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Seks, Skoonma's & Skuld - 'n Troostante Se Gids Vir Gesonder Verhoudings (Afrikaans, Paperback): Elize Parker Seks, Skoonma's & Skuld - 'n Troostante Se Gids Vir Gesonder Verhoudings (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Elize Parker
R10 R8 Discovery Miles 80 Save R2 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Seks, skoonma’s en skuld is ‘n blik op eietydse verhoudings se grootste uitdagings en oplossings deur iemand wat die seerder kant van die lewe en die liefde ken.

Elize Parker kyk met wysheid en insig na die tipiese uitdagings wat in briewe aan haar troostantekolom sowel as in navorsing en onderhoude vir verhoudingsartikels na vore gekom het. Seks, skoonma’s en skuld is van die grootste brandpunte en sy spreek die fynere detail hiervan aan.

Lees oor:

  • Verhoudings met ekse en hoe om na die opbreek van verhoudings te herstel
  • Die invloed van tegnologie op verhoudings soos Facebookaffairs
  • Hoe om familiekrisisse af te weer en skoonfamilies te hanteer
  • Hoe om ouers en kinders se soms stormagtige verhoudings te navigeer
  • Hoe om veilig uit die greep van verslawings te kom
  • Hoe om te maak as dinge in die slaapkamer verkeerd loop
Made With Love & Plants - Simple & Delicious Plant-Based Recipes (Paperback): Tammy Fry Made With Love & Plants - Simple & Delicious Plant-Based Recipes (Paperback)
Tammy Fry 5
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

As a director of Meat-free Mondays in Australia and South Africa, it’s Tammy Fry’s mission to enable others to live a happier and more energetic lifestyle through plant-based eating.

Through her blog (seed-blog.com) and lifestyle workshops she has become a key influencer and thought leader in the plant-based, health and wellness world of holistic nutrition. Made With Love & Plants will not only present more than 75 wholefood, plant-based recipes, all beautifully photographed and styled, but also provide detailed yet easy-to-follow guidance on living the plant-based lifestyle. Tammy particularly understands how challenging the change to such a diet can be, and is there with helpful support and tips to make the journey easier.

The recipes will encompass a full range of meals from breakfast through to treats, and for family and entertaining.

One Virus, Two Countries - What COVID-19 Tells Us About South Africa (Paperback): Steven Friedman One Virus, Two Countries - What COVID-19 Tells Us About South Africa (Paperback)
Steven Friedman
R300 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R66 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Has South Africa ‘done well’ at limiting illness and deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic? Academic and political commentator, Steven Friedman, thinks not. While the country’s mainstream media believes it has, in his view the evidence tells another story. South Africa has experienced by far the most cases and deaths in Africa – at one point as many as the rest of the continent combined.

One Virus, Two Countries offers a searing analysis of government and expert scientists’ responses to the pandemic. Friedman argues that South Africa is two societies in one – a ‘First World’ which resembles Western Europe and North America, and a ‘Third World’ which looks much like the rest of Africa or South Asia. The South African state, the media and the scientific community have largely tried to deal with the virus through a ‘First World’ lens in which much of the country was either invisible or a problem – not a partner. Friedman argues this approach prevented the country from responding in a way which would have protected most citizens. This is why case numbers and deaths are so high: South Africa has done worse than the rest of Africa not despite the fact that it has a ‘more developed’ health system, but because it does.

One Virus, Two Countries is a controversial book that will rouse much needed debate about South Africa’s health and economic system in a context of serious inequality.

Here's The Thing (Paperback): Haji Mohamed Dawjee Here's The Thing (Paperback)
Haji Mohamed Dawjee
R320 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R45 (14%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Here’s the Thing is a new collection of thought-provoking essays from Haji Mohamed Dawjee.

Filled with stories and insights that are contemplative, comedic and controversial, you will find a touching letter to her father, the honest truth about the pain in the arse that is parenting and ponderings about struggling with the vicissitudes of the modern world filled with cancel culture and the controversies of appreciating the wrong artists. There is also a serving of the many wise lessons the game of tennis has to offer as well as hilarious insights and observations on dustbins, yes dustbins, and ageing, that ring true.

Here’s the Thing is relatable, relevant, entertaining, soothingly self-deprecating and, at times, morally challenging.

