About The Company
The objective of this ambitious venture is to:
- Preserve South African heritage through book publishing.
- Promote reading and tourism through authentic storytelling.
- Make the books available to school and public libraries.
- Offer the published books as part of the tourists’ travel packages.
Published Thirty Titles
Since inception the company has published thirty titles, the majority of them by first time authors who have never published a book before. One of these, Thembeka Cynthia Sesi from Dobsonville, Soweto, won the PanSALB Award for 2016-2017 in the indigenous languages category for an isiXhosa language anthology. The other, Re Hatela Pele Ka Puo Ya Sesotho has been selected for listing on UN SDG Book Club African Chapter.The bookclub aims to use books as a tool to encourage children ages 6-12 to interact with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through accurate reading list of books
Achievements
UN SDG Book Club African Chapter
PanSALB Award for 2016-2017
Our Clients
Western Cape Department of Education and Training.
Bongani Rainmakers Logistics
Free State Department of Education and Training
South African Tourism
Testimonials
Re: Professional Reference for Mrs Eunice Rakhale-Molefe, Book Tourism
Please allow me to motivate how BOOK TOURISM is the publisher everyone needs for their publishing projects. I am Mankene Keke Stephen, a qualified Social Worker in Private Practice, Director of Social Services at Luxe College of Education, and a published Author who was groomed and published by Book Tourism since March 2022. My journey with them has been by far one of the best and professional experiences I have ever had in my 29 years of corporate circles.
During my three years’ journey with Book Tourism Company, Eunice Molefe was a go-to person who seemed to believe that “Even great ideas can always be improved further.” She is a very resourceful and highly experienced publisher, who displays excellent knowledge of agile methodologies in the publishing space.
Her project management abilities were of key note highlight for me. Thanks to Eunice’s analytical approach and problem-solving skills, her time management and goal orientation, her personable and humane approach to relationships and her ability to set professional boundaries without sacrificing her Ubuntu Spirit. Because of these and more, we were able to launch a highly professionally published book in January 2023 called: La Thi Tha – A girl’s Journey to Womanhood, by Mankene Keke Stephen.
I will gladly recommend Book Tourism for any small and big publishing related projects, for individual and corporate publishing engagements of any magnitude. Their properly laid out publishing process began with a book Project Plan, through legal registrations and implementation stages, Book design, layout and editing, then finally publishing and even an unexpected Marketing Plan for me. Thank You Eunice Rakhale for launching me as an Author so professionally. I will definitely be using your services for all my next writing projects.
Should you need any further recommendations or specific information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our office.
Yours sincerely,
RE: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN REGARDING MRS EUNICE RAKHALE-MOLEFE
I, Fhatuwani Trevor Mulaudzi, hereby wish to testify that I have known Mrs Eunice Rakhale-Molefe since the year 2010.
This is how Eunice and I met. I was sitting in my mini-bus one morning in the parking of Cresta Shopping Mall, Randburg, waiting for a friend of mine. My mini-bus had very darkly tinted windows. As I was sitting in the car, I see this lady who come and start looking at my car branding which was telling a big story about hygiene and cleanliness in school toilets. Eunice, not noticing that there was a person in the car, started walking around the car making notes in her little notebook as I was just sitting there watching her. After about 10 minutes of doing this, she put her notebook in her hand bag a started walking away towards the western entrance of Cresta Mall.
Then something amazing happened. After Eunice had got about 20 metres from my car, she stopped for some minutes and looked back at the car. After few moments looking at the car, Eunice started walking back to my car and continued walking around the car and taking down more notes. That was when I felt the need to engage with this lady. I opened the window and asked the lady if I could be of any assistance. Her answer surprised me. She said to me she is a self-bookpublisher and wondered if she could write a story about the car and its owner. I immediately got very interested as I always wanted to write a book about my Toilet Life.
That was the beginning of life long story writing about my work life. So far Mrs Eunice Rakhale-Molefe has successfully published two books about my work. The following books are already published:
1. Environmental Health Practitioner Manual, 2014
2. African Toilet & Sanitation Dialogue, 2017
It is worth noting that the two books mentioned books were not the very first books we published together. In 2012, Eunice compiled a Picture Book about my work titled School Toilet Dialogue Journal which was just for my own use.
It is with this testimony that I recommend Mrs Eunice Rakhale-Molefe of CEM Publishers be considered for the Gauteng Women of Excellent Award. The reason is that Eunice is a very friendly, competent and good listener who will hear your story well to write a book about your life. I have seen her writing numerous other books in front of me, books which deal with food, poetry and other people life stories.
I wish Eunice the best in this endeavour.
Yours truly
I, met Eunice when I at Indaba Hotel Chief’s Boma Restaurant, when she approach me regarding a tourist experience proposal, culinary storytelling. The idea was for her to do food, drinks and wine pairing to our tourists guests in return promote and sell her book to them. The project proved to be a successful collaboration venture which led to more heritage and food culture events.
Culinary Storytelling is a dinner experience running weekly; Meat and Greet book talk is a Saturday food and book talk targeted at the locals in collaboration with our weekend lunch promotion.
As this was not the first proposal from an outside company, my concerns was the sustainability of the project as most projects fell by the wayside before we could see the impact. Eunice, on the other hand proved to be a committed host who worked diligently and professionally until the pandemic hit us.
Yours Sincerely