Биографии и Мемуары
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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 |
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 |