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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2009
ISBN 10: 1861973373ISBN 13: 9781861973375
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2019
ISBN 10: 1868429881ISBN 13: 9781868429882
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. When she was last spotted on the crossroads of Swart and Gevaar Roads, Coconut Kelz was drinking Woolies water and spreading her truth bombs about the state of the nation, why corruption is okay when white people do it and why black people dont win in life Coconut Kelz (Kelello, but call me Kelz!) is a young Caucasian woman trapped in a black womans body. Kelz lives in and tries never to leave Sandton and is a staunch member of the DA. She often takes issue with her reverse racist dad, while her mother has to remind her that Braai Day is actually called Heritage Day. With handy tips on how to achieve the white right standard of beauty, how to catch yourself a white guy (elongate your vowels, get yourself into white spaces), the best suburbs to live in and how to host the perfect Caucasian shindig, Kelz offers a complete guide for a full Caucasian conversion. She also shares her thoughts on the differences between race groups, the top three political parties, public transport, how to avoid contact with sgebengas and why one should never stray beyond the Line of Caucus. Coconut Kelzs adoration of all things white has riled up many unsuspecting viewers. Of course the real butt of the joke is the white South Africans whose prejudice and dishonesties are laid bare by this character. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2009
ISBN 10: 1868423409ISBN 13: 9781868423408
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An inspiring and thrilling memoir of adventure and achievement from an internationally recognised endurance swimmer and ambassador for environmental awareness. In July 2007, Lewis Gordon Pugh became the first person to swim at the North Pole, in temperatures that would kill a normal person, primarily to raise awareness of climate change. Nicknamed 'the human polar bear' for his ability to raise his body's core temperature at will, he has pioneered swims in the world's most hostile waters, redefining what it is possible to achieve in terms of endurance. A maritime lawyer and former member of the SAS, Lewis tells his fantastic story here for the first time. Chapters cover his childhood, growing up with his 'hero' Surgeon Rear Admiral father, his early life in South Africa, his training in the army's elite corps, his inspiration and, of course, plenty of action/adventure stories, chronicling his many nail-biting endurance swims. He also shares his secrets on how to achieve the seemingly impossible. With practical lessons taken from his own life, Lewis explains how recognising one's passions and taking calculated risks is essential for anyone looking to fulfill their goals. The book will also cover his next and most dangerous expedition yet in May 2010. His story is inspiring, entertaining and thrilling in equal measure, and its 38-year-old author is a much needed role model for our times. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2003
ISBN 10: 1868421872ISBN 13: 9781868421879
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2009
ISBN 10: 186842362XISBN 13: 9781868423620
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2012
ISBN 10: 186842460XISBN 13: 9781868424603
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Light surface wear. Pages unmarked. ; 9.1 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 300 pages.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publisher, Johannesburg , SA, 1986
ISBN 10: 0868501182ISBN 13: 9780868501185
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Unknowen (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1986 , Hardcover with the dust jacket , 320 page book . Illustrated with black & white and color images . Condition : Very Good. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2023
ISBN 10: 1776192745ISBN 13: 9781776192748
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'A precious and rare publication . The moving stories of love, longing and suffering provide valuable new insights into tumultuous times that helped shape South Africa.' - Max du PreezIt is nine months this evening since I last saw the light in my own house, when I had to tear myself away from all that is dear to me. And today is also my little son's birthday. Oh, how I long for home. So wrote Michael Muller in 1901 as he gazed at the lights of Cape Town from a ship bound for Bermuda, after months of internment in a British POW camp in Simon's Town. The camps were full, so Boer prisoners were being sent to other parts of the empire. Michael's brothers, Chris and Pieter, were exiled to Ceylon while Lool was held in the Green Point camp in Cape Town.Remarkably, three of the brothers kept diaries, the only known instance of this happening in the Boer War. The scrawled notes of Chris on the evening after the legendary Magersfontein battle, the rain-dashed pages written by Lool in Colesberg, and the angry words penned by Michael about his treatment at Surrender Hill have the urgency of men determined to go on record.When Beverley Roos-Muller began to explore writing about the Boer experience of the war, she read the tiny diary of Michael, grandfather of her husband, Ampie Muller. It led her to the discovery of the other diaries and many more documents. She also records the brothers' difficult return home and examines the consequences for South Africa of the bitterness this strife evoked.This is a beautifully told account of the fellowship of four brothers in war, their capture and eventual recovery. . . . it is nine months this evening since I last saw the light in my own house, when I had to tear myself away from all that is dear to me. And today is also my little sons birthday. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers Sa, Johannesburg, 2022
