Биографии и Мемуары
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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 |
Christo Wiese – once the owner of a diamond mine, a wine farm and the most expensive house in Cape Town. Former chairman of South Africa's largest retailer, director of the Reserve Bank and the richest man in the country. As a young man, Wiese cut his teeth at Pep Stores. Over the years he built a mighty business empire, which included Shoprite and a number of other enterprises. His recipe for success: an endless love for cutting deals, a fearless appetite for risk and a keen eye for a...
| Автор | TJ Strydom |
Celebrated author Elsa Joubert has been a traveller to foreign places all her life. With this memoir, completed in her 95th year, she explores the continent of old age. It is a searing, honest account of ageing, as she settles into a cosmopolitan Cape Town retirement home along with the Englishman across the passage, her Dutch friend Jo Struik, and the support of StomJapie. It also tells of the force of returning memories; of her sister's early death, rivalry with her brother, family...
| Автор | Elsa Joubert |
This sequel to Jennifer Friedman’s enchanting first memoir picks up where 'Queen of the Free State' leaves off: as the rebellious young teenager is packed off to boarding school in Cape Town. Told with humour and pathos, the theme of displacement – of the outsider – is explored further as we follow Jennifer’s journey into adulthood, becoming a wife and mother, living in Johannesburg and Israel, emigration, and leave-takings in Australia. Once again a strong sense of love, loyalty and...
| Автор | Jennifer Friedman |
Ná jare van versoeningswerk tussen eertydse vyande in Ierland keer Wilhelm Verwoerd terug na Suid-Afrika. Hy wil vrede maak met sy eie familie en sy geskiedenis. In die Verwoerd-strandhuis, Blaas 'n Bietjie, waar hy sit en skryf, hang 'n gesinsfoto waarop sy oupa, HF Verwoerd, hom as baba teer vashou. Hoe versoen hy dié menslike oupa met die gehate onderdrukker wat in die stories van sy swart bure en kennisse na vore kom, mense wat as kinders in die strate gedans het toe sy oupa...
| Автор | Wilhelm Verwoerd |
'I remembered how, when I was a small child supposed to be asleep, my mother would slip into bed behind me and hold me. She would be trembling. She couldn’t hide it no matter how young I was. ‘Go to sleep, go to sleep,’ she’d say, as if that would save us.' Brent Meersman’s poignant memoir of a humble and eccentric upbringing in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970s and ’80s reads as a stirring eulogy to his mother, and a vivid snapshot of the times. His adoring mother, a horse-loving...
| Автор | Brent Meersman |
Op sy dag eienaar van 'n diamantmyn, 'n wynplaas én die duurste huis in Kaapstad. Voorsitter van Suid-Afrika se grootste kleinhandelaar. Direkteur van die Reserwebank, en die rykste man in die land. As jong man het Christo Wiese sy tande by Pep Stores geslyp. Mettertyd bou hy 'n magtige sakeryk op, wat Shoprite en 'n rits ander maatskappye insluit. Sy wenresep: 'n eindelose liefde vir transaksies, 'n vreeslose aptyt vir risiko en 'n oog vir 'n winskopie....
| Автор | TJ Strydom |
Van laaitie tot politieke kryger, bandiet tot generaal-majoor, ondergrondse operateur tot presidensiële lyfwag… Jeremy Vearey se lewe het talle onvoorspelbare wendings geneem. Sy eiesoortige vertelling sluit die ouere manne van sy jeug in, die ooms by die damstafel, heimlik politieke kerkjeugkampe en die Kommuniste-manifes, skoolhou en ondergrondse werk vir MK, en sy aanhouding op Robbeneiland. As Mandela se lyfwag help hy 'n opstand in die Karoo ontlont, voor hy deel word van die nuwe...
| Автор | Jeremy Vearey |
Regardt se lewe het glad nie naby God begin het nie, maar hy het beslis die pad na Hom gevind. Hy vertel van sy vroegste kinderjare in Bez Valley tot die punt waar sy lewe op die kruin van sy loopbaan, ná 'n onverskillige lewe met drank en 'n vergeefse soeke na 'n dieper sin, heeltemal uitmekaarval. Hy het sy gesin en huis verloor, maar een oggend met 'n babelaas en trane wat oor sy wange loop het hy 'n onvergeetlike ontmoeting met God gehad wat sy hele lewe vir goed...
