With this singular book Nataniel tells the story of a childhood in three small towns and one large suburb, in an era during which rules were seldom questioned and of a young boy’s overwhelming fear of the ordinary. Look At Me is Nataniel's first full-length memoir. ...
Met hierdie unieke boek vertel Nataniel die verhaal van ’n kindertyd in drie klein dorpies en een groot voorstad, ’n era waartydens reels blindelings gevolg is en oor ’n jong seun met ’n oorweldigende vrees vir die gewone. Kyk na my is Nataniel se eerste volwaardige memoir. ...
Met haar Nederlandse lover aan haar sy voel Azille Coetzee lig en bevryd. Sy hou van die sosiale gelykheid, die wereldklas 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 leesba ...
‘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 ...
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 die 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 die intera ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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 e ...
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 f ...
