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Qabila’s marriage is falling apart – it has been for years. If she had not fallen pregnant she and Rashid might not have married in the first place. After all, he was seeing Thandi at the time. And now Qabila wonders if he ever stopped seeing her. Does that explain why Qabila has never felt the full measure of his love? At least he is not abusive, her mother would say, unlike Qabila’s father. But with her mother’s passing, Qabila’s world is coming undone. She is dreaming of strange songs and making lists to stay sane. When she finds out Rashid is living a double life, she demands a divorce. Why does he still resist? Why not go to Thandi? As she tries to pick up the pieces of her life, Qabila rails against the persistent legacy of discrimination in South Africa. Not least of which is the racism in her own community towards fellow black people. But she also rediscovers the joy of family, and her Muslim faith, and meets a group of musicians who might be the answer to her puzzling dreams.
Joernalis Cecile se humeur is net so warm soos haar vlamrooi hare en
kaptein Ruan de Wet laat dit elke keer opvlam. Cecile is nuut by die
plaaslike koerant en niks gaan haar keer om die scoop te kry oor die
diefstal van die blou diamante nie.
For the four friends jogging their regular morning route, along the sleepy suburban streets of Fish Hoek, nothing could have warned them of what was to come. Trying to take a short cut and win favour with his taxi boss, a young driver Tshepo Dlamini crashes into one of the runners. As Claire's lifeless body lies crumpled on the ground, Tshepo finds himself trapped in a metal carcass. What's left of his life is turned upside down. Watching the accident happen, Maureen stands on her balcony and is the only witness. Yet she harbours another dark secret. To save his life, Tshepo's leg is so badly injured that it must be amputated. Maureen must learn to deal with her husband's addiction and build her own life. No longer the awesome foursome, Tanya, Liz and Kate reframe their friendship without Claire and overcome their fears and inertia. For James, Claire's adoring boyfriend, his life begins to unravel as he wakes to the news that Claire is dead, leaving him to question life as it was and will be. From shock to acceptance, each chapter is a journey, and as each person tries to move forward with their lives, they must face their mistakes, set against the complex backdrop of small town South Africa. Showing that there is always hope, and that change is inevitable, each character must learn to forgive themselves and others, but for some, the hope of closure may be harder than they thought.
Adriana vra Ranna en Alex om onder die dekmantel van joernalistiek die storie van ’n jong vrou onder haar beskerming te ondersoek. Dit bring hulle op die spoor van ’n ou misdaad – die verdwyning van ’n talentvolle jong kunstenaar wat in haar matriekjaar spoorloos verdwyn het. Die meisie se destydse kêrel en haar kunsonderwyser is verdink, maar die saak is nooit opgelos nie. ’n Foto van die meisie naby ’n aborsiekliniek in Johannesburg speel ’n kardinale rol. In die foto kyk sy oor haar skouer, asof sy bang is sy word agtervolg. Alex dek ook ’n storie oor ’n jong onwettige immigrant wat van vervolging in sy eie land gevlug het om ’n nuwe lewe in SuidAfrika te maak. Maar xenofobie dreig om sy drome te verwoes. AJ Williams is op dertig kaptein in die polisie, maar sy veg om die stereotipering te oorkom wat haar bruin vel en geslag ontlok. ’n Foto van Ranna in Pretoria sit AJ op dié se spoor.
On the side of the road, two boys are walking, holding hands. The smaller, barefoot one does not speak. The words are there in Zuko’s head but they are stuck somewhere between his thoughts and his mouth. He sees patterns, though, all around him – in the clouds, the stones, the arch of the sun. He hums the sun’s sound, his fingers painting pathways in the air. Some say he is cursed, others believe he is magical. To Ash, Zuko is his little brother, all he has left in the world. He has not heard of autism. The older boy is a teenager who has seen more than most his age. Ash stood beside their mother when she buried their sister. Then, when his mother also succumbed to illness, he dug her grave alone. Now he is leading his brother to the city to find their father. As the two traverse the land, they are forced to eat what they find and sleep under the stars. And Ash keeps wondering: Will their father know them? Will he take them in?
As skoolkind was Carli dolverlief op haar ouer broer se vriend Rudolph
Beyers. Hoekom het sy haar dan so skaamteloos gedra toe hy by die
maskerbal vir haar matriekafskeid opgedaag het? En het hy haar agter
haar masker herken?
Lyra en Andante is in Venesië in die Karnavaltyd, op soek na
waardevolle antieke items wat vir hulle nie net estetiese of
geskiedkundige waarde het nie, maar ook persoonlike en sentimentele
betekenis het.