ISBN 10: 177619134XISBN 13: 9781776191345
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2010
ISBN 10: 1868424162ISBN 13: 9781868424160
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Award-winning Michiel Heyns returns with a richly textured novel set in contemporary South Africa. The murder of a beautiful woman shatters the rural village peace of Alfredville, and her husband, the police station commander, is jailed as chief suspect. Her cousin Peter, a freelance writer in London, returns to South Africa for the first time in decades -- unsettled, curious, but also in search of a career-defining story. On checking into the Queen's Hotel he finds that things are not as straightforward as he imagined, and South Africa is not as he left it. His carefully ordered world is thrown into turmoil as his trip dredges up a long-abandoned past, forcing him to question the assumptions so easily held from the comfort of his London flat. He meets a mixture of locals, visitors, vagrants and migrants, but most momentously, Peter discovers that his bosom friend from school, Bennie Nienaber, is still in Alfredville -- and is in fact now, acting station commander at the local police station. Peter re-establishes an awkward friendship with his erstwhile friend and the two warily circle each other, sharing reminiscences that hint at a bond much deeper than nostalgia. As Peter abandons the neatly patterned story he had planned and is forced to participate in a community that he once despised, he begins to reconsider his place in the world. In search of Desiree's story, he now starts to rewrite his own -- till events take an even more shocking turn. . . This book explores questions of xenophobia and prejudice, of national, sexual and personal identity, and what it means to be a foreigner wherever you go. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, SA, 1992
ISBN 10: 0947464581ISBN 13: 9780947464585
Seller: Matheson Sports International Limited, Auckland, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. After 2 decades South Africa comes back into cricket in 1991/92.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2023
ISBN 10: 1776192370ISBN 13: 9781776192373
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2016
ISBN 10: 1868427137ISBN 13: 9781868427130
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. I stand in front of the mirror as I remind myself that I dont have to wear the uniform anymore. I dont have to dress myself in mens attire. I can grow out my nails, and paint them with polish. I am finally free to have my ears pierced. I can speak in the voice that Ive spent so many hours cultivating with my speech therapist. I dont have to hide my disgust anymore at being called boet or sir. I no longer have to tolerate any references to my deadname. Anastacia has fought hard for her right to live, held back for decades by a body that didnt fit, and an identity that never belonged to her. At first, it had seemed impossible like transition was some romantic, impractical ideal that was incompatible with reality. But now, after five months of hormone therapy, countless sessions of painful laser hair removal, multiple appointments with doctors and psychologists, it is very much a reality. Born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg and raised by her parents as a boy, Anastacia Tomson was never sure just how much of her persistent internal discomfort to blame on an often troubled family life.She qualified and practised as a doctor, but it would take a great deal more clear-sighted and difficult questioning to finally find peace and self-acceptance, as a woman. This memoir is a clarion call for a more nuanced understanding of trans people and the concepts of sex, gender and identity. This memoir is a clarion call for a more nuanced understanding of trans people and the concepts of sex, gender and identity. It is a courageous account of self-discovery and transition as Anastacia Tomson embraces her truth, as the woman she has always been. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 1900
ISBN 10: 0947464182ISBN 13: 9780947464189
Seller: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
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Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. eb 67.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers Sa, Johannesburg, 2019
ISBN 10: 1868429962ISBN 13: 9781868429967
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2021
ISBN 10: 1776190823ISBN 13: 9781776190829
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'There's an entire generation of South African women who ought to read this book.' - Sara-Jayne King, author of Killing Karoline'Ougat is masterfully written - raw, unpretentious, unsettling. Shana Fife captures all the darkness from her body, psyche and life with fearless honesty and transparency.' - Frazer Barry, award-winning theatre practitioner, writer and musician"A bold, unapologetic memoir about abuse, coming-of-age, a woman owning her sexuality and seizing her power. Shana Fife has a unique and compelling voice, which she uses with great effect to break with gender and sexuality taboos." - Dr Barbara Boswell, author of GraceBy the time Shana Fife is 25 she has two kids from different fathers. To the Coloured people she grew up around, she is a jintoe, a jezebel, jas, a woman with mileage on the pussy. She is alone, she has no job and, as she is constantly reminded by her community, she is pretty much worthless and unloveable. How did she become this woman, the epitome of everything she was conditioned to strive not to be?Unsettlingly honest and brutally blunt, Ougat is Shana Fife's story of survival: of surviving the social conditioning of her Cape Flats upbringing, of surviving sexual violence and depression and of ultimately escaping a cycle of abuse.A powerful, fresh and disarming new voice - Shana's writing is like nothing you've read before. Originally published in South Africa in 2018 by Jonathan Ball Publishers--verso. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2021
