In ’n tyd toe die meeste vroue of onderwyseres of verpleegster geword het, het Rykie van Reenen vir haar ’n loopbaan oopgeskryf in die joernalistiek. Sy het Suid-Afrika se eerste vroulike oorlogskorrespondent geword toe sy die Jom Kippoer-oorlog in Israel gaan dek het.In die 1960’s het sy naam gemaak as rubriekskrywer vir “Van alle kante” in Die Burger en in die 1970’s vir “Op die randakker” in Rapport. Die rubrieke was so gewild dat dit as ’n s ...
Sir David Graaff’s unique South African story begins as a poor child in Villiersdorp, watching over sheep and pigs. He was helped by a well-off friend of the family and taken to Cape Town to work at the man’s butchery. Within a few years, David was not only in charge of the butchery, but was the first person to use refrigerated food storage facilities for meat in South Africa. With a business empire begun, he went on to have a colourful politica ...
Elita traces the life journey of Elizabeth «Elita» Lanaras and her quest for love. Along the way, she experiences some of the most dramatic events in South Africa's transition to democracy, and finally marries the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president who set Mandela free.The archetypal poor little rich girl, Elita was born to millionaire shipping magnates, but left to her own devices and a Swiss nanny before being sent off to a school she ha ...
Die hoogs private Elita de Klerk vertel hier vir die eerste keer haar volle verhaal. Na ’n eensame jeug in die weelderige Kolonaki in Athene en in deftige kosskole, trou sy op jeugdige ouderdom met die aantreklike miljoener Tony Georgiades en neem haar intrek in die imposante Stud House in Londen. Maar steeds bly sy soekend. Sy vergesel haar man op talle sakereise wereldwyd en word ma. Tog voel sy leeg. Die spoggerige hotelle en stralerjakkerlew ...
In reaction to popular demand, the topselling Stiletto is now available in English too. Karin Eloff was a good Afrikaans girl from a conservative religious background with an honours degree in psychology. Stiletto is the true story of how this model schoolgirl became Zoe – initially a stripper, then a dancer and masseuse in an escort agency and later editor of a pornographic magazine. Her path was littered with middle-aged men, Afrikaans girls w ...
Джеральд Даррелл – известный английский писатель-натуралист и путешественник. В повести «Моя семья и другие звери» Даррелл рассказывает о детстве, проведенном на солнечном греческом острове Корфу, и о том, какие удивительные приключения произошли с ним и его семьей в то время.
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Tato e-kniha je o vplyve zapadnej kultury na egyptskeho autora. Velmi ma zaujimala politika a spravodajstvo. Vysledkom bolo, ze som mal pocit, ze nas vsetci ludia zo zapadu nenavidia. Aj ked viem, ze zovseobecnovanie je zakladnou, velmi castou chybou, stal som sa obetou tejto chyby: pocuval som spravy a zovseobecnoval som svoje pocity: vsetci ludia zo zapadu nas nenavidia a chcu znicit nase krajiny. V roku 2003 som sa stal uzivatelom internetu. ...
The Argentine folk singer and social activist, Mercedes Sosa, was a world-class performer, whose influence went far beyond the borders of music. Blacklisted as being one the most dangerous people to the regime in Argentina in the 1970s, she became the underground reference point for the poor and oppressed, and an icon of democracy who fought South America’s dictators with her voice. Nicknamed, “The Voice of the Voiceless,” Sosa emerged as a lege ...
Perseguida, proscrita y exiliada, la legendaria cantante folclorica argentina, Mercedes Sosa, hizo temblar a los dictadores sudamericanos en los ’70. Apodada “La voz de los que no tienen voz”, Sosa se convirtio en un icono de la democracia y una muy amada madre de America Latina. Mercedes Sosa – La voz de la esperanza expone la notable vida y carrera de Sosa y ofrece un perfil psicologico que revela el secreto detras de su enorme impacto. Con su ...
