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The first comprehensive biography of an exceptional and inspirational leader who changed South African history. As leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created Black Consciousness, which has resonance to this day. His death by torture, at the hands of the police, robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Biko's intellectual legacy cannot be overestimated.Then a journalist, Helen Zille, along with Donald Woods, close friend of Biko's, exposed the truth behind...
| Автор | Xolela Mangcu |
The true story of an ordinary policeman who served in the South African Police Force at the height of apartheid. With graphic scenes of violence and sex, it exposes the realities of being in the police force in the seventies and eighties when brutality was commonplace and men didn’t cry.Johan Marais was also a witness to and participant in incidences of police corruption and brutality. He developed a serious drinking problem and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, but it took a suicide...
| Автор | Johan Marais |
Gold digger, chancer, attention whore – Khanyi Mbau has been called all of that and more. While her flamboyant and daring personality have made this actress a darling of the media and a sought-after guest at parties, her flashy lifestyle and relationships with older (and often married) men have made her one of the country’s most talked about women. This is the story of a young starlet who let sudden fame go to her head. Her world spirals out of control as fancy cars and rooms full of shoes...
| Автор | Lesley Mofokeng |
In ’n tyd toe die meeste vroue óf onderwyseres óf verpleegster geword het, het Rykie van Reenen vir haar ’n loopbaan oopgeskryf in die joernalistiek. Sy het Suid-Afrika se eerste vroulike oorlogskorrespondent geword toe sy die Jom Kippoer-oorlog in Israel gaan dek het.In die 1960’s het sy naam gemaak as rubriekskrywer vir “Van alle kante” in Die Burger en in die 1970’s vir “Op die randakker” in Rapport. Die rubrieke was só gewild dat dit as ’n sirkulasiebouer by Rapport beskou is en later ook...
| Автор | Lizette Rabe |
Jannie Mouton is in die pad gesteek as besturende direkteur op die ouderdom van 48. Binne 15 jaar daarná bou hy ’n allemintige sakeryk op: PSG het belange in maatskappye met ’n markkapitalisasie van R61 miljard. Wie is die man agter PSG? Hoe het Capitec se fenomenale sukses beslag gekry en hoekom vee hy hom af aan die woede van baie in die wynbedryf oor sy KWV-planne? Daar is baie wat sê hy is ’n bliksem wat nie nee vir ’n antwoord vat nie, maar daar is veel meer aan hierdie sakereus. Jannie...
| Автор | Carié Maas |
Sir David Graaff’s unique South African story begins as a poor child in Villiersdorp, watching over sheep and pigs. He was helped by a well-off friend of the family and taken to Cape Town to work at the man’s butchery. Within a few years, David was not only in charge of the butchery, but was the first person to use refrigerated food storage facilities for meat in South Africa. With a business empire begun, he went on to have a colourful political life and played a role in many South African...
| Автор | Ebbe Dommisse |
Jim Clark shares his experiences as a highly successful film editor at a time when films were a true collaboration of talented individuals.<br><br>The legendary "Doctor" Clark was the man who could make sick films healthy again. The role of editor in the collective, collaborative process that is the making of any film is massively important but not one that is generally recognized outside the small pond that is the filmmaking community. In this wonderfully enjoyable...
| Автор | Jim BSL Clark |
On a hot summer day in August of 1892, a double murder took place in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Borden were killed in their own home by a person or persons unknown who attacked them with an axe or hatchet-type implement. As of today, the case is still unsolved and open. Many millions of words have been written about the events of that day, and people still go to the home (now a Bed and Breakfast) on Second Street and think about the bloody crime that happened there so long...
| Автор | E. Elaine Watson |
Kisses, even the ones that don’t happen, can be the trace of what’s constant when life changes. In childhood, when what seems to define everything is competition—for style, for knowing, for experience—a kiss is the first first. When a girl’s father moves out and chooses a new family, a kiss on the head from him may be the trace of constancy that she wants most.Later, such things take on a different flavor. Sometimes the kiss she wants...
| Автор | Claudia Sternbach |
When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he thinks it’s possible that in the same process he will discover the answer to questions that have plagued him for decades. But first he has to make sure that she is who she claims to...
| Автор | Michael Mewshaw |
In light of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, the remarkable personal story that comprises Fear Itself becomes a cautionary tale.Unwittingly exposed to low-level radiation in the 1940s, Candida Lawrence has lived courageously with its effects throughout her life. Fear Itself traces her years struggling to have a child and her slow waking to the secrets that governments and institutions withheld from the women of her generation. The task for her—and for...
| Автор | Candida Lawrence |
After her divorce, Kate Kindred decided that she would live her life without children. But then she fell in love with Jim, a handsome, caring man who had custody of his two-year-old son, Michael. And she fell in love with the boy, too. During the six years they all lived together, Kate learned the deep joys of motherhood—that was the gift that Michael gave her. But when her relationship with Jim ended, he denied her any contact with Michael.And her heart was broken.An Accidental Mother...
| Автор | Katherine Anne Kindred |
Does a man fall in love with a country first or the woman he finds there?And which love is finally the greatest?In this elegant account of his falling for the Spanish woman he married 30 years ago, Lamar Herrin opens his heart, his natural skepticism, and an American’s awe of history to a complex nation that is both rich in tradition and astoundingly foreign.Portraying himself as a Quixote in love with Romance, Herrin allows us to watch as he struggles to win the woman who will finally...