Best White And Other Anxious Delusions (Paperback): Rebecca Davis Best White And Other Anxious Delusions (Paperback)
Rebecca Davis 7
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) In Stock

Rebecca Davis has been described as one of the funniest writers in South Africa today. Her razor-sharp wit combines with her acute powers of observation to produce social and political commentary that will have you in stitches even as it informs and provokes you to think seriously about the topics she discusses.

In Best White And Other Anxious Delusions, Davis offers advice on life's tricky issues; discusses the perils of being a 'Best white'; laments the fact that society does not have a universally adopted form of greeting, such as the high-five; explores the intricacies of social media and internet dating; considers the future of reading and tackles a range of controversial topics in between.

Home - Food From My Kitchen (Hardcover): Sarah Graham Home - Food From My Kitchen (Hardcover)
Sarah Graham
R360 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R79 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Building on the success of her two previous books, and in support of her TV series, Sarah Graham's Food Safari, Home: Food From My Kitchen encapsulates cooking throughout southern Africa.

Within the standard cookbook format of Brunch, Salads, Soups, Snacks, Meat, Poultry, Pasta, Seafood, Desserts and Baking, Sarah Graham presents food that is simple but beautiful, delicious and healthy. Most of the dishes can be prepared as easily outdoors as in your kitchen, and the recipes will work for family meals as well as casual dining with friends.

The blog-themed writing style engages readers, while stories and personal anecdotes offer some insight into the inspiration behind the recipes. Traditional South African favourites are given a modern makeover and readers are introduced to some less-familiar dishes from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique.

Sarah loves to use her friends and family around the world as testers and tasters, so hesitant cooks can be assured that all her recipes really do work!

Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse (Paperback): Sihle Khumalo Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse (Paperback)
Sihle Khumalo 1
R290 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R58 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

After exploring more than twenty other African nations using only public transport, Sihle Khumalo this time roams within the borders of his own country. The familiarity of his own car is a luxury, but what he finds on his journey through South Africa ranges from the puzzling to the downright bizarre.

Voyaging from the northernmost part of South Africa right to the south, the author noses his car down freeways and back roads into small towns, townships, and villages, some of which you’ll have trouble finding on a map.

But this is no clichéd description of beautiful landscapes and blue skies. Khumalo is out to investigate the state of the nation, from its highest successes to its most depressing failures. Whether or not he’s baffled, surprised, or sometimes plain angry, Sihle Khumalo will always find warmth in his fellow South Africans: security guards, religious visionaries, drunks, political activists and the many other colourful personalities that come alive in his riveting account.

The Soft Life - Love, Choice And Modern Dating (Paperback): Lebohang Masango The Soft Life - Love, Choice And Modern Dating (Paperback)
Lebohang Masango
R280 R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Save R91 (32%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

For once, this is not a book about 'transactional sex' or HIV. There is no moral panic over women having standards in their romantic lives, or easy clichés of desperation in the face of unrelenting African poverty. In this book, Lebohang Masango explores how women in South Africa give meaning to aspiration, romance and love in their pursuit of the soft life -- a life free of hardship.

Love it or hate it, soft life will not be a passing trend, even if it carries different names in the future.

The Everyday Low-FODMAP Cookbook - Easy Recipes To Reduce Discomfort And Soothe Inflammation (Paperback): Zorah Booley The Everyday Low-FODMAP Cookbook - Easy Recipes To Reduce Discomfort And Soothe Inflammation (Paperback)
Zorah Booley
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Take control of your gut health with these easy, delicious recipes.

After Zorah Booley was diagnosed with IBS, she used her Le Cordon Bleu training to develop a bevy of mouthwatering low-FODMAP-friendly recipes to alleviate her discomfort and control her symptoms―and now she’s sharing them with you. Enjoy beloved dishes you thought were off-limits, like Succulent Beef in Creamy Mushroom Sauce or a plate piled high with Creamy Pesto Rosso Linguine. Discover new ones, like Brown Butter Pumpkin Gnocchi and Calming Khao Soi with Crispy Noodles. You can still say yes to spice without side effects with recipes like Comforting Southern Chili with a Spicy Kick and Quick ’n’ Spicy Chicken Orzo. Find comfort and indulgence in Decadent Dark Chocolate Crinkle Brownies, Baked Apple Cider Donuts or Low-Sugar Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Syrup Frosting.

