Maverick
Maverick

Author: Lauren Beukes

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2015-10-19

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1415206724

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From Africa’s first black movie star to a stylish commie revolutionary, showgirls and soccer stars, writers and poets, activists, artists, a pop princess, a prophetess and a cold-blooded killer, Maverick explores the riveting, true tales of women who broke with convention. Updated, expanded, and now with photographs, this edition of Lauren Beukes’s first book casts light onto the fascinating lives of some of South Africa’s most famous – and notorious – women.

Glenda Kemp
Glenda Kemp

Author: Glenda Kemp-Harper

Publisher:

Published: 2012-12-14

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781481244046

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Glenda Kemp, a renowned stripper and snake dancer in South Africa came from a quiet Afrikaans family in Bloemfontein. She turned her world upside down in the conservative seventies when she began stripping with Oupa, her pet python. Authorities, including the church, did their best to stop her without success.. until the Lord stepped into her life. This is an amazing, miracle story of God's grace."There are two sides to this story of my life, in the same way as there are two sides to a coin.I flipped the coin of my life over at the age of 15. I dropped it at the age of 21. I retrieved it when I was 47 and called out 'heads'. So the first side of the story is one of shame and doom, telling of the time in my life when I lived in apparent freedom from obedience to the law, with the truth whispering all the time in the background - 'slaves to sin'. What a side to the coin! '... and what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom' (Romans 6:20-21).The reason the world sat up and took notice was not because of what the Word said but because of a scandalous young woman who removed all her clothes and draped herself with a snake.Then the flip side toppled that life of headlines, fame and comfort and zoomed me in to all the excitement and challenges that mature you into the person whom God intended you to be.But that is not where I am going to begin.Although I am now a new person in Jesus Christ, I will look back and start at the beginning. One big difference though, is that this time I have put my hand in the hand of the Man who stilled the waters.

A Saxon Shadow
A Saxon Shadow

Author: H L Marsay

Publisher: Tule Publishing

Published: 2024-10-07

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1964703379

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Ancient history or a motive for murder? Chief Inspector Shadow is investigating an act of vandalism in the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey and several random break-ins around York when he’s called out to a moorland village. A wealthy but eccentric businessman, obsessed with Saxon history, has been found dead. Adding to the confusion, the victim’s study’s been ransacked and there’s a second burglary in the village and vandalism in the churchyard. Are all the cases related? Initially, the death seems centered around an ancient Saxon treasure trove and missing parchment map. But there are many reasons for murder. This list of suspects grows frustratingly long, baffling Shadow. John Shadow is a man of contradictions. A solitary figure who shuns company but is a keen observer of all he meets. A lover of good food but whose fridge is almost always empty. He prefers to work alone but is assisted by the eager Sergeant Jimmy Chang. Now Inspector Shadow and Jimmy must discover if the murder is linked to the ancient treasure or the more recent past.

The Smell of Apples
The Smell of Apples

Author: Mark Behr

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780312152093

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The story of an affluent white South African family during apartheid. Its narrator is the son of an Afrikaner general and he describes his growing disillusion with the cruelty and arrogance of the whites. Set in the 1970s, the novel follows him from boyhood to soldiering in Angola, fighting the blacks.

Pandemic Genres
Pandemic Genres

Author: Neville Wallace Hoad

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2025

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0520402537

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"As HIV/AIDS emerged as a public health crisis of significant proportions across much of sub-Saharan Africa, it became the subject of local and international interest--prurient, benevolent, and interventionist. Meanwhile, the experience of Africans living with HIV/AIDS became an object of aesthetic representation in multiple genres by Africans themselves. These cultural representations engaged public discourse--the public policy pronouncements of officials of postcolonial states, an emerging global NGO-speak, and journalism. In Pandemic Genres, Neville Hoad investigates how cultural production--novels, poems, films--around the pandemic supplemented public discourse. From Botswana, Kenya, and South Africa, he shows that the long historical imaginaries of race, empire, and sex underwrote all attempts to bring the pandemic into public representation. Attention to genres that stage themselves as imaginary, particularly on the terrain of feeling, may forecast possibilities for new figurations"--

Thank you, Judge Mostert!
Thank you, Judge Mostert!

Author: Carmel Rickard

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0143527754

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Anton Mostert was one of South Africa's youngest judges when he was appointed to head a commission of inquiry into exchange control regulations in 1978. His inquiry, seemingly innocuous, unearthed what was at that time the greatest political scandal in the country's history - massive corruption in the department of information. In defiance of warnings by Prime Minister PW Botha not to disclose his findings, Mostert released all the evidence that had been led before him, exposing some of the most powerful men in the country and effectively changing history. The title of this book, Thank You, Judge Mostert! is taken from the inscription which appeared overnight on bumper stickers all over South Africa in the weeks following Judge Anton Mostert's revelations of the Information Scandal. This overt, spontaneous outburst of public appreciation and support requires history to be retold - for this is the story of a principled and courageous judge who not only fiercely fought for the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law in South Africa, but who also fearlessly confronted the Afrikaner executive at a critical juncture in South Africa's history.

Through a dragonfly eye
Through a dragonfly eye

Author: Jenny Hobbs

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2024-05-25

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1991240333

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Jenny's compelling South African memoir chronicles her journey from childhood during World War Two to a busy freelance career as a journalist and novelist. With humour, tenderness and love for her family and country, she reflects on the many facets of her life as an author, giving fascinating insights into the writing process. Among Jenny's lasting legacies are her decades-long drive to promote reading as the essential skill for a good education, and her role as one of the co-founders of the Franschhoek Literary Festival, of which she was Director for four years.

The Story of South African Jazz Volume One
The Story of South African Jazz Volume One

Author: Struan Douglas

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-09-27

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1329583264

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A COMPILATION OF COMMENTARIES AND INTERVIEWS FOR THE JAZZ ENTHUSIAST THE MUSIC LOVER. Interviews with Moses Molelekwa, Robbie Jansen, Gito Baloi, Ezra Ngcukana, Miriam Makeba, Louis Moholo, Theo Bophela, Hugh Masekela, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Carlo Mombelli, Marcus Wyatt, Claude Deppa, Morris Goldberg, Abdullah Ibrahim, Moses Khumalo, Vince Colbe, Mr Brookes, Mac Mackenzie and the Goema Captains of Cape Town. Together with running commentary of a life lived and learned through the lens of heart centred South African jazz musical vibration.The Story of SA Jazz Volume One isa great journey into exposing one of the most profound musical languages to ever come out of this country. Jazz it is said is the classical music of the 20th century. Through a collection of interviews, articles and commentaries, 'The Story of SA Jazz Volume One' exposes the extraordinary role South African musicians have played in the development of jazz music and humanity worldwide.