Vir Armin en Gia is dit liefde met die eerste oogopslag toe hulle op ’n
vlug tussen Dub ai en Londen ontmoet, maar die noodlot gryp in. Toe
hulle mekaar vyf jaar later weer op ’n vlug raakloop, is Gia getroud.
Ná ’n nag van passie het Jacqueline en Boshoff hul harte op mekaar
verloor, maar haar noodgedwonge leuens oor haar verlede het hulle
uitmekaar gedwing.
Met haar prokureur se hulp, vind Lizzy onder ’n nuwe identiteit ’n
toevlug op ’n plaas by die see. Daar versorg sy die visser shuisies en
bly naweke in die eienaar, Reuben, se huis terwyl hy in Mauritius is.
Moet Agab getrou bly aan die ou lsraelitiese waardes, of kan hy sy vrou volg die afvallige tydsgees in? Teenoor lsebel staan die profetiese figuur van Elia - wat die droogte oor Israel voorspel, die profete van Baal in 'n tweestryd op Karmelberg verneder, en uiteindelik die finale doemwoord oor Agab en sy huis uitspreek. Daar is ook die verhaal van Nabot,wat nie bereid om te erken dat God die God van alle mense is nie. En van die liefde van Johanan vir Ada, die dogter van hul dienskneg.
Tian Killian se ouers is voor sy oë vermoor, die aand van die vuurwerke op Slootplaas. Nou reis hy, Amsterdam toe en na Kowloon, oral op die spoor van Charlie Oeng, oftewel Koekepan, oftewel Gelatenheid, oftewel Sjinees. Eens op ’n tyd ’n onbeduidende Hollywood-ekstra, maar ’n hoofrolspeler in Tian se wêreld. Hoe harder Tian probeer om die pyn wat hom sedert sy jeug vergesel, te verstaan, hoe tergender word die vraag: Waar eindig die Sjinees se skuld en waar begin sy éie aanspreeklikheid? ’n Ryke verskeidenheid karakters bevolk dié ambisieuse verhaal, van die Sjinese matriarg Ouma Voetjies in Amsterdam tot die blinde siener Ouma Ogies in die Oos-Kaap, van Cor van Gogh, hy met die kleinood in die koker, tot die enigmatiese, naamlose “Sy” . . . Die wêreld van Charlie Oeng staan in die tradisie van breedopgesette vertellings met veelvuldige verhaallyne en uitgebreide agtergrondbeskrywings. Feit en verdigsel is sjarmant verweef in hierdie verbluffende roman.
Op haar man se begrafnis hoor Danika Rivers iemand sê sy moes van haar
man se bedrog geweet het. Sy en haar sesjarige dogtertjie word met
skuld en skande agtergelaat.
Life wasn't always this hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo, who lives with her mother, Zola in the shacks on the margins of Mkhumbane township. There were good times when they lived with Sipho, Zola's lawyer boyfriend. But when the beautiful and mysterious Nonceba Hlathi arrives, Zola has to make a choice. She also has her pride. Now their social grants have been discontinued: the one for Mvelo being underage reared by a 31-year-old single mother, and the other for Zola because of her status. And there is also an elephant growing in their shack as the terrible thing that happened that night in the revival tent remains unspoken. In her second novel, Futhi Ntshingila once again introduces us to a cast of strong women who have little, but are determined to shape their own destinies.
Dit was nog nie behoorlik dag nie toe Kaatjie Danster, haastig op pad Halte toe, die kind van die weemoed in die voetpaadjie voor haar gewaar. Tjoepstil het hy gestaan en luister na die wind. Sy het dadelik geweet: Druppeltjie du Pisanie, kind van Waterwyser du Pisanie en KensTillie Moolman, het die lewe vir die dood verruil. Maar hoe Druppeltjie onder in die boorgat beland het, dit weet niemand nie. En die af-arm magistraat wat nou, veertien maande later, kom ondersoek instel na die oorsaak van sy dood, torring verniet aan dinge wat verby is. Want Toorberg se mense – die lewendes en die dooies – ken van geheime wegbere. Net oor een ding het magistraat van der Ligt dit reg: hoe meer getuies daar is, hoe verder wyk die waarheid.
A story of two passionate people who share a shameful past and a tenuous present, this remarkable narrative follows headmistress Mohumagadi--of the elite Sekolo sa Ditlhora school for talented black children--and Father Bill, a disgraced preacher, as they are brought together again decades after a childhood love affair expelled them from their communities. Much to the dismay of her students, Mohumagadi hires Father Bill as a teacher, resulting in a battle of wills and wits for the hearts and minds of the children living in the shadow of revolution and change. Entertaining and thought-provoking, this unique account offers insight into the workings of African culture.
