Mahlangeni, the Tsonga word for "meeting place", is one of the most remote ranger stations in the Kruger National Park. Far from everywhere, this isolated corner of the wilderness was home for eleven years to Kobie Kruger, wife of the ranger in charge of the station, and their their three daughters. Running a household and raising a family in a place where leopards, elephants, snakes and the like are your only neighbours, where you have no telephone, and where a trip to town means first crossing a river full of hippos and crocodiles, is hardly a straightforward business. But Kobie Kruger tackled each problem with undaunted pragmatism and an energy that gives new meaning to word resourceful.

Mahlangeni: Stories of a Game Ranger's Family

Kobie Krüger

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Soweto, a sprawling urban city, home to four million people, became an icon of the apartheid era, infamous around the world for its violence, filthy streets and rickety shacks. This is a description of life in Soweto, told from the resident's point of view.

Born in Soweto

History

Holland, Heidi

Africa

This is the second collection of the popular South African cartoon strip, "Madam and Eve", in book format. It is a contemporary satirical series about a white South African woman and her maid.

Free at Last

Arts & Photography

S. Francis

History & Criticism

This collection brings further stories of life in the Kruger park as the wife of a game ranger. After eleven years in the remote Mahlangeni region they are transferred, first to Crocodile Bridge and then to Pretorius Kop. Fully at peace in the wild and lonely landscapes of the North, Kobie fears she will never adapt to the relatively people-populated southern area. It takes time, but eventually she is able to acknowlege that the move has shown her "other Edens" and has given her a store of the new and precious memories. Foremost among these memories is the unique experience of raising Leo, an abandoned lion cub. It is a facinating and emotional encounter with the king of the beasts, which brings her and her family equal measures of joy and sorrow.

All things wild and wonderful

Krüger, Kobie

This is the triumphant story of a woman who refused to become a victim. Alison's nightmare journey began with the two callous killers who were to rape her, stab her so many times the doctors could not count the wounds, slit her throat and leave her for dead in a filthy clearing miles from the city of Port Elizabeth which was her home. But Alison defied death.

I Have Life: Alison's Journey as Told to Marianne Thamm

Thamm, Marianne

Biographies & Memoirs

Dreamforest

DALENE MATTHEE

Literature & Fiction

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