Een van die gewildste programme, Die Professor, op Amore Bekker se oggendprogram op RSG is nou in boekformaat.

Die Menslike Dieretuin nooi die leser uit tot ʼn unieke leeservaring oor die belangrikste parasiete en ander organismes wat in en op ons leef.

Ritmes En Rites is ʼn keur uit die koerantrubrieke van Cas Wepener wat die afgelope sewe jaar in die dagblaaie Beeld en Die Burger, aanlyn op Netwerk24, asook in Vrye Weekblad verskyn het.

Met sy pen verken hy die alledaagse lewens van Suid-Afrikaners, die netwerk verhoudings waarin hulle staan en karteer so veranderende tye.

In today’s volatile times, it’s more important than ever to do whatever it takes to create sustainable hope and joy. One way to achieve this goal is by tapping into the power of self-leadership…

Only you can control and lead your own life! In today’s volatile times, it’s more important than ever to do whatever it takes to create sustainable hope and joy. One way to achieve this goal is by tapping into the power of self-leadership… Only you can control and lead your own life!

If you want to reach your full potential and lead others, you need to start successfully leading yourself. In this book, the author shares practical tips, tools and interventions in the form of stepping-stones from personal experience, to assist you on the path to becoming the best possible version of yourself.

Conquer yourself, become your own best friend, and start achieving those goals that have always seemed just out of reach.

Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic.

Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as ‘decontextualised learners’ premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy.

This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.

’n Bekroonde joernalis, Malvory Adams, skrik wakker in ’n hospitaalbed en wonder hoe hy daar beland het. Dit tref hom soos ’n tienpondhamer tussen die oë: Sy selfmoordpoging het misluk! ’n Bleddie “Samaritaan” het hom uit die kloue van die dood weggeruk.

Malvory se hartverskeurende lewensreis sleep jou enduit saam en laat jou by tye na jou asem snak.

Als is nie net swart en wit nie skets ’n prentjie van swaarkry, stryd, sukses, selfvernietiging, ’n dans met die dood en die lewe.

’n QR-kode word ook by Als is nie net swart en wit nie ingesluit van sy nuutste liedjie, “Hemel-Dal” asook ’n Engelse weergawe genaamd “Heaven’s Vale”.

In What’s Your Move? Nicolette Mashile, founder of Financial Bunnies and a champion of personal-finance education across the African content, shares stories from her own life and journey with money in order to redefine personal-finance management.

An intimate and deeply personal book, in What’s Your Move? Nicolette talks openly about her experiences with money and the way she was brought up. She shares her beliefs about how our everyday behaviour influences how we manage our finances, and how, in spite of knowing better, we sometimes make the wrong financial decisions.

What’s Your Move? is a challenge: a challenge to you to make a move that will be financially rewarding. A promise to yourself that you are more than capable of managing your money.

The scarcity of conviviality in universities, within and between disciplines, and among scholars suggests that the position in and production and consumption of knowledge are far from neutral, objective, and disinterested processes. They are socially and politically mediated by webs of humanity, hierarchies of power, and instances of human agency. Given the resilience of colonial education in Africa and among Africans, endogenous traditions of knowledge are barely recognised and grossly underrepresented.

Conviviality in knowledge production would entail not just seeking conversations and collaboration with and across disciplines in the conventional sense but also the integration of sidestepped popular epistemologies informed by popular universes and ideas of reality.

Such scholarship is predicated upon recognising and providing for incompleteness as a necessary attribute of being, from persons to disciplines and traditions of knowing, and knowledge making.

Leah Hawker brings together 101 women to tell their stories about the realities of breastfeeding, a subject often hidden from the public eye. They explore personal truths, myths and attitudes towards the practice, inevitably raising topical questions about how women feel about themselves, how they are seen by others and how they are marketed to.

Portraits of every woman standing tall, feeding her child in public, accompany the candid accounts. The title of the project is Breastfeeding 101, and even though it is not intended as a manual, it may serve as one.

Racism is a global phenomenon. First-world countries and developing countries are struggling with how to implement anti-racism measures and how best to achieve non-racialism and social cohesion. In Dealing with Racism, advocate, businessman and social activist Nathanael Siljeur examines the issues of race from his perspective as a coloured man in post-apartheid South Africa.