| Автор | Lamar Herrin |
Onstuitbaar en vreesloos. Só was die Boerekrygers wat gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog uit krygsgevangekampe probeer ontsnap het. Niks sou hulle keer om weer vry te wees nie: nie 'n moontlike skietdood, 'n oseaan vol haaie, die gevaar om van 'n bewegende trein af te spring of 'n tonnel wat op hulle kon inval nie. In hierdie boek bring Albert Blake van die mees gewaagde ontsnappingspogings deur Boerekrygsgevangenes byeen. Hulle verstom met hul vindingryke planne om die Britse...
| Автор | Albert Blake |
In 1948 het die NG dominee D.F. Malan die Nasionale Party tot politieke oorwinning gelei. Vir die meeste Afrikaners was dit die verwesenliking van 'n jare lange droom. Om Malan as mens te verstaan, is om te verstaan hoe die Afrikaners hulself uit die as van die Anglo-Boereoorlog in 'n nasie omskep het. Toe hy op sy sterwensbed gevra is wat vir hom die belangrikste van sy loopbaan was, het hy gesê: «dat ek my volk kon dien; dat ek my volk bymekaar kon bring». Sy verhaal is die...
| Автор | Lindie Koorts |
Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron examines and defends the role of the law in South Africa's continuing transition. Drawing on his own life experience, including childhood hardship, struggles with sexuality and stigma, he illustrates the power and the limitations of the law. Cameron argues with compelling elegance that the Constitution offers South Africa its best chance for a just future. 'A remarkable integration of fascinating, often moving personal memoir, professional...
| Автор | Edwin Cameron |
In 1948 the Dutch Reformed minister D.F. Malan led the National Party to victory and set up the policy of apartheid. Today grimfaced photographs of NP leaders like Malan and his successors have come to symbolise a system of racial oppression. Yet, when Malan was asked on his deathbed what he considered the most important service he had rendered during his political career, he answered, 'that I could serve my nation; that I could unite my people'. This biography tries to understand...
| Автор | Lindie Koorts |
Met hierdie ware verhaal onthul die akteur en televisie-vervaardiger Christo Gerlach die skokkende werklikhede agter die glans van die vermaaklikheidsbedryf. As kind moes Christo die papawers uit sy ouma se tuin ruk omdat sy oupa in die Volksblad gelees het dat dié blom 'n bron van opium is. Jare later sou Christo homself moes ruk uit die kloue van 'n kokaïene-verslawing. In sy soms pynvol eerlike verhaal vertel hy van sy soeke na die liefde en aanvaarding wat sy pa nooit vir hom...
| Автор | Christo Gerlach |
The extraordinary life story of South African tycoon and philanthropist Dr Anton Rupert. It is the story of a Karoo boy who grew up during the Depression, struggled to find enough money to study science, and then made good as a businessman – spectacularly so, reaching the Forbes list of the 500 wealthiest people worldwide. Unlike Harry Oppenheimer, another South African millionaire, Rupert was no heir and did not make his millions from mining. His Rembrandt group of manufacturers became known...
| Автор | Ebbe Dommisse |
Vir alle mense word dit soms nag vir hulle siele, maar dan volg daar weer ’n dag wat helder is. Dink net watter vorme ’n helder dag kan aanneem, hoe wonderlik dit kan wees! Hoe jy dit later onthou asof dit gister gebeur het. Danie Botha versamel hier sy kortverhale, rubrieke, artikels en gedigte waarin hy sulke dae in sy lewe so helder moontlik probeer oproep. Die helderheid ontstaan onder meer met die gebruik van erns, sensitiwiteit én humor. Hy illustreer hoe hy uit benoudheid na vreugde...
| Автор | Danie Botha |
Dear reader, let me introduce myself: There are really several ways in which I could do this. If I wanted to create the illusion of exoticism, I could say that I was an Afrikaans writer living in a medieval village in the south of France. If I wanted to make a romantic impression, I could say that I lived in a Provençal stone house with lilac shutters, pink roses and lavender outside the kitchen window, and an enormous plane tree beside the gate. But if I were honest I would have to say that I...
| Автор | Marita van der Vyver |
Die merkwaardige lewensverhaal van die Suid-Afrikaanse magnaat en weldoener dr. Anton Rupert word hier volledig en sonder doekies omdraai vertel. Dit is die verhaal van 'n seun uit die Karoo wat in die Depressie grootgeword het. Hy het nie soos Harry Oppenheimer, 'n ander Suid-Afrikaanse miljoenêr, ryk geërf of sy miljoene uit mynbou gemaak nie. Sy Rembrandt Groep was vervaardigers wat wêreldbekend geword het met handelsmerke soos Cartier, Dunhill, Rothmans en Montblanc. Binne...
| Автор | Ebbe Dommisse |
Brand Pretorius wéét wat dit beteken om 'n leier te wees: in sy loopbaan wat oor vier dekades strek het hy aan die hoof van Toyota Suid-Afrika en die McCarthy-groep gestaan. Hy weet dat leierskap vra dat jy soms moeilike besluite moet neem, ongewilde besluite. Maar besluite wat op lang termyn in die beste belang van die onderneming, die werknemers en die aandeelhouers sal wees. In hierdie boek praat Pretorius openhartig oor die lesse wat hy as leier en uitvoerende hoof geleer het. Hoewel...
| Автор | Brand Pretorius |
In Pompie van der Westhuizen se plaaskombuis buite Tsumeb het die skote nooit geklap nie. Maar die oomblik wanneer sy agter haar weermagradio's ingeskuif het, het die Grensoorlog om haar begin woed. Hierdie aangrypende boek vertel die ware verhaal van die boeregemeenskap van die sogenaamde Driehoek van die Dood in Suidwes en hoe hulle by die oorlog ingetrek is. Swapo-insurgente het die land jaarliks deur dié gebied binnegesypel om sagte teikens aan te val. Deon Lamprecht herskep die...
| Автор | Deon Lamprecht |