Биографии и Мемуары
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Met haar Nederlandse lover aan haar sy voel Azille Coetzee lig en bevryd. Sy hou van die sosiale gelykheid, die wêreldklas festivals, die galerye, en lesings deur beroemde filosowe. Sy begin uiteindelik die ellendige taal baasraak. Van waar dan die hardkoppige ongemak wat haar nie wil laat los nie? Met hierdie boek verken Coetzee dwingende aktuele vrae oor Suid-Afrikanerskap op 'n verrassende, persoonlike manier. Dit is sowel 'n leesbare, dikwels skreeusnaakse liefdesverhaal, as...
| Автор | Azille Coetzee |
Van sy eerste dag as dienspligtige was François Verster in die sop danksy die «siekverveelde uitdrukking» op sy gesig en sy ingebore rebelsheid. Hy vertel op skreeusnaakse wyse hoe hy basiese opleiding net-net oorleef het om daarna uitgeplaas te word na Omega, waar hy vir Boesman-kinders moes skoolgee. Op die basis bestaan sy lewe uit 'n kombinasie van aggressiewe korporaals, verveling en vreemde karakters wat sy ervarings daar dikwels onwerklik laat voel. Sy kostelike anekdotes word...
| Автор | Francois Verster |
Was daar 'n medalje daarvoor om gefire te word, het dit waarskynlik aan Rian behoort. Reeds met sy heel eerste TV-verskyning as hoërskool-laaitie laat hy die wenkbroue lig. Sedertdien maak Rian mense – tot in Australië! – gereeld briesend. In dié boek praat Rian openharting oor hoe sy woorde hom soms diep in die moeilikheid laat beland het. Hy openbaar wat agter die skerms gebeur het en waarom hy sekere dinge kwytgeraak het. Met sy kenmerkende vlymskerp humor vertel Rian van sy...
| Автор | Rian van Heerden |
Op haar gewilde program Tjailatyd op RSG het Amore Bekker luisteraars gevra: deel jul saamrystories met my. Die reaksie? 'n Vloedgolf verhale vanoor die hele land en selfs uit die buiteland: oor taxi's, die Camino, die Helderberg se laaste vlug, verpaste treine, onwaarskynlike rylopers, ontmoetings by rooi robotte en selfs kalfies wat huil. Van Alberton en Merweville tot Roodepoort en Wellington het mense hulle harte oopgemaak. Daar is stories oor eerste liefde, verbode liefde en...
| Автор | Amore Bekker |
Errol Tobias se insluiting in die Springbokspan was dadelik omstrede. In 1980 word hy ons eerste swart Springbok-rugbyspeler – te midde van internasionale sport-isolasie en groeiende protes weens die regeringsbeleid. In Errol Tobias: Suiwer Goud vertel hy openhartig van sy sportloopbaan: vanaf sy kinderdae tot die groot oomblikke in die Groen-en-goud, die vreugdes, die verlies, en die omstredenheid. Die waarheid agter legendariese en berugte rugbywedstryde word onthul, soos die Suid-Amerikaanse...
| Автор | Errol Tobias |
Hermann Giliomee weaves together the story of his own life with that of his country, a country that continues to absorb and inspire him, not least because its contested history is central to its current politics. An internationally respected historian, Giliomee has devoted a lifetime to exploring the origins and perpetuation of the deep divisions in South African society. His work, original and fearless, appeals not only to scholars but also to general readers interested in the complexities of...
| Автор | Hermann Giliomee |
Hermann Giliomee verweef die verhaal van sy lewensverloop met dié van 'n land wat hom boei en besiel, 'n land waar die geskiedskrywing sentraal staan tot die hedendaagse politiek. As internasionaal gerekende historikus ondersoek Giliomee lewenslank die ontstaan en handhawing van die skerp verdeeldheid in die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing. Sy werk is vars en vreesloos, en vind aanklank by kenners én gewone Afrikaanse lesers wat oor hulself en hul verlede begin herbesin. Sy uitgesprokenheid...