ISBN 10: 1928248144ISBN 13: 9781928248149
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'A witty, sometimes heart-stopping, and always engrossing path from "boy pilot" to elite aviator.' - Jaundiced Eye columnist, William Saunderson-MeyerRobert Schapiro always wanted to fly. Challenging anti-Semitic bullying, mockery and fierce rivalry, he realised his dream by earning his wings in the South African Air Force and going on to command C-47 Dakotas in the Border War. He joined South African Airways (SAA) in 1979, soon learning it was a time when SAA crews were dominated by the 'Royal Family' - captains who thought themselves above the rules and who spent time overseas on drinking binges or coaxing air hostesses to be their 'airline wives'. When sanctions forced SAA to cut back on its routes, he was seconded to Japan's Nippon Cargo Airlines, routinely flying between New York and Tokyo and grappling with often-hilarious cultural misunderstandings as he adapted to a Japanese style of operations. Schapiro is disarmingly frank about life as an international pilot. He divulges near misses, emergency landings, navigation errors, passenger shenanigans (seat sex, anyone?), how pilots control rowdy travellers and absorbing detail about the technique of flying different aircraft types. Uplifting and humorous, his memoir offers a rare slice of aviation history. When Rob Schapiro got his flying licence at the tender age of 17, it hailed the start of an exciting career in military and civil aviation that would see him become a member of an elite group of international pilots. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2003
ISBN 10: 1868421678ISBN 13: 9781868421671
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Veteran South African journalist Peter Younghusband has written a title about some of the episodes in his chequered career. Some are serious and personal, such as the incident when he rushed a coloured colleague to Somerset Hospital in Cape Town during th. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2021
ISBN 10: 177619084XISBN 13: 9781776190843
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'It was never my dream to become a Springbok rugby player. I wanted to become a designer of Formula 1 racing cars.' In Just a Moment, Schalk Burger Snr, one of the greats of South African rugby, shares the many layers of his colourful and eventful life. Rugby legend and businessman, wine farmer, cultural custodian, musician, father and grandfather, Schalk Burger takes us on an intensely personal and honest journey through the triumphs and hardships that have shaped the life of this much-loved South African. Burger is a storyteller extraordinaire and will have you snorting into your beer as you read about run-ins with officialdom, fisticuffs on the field, how he became the first white Springbok selected from a coloured team, and the day Cheeky Watson asked to wash his feet. This is a glimpse into the life and times of one of the country's most recognised figures, told through the stories of the many lives that have intersected with his. 'Who am I, and how do I live? That is something this story will bring out of me.' One of the greats of South African rugby shares the many layers of his colourful and eventful life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2004
ISBN 10: 1876624752ISBN 13: 9781876624750
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The author of A LION IN THE BEDROOM spent her childhood, teenage years and early adulthood in a rarefied world of luxury where the Vanderbilt's of New York were considered nouveau riche and her Australian-born mother, Enid, one of the Lindeman wine family, thought nothing of walking through Mayfair with a cheetah or flying to Kenya on safari by private airplane. Enid, a celebrated beauty married four times and her circle of friends included the Duke of Westminster, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Aga Khan and Winston Churchill's confidant, Lord Cherwell. It was in the middle of this fast-moving and dangerous high-society world where Pat spent her childhood and early adult life. A fairytale world filled with 1930s film stars, royalty, fantasy, fabulous wealth, luxury and exotic Riviera mansions. However, at the age of 35, her life changed. Twice married and divorced while visiting Kenya Pat was handed an abandoned lion cub so small it fitted into her hand. She fell in love with TANA - and with Africa where she made a new life in a beautiful farm just outside Nairobi. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2017
ISBN 10: 1868428079ISBN 13: 9781868428076