Nataniel is weer op sy stukke. 41 magiese nuwe stories in Afrikaans en Engels, uit sy mees onlangse verhoogproduksies landswyd. Tegelyk absurd en tog so herkenbaar Suid-Afrikaans. Soos in Nicky & Lou, en sy jongste blitsverkoper 150 stories, is die verhale in Zip! spitsvondig en baie snaaks, en tog ook so wys. Hoe skryf hy op een plek: “As mense na jou staar of jou nie aanvaar nie, is dit heeltemal in die haak. Solank hulle vir jou hande klap.” 27 stories is in Afrikaans, en 14 in Engels.
Leading politician and anti-apartheid campaigner turns the spotlight on to elephant poaching in South Africa. Gripping and pacey this is an epic tale of corruption, collusion and courage. Having thwarted murderous poachers in The Rhino Conspiracy, the Veteran, Thandi and Mkhize are back in a new fight – battling to save elephant herds from being callously killed for their ivory, whilst trying to block wholesale political corruption and money laundering in contemporary South Africa. Will diminishing elephant numbers be reversed? Will the forces of good triumph over the vicious looters? Can the annual trillion-dollar money laundering trade by brought to heel by a brave whistle blower? Peter Hain’s gripping second thriller builds to a dramatic climax, the action switching from wildlife to politics, from bushveld to city, from high finance to poaching. A vivid and gripping journey into the competing worlds of activism and corruption.
Who can stop a maniacal Russian and his private army? Surely not a handful of Cape Town gangsters and an Investment Banker/ex-scuba diving instructor. Submerged is an international thriller traversing the pirate-controlled waters off the Horn of Africa, the lethal world of Russian organized crime, the buzzing financial capital London, the Rhino slaughter fields of South Africa, the decadence concealed below the brittle veneer of the beautiful City of Cape Town with its adjacent Cape Flats ganglands and the icy, shark-infested waters of the Atlantic. During a high-risk scuba dive at one of the deep dive-sites of the Red Sea, Sophia Popova, a beautiful but troubled Russian heiress, fails in her suicide attempt. A love affair develops between her and her rescuer, dive instructor Leon Jacobs, and she arranges that Leon, also a bright economics graduate, joins a major Investment Bank in London. The Bank is owned by Russian billionaire and Sophia’s father, Bogdan Popov, who made it big from political favouritism, corruption and innovative methods of getting rid of competitors. The love-sick and gullible Leon soon starts drowning in the international syndicated crime world of Popov whose motto is: ‘Deal or Death’. Meanwhile, Franklin Benjamin, a notorious Cape Town gangster, but now retired, tries to live a sober life as a commercial fisherman in a small village off the West Coast of South Africa. But when Franklin’s and Leon’s paths cross and, after a series of shocking events disrupt the peace and quiet of Franklin’s world, he has to make the impossible decision whether to rise up from his hibernation and mobilise his gang. Will Leon escape with his life from the global-reaching claws of Popov? And where will Sophia find the courage and strength to slay the inner demons ruling her existence?
Ná haar man se dood kruip Issa Joubert weg in haar groentetuin op die
erf langsaan. Hier kan sy haar tyd neem om te genees van die onreg en
seer.
Lente is verloof aan die aantreklike Herman Pretorius, maar sy weet
haar hart behoort eintlik aan haar gevaarlike en stormagtige
jeugliefde, Stander Gerber. Hy is egter verantwoordelik vir die dood
van hul goeie vriend en die letsel in haar nek…
Nadine Bester is ’n traumasuster op lugambulanse. Toe haar seun
gedragsprobleme toon, stel die laer skool se jeugwerker, Rusty, voor
dat Nadine w eer begin uitgaan.
Emma reis na Clarens om haar man se as te strooi. Terwyl sy by tante Vera tuisgaan, daag ’n geheimsinnige koevert op waarvan die inhoud Vera angsbevange maak. Dit blyk dat sy jaarliks anoniem só gedreig word voordat daar op iets wat vir haar kosbaar is toegeslaan word. Wie koester ’n wrok teen Vera? Waarom? Sal Emma antwoorde vind voordat die teisteraar se wraak toeneem? Met die spannende ontrafeling van ’n skrikwekkende raaisel word temas van skuld, straf, boetedoening en vergifnis ondersoek.
Juta Enslin is ’n spor tredakteur en aan oefen verslaaf. Tot meningitis
haar by die dood laat omdraai en haar gehoor en balans aantas. Sy is
skielik van almal om haar af hanklik en voel sy het alles verloor.
Alinda is vasbeslote om haar sterfbedbelofte aan haar ma na te kom voor
sy trou. Maar watter man sal sewe jaar vir haar wag, soos Jakob vir
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