Zorah takes the guesswork out of the low-FODMAP diet, making it simple for you to manage your symptoms naturally without relying on medications or feeling deprived. So say goodbye to abdominal discomfort and bloating, and confidently take the first step toward a healthier you.

They Don't Award Nobel Prizes To Dead People (Paperback): Richard van Zyl-Smit They Don't Award Nobel Prizes To Dead People (Paperback)
Richard van Zyl-Smit
R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It seems that the better you can cope with failure and rejection, the longer you can survive in our performance and achievement orientated world. But surely survival is a misplaced long-term goal in life? Are we all just aiming to cope?

We need to seek an alternative approach to our lives and careers that does not have survival as the primary outcome and coping as the mechanism to get there.

Water marks - Paint flowers with water, colour and texture (Paperback): Monique Day-Wilde Water marks - Paint flowers with water, colour and texture (Paperback)
Monique Day-Wilde 6
R95 R75 Discovery Miles 750 Save R20 (21%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book takes you beyond the traditional boundaries of muted, delicate and translucent watercolour to create rich, vivid images, not only with watercolour on paper, but with other media and materials, while still retaining a watery feel and enhancing and expanding the possible textural effects. The projects showcase a mix of water media in familiar and unconventional, experimental ways. These include paint, ink, coloured pencils and fabric dye, with texture mediums forming part of the repertoire. While watercolour paper is used a fair amount, canvases, board and drafting paper or vellum are also incorporated. Some really simple, structured techniques have been covered, which can be followed step by step to achieve a very similar outcome and are suitable for crafty projects. Readers are also encouraged to use the more spontaneous and less controlled techniques (illustrated step by step), to further their own creative path, develop a sense of adventure, learn to take risks and work with their 'happy accidents'. There are lots of things one can do with unsuccessful work and the author has included ideas for incorporating discarded endeavours into new art work. Filled with fabulous ideas for both artists and crafters, even the absolute beginner will be able to play and experiment along with Water marks.

Lead With Super Clarity - How Successful Leaders Achieve Exceptional Results (Paperback): Maanda Tshifularo Lead With Super Clarity - How Successful Leaders Achieve Exceptional Results (Paperback)
Maanda Tshifularo
R310 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R62 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

These are difficult times. The Covid-19 pandemic has proved to us that we cannot rely on tomorrow to be like today; there is no such thing as ‘business as usual’. The social and economic upheaval has been devastating, and its effects long-lasting, making these times even more uncertain. The antidote to this uncertainty is clarity.

Maanda Tshifularo has had the privilege of interacting with successful innovators, culture shifters, business leaders and thought leaders, and their ‘common success denominator’ is the ability to see, say, and do things, with purposeful clarity. He has identified ‘Super Clarity’ as the differentiator that helps leaders navigate the ambiguity and half-heartedness which have become the default state in many organisations, leading to plummeting employee morale and productivity.

Not only does a super-clear leader achieve and make a meaningful contribution, but they also experience remarkable joy and personal growth in the journey.

It has never been more crucial for leaders to provide clarity and, in this book, Maanda defines and explains the importance of Super Clarity, and how to translate purpose into our day-to-day activities to unlock exceptional results, job satisfaction, team cohesion and employee engagement.

He outlines in Lead with Super Clarity the critical steps that we can take, as business leaders or in our own lives, to foster clarity – and, in so doing, create an environment characterised by purpose, insight and alignment.

The Climate Crisis - South African & Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives (Paperback): Vishwas Satgar The Climate Crisis - South African & Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives (Paperback)
Vishwas Satgar; Mateo Martinez Abarca, Alberto Acosta, Brian Ashley, Nnimmo Bassey, … 3
R385 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R84 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced.

Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments and their international platforms such as the Paris Climate Agreement deliver too little, too late. Most states, including South Africa, continue on their carbon-intensive energy paths, with devastating results. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. This is the context in which we must ask ourselves: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history?

The Climate Crisis investigates ecosocialist alternatives that are emerging. It presents the thinking of leading climate justice activists, campaigners and social movements advancing systemic alternatives and developing bottom-up, just transitions to sustain life. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical work, the authors collectively examine the challenges and opportunities inherent in the current moment.