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this riveting book, John Laband, pre-eminent historian of the Zulu Kingdom, tackles some of the questions that swirl around the assassination in 1828 of King Shaka, the celebrated founder of the Zulu Kingdom and war leader of legendary brilliance: Why did prominent members of the royal house conspire to kill him? Just how significant a part did the white hunter-traders settled at Port Natal play in their royal patrons downfall? Why were Shakas relations with the British Cape Colony key to his survival? And why did the powerful army he had created acquiesce so tamely in the usurpation of the throne by Dingane, his half-brother and assassin? In his search for answers Laband turns to the Zulu voice heard through recorded oral testimony and praise-poems, and to the written accounts and reminiscences of the Port Natal trader-hunters and the despatches of Cape officials. In the course of probing and assessing this evidence the author vividly brings the early Zulu kingdom and its inhabitants to life. He throws light on this elusive character of and his own unpredictable intentions, while illuminating the fears and ambitions of those attempting to prosper and survive in his hazardous kingdom: a kingdom that nevertheless endured in all its essential characteristics, particularly militarily, until its destruction fifty one years later in 1879 by the British; and whose fate, legend has it, Shaka predicted with his dying breath. In this riveting new book, John Laband, pre-eminent historian of the Zulu Kingdom, tackles some of the questions that swirl around the assassination in 1828 of King Shaka, the celebrated founder of the Zulu Kingdom and war leader of legendary brilliance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2023
ISBN 10: 186842801XISBN 13: 9781868428014
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book will surely be the most readable, best informed, most complete account of Harry Oppenheimer's life there is ever likely to be.' - Bill Nasson, historian and authorAs chairman of Anglo American and De Beers, Harry Oppenheimer held sway over his family's gold and diamond empire for a quarter of a century. He combined a passion for commerce with a streak of creative genius.In this, the first comprehensive biography of Oppenheimer, Michael Cardo has produced a vivid portrait based on unrestricted access to his subject's private papers and interviews with Oppenheimer's relatives and associates.Cardo brings to life the places, people and events that shaped Oppenheimer's career at the intersection of business and politics. From the diamond fields of Kimberley, where his father, Ernest, arrived to seek his fortune in 1902, through his long apprenticeship as heir apparent, to Harry Oppenheimer's emergence on the world stage as a magnate and monarch in his own right - the 'King of Diamonds' and the man with the Midas touch - Cardo tells the story of a dynasty.As a financier, philanthropist and public figure, Oppenheimer straddles the history of 20th-century South Africa. In the 1950s the National Party regarded him as a threat to Afrikanerdom, the sinister embodiment of English 'money power'. Forty years later, Nelson Mandela praised Oppenheimer as a nation-builder, a key figure in South Africa's transition to democracy. Yet nowadays, Oppenheimer is demonised in some quarters as the archetype of 'white monopoly capital' and blamed, in part, for democracy's disappointing dividends.Meticulously researched and superbly written, this authoritative work sheds new light on the multifaceted legacy of a renowned South African industrialist. arry Oppenheimer, the international gold-and-diamond magnate, presided over the corporate dynasty of Anglo American and De Beers for more than 25 years. Famed for his wealth and his companies economic power, he straddles the history of 20th-century South Africa like a colossus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Johannesburg (Südafrika): Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, 1990
ISBN 10: 0947464166ISBN 13: 9780947464165
Seller: Versandantiquariat Ottomar Köhler, Hanau, Germany
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Reprint. kart., 20 cm, 358 Seiten; die BUchseiten sind alters- bzw. papierbedingt nachgedunkelt, min. Deckelgebaruchsspuren; gut erhalten. Die Lieferung erfolgt gegen Vorauskasse When journalist Ted Botha left Pretoria in 1986 to travel overland through Africa to England and North America, he wanted to escape South Africa. He wanted a period of respite from the political turmoil, the riots, the apart-heid that he had been writing about daily. He wanted to lose himself in travel, and perhaps even look for a new home abroad. Photo: Peter VVebber But forgetting South Africa wasn't that easy. Despite his rigorous efforts to immerse him-self in his travels, his errant thoughts kept turning homewards, and South Africa and her spurious policies dogged his every step. The world was captivated and consumed by South Africa and Botha repeatedly found himself in situations that recalled home. On Lake Malawi, he met Americans who had been arrested an suspicion of being South Af-rican spies. In Tanzania he was declared a Pro-hibited Immmigrant because of his Afrikaans surname. He arrived in America the week that Congress passed its momentus anti-apartheid legislation, while Paul Simon's Graceland was filling the streets with the sound of township mbadanga. And all along the way he met exiles: bogus ones in Nairobi and real ones in Scotland, New York and Vancouver, all trying in vain to forget home. Botha found that the further from home he travelled, the closer he got to it. His journey of escape turned into one of confrontation. With humour and candour, Ted Botha paints a memorable picture of an eight-month-long journey a journey during which the spectre of apartheid influenced the way he saw the rest of the world. He teils a poignant story of seeing South Africa from abroad, and of viewing the Third and First Worlds through the curious eyes of a white man inextricably caught between the two. Ted Botha was born in New York and spent most of his childhood in America and Japan. He went to Stellenbosch University, where he studied law and journalism. He works as a freelance Journalist in Johannesburg. (Deckeltext) V32259G6 ISBN 9780947464165 Gemäß §19 UStG weist dieser Verkäufer keine Mehrwertsteuer aus (Kleinunternehmerstatus)."Universitätsbibliotheken sowie öffentliche kommunale Bibliotheken können auf Rechnung beliefert werden. Ab 01.01.2023 erfolgt wegen der EPR keine Lieferung nach Österreich mehr. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2020
