Биографии и Мемуары
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Brand Pretorius knows what it means to be a leader: he was at the head of Toyota South Africa during its heyday, and took over as chief executive at the McCarthy Group. He knows that leadership means making hard and unpopular decisions with an eye on the long term. He writes about his four decades in business and the lessons he learnt. He illustrates his lessons on leadership with tales from his highly regarded career in motoring, like how it feels to be in a Formula 1 racing car with one of...
| Автор | Brand Pretorius |
’n Dekade of wat gelede het Marita van der Vyver soos ’n wafferse prinses van ’n verre land deur Frankryk gereis en ’n vreeslik verleidelike padda leer ken. Omdat sy so graag in sprokies wil glo, het sy gehoop dat as sy hierdie slim padda soen, hy in ’n prins gaan verander. Dis mos hoe sprokies werk. En wat gebeur toe? Saam met haar prins sit sy huis op in ’n Franse dorpie. Hulle gaan woon in ’n ou kliphuis in Rue de l’église – Kerkstraat. Dáároor skryf sy in In die hart van ons huis. ...
| Автор | Marita van der Vyver |
In die dae toe speurders nog aan hul safaripakke en Grasshopper-skoene uitgeken kon word, was die Moord-en-roofeenheid ewe beroemd as berug. Charles Miller was een van hul topspeurders. As lid van die Wes-Randse tak het hy verskeie opspraakwekkende moord- en roofsake danksy deeglike speurwerk en 'n uitstekende netwerk opgelos. Bloedbesmeerde moordtonele, donker hole, omstrede ondervragingsmetodes en smerige informante was alles deel van sy werk. Vir hom en sy kollegas het die adrenalien...
| Автор | Albert Blake |
In this, Es’kia Mphahlele’s second autobiography – published originally in 1984 – he recounts his return to South Africa after twenty years in exile and the challenges that he and his family faced in returning to the land of his birth before the momentous events of the 1990s. Filled with extraordinary, precise prose, Afrika, My Music showcases the kind of writing that earned Es’kia a nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year this book was originally published. Es’kia’s commitment...
| Автор | Es'kia Mphahlele |
Niemand hoor die stemme wat so duidelik in haar kop praat nie. Niemand weet dat sy nie kan bad nie omdat haar bad voortdurend vol bloed is … dat sy tientalle obsessiewe kompulsies het wat haar byna te bang maak om asem te haal. Niemand weet van Harriet Christou se lewe met skisofrenie nie. Harriet vertel 'n sonderlinge verhaal, en sy doen dit onverskrokke en openhartig. Sy vertel van die tuimelrit deur die dieptes van ontreddering en ellende, van herhaalde mislukte behandeling totdat sy...
| Автор | Harriet Christou |
Johan van Wyk beskryf ’n platteland propvol enigmatiese karakters en ongewone gebeurtenisse. Saam met hom betree jy die wêreld van Stefaans-sonder-sokkies, die Beenpense van Draaikraal, ant Hettie Poortjies en Gert Kriedoring – en ’n era van eenvoud en outydse waardes. Sy stories gaan oor windpompe, skuurdanse, die uitgestrekte vlaktes van die Hantam, Aga-stowe, baaisiekels en boorgate . . . en mense wat teen die armoede in probeer boer. Dit verklap egter ook iets van die lewensreise waarop ons...
| Автор | Johan van Wyk |
'The temerity of writing one's biography needs to be explained. It is a foolish act by any description. Why make oneself so vulnerable? I have reasons to tell my story. It is a story of loss, and storytelling is part of the struggle to transcend loss. It is also imperative in our deeply wounded society. The past cannot be undone: it has to be transcended.' When Mamphela Ramphele was born in a rural village in Limpopo, few would have predicted that she would become not only...
| Автор | Mamphela Ramphele |
At two important junctures in her life, Melanie Verwoerd was told to keep quiet. But she had promised two men she loved and admired – Nelson Mandela and Gerry Ryan – that she would not be silenced. This book honours her promises. As a Stellenbosch schoolgirl, Melanie met Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of the «father of apartheid», HF Verwoerd, and at age twenty she married him. In the turbulent early 1990s, the two young Verwoerds did the unthinkable by joining the recently unbanned African...