While things have changed since the demise of apartheid, much work still remains to create a truly free and just society. Sijleur looks at our responsibilities as parents, businesspeople and members of churches and community organisations and asks us to examine both the practical steps needed to ensure human dignity and equality as well as the ways we might unwittingly be contributing to prejudice. His message is positive and compassionately self-critical, aimed at engaging all sides of the issue in honest reflection and constructive debate.

Siljeur’s work is of specific relevance to South Africans in the post-apartheid era but also reaches out to the rest of the world where racism remains a burning issue.

Her business burnt to the ground, her home flooded, family bankruptcy a harsh reality, and yet, these events paled into insignificance for what was to come. Mala was diagnosed with four complex and debilitating, incurable diseases. She became riddled with inflammation and excruciating symptoms. The medical prognosis – no hope and wheelchair bound for the rest of her life. Her relationships and life were falling apart.

But, Mala defied the limited beliefs of medical science and today is walking, dancing, driving and thriving again. How? She used her adverse situation to conduct intensive research resulting in a unique Take-Charge Wellness formula that works! This non-fiction, self-help book is a success story that is both gripping and empowering for those caught up in the stress of everyday life or battling a chronic illness.

This, is Mala’s story, scientifically researched and referenced.

“Sometime in November 2007 while working as an entertainment and lifestyle journalist, a job that had seen me party and hang out with local and international stars, including John Legend, I realised that I was over my life in South Africa. My job was fab and my life should have been great but it wasn’t because who cares if you get to pose with Beyoncé? I had had enough of writing about people living their wildest dreams. It was time to see what the story of my life would be. I had always had wanderlust, especially for Africa. And so I made the decision to leave South Africa, an urgent need that consumed me and almost drove me to a point of insanity. I planned to spend three months in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo and Benin.”

When Lerato Mogoathle left South Africa for a planned three-month break to West Africa little did she know that those three months would turn into five years.

Vagabond is her hilarious and honest account of her five years of living as a drifter in Africa. In between the borders, foreign architecture and interesting new ways of life, Mogoatlhe found passion, love, laughter and heartbreak. On these pages you will find capsules of time spent in 21 countries in five regions of Africa. You will be regaled by the tales of how she tries to worm herself into hotels when she has no money because of unpaid invoices back home. You will be mortified and proud of how she navigates herself out of difficult situations like being misread by a man who tries to force himself on her.

Mogoatlhe’s book is a travel memoir driven by the belief that whatever else Africa is, it is first and foremost a home. It is punctuated with a deep urge to know the continent differently.

Four years. Seven continents. An unprecedented quest to document and preserve our last remaining wild lands.

In more than 200 striking images, acclaimed South African photographers Peter and Beverly Pickford have created an epic, unparalleled portrait of some of our planet’s most untouched places: from the heat-beaten country of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast to Alaska and the Yukon’s abundance of water, in ocean, river and lake; from the subantarctic islands’ wind-tossed shores in the south to the Arctic’s immense expanses of cracked pancake ice in the north; and the dazzling juxtaposition of desert and water in Australia’s Kimberley to the remote, frozen peaks of Tibet and Patagonia. Within these extreme landscapes, Beverly and Peter’s images illuminate and celebrate myriad forms of life: polar bears, rhinoceroses and bharal, as well as the humble lichen, are all evocatively pictured within the landscapes upon which they depend. This is a wildlife book like no other, its images aching with what words struggle to describe: the resonance of wilderness in our inner being, the power of land to transform our emotion, and our ability to transcend the immediate to become sublime.

Wild Land’s stunning images are accompanied by a fascinating text in which Peter not only vividly describes the photographers’ adventures in pursuit of wild land, but also delivers a timely message that highlights the urgent need for these lands to be preserved for the future of the planet – a future on which humankind’s very survival is dependent.

Across the world, 2 billion experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing the taboo around menstruation to have grave consequences. Younger people who menstruate are deterred from going to school, adults from work, infections are left untreated. The shame is universal and the silence a global rule.

In It's Only Blood, Anna Dahlqvist tells the shocking but always moving stories of why and how people from Sweden to Bangladesh, from the United States to Uganda, are fighting back against the shame.