ISBN 10: 1776190343ISBN 13: 9781776190348
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. is the updated edition of the highly successful unauthorised biography of Springbok Captain Siya Kolisi. It includes all the games at the Rugby World Cup in Japan in 2019, and the tumultuous victory tour around South Africa when the team brought home the cup. Victory at the Rugby World Cup is the crowning glory of an incredible journey that began on the impoverished streets of Zwide, a township outside Port Elizabeth. As the first black South African to captain a Springbok rugby team, Kolisis remarkable story is unique and deserves to be heard. His mother was a teenager when he was born. She left him in the care of his grandmother who brought him up until she died when Siya was twelve. He found love and acceptance playing junior rugby with the African Bombers club until his talent was spotted by the prestigious Grey High School, who offered Siya a full scholarship. He adapted well to the private school, but it was on the rugby field where he excelled. Siya was rewarded with a call-up the SA schools team and a contract to join Western Province rugby union. Author Jeremy Daniel tracks Siyas journey from his childhood days on the streets of Zwide, through some crucial games in high school, into the Western Province rugby set-up and his fight to become Springbok captain. He goes deep inside the systems that identify junior talent, the characters who shaped his journey and the moments where he showed who he really was. Siya never forgot where he came from, and ultimately adopted his mothers other two children after she died when he was in high school. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2006
ISBN 10: 1868422364ISBN 13: 9781868422364
Seller: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, Switzerland
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Softcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2015
ISBN 10: 1868426947ISBN 13: 9781868426942
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africa's greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear to live in a leadership vacuum. This is a re-examination of the life and thought of Jan Smuts. It is intended to remind a contemporary readership of the remarkable achievements of this impressive soldier-statesman. The author argues that there is a need to bring Smuts back into the present, that Smuts' legacy still has much to instruct. He draws several parallels between Smuts and President Thabo Mbeki, both intellectuals much lionised abroad and yet often distrusted at home. This book is a highly readable account of Smuts' life. It also examines a number of overarching themes: his relationships with women, spiritual life, intellectual life and his role as advisor to world leaders. Politics and international affairs receive the lion's share, but Smuts' unique contributions to other fields -- for example, botany -- are not neglected. This book does not shy away from the contradictions of its subject. Smuts was one of the architects of the United Nations, and a great champion of human rights, yet he could not see the need to reform the condition of the African majority in his own country. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 2002
ISBN 10: 1868421325ISBN 13: 9781868421329
Seller: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, Switzerland
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Softcover. Condition: Wie neu.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 1999
ISBN 10: 1868420930ISBN 13: 9781868420933
Seller: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, Switzerland
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Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, South Africa, Johannesburg, 2019
ISBN 10: 1868429180ISBN 13: 9781868429189
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africas wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans -- and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few. Julius Malema refers to them scathingly as The Stellenbosch Mafia, the very worst example of white monopoly capital. But who really are these mega-wealthy individuals, and what influence do they exert not only on Stellenbosch but more broadly on South African society? Author Pieter du Toit begins by exploring the roots of Stellenbosch, one of the wealthiest towns in South Africa and arguably the cradle of Afrikanerdom. This is the birthplace of apartheid leaders, intellectuals, newspaper empires and more. He then closely examines this club of billionaires. Who are they and, crucially, how are they connected? What network of boardroom membership, alliances and family connections exist? Who are the old guard and who are the inkommers, and what about the youngsters desperate to make their mark? He looks at the collapse of Steinhoff: what went wrong, and whether there are other companies at risk of a similar fate. He examines the control these men have over cultural life, including pulling the strings in South Africa rugby. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg, 1995
ISBN 10: 186842023XISBN 13: 9781868420230
Seller: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, Switzerland
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Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Gut bis sehr gut.