Albert Luthuli's extraordinary story is also that of the African National Congress, which he led for fifteen years. Luthuli's lively first-hand account tells of the repression and resistance that were to shape the South African political landscape forever: the Defiance Campaign – the first mass challenge to apartheid, the drafting of the Freedom Charter, the Treason Trial and the tragedies of Sharpeville and Langa. Albert Luthuli was t ...
Van laaitie tot politieke kryger, bandiet tot generaal-majoor, ondergrondse operateur tot presidensiele lyfwag… Jeremy Vearey se lewe het talle onvoorspelbare wendings geneem. Sy eiesoortige vertelling sluit die ouere manne van sy jeug in, die ooms by die damstafel, heimlik politieke kerkjeugkampe en die Kommuniste-manifes, skoolhou en ondergrondse werk vir MK, en sy aanhouding op Robbeneiland. As Mandela se lyfwag help hy 'n opstand in die ...
"At about 5:20 pm on 31 December 2012, a colleague picked a steak knife from a cutlery tray. He yelled, ‘Angi-gay, mina!’ – I’m not gay! – and came at me with it." Siya Khumalo grew up in a Durban township where one sermon could whip up a lynch mob against those considered different. Drawing on personal experience – his childhood, life in the army, attending church, and competing in pageants – Khumalo explores being LGBTQI+ in South Af ...
'There are a lot of good things about getting older. When you’re young you want everyone to like you and to make an impression. When you’re old you don’t give a damn.' Kate Turkington is fearless and fun, even now in her 80s. Actually, more so! From the war-worn East End of London to raising a young family in a remote part of eastern Nigeria and then building a career as one of SA's most loved broadcasters, Kate's story is re ...
When the Cradock Four’s Fort Calata was murdered by agents of the apartheid state in 1985 his son, Lukhanyo, was only three years old. Thirty-one years later Lukhanyo, now a journalist, becomes one of the SABC 8 when he defies Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s reign of censorship at the public broadcaster by writing an open letter that declares: my father didn’t die for this. With his wife, Abigail, Lukhanyo brings to life the father he never knew and investi ...
Was daar 'n medalje daarvoor om gefire te word, het dit waarskynlik aan Rian behoort. Reeds met sy heel eerste TV-verskyning as hoerskool-laaitie laat hy die wenkbroue lig. Sedertdien maak Rian mense – tot in Australie! – gereeld briesend. In die boek praat Rian openharting oor hoe sy woorde hom soms diep in die moeilikheid laat beland het. Hy openbaar wat agter die skerms gebeur het en waarom hy sekere dinge kwytgeraak het. Met sy ken ...
In hierdie boek vertel Rykie van Reenen boeiend en in sprankelende styl Emily Hobhouse se verhaal. Dit is toeganklike leesstof wat getuig van vertelvernuf. Die boek is met die Scheepers-prys bekroon. ...
Hykie Berg is 'n bekende film- en TV-akteur, geliefd en gewild reg oor Suid-Afrika vir sy rol in Binnelanders en as wenner van Survivor. Hy is ook 'n verslaafde. Op die kruin van sy suksesloopbaan verloor Hykie alles en draai by die dood om. Hier vertel hy sy verhaal openhartig, van die dwelmhole van Hillbrow tot in 'n maksimum-sekuriteitsel in die Weskoppieshospitaal, waar God hom van 'n gewisse dood red. Hykie nooi jou uit ...
What's a mother to do when her high-achieving boy – adored by his close-knit family and private school community – turns bully overnight? How is she to know that his sudden headaches and vomiting are far more serious than all the doctors insist? 'The Twinkling of An Eye' is the true, life-affirming memoir of a mother's harrowing but heroic fight against her son's rare brain tumour. Brown tells her story with courage, hum ...
