Selim Gool

Completed high-school at Alexander Sinton High School in Athlone, Cape Flats, matriculated in 1966.

One year at University-College of Durban, Sailsbury Island, in 1967 (philosophy, politics, languages).

Petrol station manager in Surry Estate/Welcome Estate on the Cape Flats.

Computer operator trainee and programmer for Management Compter Services (MCS) Cape Town, 1968-9.

Enrolled at the Royal University of Lund, Sweden and completed a Fil. Kand. exam (B.A.); Master of Social Sciences (M.S.Sc.) in 1974 and a Ph.D. degree in 1983 in Economic and Social History - with a thesis on "Mining Capitalism and Black Labour in the Early Industrial Period in South Africa - a critique of the new historiography".

Teacher's training diploma at the University of Oslo (Pedagogisk Seminar) in 1983. High-school and college lecturer since then in Norway and South Africa.

High school teacher in Porsgrunn, Telemerk district, Norway, from 1984-1993; lecturer in Macroeconomic at Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutet (BI) and lecturer and facilitator for adult education programmes through Friundervisningen, Kvinner og Ledelde and Statens Yrkes-Pedagogiske Høyskole in Telemark, 1983-93.

Economics co-ordinator at Khanya College, Cape Town Campus, 1994.

Tutuor and pedagogic facilitator at University of Cape Town (UCT) 1997-2000.

Biographer and blog writer since 2001 (under name 'selcool' in

www.thetimes.co.za

, et alia) and am writing a biography/autobiography on the 'The Gool Family of Cape Town - A Muslim Family in Search of Radical Modernity?'.

On my parents:

"Goolam Hoosen Gool and Hawa Halima Ahmed Nagdee Gool were active in the Anti-CAD, All African Convention, National Liberation League, Non-European Unity Movement, Worker's Party of South Africa, The Fourth International Organisation of South Africa, and a host of social-political and educational/upliftment bodies in the Western Cape and nationally from the mid-1930s.

Halima H. Gool (1918-1992) was a journalist from 1934 and a dedicated member in a wide variety of organizations in Cape Town and nationally. She was deeply committed to women's liberation and trade union issues. Moreover, she played a prominent role in Anti-CAD/NEUM fund raising activities".

Articles for ZNet and some other major publications:

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘Notes on the Development of Capitalism in South Africa and its strategic implications for the Liberation Movements', Studies on South African Imperialism, Part II, by The Southern Africa Research Group, Report No. 18, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, May 1977. [first presented at a ANC Youth meeting in London, 1974, and also published in Swedish, Danish and Finnish by the United Nations Youth Organisations].

Selim Yusef Gool and Ragna Veslemøy Wiese: A SAREC Yearbook? A Survey of Development Research. Special Report Series, Nr. 1, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala, 1977.

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘År av eld, år av aska' [‘Year of Fire, Year of Ash'],Review Article of E. Harsch, B. Hirson, B. Magubane, S. Marks/A. Atmore, No Sizwe and K. Luckhardt/B. Wall, Bokcaféts Månadsbulletin, Nr. 54, Jan-Feb. 1981, Lund, Sweden [translated by Kent Lindkvist].

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘Formation of a South African Nationalist Consciousness amongst the African élite during the pre-1948 period', unpublished seminar paper, Uppsala,.[1980-82].

Selim Yusef Gool: Mining Capitalism and Black Labour in the Early Industrial Period in South Africa: A critique of the new historiography, Ph.D. thesis, LundUniversity, 1983. Order online only.

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘COSATU: Black Union Re-Alignment Challenges Apartheid Rulers', conference paper delivered to the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) conference, Liverpool, 1986 [unpublished].

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘Whither Reforms in South Africa?', Seminar paper to ‘The Africa Days', at the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Institute for African Studies, Uppsala, June 22, 1986.

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘A Balance-Sheet of 100 Years of Struggle' [a collective Review of ‘From Protest to Challenge Vol.1-IV ' by T. Karis and G. Carter plus other works on the National Liberation and the workers' struggle from the late 1970s-early 1980], in Nytt från Nordiska afrikainstitutet, Nr. 5, Uppsala, 1980.

Selim Yusef Gool: Bibliografi over Motstand og Kamp i Sydaftika [Bibliography of works on Resistance and Struggle in South Africa],Det Nye Verden, special issue on Det Sørlige Afrika, Centre for Utviklingsstuidier (CUF), Copenhagen, 1982.

Selim Yusef Gool: Review of Alan Jeeves: Migrant Labour in South Africa, in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Boston C, 1983. Order online only!

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘Black and White Writers in South Africa', Afrika Informasjon, bulletin of the Fellesrådet for det sørlige Afrika, Oslo, 1986. [on the contextual style, semiotics and content in ‘white' and ‘black' writing in S.A.]