| Автор | Melanie Verwoerd |
Mkhuseli ‘Khusta’ Jack was born on a white-owned farm in the Eastern Cape. Evicted from their home, his family was split up, wandering between different relatives, with nowhere to live legally. The young Khusta had a fierce yearning to go to school. Meeting obstacles at every turn, he never gave up. Reaching high school in Port Elizabeth, against all the odds, his drive finds a new focus: freedom for his people. Through fiery years of activism, his resolve never wavered. Khusta Jack became a...
| Автор | Mkhuseli Jack |
'Finally, a book that reveals the inner workings of a murky underworld market we know alarmingly little about … a fascinating first-hand account from an insider.’ – Mandy Wiener. Locked up for poaching abalone, Shuhood Abader began writing his life story. For over fifteen years, he had been a small cog in a criminal industry stretching from the Cape underworld to China’s luxury seafood market. As abalone – 'perlemoen', 'perly' – vanishes from the South African...
| Автор | Kimon de Greef |
‘Strangers pulling their eyes slant at me when they walked by. They’d pretend to be Chinese and make fake nasal-pitched noises that they thought passed for an Asian language.’ Ming-Cheau Lin’s family emigrated from Tainan, Taiwan, to South Africa when she was three years old. Growing up in the '90s, in the largely Afrikaans Bloemfontein, within a small East Asian community, she was always the outsider. Too ‘yellow’ for the whites, but ‘not Asian enough’ when she didn’t conform to the rules...
| Автор | Ming-Cheau Lin |
"At about 5:20 pm on 31 December 2012, a colleague picked a steak knife from a cutlery tray. He yelled, ‘Angi-gay, mina!’ – I’m not gay! – and came at me with it." Siya Khumalo grew up in a Durban township where one sermon could whip up a lynch mob against those considered different. Drawing on personal experience – his childhood, life in the army, attending church, and competing in pageants – Khumalo explores being LGBTQI+ in South Africa today. In 'You Have to Be Gay to Know...
| Автор | Siya Khumalo |
Johann Nel, die Skierlik-moordenaar, gevonnis tot 168 jaar gevangenisstraf, vind liefde. Die jong vrou trou met hom, teen alle raad… Dít is ver van die enigste geval van so 'n verhouding. Van diewe tot geweldsmisdadigers – selfs moordenaars – vind liefde agter tralies. Sulke mense word dikwels as monsters beskou, maar vir diegene wat op hulle verlief raak is hulle «die liefde van hul lewe», of word hulle soos familie word vir mekaar. Die bekende misdaadskrywer Carla van der Spuy gesels met...
| Автор | Carla van der Spuy |
'If you want to take the system down, provide a better alternative at least. At heart I’m an engineer. I want to encourage people to fix things, not to raise false hopes.' Mteto Nyati knew years ago as a schoolboy in Mthatha, working behind the counter at his mother’s trading store, that he wanted to fix and build things. After completing his studies in Mechanical Engineering at Natal University, he turned down a Rhodes scholarship and headed for Johannesburg to take up a position at...
| Автор | Mteto Nyati |
South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7000 times. In this funny and tender memoir, Uys reveals the person behind the persona. We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, his brilliant but troubled mother, and Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ma who raised him in Pinelands, Cape Town. Filled with photographs from the family album and 40 years of satire, this book also features Pieter's Paarlse ouma, his strudel-baking German Oma, his devotion to Sophia Loren,...
| Автор | Pieter-Dirk Uys |
Met meer as 7 000 verhoogoptredes op sy kapstok is Pieter-Dirk Uys volksbesit. In hierdie boek, sy skreeusnaakse, roerende memoires, tree die mens agter die ikoon te voorskyn. Ons leer ken sy moeilike, musikaal-gedrewe pa, sy briljante, geheimsinnige ma, sy suster, die pianis-wonderkind, en Sannie Abader, «Pietertjie» se Kaapse Vlakte-ma. Dan is daar sy Paarlse ouma wat hom neem om by die Verwoerds te gaan kuier, sy ander Oma en haar onverbeterlike strudel, sy vriendskap met Sophia Loren, die...