Hierdie is ‘n opvolg van die nou reeds onontbeerlike en uiters suksesvolle digbundel Knapsekêrels.

Dit bevat toeganklike gedigte vir alle lesers.

Wye dekking in gedrukte sowel as digitale media

Almost Human is the personal story of a charismatic and visionary palaeontologist, a rich and readable narrative about science, exploration, and what it means to be human.

In 2013, Wits University reasearch professor Lee Berger caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave near Johannesburg. He put out a call around the world for collaborators – men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through 8-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave 40 feet underground. With this team of ‘underground astronauts’, Berger made the discovery of a lifetime: hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least 15 individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known pre-hominids with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger's team had discovered an all new species: Homo naledi.

The cave proved to be the richest pre-hominid site ever discovered, full of implications that challenge how we define ourselves as human. Did these ancestors of ours bury their dead? If so, they must have had an awareness of death, a level of self-knowledge: the very characteristic we used to define ourselves as human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us?

Addressing these questions, Berger counters the arguments of those colleagues who have questioned his controversial interpretations and astounding finds.

IntheFlow is a practical, accessible book based on Mindfulness principles, which can be easily applied to the workplace – with extraordinary outcomes and benefits for individuals and teams.

IntheFlow is for anyone who is intrigued by Mindfulness, is aware of the tremendous impact it can have on one’s life, and is keen to incorporate the concepts and principles into one’s life at work. Designed as 6-step daily ritual, IntheFlow focuses ones attention and awareness on the good and great parts of our everyday lives – which are often overlooked, or get lost in the cacophony of stress, anxiety, frustration, exhaustion and overwhelm which seem to be inevitable consequences of our busy-ness. For leaders and teams, IntheFlow provides a way to practice elements of Mindfulness in the workplace, and experience positive and substantial shifts – both individually, and collectively. And for companies who are looking to reduce workplace stress, and create a culture of trust and empathy – which naturally enhances productivity – IntheFlow is an ideal solution!

IntheFlow is not just for work, though. It has also been used to great benefit by other groups – who want to connect in a deeper, more introspective way than what one typically experiences with Facebook or other social media; and families who use IntheFlow as a way to share the highlights (and lowlights) of their day. IntheFlow is essential reading for anyone who is curious about how to practically incorporate Mindfulness principles into an average day, and experience its wonderful benefits – whether you’re an experienced Mindfulness practitioner, or never meditated for a single minute.

As The Real Meal Revolution continues to change lives, The Low-Carb Creed seeks to provide further important information on the lifestyle.

It provides a meal plan, updated lists and a full manifesto (called The Creed). It covers common stumbling blocks to weight loss, potential grey areas are discussed, and basic cooking techniques and mouth-watering recipes ensure the lifestyle is easy to follow. Myths and misconceptions surrounding dietary needs are dealt with, as well as super foods, supplements, alternatives to high-carb foods and instructions on how to get started.

LCHF is more than just Banting; the author also introduces the Paleo diet and how to transition onto it.

Despite the fact that the ‘rise of the black middle class’ is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society and a major actor in the reshaping of South African society, analysis of it has been lacking. Rather, the image presented by the media has been of ‘black diamonds’, that is, above all, as consumers of the products of advanced industrial society, and of corrupt ‘tenderpreneurs’ who use their political connections to obtain contracts which they would otherwise be denied. At the same time, the restrictions upon black professional and entrepreneurial activity in the apartheid era stunted the development of black capitalism and the black middle class, while the growth of a substantial black working class which became the class vanguard of the political liberation of South Africa, pushed the role of the middle class into the shadows.

This book presents a new way of looking at the Black middle class which seeks to complicate that picture, an analysis that reveals its impactful role in the recent history of South Africa. It provides a careful account of its historical development in colonial society prior to 1994 before examining the size, shape and structure of the middle class in contemporary South Africa, class formation under the ANC, education and black upward social mobility, the black middle class at work, the social life of the black middle class, and its political role in the shaping of a democratic society in the post-apartheid era. The trajectory of the black middle class in South Africa is related to that of its counterparts in the global south.

