Vusi

Vusi

Author: Vusi Thembekwayo

Publisher: Tafelberg Publisher

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780624077718

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"I have learned the truth about the world: that it isn't as round as a tennis ball, and it isn't shaped like itself. It is shaped the way we shape it, according to the way we see it, the way we mould it to our ambitions and our destiny. I know the colour of who I am. I am a black man, running for my life, for my freedom, for opportunity born from struggle, possibility born from sacrifice. And I am running too, for my father, who never became what he hoped to be, and who never got to see what his children would one day become. 'Maverick. Leadership genius. Self-made millionaire. Dragon. The rock star of public speaking. Vusi Thembekwayo has been called many things. Join him in his inspiring journey from the township to the top echelons of South African business, to becoming one of youngest directors of a listed company and CEO of a boutique investment firm. As a 'Dragons' Den' judge and a sought-after public speaker across the globe, Vusi doesn't just talk business - he lives it. Now you can learn the secret of his success and how to shape your own destiny."--


Wake Up Vusi

Wake Up Vusi

Author: Boitumelo Phala

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2020-09-09

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 3748756941

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A story about a homeless man who struggles with the corona fiction lockdown in the streets of Johannesburg. He struggles with his mental health and this in turn makes this particular lockdown situation rather difficult for him.


Zulu Dog

Zulu Dog

Author: Anton Ferreira

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-09-26

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0374392234

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Time is Not the Measure

Time is Not the Measure

Author: Vusi Mavimbela

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781928341727

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Vusi Mavimbela is one of South Africa's foremost political adventurers and wanderers. His memoir Time is Not the Measure provides penetrating pen portraits of many South African and African political actors and a galaxy of senior ANC exiles. He illuminates the personalities of many influential people in South Africa's early democratic governments. But the heart of Mavimbela's narrative lies in his unique experience of working as a top administrator and counsellor in the offices of both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. He describes the conflict between those two flawed principals and captures the drama of their struggle and its destructive fallout for the new South African state. Mavimbela offers a potent warning: loyalty and long service to a political party is no guarantee of wise and effective leadership.


Telling Young Lives

Telling Young Lives

Author: Craig Jeffrey

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1592139310

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Telling Young Lives presents more than a dozen fascinating, ethnograph-ically informed portraits of young people facing rapid changes in society and politics from different parts of the world. From a young woman engaged in agricultural labor in the High Himalayas to a youth activist based in Tanzania, the distinctive voices from the U.K., India, Germany, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Bosnia Herzegovina, provide insights into the active and creative ways these youths are addressing social and political challenges such as war, hunger and homelessness. Telling Young Lives has great appeal for classroom use in geography courses and makes a welcome contribution to the growing field of “young geographies,” as well as to politics and political geography. Its focus on individual portraits gives readers a fuller, more vivid picture of the ways in which global changes are reshaping the actual experiences and strategies of young people around the world.


My Second Initiation

My Second Initiation

Author: Vusi Pikoli

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 9781770103450

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Traces Pikoli's journey from manhood in the hills of the Eastern Cape to his life-shaping experience in the corridors of powerin government.


From Plough to Entrepreneurship

From Plough to Entrepreneurship

Author: R. Kumalo

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2020-08-24

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9956551554

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From Plough to Entrepreneurship is motivated largely by the fact that Africans were deprived of economic and political autonomy by white government in South Africa. This marginalisation lies in the complex and interconnected processes of displacement and dispossession by which Africans were first dispossessed of their own land; then deprived of independent productive opportunities. The increasing scarcity of land as scarce commodity and African land ownership in Evaton, best explains the history of African local economic independence. For the local residents, land possession in Evaton provided a space where a moral economy that fostered racial pride and solidarity was forged. This richly sourced monograph develops the logical explanation that sticks together all forces that constrained Africans to give up labour to an industrial economy in Evaton. It provides the reader and student of racialised inequalities in South Africa with an understanding steeped in historical ethnography on how local Africans struggled for economic independence, and how whatever independence their struggles yielded, changed over time in Evaton.


Hollywood’s Africa after 1994

Hollywood’s Africa after 1994

Author: MaryEllen Higgins

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0821444336

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Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood’s colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West’s representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues—child soldiers, genocide, the exploitation of the poor by multinational corporations, dictatorial rule, truth and reconciliation—within the contexts of celebrity humanitarianism, “new” military humanitarianism, and Western support for regime change in Africa and beyond? A number of films after 1994, such as Black Hawk Down, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland, The Constant Gardener, Shake Hands with the Devil, Tears of the Sun, and District 9, construct explicit and implicit arguments about the effects of Western intervention in Africa. Do the emphases on human rights in the films offer a poignant expression of our shared humanity? Do they echo the colonial tropes of former “civilizing missions?” Or do human rights violations operate as yet another mine of sensational images for Hollywood’s spectacular storytelling? The volume provides analyses by academics and activists in the fields of African studies, English, film and media studies, international relations, and sociology across continents. This thoughtful and highly engaging book is a valuable resource for those who seek new and varied approaches to films about Africa. Contributors Harry Garuba and Natasha Himmelman Margaret R. Higonnet, with Ethel R. Higgonet Joyce B. Ashuntantang Kenneth W. Harrow Christopher Odhiambo Ricardo Guthrie Clifford T. Manlove Earl Conteh-Morgan Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J. R. Osborn, and Lea Marie Ruiz-Ade Christopher Garland Kimberly Nichele Brown Jane Bryce Iyunolu Osagie Dayna Oscherwitz


The Artist and the Bully

The Artist and the Bully

Author: Gillian Leggat

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780435892333

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One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa. In this story Vusi's great ambition is to take art classes, but Mandla is a bully who thinks artists are cissies.