Most importantly, it explores ways to renew historical socialism with democratic, ecosocialist alternatives to meet current challenges in South Africa and the world.

Black Lion - Alive In The Wilderness (Paperback): Sicelo Mbatha, Bridget Pitt Black Lion - Alive In The Wilderness (Paperback)
Sicelo Mbatha, Bridget Pitt
R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Wilderness guide Sicelo Mbatha shares lessons learnt from a lifetime’s intimate association with Africa’s wildest nature.

Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood experience – he witnessed his cousin being dragged away by a crocodile – should have turned Sicelo against the surrounding wilderness. Instead, he was irresistibly drawn to it. As a volunteer at Imfolozi Nature Reserve, close encounters with buffalo, lion, elephant and other animals taught him to ‘see’ with his heart and thus began a spiritual awakening.

Drawing from his Zulu culture and his own yearning to better understand human’s relationship to nature, Sicelo has forged a new path, disrupting the conventional approach to nature with an immersive, respectful and transformative way of being in the wilderness. Both memoir and philosophical reflection, Black Lion - co-written with environmentalist Bridget Pitt - is his brilliant and profound account of life as a wilderness spiritual guide.

As humanity hurtles into the anthropogenic 21st century, Black Lion is an urgent reminder of just how much we need wilderness for our emotional and spiritual survival.

Kasinomics - African Informal Economies And The People Who Inhabit Them (Paperback): G.G. Alcock Kasinomics - African Informal Economies And The People Who Inhabit Them (Paperback)
G.G. Alcock
R280 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R56 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Did you know …

  • That the muti market is worth R3 billion a year, with 27 million consumers?
  • That the average hawker earns R3000 a month and there are nearly 500 000 of them!?
  • That the trade in goats is worth millions of rand?
  • That the dagga trade can set the standard for market and distribution to the informal market?
  • That Parmalat Cheese Slices have created a multi-million rand business in kotas, and why the Perfect Sishebo Show is the biggest food show in the country?

Do consumers modernise or westernise? What are the eight cultural megatrends of the South African kasi sector? One of them is modernising, another is spirituality, but how and why?

Feast on Mogodu Mondays and Shwam-shwams, visit sacrifice ceremonies and stokvels, meet sangomas and urban trendsetters. You will never look at the low income informal sector people and businesses in the same way again. With stories and anecdotes, from kayaking down the Tugela, Zulu dancing in the pyramids to hijacking a Kulula flight, GG’s true life stories and how they link to understanding and inspiration for marketing ideas will make you gasp, laugh and shake your head in wonder.

A book as eclectic, mysterious and colourful as the marketplace it is written about.

Ver In Die Wereld (Afrikaans, Paperback): Frederik de Jager Ver In Die Wereld (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Frederik de Jager
R320 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R45 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Ver in die wêreld is 23 stories oor die lewe in die buiteland. Sommige van die vertellings is suiwer fiksie en ander is intiem persoonlike ervarings. Dis verhale oor die verlies aan die bekende, die verlange huis toe, maar ook oor die aanpassing in die verre vreemde wat dikwels met ’n goeie skoot humor gepaard gaan.

Skop jou skoene uit, sit agteroor en laat jou wegvoer na Engeland, Nieu-Seeland, Australië, Kanada, of na een van die ander plekke waar Suid-Afrikaners nesgeskrop het.

Acta Non Verba - The Playbook For Creating, Achieving And Performing At Your Highest Level (Paperback): Erik Kruger Acta Non Verba - The Playbook For Creating, Achieving And Performing At Your Highest Level (Paperback)
Erik Kruger
R230 R184 Discovery Miles 1 840 Save R46 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Erik Kruger is a high-performance coach and founder of the Mental Performance Lab. He writes an email early each morning which he sends to many thousands of subscribers. The aim of his daily message is to inspire people, asking them to reflect and act. Packed with more than 160 thoughtful reflections on what it takes to live a life of action and not words, Acta Non Verba’s purpose is to get people moving, creating, and generating an unstoppable drive in both their business and personal journeys.