| Автор | Pieter-Dirk Uys |
At just 17, Fatima Meer threw herself into resisting racism, the first public act of defiance in a long and pioneering political life. Despite assassination attempts, petrol bombs and the constant harassment of her family, she persevered on the courageous path she had chosen. In this intimate memoir, Fatima Meer shares her personal story of growing up and of love, joy, longing and loss. As Meer openly reflects on her regrets as well as her triumphs, an enchanting tale emerges of a rebellious,...
| Автор | Fatima Meer |
When, in the 1990s, Wilhelm Verwoerd spoke out against his grandfather's racist policies, his father called him a traitor. After many years of working in Northern Ireland, brokering peace between former enemies, he returns to his homeland to make his own peace. Back home, as he listens to his black neighbours' and friends' painful stories of the past, he struggles to reconcile the hated symbol of apartheid with the loving husband he encounters in Betsie Verwoerd's intimate...
| Автор | Wilhelm Verwoerd |
‘I hated being pregnant with you. I used to cry the whole day. I hated carrying you in my stomach.’ Thuli Nhlapo grew up constantly hearing these words from her mother. She was seven years old when she realised that no one called her by name. Known as "Yellow”, she was bullied at home and at school. Fearing that she had a terrible disease, she withdrew into herself. Years later, Thuli is still haunted by her childhood experiences. She confronts her mother about her real father and real surname....
| Автор | Thuli Nhlapo |
Hierdie boek vertel die volle, grootliks onbekende verhaal van Emily Hobhouse, nie net 'n Anglo-Boereoorlogheld nie, maar ook 'n aktivis en stryder teen onreg en onderdrukking op verskeie kontinente. Elsabé Brits het Emily se handgeskrewe notas, dagboeke en plakboeke in 'n trommel in Kanada ontdek, en haal hieruit en uit ander nuwe bronne aan. Só gee sy 'n genuanseerde, vars blik op 'n buitengewone vrou wat voortdurend in die spervuur was. Van kleintyd het Emily haar...
| Автор | Elsabé Brits |
Albert Luthuli's extraordinary story is also that of the African National Congress, which he led for fifteen years. Luthuli's lively first-hand account tells of the repression and resistance that were to shape the South African political landscape forever: the Defiance Campaign – the first mass challenge to apartheid, the drafting of the Freedom Charter, the Treason Trial and the tragedies of Sharpeville and Langa. Albert Luthuli was the first black African man to receive the Nobel...
| Автор | Albert Luthuli |
Stefaans Coetzee was maar 19 jaar oud toe hy op Oukersdag 1996 saam met twee ander verregses bomme by die Shoprite-winkel in Worcester geplant het. Vier mense – onder wie drie kinders – sterf in dié verwoestende ontploffings en Stefaans se lewe verander onherroeplik. Hy word tot moordenaar veroordeel en vir veertig jaar tronk toe gestuur. In die gevangenis kruis sy pad met wit en swart tronkbewaarders, bendelede en medegevangenes – en dié interaksie oortuig die hardkoppige jong man om met sy...
| Автор | Stefaans Coetzee |
In Hanlie Retief se gereelde onderhoude in Rapport oorreed sy doodgewone én beroemde mense om hulle harte behoorlik oop te maak en hul geheime met lesers te deel. Anderkant uit is 'n versameling van onderhoude met dié mense wat trauma en teenspoed beleef het – van verslawing, misdaad en siekte tot verlies – en daarin geslaag het om weer op te staan. Die onderhoude word opgevolg deur 'n kort bespreking oor die impak van trauma op dié mense se lewens deur die sielkundige Louis Awerbuck...
| Автор | Hanlie Retief |
As a young underground cadre in 1980s Durban, Moe Shaik endured detention, following orders for the good of the organisation. Little did he know that this stint in the police cells would lead to his lifelong relationship with The Nightingale, a Special Branch policeman turned enemy secret agent whose files were so accurate, Oliver Tambo named them The Bible. Shaik morphs from being a timid optometrist to leading a critical, high-tech intelligence operation, supplying information to the ANC top...
| Автор | Moe Shaik |