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Selim Gool
email: selimgool@yahoo.com; goolselim@gmail.com
Physical address: Hybelhuset 1, Setalid,
3864 Rauland
Norway
Mobil nr: (47) 41070220 SHARE
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Biography:
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?'
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; 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, in 2009).