost between R1,5-million and R2-million.
The encyclopaedia is regional and is confined to Southern Africa — South Africa, South West Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Zambia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Kenya, Uganda, Ruanda, Burundi and Zaire. Thus the article on cricket, for example, does not describe what cricket is, how it developed or what constitute the rules of the game. Only the story of South African cricket is told, from the time of its inception in this country until today. This article was written by commentator Charles Fortune.
The encyclopaedia therefore does not attempt to compete with general encyclopaedias such as the Britannica but is complementary to them.
The project was initially conceived as a six-volume South African encyclopaedia to be published in Afrikaans. It was later decided to embrace the whole of Southern Africa up to the equator and also to issue the encyclopaedia in, English, especially as this would also secure a foreign market. It was soon obvious that six volumes would be insufficient to contain the wealth of material to be collected. It was later decided that the English and Afrikaans editions would comprise 12 volumes each.
With the passage of time it became apparent that the English edition was nearing completion more rapidly than was the Afrikaans. Owing to the sharp increase in the price of paper and rising labour costs, it was decided in 1973 to discontinue work on the Afrikaans edition.
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