The words Acta Non Verba is the sign-off Erik uses in all his emails. This simple Latin phrase, meaning ‘Actions Not Words’, has started a movement. It’s a plea; a call to create your life instead of living it by default, a call to show your intentions instead of merely speaking about them. It’s a call to live to your fullest potential. This is not a book to read from cover to cover, in one sitting. Each day there is a new chapter waiting to be read. Put this book on your bedside table, and read a new chapter with your first cup of coffee every morning. Each message is short so you can read it quickly, in the moment, and then reflect and act on it for the entire day. It’s a book that demands action.

ACTIONS, NOT WORDS

Remember, it’s not about the words on these pages; it’s about what you do with them.

In Love & Intimate (Paperback): Jerry Mofokeng In Love & Intimate (Paperback)
Jerry Mofokeng
R180 R141 Discovery Miles 1 410 Save R39 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In Love & Intimate is a book borne out of love. In June 1980 Jerry got married to his wife Claudine and they have been together since. This book is an exploration of the tools that have seen them now enter their 35th year of marriage.

It looks at the how and when. It is a manual of how you transition from a young newly wedded couple to a couple that has grown, studied, worked and ministered together. It further explores how couples work and exist independently of each other but can also form also a dream team that makes you unique.

Jerry and his wife have spoken on and facilitated workshops and seminars on Love, Courtship and Marriage from as early as the 1980s and have explored the themes in their width and breath.

Street Law: Learner's Manual - Practical Law For South Africans (Paperback, 3rd ed): Lloyd Lotz, Lindi Coetzee, Rowena... Street Law: Learner's Manual - Practical Law For South Africans (Paperback, 3rd ed)
Lloyd Lotz, Lindi Coetzee, Rowena Bernard, Malebakeng Forere; Edited by David McQuoid-Mason
R890 R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Save R118 (13%) In Stock

The South African Street Law programme is designed to teach law to learners from a variety of backgrounds, including law students, school learners, school educators, police and correctional services officers, security officers, trade unions, workers, women's organisations, children's organisations, youth groups, NGOs, CBOs and people involved in training such persons and organisations.

The Learner's Manual provides information about the law and practical advice, as well as problems, case studies, mock trials and other exercises designed to encourage active learner participation.

Tech-Savvy Parenting - A Guide To Raising Safe Children In A Digital World (Paperback): Nikki Bush, Arthur Goldstuck Tech-Savvy Parenting - A Guide To Raising Safe Children In A Digital World (Paperback)
Nikki Bush, Arthur Goldstuck
R100 R78 Discovery Miles 780 Save R22 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Nikki Bush, a parenting expert, and Arthur Goldstuck, a technical commentator, will help parents get a handle on what’s happening in consumer technology. In this sensitive and insightful guide, they carve a path through the maze of terminology, dangers and opportunities to help parents navigate new spaces together with their children, with greater confidence.

In explaining the technology, they never ignore the human context: to place children’s use of technology in the context of the relationship between parents and their children.

The guide will ensure children are both safe and savvy in this fast-changing world, and the process starts with parents. For families to remain connected, both online and offline, and for young people to develop into responsible digital citizens, parents need to bridge the digital divide for their children.

Love In The Time Of Contempt - Consolations For Parents Of Teenagers (Paperback): Joanne Fedler Love In The Time Of Contempt - Consolations For Parents Of Teenagers (Paperback)
Joanne Fedler 1
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In Love In The Time Of Contempt Joanne Fedler won’t tell you how to be the ‘perfect’ parent. She’s not a psychologist or an academic. But she is the mother of two teenagers, and she knows how it feels to be the parent of someone sprouting hair, zits and attitude all over the place.

This is a gritty, hilarious look at the day-to-day interactions with teenagers, and the tussled, frazzled and complex business of remaining mature while supporting someone to become an adult.

Fedler shares her philosophy that we are meant to parent imperfectly – our mistakes are the start of the important conversations we need to have with our kids. She guides us through enduring intermittent bouts of contempt and not taking it personally, picking the fights that are worth having, and surviving the journey from frustration, to confusion, to elation and back again.

Love In The Time Of Contempt is a funny, poignant account of the dramas and delights of parenting teenagers who know it all, who don’t yet have a fully functioning brain and who desperately need us to parent them – just not in the way we’re used to.

