Latest News and Announcements

On 26 August Van Schaik Bookstore won the Sefika Academic Bookseller of the Year Award for the third consecutive year. This is also the first time for a bookseller to be presented with this award three consecutive times since the inception of the awards 14 years ago. The announcement was made during the awards dinner of the annual South African Booksellers Association conference held at Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel and Convention Centre in Durban.

Most of the bestselling printed textbooks are now also available in e-textbook format from Van Schaik Bookstore, in-store or on-line. With more than 4 500 titles available from Van Schaik, it covers 131 fields of study from accounting to linguistics. Most of the biggest publishers have already come on board, including Van Schaik Publishers, Juta Publishers, Lippincott, Pearson, Oxford University Press, Elsevier Medical, LexisNexis, MacMillan, Cengage and John Wiley. Some of the popular titles like: "About Financial Accounting", "Seasons come to pass", "Economics for SA Students", "Rethinking our world" and "SA Law of Persons" are among the best sellers.

This 2nd Semester Van Schaik offers exciting promotions for all our customers in-store and online. The widest range of UNISA textbooks are available at selected Van Schaik Bookstores and online.

Van Schaik, the iconic chain of bookstores associated with student textbooks and campuses across South Africa, celebrates its 100th birthday in July 2014. With 60 stores in Southern Africa plus an online store, Van Schaik's achievement of a century of book selling can be attributed to the responsive manner in which the business evolved - responding to changing consumer needs, technology developments and dramatic changes in the educational landscape in South Africa, over the decades and into the technology driven millennium.

Don't miss out on our promotions on selected items selling at crazy prices between 9-30 June 2014. Participating stores are PE, Grahamstown, UFS, Braamfontein, Potchefstroom, Mafikeng, UJ Kingsway Campus, Soweto Maponya Mall, Hatfield, Pietermaritzburg, Long Street Cape Town, Parow Centre, CPUT Cape Town, CPUT Bellville, Stellenbosch and Rondebosch. Hurry up, because it's only while stocks last.

World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated on 23 April every year and we celebrated this during the month of April by hosting events for learners from disadvantaged communities at some of our branches or at their schools around the country. We took hands with our suppliers and publishers to make this special for the learners by doing something special with and for them. This year's sponsors included Van Schaik Bookstore, Internet Express, SMD, Pilot, Freedom Stationery, Alplas Plastics, Jacklin Enterprises and Pan Macmillan.

NSFAS recently introduced a new system at some institutions called sBux, a division that handles the administration of NSFAS book funds to allow students to pay for food, accommodation, books and travel allowances in the form of sBux vouchers which are sent to the bursary students' cell phones.

Van Schaik opened a second store in Thohoyandou on 28 February to service UNISA students and those of the University of Venda. The shop is situated at Shop A14, Venda Plaza, Corner of Main and Casino Boulevard.