| Автор | Hermann Giliomee |
Hoe vermoor jy jou eie familie? Dit is elke keer skokkend: Ouers wat hul eie kinders se lewens uitwis – kinders wat hul ouers om die lewe bring – broers en susters wat eens en vir altyd teen mekaar draai. Suid-Afrika het talle sulke tragiese voorvalle. Venolia Siwa: moordenaar van haar vyf kinders. Phoenix Theron wat haar ma vermoor het om haar suster te beskerm. Don Steenkamp: moordenaar van sy ouers en sussie. John Langeveldt wat sy suster en neef met 'n byl doodgekap het. En nog meer…...
| Автор | Charné Kemp |
Award-winning journalist Sylvia Vollenhoven tells the story of her life and how it's been turned upside down by an Ancestor: //Kabbo, a Bushman storyteller and revolutionary. She writes of being «too black» for her coloured school mates, working as one of the early female journalists in the misogynistic '70s and of the constant struggle to find an identity that fits. Finally, she unearths a history that speaks to her: first in the language of a long, nameless illness without...
| Автор | Sylvia Vollenhoven |
Hulle is supersoldate wat hoogs geheime, lewensgevaarlike operasies diep in vyandelike gebiede aanpak… Die Recce's het nog altyd mense se verbeelding aangegryp, maar weens die sensitiewe aard van hul werk is daar min oor hierdie elite-eenhede van die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag bekend. Nou vertel een van hulle van die naelbytaksie en dramatiese gebeure wat hy eerstehands in die Grensoorlog beleef het. Koos Stadler het in die vroeë 1980's die legendaries strawwe keuringsproses vir die...
| Автор | Koos Stadler |
Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have fascinated South Africans for years. Now one of these elite soldiers has written a tell-all book about the extraordinary missions he embarked on and the nail-biting action he experienced in the Border War. Shortly after passing the infamously gruelling Special Forces selection course in the early 1980s, Koos Stadler joined the so-called Small Teams group at 5 Reconnaissance Regiment. This subunit was made up of...
| Автор | Koos Stadler |
When Robert McBride was sentenced to death, he turned to the public gallery in court and said: ‘Freedom is just around the corner. I am leaving you at the corner – and you must take that corner to find freedom on the other side.’ As the guard moved in, he raised his fist and shouted: ‘The struggle continues till Babylon falls!’ It was 1987: the time of ‘total onslaught’. The trial of the MK unit that planted the Magoo's bomb on the Durban beachfront dominated the news but few knew the real...
| Автор | Bryan Rostron |
To know each other and understand the whole of our reality, we must hear each other's stories. Journalist Ruda Landman, widely known for her compelling interviews, talks to prominent South Africans about their life choices and how change has affected them. A colourful mosaic of experience emerges as people share stories – from changing careers to coming out, losing a partner or following a calling. The book includes insights by the likes of John Kani, Ferial Haffajee, Pieter-Dirk Uys,...
| Автор | Ruda Landman |
When Lesley Smailes set off from Port Elizabeth for a gap year, her mother joked: «Whatever you do, don't get married. And don't join a cult.» But within months, Lesley was part of a notorious American sect, married to a man she hardly knew and allowed only minimal contact with her family. Despite rape, home births and a forced abortion, her belief was unshakeable. Until she was faced with the terrifyingly real threat of losing her children… Harrowing at times, but also funny and wise,...
| Автор | Lesley Smailes |
'There are a lot of good things about getting older. When you’re young you want everyone to like you and to make an impression. When you’re old you don’t give a damn.' Kate Turkington is fearless and fun, even now in her 80s. Actually, more so! From the war-worn East End of London to raising a young family in a remote part of eastern Nigeria and then building a career as one of SA's most loved broadcasters, Kate's story is remarkable and revealing. You'll laugh....