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘Book Review of: Popular Struggles in South Africa', (eds) W. Cobbett and R. Cohen, in Frontline Worker (Azanian Workers' Tendency), London, 1989.

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘Review of Elling Njål Tjønneland: Pax Pretoriana - the Fall of Apartheid and the Politics of Regional Destabilisation', The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1989, Discussion paper 2, 1989, in Nytt fra Nordiskaafrikainstitutet, Vol. 4, Nr 24, Uppsala, Sweden.

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘The Crisis of Capital Accumulation in South Africa', in Gordon Naidoo (ed): Reform and Revolution: South Africa in the nineties, Skotaville Publications, Johannesburg, 1991; Also as seminar paper at the Centre for African Studies' weekly seminar series, UCT, June 1991.

Selim Yusef Gool: Book review of Phyllis Ntantala's: A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala, David Philip, Cape Town, 1973, in Agenda: A Journal about Women and Gender, nr. 19, Durban, 1993. Available online (order only!)

Selim Yusef Gool: "Continuities and Discontinuities in the Political Thought and Practise of Dr. A. Abdurahman and Mrs. Z. ‘Cissie' Gool, 1905 - 1963: A Study in the Making of a South African non-White Political Dynasty", Outline of a research project, work-in-progress, Cape Town, 2002.

Selim Yusef Gool: ‘Mbeki Following in Mugabe's Footsteps: Behind the rhetoric in South Africa today', http://www.zmag.org/content/ForeignPolicy/Gool.cfm

, Zmag.org, April 2003.

Selim Yusef Gool: Thaboléon: http://www.zmag.org/racewatch

, 2004.

Selim Yusef Gool: "An Odyssey: From Cape Town to The Far Beyond" (draft of autobiogtaphy): Online version - http://sa.indymedia.org/news/2006/029737.php

Politically active in exile in the African National Congress, Youth & Students; various Solidarity Groups [Anti-Apartheid Movement and Anti-Racist Movements] & Left formations in Scandinavia and currently member of the Sosialistisk Venstre Parti (SV), Telemark, and soon to be retired (well that's another matter, eh?) and can then devote my time to writing and looking after my grandchildren in Norway (my twin daughgters have given birth recently) ...

Well, Hanne-Jasmina has given birth Johannes Hodne-Wiese, a boy ,on the 1st April 2008 (see picture above of grandparent Selim with Johannes), in Oslo, and he and parents are doing just great. Eline-Fatima, twin sister, gave birth to a daughter, Ada Sæther-Wiese, on the 26th June and she and parents, Jon and Eline are all doing fine. The kids and their parents and grandparents mostly live in the Oslo area.

We all have just spent the most relaxing and calm Christmas festive season together in Rauland, in the mountains of the municipality of Telemark in southern Norway and are looking forwards to the new year with GREATEXPECTATIONS ...

In July 2012, in the Norwegian/Scandinavian summer holidays (rain and wet, also cold this year!) the extended families of the Wiese and Moum clans, plus moi, were able to meet up at the "Summer Place" in Lysekil, Western Sweden, near to Uddevalla and north of Gothenburg, south of Strömstad, 3 hours from Oslo:

Elder daughter Hanne Jasmina (now 34 years old) and her brown-haired charming son Johannes Hodne-Wiese, now aged 4 and a half; second elder twin Eline Fatima and her family, Jon (c. 40ish - an advocate/lawyer who works for the State Taxation office (SkatteVerket), and their sweet blond-haired daughter Ada Ingebjørg Sæther-Wiese, now aged 4; the twins´ Mother, Docent Veslemøy Ragna Wiese dr., c. 65, a lecturer and researcher in education at the Dept of Pedagogikk (actually at the Pedagogisks Avd for Childrens Care) at the Telemark University in Porsgrunn ... her husband, Prof Thorbjørn Åge Moum, Head of Dept of Medical Sociology at the University of Oslo (UiO), Blindern, Oslo; his 4 children: Are, aged 35-ish, and his daughter Frøya, now aged 5 (who had just returned from Peru, to attend school here in Oslo, where she had been staying with her Mother´s family outside of Lima - Mother is still waiting for her staying permit/visa to join the family); Audun, aged c. 30-ish, and his 15 yr old son, Benjamin; daughters Ingrid Moum-Rieser, aged 24, a student of Economics previously in Bergen and Uppsala, and now to move to Britain for a year to complete her Masters at the Schoemaker Insitute, and Anja Moum-Rieser, aged 20, who starts higher studies at Ås Agricultural University, south of Oslo, north of Frederikstad, her first year in Ecology/Economics/Social Sciences Introduction courses. And Prof Truls Moum, Marine Biologist at the University of Bodø and his wife Ellen, Kykoherde/Domproust in Bodø.