Enter an age-old, timeless Africa - an Africa that lies sprawled in the sleep of aeons. Where animals and men walk and talk in primeval innocence. Where the spirit world and ordinary everyday life mingle and merge. Where waking and dreaming tremble but a hair’s breath apart. The true feel of Africa is recreated in these 10 unusual stories with their strange, mysterious charm.Although this anthology is aimed at readers between 12 and 15 years, one hesitates to classify it as a young adult book as adults will enjoy it just as much.

The Old Man of the Waterfalls & Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Kasiya Makaka

Short Stories & Anthologies

NB Publishers

From Paul Theroux and Peter Moore to Jonny Steinberg, JM Coetzee, Jonathan Kaplan, Nelson Mandela, Mamphela Ramphele, Tom Eaton, Breyten Breytenbach, Pieter-Dirk Uys and Gabeba Baderoon: Discover Cape Town with top contemporary authors – both well-loved locals and international travel writers. Selected and with an introduction by Justin Fox. Read how … · JM Coetzee fails to get into a good school · Nelson Mandela misplaces his spectacles on the Grand Parade · Jonathan Kaplan faces arrest at St. George’s Cathedral · Paul Theroux meets a fellow pessimist at Cape Point · Jonny Steinberg is revolted by prison food · Joseph Lelyveld joins Crossroads residents singing hymns · Richard Rive walks with ghosts in District Six · Rian Malan haggles for snoek in Kalk Bay · Pieter-Dirk Uys attends a fake wedding on Greenmarket Square · Edwin Cameron climbs Table Mountain with the help of antiretrovirals · Judy Kibinge parties in Long Street plus many more...

Cape Town Calling: From Mandela to Theroux on the Mother City

Fox, Justin

Literary

An insider’s account, brimming with colorful anecdotes, humor and passion, of South Africa’s turbulent past. Kumalo shares intimate moments of pain and of triumph, in pictures and words. He was the one who escorted Nelson Mandela’s aged mother through the menacing crowds at the Rivonia Trial. He was there at HF Verwoerd’s funeral. He was a guest at Mohammad Ali’s home in Chicago and at the Rumble in the Jungle fight in Kinshasa. Kumalo joined Mandela on his first visit to America as SA president. Kumalo’s life’s work is a visual documentary of a nation’s transformation, but he is also a storyteller of note. His first-person account of historic events and private moments is filled with humor and compassion. An extraordinary and gripping eyewitness account, featuring amongst others: · Nelson Mandela and his family · Steve Biko · Desmond Tutu · Helen Joseph · Albertina Sisulu · Nadine Gordimer · Nat Nakasa · Muhammad Ali · Ray Charles · Robert Kennedy · Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba · Dizzie Gillespie

Through My Lens: A Photographic Memoir

Arts & Photography

Kumalo, Alf

Individual Artists

She is Helena Bosman, from a tiny little town lost in the vast expanses of the Northern Cape, but Grandpa and Grandma call her Vaselinetjie. She is their little angel from the veldt, the beginning and the end of their world. But when Vaselinetjie is ten years old, two officials from Welfare step in and she is sent away to a boarding school in Gauteng – the orphanage where Madiba’s reject children have to live. It’s a strange, hard, dangerous world of scum children, bad-tempered matrons and a harsh, unfair principal; a world of smoking cigarette butts, having one’s hair shaved off and making plans to run away. It’s a world where no one bothers about anyone else, where you too learn not to give a damn.But as the months turn into years, there is one name that crops up again and again: Texan Kirby. And that name does strange things to Vaselinetjie’s heart.

My Name is Vaselinetjie

Children's Books

von Meck, Anoeschka

Food from the Garden brings together 100 easy and affordable recipes inspired by the freshest fruit and vegetables. What's more, you can grow the ingredients yourself. We show you how to prepare and tend a patch of land in order to produce fruit and vegetables in your own backyard. The book also provides information on the nutritional value of the fresh produce featured. The recipes in Food from the Garden are a selection of Sonja Jordt's finest recipes published in Tuis and Home since 2004.

Food From the Garden

Sonja Jordt

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Everything served at Doornkraal’s table comes from the farm. The smoked sunflower seeds, the butter, the ricotta … The fish would have been pulled from the farm dam earlier in the day; the quince sweets might still have been fruit hanging ripe and heavy on the tree but a few hours ago; and the cream would have made the heart of the separator go klink-klink-klink only that morning.Emilia le Roux is one of the seven children who grew up on Doornkraal. She and her husband, Francois Smuts, wrote this book for everyone who yearns for the land, and who wants to bake and cook for the ones they love in a real farm kitchen. This is not simply a cookbook; it’s also a down-to-earth, do-it-yourself guide to preparing your soil, making compost, planting, nurturing and harvesting. It will inspire you to reacquaint yourself with your own piece of land, and to live a simple and soul-filled life.

A Farm in my Heart

Emilia le Roux, Francois Smuts

A fearless take on the state of our nation from one of South Africa’s most controversial commentators. This collection of Rhoda Kadalie’s best columns include sections on public figures such as Cyril Ramaphosa, Allan Boesak and Winnie Mandela, “troubled transformation”, “media meekness”, “foreign fumbles” and more. “These columns portray a deep sense of the ANC’s betrayal of those who overwhelmingly voted it into office in 1994 … Mbeki’s policies failed women regarding crime, women’s health, sexual violence, and HIV/AIDS. He also failed the poor...”

In Your Face: Passionate Conversations about People and Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Kadalie, Rhoda

Politics & Government

Mzansi Magic intercepts the ball at the first soccer game played between British soldiers stationed in South Africa in the late 1800s. Then it is dribbled through the decades all the way to the World Cup in 2010. The author, a veteran sports journalist, combines historical fact with personal experiences and striking anecdotes to bring the story and characters of South African soccer to life. His account also bears testimony to how the struggle against apartheid played out on the soccer field and in black soccer’s fight for recognition by FIFA. It also elaborates on our unique styles of street soccer like diski and even includes a chapter on the use of muthi in the game.

Mzansi Magic: Struggle, Betrayal, & Glory: The Story of South African Soccer

Latakgomo, Joe

Sports & Outdoors

Revised and updated, this new edition includes a chapter on the often fraught relationship between Afrikaners and the ANC in power, with an analysis of why Afrikaners relinquished power so easily, and how they, along with other minorities, are increasingly resisting ANC efforts to undermine the Constitution. Giliomee also examines the wildly divergent reactions of Afrikaners to President Zuma and his attempts to woo them.

The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, expanded and updated edition

History

Giliomee, HermanN

Africa

Die Pro

Leon de Villiers

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