Land In South Africa - Contested Meanings And Nation Formation (Paperback): Khwezi Mabasa, Bulelwa Mabasa Land In South Africa - Contested Meanings And Nation Formation (Paperback)
Khwezi Mabasa, Bulelwa Mabasa
R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Land In South Africa examines how land and agrarian reform impacts nation building, citizenship, and identity formation. The publication draws attention to the limitations of reducing land to a commodity, and how this approach perpetuates social conflict and inequality in land reform policy implementation.

The book posits an alternative policy paradigm, which discusses contested meanings of land and their relation to nation formation. It brings to the fore citizen stakeholder perspectives from former labour tenants, citizens residing in communally owned land, women subsistence farmers, peasant movements and land reform civil society groups.

The chapters investigate the diverse and contested meanings of land to elevate how South Africans perceive land justice and reform, while also including several international case studies. The publication argues that land power relations and policy debates are constitutive components of nation building. And, importantly, that land shapes essential pillars in nation formation such as citizenship, political identity, heritage, a sense of belonging and social disparities.

The Man Who Cursed the Wind - And Other Stories from the Karoo (Paperback): Jose Manuel de Prada-Samper The Man Who Cursed the Wind - And Other Stories from the Karoo (Paperback)
Jose Manuel de Prada-Samper
R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Raising Happy Children - The Key To A Calm, Connected Child (Paperback): Lizanne du Plessis Raising Happy Children - The Key To A Calm, Connected Child (Paperback)
Lizanne du Plessis
R95 R75 Discovery Miles 750 Save R20 (21%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Children develop strong brain connections and feel happy when they learn how to control their bodies, manage big overwhelming feelings and develop their thinking skills. These important skills come more easily for some than for others - which also means that there is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to parenting.

Filled with stories, examples and easy to understand analogies, Raising Happy Children will help you understand what is going on inside your child's developing body and brain as well as your child's true nature and how this affects the way he thinks, feels and behaves.

You'll also find lots of fun games you can play during your day-to-day interaction - crucial in the development of your child's ability to regulate his body and develop his thinking in the midst of big, overwhelming feelings. In this book, Lizanne also gives step-by-step ways to deal with some of the most common parenting struggles,as they relate to your unique child, such as: Meltdowns; Temper tantrums; Fears, anxieties and stress.

Once you understand your unique child, you'll be ready to set appropriate boundaries and put rituals and routines in place that will guarantee a calm, happy and deeply connected family.

Convening Black Intimacy - Christianity, Gender And Tradition In Early Twentieth-Century South Africa (Paperback): Natasha... Convening Black Intimacy - Christianity, Gender And Tradition In Early Twentieth-Century South Africa (Paperback)
Natasha Erlank
R350 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R77 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

An unprecedented study of how Christianity reshaped Black South Africans’ ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family during the first half of the twentieth century.

This book demonstrates that the primary affective force in the construction of modern Black intimate life in early twentieth-century South Africa was not the commonly cited influx of migrant workers but rather the spread of Christianity. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African converts developed a new conception of intimate life, one that shaped ideas about sexuality, gender roles, and morality.

Although the reshaping of Black intimacy occurred first among educated Africans who aspired to middle-class status, by the 1950s it included all Black Christians—60 percent of the Black South African population. In turn, certain Black traditions and customs were central to the acceptance of sexual modernity, which gained traction because it included practices such as lobola, in which a bridegroom demonstrates his gratitude by transferring property to his bride’s family. While the ways of understanding intimacy that Christianity informed enjoyed broad appeal because they partially aligned with traditional ways, other individuals were drawn to how the new ideas broke with tradition. In either case, Natasha Erlank argues that what Black South Africans regard today as tradition has been unequivocally altered by Christianity.

In asserting the paramount influence of Christianity on unfolding ideas about family, gender, and marriage in Black South Africa, Erlank challenges social historians who have attributed the key factor to be the migrant labor system. Erlank draws from a wide range of sources, including popular Black literature and the Black press, African church and mission archives, and records of the South African law courts, which she argues have been underutilized in histories of South Africa. The book is sure to attract historians and other scholars interested in the history of African Christianity, African families, sexuality, and the social history of law, especially colonial law.

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