The funnier side of the new south Africa after the abandoning of apartheid.

It takes two to toyi-toyi: A survival guide to the New South Africa

Silber, Gus

Thorold's Africana Books, distributor]

Companies don't innovate - people do! 
With today's markets changing at warp-speed, no existing business believes it has a future without a strong focus on innovation. Companies with bold leadership are attempting to create a culture in which innovation can flourish. To do so, they need radical innovators and business activists. 
This is what Lessons in Radical Innovation is about. There are many books on innovation, but this is the first to take the debate from the corporate level to the individual. It's about real people who took risks, who set themselves extraordinary goals against almost impossible odds. 
These are stories about out-of-the-box thinking; about passionate individuals and the different kinds of companies they created. 
The book provides a structured way to think about innovation and gives practical examples of how individuals are doing it. Share their ideas, attitudes and tools - real world examples of real people making a real difference - and build your own context for thriving as a business radical.

Lessons in Radical Innovation: Out of the Box Straight to the Bottom Line

Business & Money

Grulke, Wolfgang

Management & Leadership

Ft Pr

Ronnie Apteker's Funny Business: The Secret of an Accidental Entrepreneur

More than 1000 jokes from South Africa's well-known personality, and favourite comedian, Leon Schuster. A great present to get your friends and family smiling!

The Lekker Vrot: South African Joke Book

Humor & Entertainment

Schuster, Leon

Humor

Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd

In these crisscrossing threads are woven the fabric of a community, a society, an economy, a nation. And beyond that, the world itself. But the technology isn't the dream. The dream is what you can do with it.' Three revolutions changed the face of South Africa, the economic powerhouse of the African continent, in 1994. The first was democracy, as millions of newly-enfranchised citizens went to the polls to elect a new government. The second was the internet, bringing information, learning and entertainment into millions of homes. But the real signal of change in the air was the arrival of an electronic device that would put undreamed-of power into the hands of the people. The cellular phone. In a country where less than four per cent of the population had access to a landline phone, mobile telephony opened the gateway to new ways and new worlds of communication. Today, more than 90 per cent of South Africans own at least one mobile phone, and they're not just using them to talk to each other. Mobiles have become tools of education, entrepreneurship, trade, empowerment, activism, media and upliftment. With the advent of the mobile internet, mobiles have also become the hubs of the most powerful force in modern communication. The social network, bringing people together in an interchange of ideas, opinions, chatter and commerce that is changing the way we understand and define communities. This is the story of the biggest and fastest-growing social network in Africa. A network that took shape in the townships of the Western Cape and has grown to be part of the lives of more than 50 million users in 120 countries, sending more than 23 billion messages a month. This is the story of Mxit. A cultural force, a community of millions, with its own economy, its own infrastructure, its own language and its own traditions. This is the story of Mobinomics, the new economy of mobile, and how it is connecting people and changing lives. Read it and learn. Read it and understand. Read it and be moved by the power of mobile.

Mobinomics: Mxit and Africa's mobile revolution

Knott-Craig, Alan

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Bookstorm

Can business change the world? Can the world change business? For a new breed of social entrepreneurs, striving to build and grow enterprises that fight social ills, foster opportunity, and help to improve society, the answer is not can, it’s must. Impassioned by purpose, driven by dreams, emboldened by ideals, social entrepreneurs imagine a better way to a better world. And then they go out of their way to bring it to life. In the process, they shake the dust off old ways of thinking and disrupt the way business has always been done. In this book, brought to you by GIBS, a leading business school based in Johannesburg, South Africa, you’ll get to meet The Disruptors. Through these tales of daring, struggle, triumph and innovation, you’ll see the world through the eyes of a diverse range of social entrepreneurs, and learn their secrets for changing the world by changing business. From healthcare to mobile gaming, from education to recycling, from dancing to gardening, these are the game-changers, the difference-makers, the doers of good. Here are their stories.

The Disruptors: Social entrepreneurs reinventing business and society

Krige, Kerryn

Business Culture

Gus Silber, well-known journalist and wordsmith, has over the last few years written some extraordinary commentary pieces on his journeys around his neighborhood in Johannesburg and his digital wanderings through the global village we call social media, and posted them to Facebook. Gus's followers know what insightful and frankly charming pieces he writes, and we're bringing those digital missives to the page and discerning masses. This is a collection of over 50 of Gus's most-loved social media posts - covering everything from understanding house-breaking hadedas, the meaning of pathos, deciphering Joburg style, and everything in between.

Electric Graffiti: Musings on a Facebook Wall

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