Regile is a zama-zama working illegally in an abandoned mine near Barberton. He has moved up the ranks and is now paid a salary to keep the other child workers in line. Towards the end of a three-month stint underground, a fourteen-year-old boy from Mozambique, Taiba, starts asking questions about their rescue. Taiba constantly reaffirms his belief that they will be saved: by the police, by the private security firms that guard the mines, or may ...
'n Omnibus van Alba Bouwer se drie klassieke verhale: Stories van Rivierplaas, Nuwe stories van Rivierplaas en Stories van Ruyswuyck. Met lyntekeninge deur Katrine Harries. ...
Riekie Taylor is tydelik uit die skool geskors nadat sy haar hare swart ge-dye het en boonop gevang is dagga rook. Maar dis nie al moeilikheid wat sy het nie: na haar broer se dood drink haar ma weer te veel, en is haar pa se enigste bydrae die maandelikse onderhoudstjek wat hy van iewers in Kaapstad aan Riekie-hulle op Graaff-Reinet pos. Riekie besluit om haar pa in die Kaap te gaan soek ...
She is Helena Bosman, from a tiny little town lost in the vast expanses of the Northern Cape, but Grandpa and Grandma call her Vaselinetjie. She is their little angel from the veldt, the beginning and the end of their world. But when Vaselinetjie is ten years old, two officials from Welfare step in and she is sent away to a boarding school in Gauteng.It’s a strange, hard, dangerous world where no one bothers about anyone else, and where you too ...
Set in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, the action surrounds the cricket team of St Barnabas, or Saints, as they’re called. When a new learner, Brian Lawson, joins the team, he has to show that he is not the arrogant show-off his team mates expect, having captained the KwaZulu-Natal Colts while at his former school in Durban. He also has to get used to the girls on the team!A great read for boys 9-11 years ...
Mandla is a young Swazi boy training to be a sangoma. After completing the quest for his muti bag, he is initiated into the mysteries of Nkosatana, the Princess of Heaven, and becomes a heaven-herd by catching a bird of lightning. But this is only the start of his path toward maturity: he participates in the annual Incwala ceremony, where he uncovers a plot to kill the King. This is a coming-of-age story with and exciting and symbolic narrative ...
Die Van Vuurens van Pretoria besit die Blou Bul Slaghuis in die Mall. Daar is drie seuns en ‘n laatlam-sussie. Die hoofkarakter is die jongste seun, Willem, wat ’n besondere band met sy jonger sussie het.Ondanks druk van sy pa om as rugbyspeler uit te blink, wil hy eerder kunsklasse loop. Hy is ook verlief op Oom Ravi, sy pa se vennoot, se dogter Alesea.Teen die agtergrond van die “Pa van die Jaar”-kompetisie, waarvoor die seuns hulle pa inskryf ...
Khanyisile has eventually divulged to her mother, MaKhoza, that her baby was conceived after she had been raped by her own father, Jabulani Madonsela. MaKhoza is devastated by this information and tries in vain to calm down Khanyisile. MaKhoza learns about this while Madonsela, who has risen to be a prominent government official, is still away in the USA on an official visit. The story addresses one of the current challenges of the abuse of daug ...
