From initiation ceremonies in the Eastern Cape to Helen Zille's Twitter account, South Africa is a land ripe with contradiction. It is a place where first world aspirations often clash with third world realities. Acclaimed commentator Gareth van Onselen takes a fresh and fearless look at some of these faultlines, from the rise and fall of Nelson Mandela's Christmas party to the contested meaning of words like 'respect' and &a ...
'It is a gruesome tale – how we have moved so rapidly from the era of hope to the bleak landscape ushered in by Zuma's ascent to power …' Yet Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, acclaimed author and international expert on reconciliation, wants to rekindle our hope. As a clinical psychologist who has worked for the TRC, in Rwanda and with Holocaust survivors, she offers unique perspectives on healing the wounded South African ...
In 2008, the University of the Free State was thrust into the international spotlight when the racist Reitz video became public. Have South Africans changed in any significant way since 1994, or are black and white still constrained by racial stereotypes? This is the question American-born Donna Bryson asks herself as she goes to investigate. Over the next five years, Bryson returns again and again to Bloemfontein and realises that the u ...
Picture South Africa ten years from now: Are the angry poor rising up and seizing land and businesses? Or has economic reform created jobs and growth? Is an increasingly desperate government clamping down on freedoms? Or do the middle classes still braai in suburban bliss? South Africa is at a tipping point, and small shifts in political and economic conditions can bring about dramatic changes. Unemployment, slow growth, threats to freed ...
Schabir Shaik, Jackie Selebi, Tony Yengeni, 'Oilgate', Jacob Zuma, Judge Hlophe and the JSC, 'Travelgate' – what has happened to morality in South Africa? With this book, respected academic and community leader Paulus Zulu cuts right to the heart of our current malaise. Drawing equally on Western concepts and on African traditional thought, he provides a searing indictment of the state of the nation, cast ...
The moving and powerful story that stunned South Africa: Edwin Cameron – the first public office holder to disclose he was living with AIDS – writes about his decision, his experience and the struggle that millions face in seeking treatment. Part memoir, part thought-provoking analysis, this book is a vivid exploration of what HIV/AIDS means – for Edwin Cameron as he faces the possibility of lingering death, for all of us in facing one o ...
Sonder om verslaafdes te verdoem verskaf Dr. Hitzertoth en Dr. Kramer praktiese en toepaslike raad. Die einde van verslawing gee advies en inligting oor verslawing. Hierdie boek belig die feit dat drank- en dwelmmisbruik nie noodwendig te doen het met swakheid nie, maar dat dit ’n komplekse interaksie is van biologiese, psigologiese en sosiale faktore. Die boek sal vir sowel verslaafdes as hul gesinne en vriende van groot waarde wees. ...
Aimed at patients, their families and healthcare practitioners, this is an invaluable practical guide, relevant to South Africans and to South African conditions. it is packed with helpful information. The book highlights the fact that drug and alcohol abuse is not a sign of moral weakness, but rather a result of the complex interaction between biological, psychological and social factors. The End of Addiction offers insight and assistance with ...
Barbaarse misdade is deel van die Suid-Afrikaanse werklikheid, en hier is tien bondige en spannende oorvertellings van sommige van die verfoeilikste gebeure nog, dikwels met ’n grieselrige en onheilspellende kinkel. Alison glo haar oorlewing van die onbeskryflike wrede aanval deur twee (met-die-duiwel?) besetenes is aan wonderwerke te danke. Ewe boos en bisar is die optredes van die psigopatiese skroewedraaiermaniak, die pedofiel wat die skuld a ...