While the book offers the most comprehensive account of the black middle class since Leo Kuper wrote on the subject in the early 1960s, it also seeks to make a major contribution to the burgeoning debate about the middle class globally.

Keeping a group of campers occupied for vast periods of time is a daunting task, especially for newcomers to the outdoor education industry.

Luckily, this book is full of great ideas that will provide hours of fun and allow your group to learn essential life lessons while getting to know one another better through play.

Uiteindelik! ’n Allesomvattende boek wat al jou vrae oor die Banting-leefstyl beantwoord en 'n oplossing bied vir permanente gewigsverlies.

Die Banting-Oplossing verduidelik nie net wat Banting behels nie, dit:

• verskaf antwoorde op Banters se dringendste vrae;
• skiet die mites wat rondom Banting ontstaan het, aan flarde;
• bevat handige maaltydplanne en Banting-vriendelike voedsellysies;
• verskaf wenke oor wat om te doen wanneer gewigsverlies tot stilstand kom;
• help jou om voedseletikette te verstaan; en
• wys jou hoe om te Bant sonder om die bank te breek, en dat almal dié leefstyl kan volg.

Maar die heel belangrikste – die boek leer ons hoe om ontslae te raak van daardie ekstra kilogramme en hoe om hulle vir ewig weg te hou! Resultate van in-diepte navorsing word ondersteun deur gevallestudies en voor-en-na foto’s. Lesers het nou toegang tot alle inligting oor Banting in een boek.

This cookbook is all you need to cater for big groups op people.

Cooking for the masses can be tricky but this guide makes it an absolute joy. Whether you’re catering for a camp, hostel, or any other large group of people, the delicious meal ideas and useful tips inside this book are sure to satisfy.

The recipes are easy to follow and suitable for both professional and amateur cooks who love to share the joy of food with others.

This title is based on a study of South African youth who live in Townships (ikasi in IsiZulu). South Africa's townships constitute some of the most disenfranchised pockets of the world. The youth who are teenagers now were spared the apartheid era struggle but they grew up in a moral vacuum. Crime is rampant and many criminals come from townships. iKasi is an examination of how these disenfranchised youth think about morality. Through a detailed ethnographic study, Sharlene Swartz describes how a group of young people aged between 14 and 20 construct right and wrong, what rules govern their behavior, how they explain the gap between what they say is right and what they do in the moral sphere, and ultimately the multiple ways in which they construct meaning from the influences in their immediate contexts ( or moral ecologies). She unpacks their moral influences and the meanings attributed to each from mothers, absent fathers, younger siblings, friends, vibrant youth culture, school, faith and cultural beliefs (such as witchcraft and protective amulets) through to the impact of violent, rubbish-strewn communities and government policies. The main theme of iKasi concerns the inter-relationships between poverty, morality and youth in a post-conflict context. It illustrates the extent to which poverty impacts on the physical, emotional and psychological aspects of young people's lives including on their moral functioning, growth and development.

More people than ever are living with heart disease, and the number is on the rise. But there is good news – heart disease can be managed, prevented and even reversed. Healthy heart for life will show you how. Designed by health and fitness expert Andrew Cate, this unique six-week programme contains achievable exercise tips, meal suggestions and proven advice to help you boost your health and lower your blood pressure and cholesterol without medication.

At a loss for ideas for your child's upcoming birthday? Party magic 3 makes it easy to organise a children's party, turn it into a huge success - and even enjoy it yourself. Party magic 3 has many themes to inspire you, including: imaginative cakes; step-by-step instructions; creative ideas for invitations; fun gift bags; sweet and savoury snacks; delicious drinks; something to please every taste, age group and budget. This practical hands-on guide will inspire and empower parents, even those with limited time or money. Your child - and you - can enjoy a memorable, best-ever birthday party.

Omvattende familie gesondheidgids is 'n volledige en toeganklike gids wat die hele gesin se gesondheid bespreek. Dit bevat: strategiee om siekte te voorkom, algemene siektes, kindergesondheid en kindersiektes, mans se gesondheidsprobleme, vroue se gesondheidsprobleme, noodhulp en trauma. Dr. Friedland gee voorkomende wenke, beskryf simptome en bespreek behandelingsopsies vir verskillende siektes.