Where are all the South African Members?

You know whats interesting. In entered both the Sunday Times Award long list and the Alan Paton long list into CK. At least 30% had no readers so I could not enter the award. This shows how few South Africans take LT seriously. In fact most of the books entered had 1 or 2 members only. Compare this to the Australian Award list, where most books have dozens of readers.
eg Australian Prime Minister award short list
All That I Am: A Novel (379)
Sarah Thornhill (159)
Foal's bread by Gillian Mears (73) W
Forecast : turbulence (19)
Autumn Laing (57)

I have tried in vain to recruit new readers but have failed miserably. How have you done?

I've asked people, but most of them seem to prefer (well, not exactly prefer, but acquiesce to) GR...

I notice the same .... two factors at work? Not so many SAfricans are members and not so much Africana listed . Take a look at ULTB group .. And also your own ULTB books. I have a lot of ULTB books because so much of my collection is Africana. LT seems to have a lot of US, European, Austrailian members and too few in SAfrica . One way to promote SA books is to write the reviews and post to LT, Facebook and even to Amazon. A review need not be long .. Say about 300 words and answer what is the book about, strengths and weaknesses and most NB the context. LT is my preferred site.