We've all heard of the big five, but what is the big six? Or the big twelve? Which is the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, and where is it situated? Who was the first South African to climb Mount Everest, and when and where was the first rugby match played in South Africa? The answers to all these questions, and many, many more, are to be found in Van Lill's South African miscellany. Categories such as nature, sport, politics and entertainment cover such diverse topics as South Africa's lighthouses, our political leaders, past and present, the nicknames of rugby players, the Johannesburg securities exchange and world famous musicians born in South Africa. This title will tell the reader about the biological diversity of South Africa, its wealth in gold, its mountains and conservation areas, its toll roads and cities, thus amply illustrating the richness and variety in this wonderful country.

Ons almal weet wat die groot vyf is, maar wat is die groot ses? Of die groot twaalf? Wat is die langste gebou in die Suidelike halfrond, en waar is dit gelee? Wie was die eerste Suid Afrikaner wat Mount Everest geklim het, en wanneer en waar was die eerste rugby wedstryd in Suid-Afrika gespeel? Die antwoorde op hierdie vrae, en op nog baie meer kan gevind word in Van Lill se Suid-Afrikaanse Trivia. Kategoriee soos natuur, sport, politiek en vermaak sluit sulke diverse onderwerpe in soos Suid-Afrikaanse lighuise, ons politieke leiers, verlede en hede, die byname van rugby spelers en wereldbekende musikante wat in Suid-Afrika gebore is. Die titel vertel die leser meer oor die biologiese diversiteit van Suid-Afrika, die land se rykdom in goud, berge en bewaringsgebiede, tolpaaie en stede en sodoende beklemtoon dit die rykdom en verskydenheid in hierdie wonderlike land.

This collection of portraits of women at the Cape brings to life some extraordinary personalities from the early day of the settlement. Cape Town was a wild “frontier town”, attracting the most desperate, hopeful and intrepid adventurers from the Old World – who both clashed and mingled with the local people. Women had to have extraordinary strength of character to survive at the Cape, facing war, wild animals, slavery, and the stern laws and punishments of the powerful VOC. But women also found opportunity at the Cape: vastly outnumbered by men, they were in great demand – many went through several husbands, as their menfolk succumbed to lion attacks, Khoekhoe assegais or ill health. Although historical background is given, what makes this book different is that it focuses on individual personalities and life stories. These portraits are what make A Tapestry of Women Lives sparkle and distinguish it from more conventional historical texts. We meet familiar figures such as the Khoekhoe Krotoa and her mistress, Maria de Queilleirie, as well as lesser-known characters: Maria Mouton, who had an affair with her slave and suffered terrible punishment; the shadow Nicola Six, the power behind Simon van der Stel's throne; the remarkable slave Angela of Bengal, who escaped the hell of slavery and entered in Society, and intrepid Anna Rodolphus, who disguised herself as a soldier to find love and adventure at the Cape. The approximately 40 women and girls profiled in the book come frome every walk of life – the original Khoekhoe and Bushman inhabitants, the bourgeois governors' wives; the peasant farmers, inn-keepers and prostitutes of the rough port city; and the slave women who were brought to the Cape from the East and other parts of Africa. Filled with detail and painstakingly researched, the book ranges from the Governor's drawing room to the sordid Slave Lodge, from hunter-gathering to stoking beacon fires on Robben Island and wine-farming in the Stellenbosch valley. An added attraction for many readers will be the fun of discovering one's forebears mentioned in the text – the women featured here, slave, settler and Khoekhoe, are the stammoeders of very well-known South African families. Almost any South African reader will find some familiar name in the many mentioned. Illustrated, this is a fascinating contribution to popular South African history: an intimate, personalised women's account of the first permanent settlement in the country.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. EU member states lose hundreds of billions of euros to tax evasion every year. Tax crimes have a significant impact on the functioning of national and international economies and on the global financial system. Not only do they affect the actors involved and the state that has been deprived of tax revenues, but the citizens of those states suffer too. Tax Crimes and Enforcement in the European Union presents the findings of the EU-funded PROTAX project. Chapters written by leading experts discuss EU and national legal measures and institutional practices to counter anti-money laundering, corruption, organised crime, and tax evasion. Human factors and their role in countering tax crimes are also considered as well as whistleblower protection legislation which gives readers a rounded view of current practices within the EU. This book provides a timely and valuable comparative study of the legal and institutional background of the prosecution of tax crimes, as well as an analysis of legal measures and institutional practices to combat tax crimes on national and EU levels. It also contributes to the development of an advanced European Security Model for understanding human factors in countering tax crimes. It equips policy makers and law enforcement agencies with the dynamic toolkit they need to improve their understanding of tax crimes in the EU and provides solutions for preventing, detecting, and investigating tax crimes.

Dr Chris Barnard caused a world sensation in December 1967 by performing the first human heart transplant, transforming him overnight from an unknown surgeon into a household name. Although he wrote a number of books about himself, and his first wife, Louwtjie, wrote a book in reply to one of them, there has never been a full scale, objective biography of the man named by Time Magazine as one of only two South Africans on a list of people who had changed the world - the other being Nelson Mandela.
Chris Logan has conducted numerous interviews and done extensive research to uncover the real Chris Barnard. Logan covers Barnard's boyhood in Beaufort West, his medical training, his marriage to Louwtjie and his first fulltime job, to his becoming a surgeon, and finally succeeding in a human transplant. He discusses how Barnard became transformed into a social butterfly, wearing Italian suits and having affairs with celebrities such as Gina Lollobrigida and Francoise Hardy. He then fell in love with and married a 19-year-old model, Barbara Zoellner.
We see how he collaborated with Eschel Rhoodie's Department of Information; a period about which Logan has uncovered previously unpublished details.
His troubled relationships with children of his first marriage are described, and his divorce from Barbara due to his constant adultery. At the age of 65, he married another model, Karin Setzkorn, 24 who also divorced him. The lonely and dejected Barnard moved to Vienna where, inevitably, he became involved with an attractive lady doctor. He died in Cyprus having suffered an acute asthma attack, at the age of 78.
While the significance of the first heart transplant is still widely recognized today, Barnard remains a controversial figure.
This is the first serious assessment of the man.

Although many adults consider school to be a safe place, thousands of students suffer from some type of conflict at school each day--from name-calling and harassment to physical attacks. SCHOOL CONFLICT examines the contributing factors that lead to violence in schools and offers ways for young people to help prevent school conflicts that could otherwise lead to disaster.

Hierdie gesins- en inisiasieroman speel af in 'n spoorwegkampgemeenskap in Durban in die sestigerjare. Die verteller is die 13-jarige Timus, en saam met hom beleef ons sy inisiasieprosesse in 'n grootmenswereld, en sy waarnemings van die mense en lewe rondom hom. Timus is deel van 'n groot gesin wat dit nie breed het nie en waar die pa se beheptheid met die kerk ontstellende gevolge het. As jongste in die gesin is hy toegespin in sy eie droomwereld en ook agter by sy portuurs oor die soet en duister dinge van die lewe. Hy het 'n sterk verbeelding en sy weergawe van insidente verleen 'n magies-realistiese gevoel aan die gebeure in die roman.