| Автор | Regardt van den Bergh |
Die ontvoering van baba Zephany Nurse uit die kot langs haar ma se hospitaalbed het die hele Suid-Afrika aangegryp. Haar desperate ouers het herhaaldelik gepleit dat sy veilig terugbesorg word, maar daar was geen teken van die baba nie. Vir 17 jaar lank, op haar verjaarsdag, het die Nurse-gesin kerse aangesteek en gehoop en gebid. 'n Klipgooi van die Nurse-gesin af het die 17-jarige Miché Solomon pas met matriek begin. Sy het 'n kêrel gehad en toegewyde ouers. Sy het gedroom oor die...
| Автор | Joanne Jowell |
The kidnapping of baby Zephany Nurse from the cot beside her mother's hospital bed made headline news. Desperate pleas from her parents to return her safely went unanswered. There was no trace of the baby. For seventeen years, on her birthday, the Nurses lit candles and hoped and prayed. Living not far away from the Nurses, 17-year-old Miché Solomon had just started Matric. She had a boyfriend. She had devoted parents. She was thinking about the upcoming school dance and the dress her...
| Автор | Joanne Jowell |
The outsider on the inside. The one who watches and listens. The bearer of tales… Growing up Jewish in a small town in the Free State in the '50s and '60s, Jennifer Friedman moves between child and adult, black and white, as Verwoerd's grand apartheid is dividing South Africa. There are midnight escapes, stolen loot and banned comics. Frogs' legs, eisteddfods, icy drives with Grandpa, hideous encounters with bras, terrifying policemen, albino messengers and Pa's...
| Автор | Jennifer Friedman |
John de Gruchy, internationally renowned theologian, vividly recounts his remarkable life filled with challenge, discovery – and many extraordinary fellow travellers. As a young pastor and ecumenical activist, De Gruchy grappled daily with the realities of troubled country. As a scholar of the anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he takes part in a global conversation about our responsibilities in this world. I Have Come a Long Way tells De Gruchy’s extraordinary story of political action,...
| Автор | John W. de Gruchy |
The legendary lost city of southern Africa and its untold riches fascinated the Romans, European explorers and writers such as Rider Haggard, Alan Paton, Wilbur Smith, and Lawrence Green. Even the apartheid government searched for it in vain. Adam Cruise sets out on a quest into history and across the Kalahari to find the mythical city that inspired King Solomon's Mines, and 'the Great Farini', the daredevil showman of the Victorian age at the heart of the legend. On the way,...
| Автор | Adam Cruise |
When Errol Tobias was selected for the Springbok rugby team there was an immediate uproar. He became our first black Springbok in 1980 – in the middle of South Africa's isolation from international sport and growing protest action against the government. In Errol Tobias: Pure Gold he talks openly about his sporting career: from childhood to the great moments in the green and gold. Here are the joys, the losses, and the controversy. The truth behind legendary rugby matches is revealed, such...
| Автор | Errol Tobias |
What's a mother to do when her high-achieving boy – adored by his close-knit family and private school community – turns bully overnight? How is she to know that his sudden headaches and vomiting are far more serious than all the doctors insist? 'The Twinkling of An Eye' is the true, life-affirming memoir of a mother's harrowing but heroic fight against her son's rare brain tumour. Brown tells her story with courage, humour and heart. Hers is a revealing, frank and...
| Автор | Sue Brown |
Die een moordenaar suig sy duim. Die ander een klim op sy ma se skoot en begin huil. Hulle speel met hul speelgoed en lees hul strokiesprente op die vloer van die polisiekantoor. Hulle is albei 10 jaar oud. Wat dryf 'n kind om moord te pleeg? 'n Skynbaar normale kind uit 'n «goeie» huis … Henri van Breda, die Welkom-begraafplaasmoord, Marcel Steyn van die Krugersdorpse afspraakmoorde en soveel ander, dalk al vergete: die Waterkloof-4, Marlene Lehnberg, Charmaine Phillips, Phoenix...
| Автор | André le Roux |