| Автор | Kate Turkington |
In this shockingly brilliant debut memoir, a young girl grows up in Joburg in a space of pure chaos. With a crack-devouring father and a pot-smoking mother, her childhood is peppered by crack excursions to Hillbrow at 3 am, courtesy of her father, while observing her mother disappear into clouds of smoke. Unleashing a Millennial’s unapologetic take on our world, Chilimigras is a new voice that shakes perspectives and demands to be read.
| Автор | Christy Chilimigras |
When the Cradock Four’s Fort Calata was murdered by agents of the apartheid state in 1985 his son, Lukhanyo, was only three years old. Thirty-one years later Lukhanyo, now a journalist, becomes one of the SABC 8 when he defies Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s reign of censorship at the public broadcaster by writing an open letter that declares: my father didn’t die for this. With his wife, Abigail, Lukhanyo brings to life the father he never knew and investigates the mystery that despite two high-profile...
| Автор | Lukhanyo Calata |
A fresh, nuanced look at an extraordinary woman and her lifelong fight for justice. Defying the constraints of her gender and class, Emily Hobhouse travelled across continents and spoke out against oppression. A passionate pacifist and a feminist, she opposed both the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War and World War One, which led to accusations of treason. Despite saving thousands of lives in two wars, she died alone – an unsung hero in her own country. Elsabé Brits travelled in Emily Hobhouse's...
| Автор | Elsabé Brits |
Hykie Berg is 'n bekende film- en TV-akteur, geliefd en gewild reg oor Suid-Afrika vir sy rol in Binnelanders en as wenner van Survivor. Hy is ook 'n verslaafde. Op die kruin van sy suksesloopbaan verloor Hykie alles en draai by die dood om. Hier vertel hy sy verhaal openhartig, van die dwelmhole van Hillbrow tot in 'n maksimum-sekuriteitsel in die Weskoppieshospitaal, waar God hom van 'n gewisse dood red. Hykie nooi jou uit om te onthou dat God se liefde ook vir jou bedoel...
| Автор | Hykie Berg |
‘Successful people who pretend they have it all worked out and have executed flawless plans to get to their objective – are not being truthful. Be careful of these posers … In reality, business and life is a series of successes and setbacks.’ After bailing out of the corporate world, new-media journalist Matthew Buckland built a digital-marketing and media business, Creative Spark, that employed 70+ people and counted top global and local brands as clients. He fulfilled many an entrepreneur’s...
| Автор | Matthew Buckland |
Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in post-war Johannesburg, Carnie Matisonn learns of a great-uncle in occupied Norway murdered by Nazi soldiers as they looted his prized art collection. He starts a life-long quest to retrieve the art that takes him into the murky waters of apartheid sanctions-busting, Mossad agents, international art dealers and Nazi hunters. Matisonn's enthralling story – told here with journalist Charles Cilliers – embraces courage, wit and wisdom as he shows...
| Автор | Carnie Matisonn |
The Road to San Donato is an adventurous travel memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage by bicycle. With only the bare essentials on their backs, author Robert Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a torturous 425-mile ride from Florence, Italy, to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village hidden in the Apennine mountains from which their family emigrated a hundred years earlier. After getting lost, beaten down, and very nearly stranded,...
| Автор | Robert Cocuzzo |
In April 2015, Beth and Eric Jusino, laden with backpacks and nerves, walked out of a cathedral in the historic village of Le Puy, France, down a cobblestone street, and turned west. Seventy-nine days, a thousand miles, two countries, two mountain ranges, and three pairs of shoes later, they reached the Atlantic Ocean. <br><br>More than two million pilgrims have walked the Way of Saint James, a long-distance hiking trail familiar to most Americans by its Spanish name, the Camino de...
| Автор | Beth Jusino |
Wife and mother. Teacher and musician. Marathoner and rock climber. At 66, Dierdre Wolownick-Honnold became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan in Yosemite–and in <i>The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story</i>, she shares her intimate journey, revealing how her climbing achievement reflects a broader story of courage and persistence.<br><br> Dierdre grew up under the watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized early on that her parents’ plans for her future...
| Автор | Dierdre Wolownick |