Set in Fordsburg between the 1950s and 1990s against the backdrop of apartheid, A Home on Vorster Street invites us into the life of Razina Theba and the vibrant community to which she and her characterful Indian-Muslim family belongs.

The book offers an intimate, vividly told narrative of a family bound by loyalty to their culture, religion and each other.

At times laugh-out-loud funny, and at others emotional, painful and tender-hearted, Theba’s memoir is a spirited exploration of the themes of family, racism, cultural heritage and identity.

A deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society.

The book is emotionally complex – funny, sad and angry – but above all, heartfelt and honest. It speaks boldly of challenges faced by all of us, challenges which are often not spoken about and hidden, but which deserve urgent attention. This is first and foremost a work of the heart, a reflection on what relationships mean and should mean.

There is much in the book about relationships of care and exploitation in southern Africa, and about white Jewish identity in an African context. But despite the specific and absorbing references to places and contexts, the book offers a broader, more universal view.

All parents of adult children, and all adults who have parents alive, or have lost their parents, will find much in this book to make them laugh, cry, think and feel.

In this book you will find over 75 step-by-step projects and more than 25 illustrated quick ideas to transform old, discarded items into desirable pieces of jewellery, decor, stationery, furniture and more. Learn how to use simple craft techniques, general craft supplies and just a bit of creativity to create one-of-a-kind items to wear, display or use. Apart from the step-by-step projects, the author shares other valuable advice such as how to give items that vintage look, where to find vintage images and ideas for second-hand items to use in your projects. Carla's secret is to see the possibility in everything. Mom's old tins, Grandma's broken brooches and Dad's collection of keys are magically transformed into usable, practical and beautiful things to cherish. The book is beautifully illustrated with inspiring photographs and the contents include: Tips, tools and tricks; Jewellery; Jars, bottles and vases; Decor; Fabric; Wall art; Lights and lanterns; Paper and packaging; For the garden; Upcycled furniture; Old school cool for kids. In a world where waste needs to be desperately reduced, join the ever-increasing group of crafters who choose to make something new from something old.

If you like true stories about real people, are intrigued by serendipity, curious about curiosities, or maybe you are a collector yourself, then this book is for you.

The collecting and researching of any collectable is an intense and pleasurable pastime. The author’s passion for more than half a century has been for collecting handwritten, original letters, antique documents, manuscripts, old share certificates, fire insurance policies, photographs and maps.

The writers of these words on paper include kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers, admirals and generals, actors and authors, judges and prisoners, philosophers, statesmen, scientists, and sportsmen. Some were famous, some infamous, some important, others less so. Many you will know about; with others, only their names may be familiar. There’s Admiral Nelson, and the Duke of Wellington; there are queens Elizabeth I and II and kings George III, IV and VI; presidents Eisenhower, Kruger, and Mandela are here; prime ministers Botha, Hertzog and Smuts; explorers Scott and Shackleton. There’s Faraday and De la Rey, and many more, including two controversial giants of history – Napoleon and Rhodes.

The chapters need not be read in any set order, although there is an underlying thread linking them to the life of the author that enabled this eclectic collection to evolve in the way it did.

What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of queer Africans? What imaginative forms can feminist activism take?

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first collection of essays dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Leading feminist theorist, Desiree Lewis, and poet and feminist scholar, Gabeba Baderoon, have curated contributions by some of the finest writers and thought leaders. Radical polemic sits side by side with personal essays, and critical theory coexists with rich and stirring life histories. By including writings by Patricia McFadden, Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner, Yewande Omotoso, Zoë Wicomb and Pumla Dineo Gqola alongside emerging thinkers, activists and creative practitioners, the collection demonstrates a dazzling range of feminist voices.

The writers in these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of Blackness, sexuality, girlhood, history, divinity, and other themes. Surfacing is indispensable to anyone interested in feminism from Africa, which its contributors show in vivid and challenging conversation with the rest of the world. It will appeal to a diverse audience of students, activists, critical thinkers, academics and artists.

The practice and theory of science communication can take many forms. One of them, which this volume represents, explores what forms of knowledge might be constructed when creative writing encounters science.

Working outwards from a theoretical framework that sees the sciences as discourses constructed by human endeavour through forms of language and practices of authority, this collection offers writing that emerged from a scientific encounter. It explores the relationship between creativity and scientific experiment, between the languages deployed by scientists in their experiments and analyses and the languages forged by creatives in their ongoing efforts to understand the human condition.

Fic Sci 01 brought eleven creative writers together with a biomechanical engineer. The presented science invited creative enquiry into different aspects of flow, that physical property that is so central to research in fluid mechanics. This anthology collects the results of that encounter.

What can ancient wisdom teach us about thriving in today’s world? Why do some people achieve far more than others? Is it luck, or something deeper? What if you could combine the insight of Joseph and the foresight of Noah with a deep understanding of financial markets?

Joseph and Noah: What Ancient Wisdom can Teach us About Thriving in Today’s World explores the lives of ordinary individuals who achieved extraordinary success, fame, or wealth by thinking and acting differently. From ancient biblical figures like Joseph and Noah to modern-day icons—including a basketball legend, an award-winning actor, and a renowned constitutional judge—the pursuit of success transcends generations. This book also highlights lesser-known individuals who quietly built legacies of wealth, global brands, and landmark tourist destinations.

Each story reveals a common thread—a guiding model—similar to the principles drawn from Joseph and Noah, which helped these individuals navigate challenges. Ultimately, Joseph and Noah uncovers the truth behind success, debunking its often-romanticized portrayal and instead revealing a reality shaped by perseverance, resilience, and strategic decision-making.

Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (1875–1945) was the most prominent South African imbongi of his day, a Xhosa oral poet who declaimed his impromptu poetry on occasions of significance to his people. The author of numerous works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, biography, autobiography and translation, Mqhayi’s contributions to Xhosa-language newspapers remains unparalleled in scope and volume. This book reclaims and assembles a chronological sequence of Mqhayi’s occasional poems, for the most part now unknown – 60 poems celebrating significant events in the calendar, on occasions of national or international importance. They constitute Iziganeko zesizwe, a chronicle of the nation, between 1900 and 1943: poetic responses to events from the perspective of the greatest figure in Xhosa literature. Wars feature prominently in these occasional poems – the Boer War, the First World War, the invasion of Abyssinia, the Second World War – as do political deputations to England, visits from British princes and the death of British kings, the appearance of Halley’s Comet and meetings with Ministers of State. Running through the collection is Mqhayi’s proud and fierce determination to maintain an identity rooted in custom and history in the face of territorial dispossession, the loss of title deeds and the vote, and the steady erosion of human rights. Throughout these years, Mqhayi remained constant in offering praise and encouragement to his people, in celebrating their achievements, and in expressing Christian consolation and an unflinching faith in the future liberation of South Africa’s black population from foreign control.

A beautifully crafted collection of devotions designed to guide and inspire women of all ages on their daily walk through life. Each thoughtful entry centres on a holistic journey of faith, spiritual growth, and embodied discipleship, inviting readers to draw closer to God in every season.

With gentle wisdom and grace, Nande Boss leads readers on a year-long journey of learning to trust God with every step. Through four movements of spiritual transformation – walking with God, walking with others, walking alone, and walking in the created environment – she invites women to discover how faith can be lived and experienced in every aspect of life.

Each section unfolds into the next, forming a complete and reflective path from intimacy with God to love expressed in community, sacred solitude, and stewardship of creation. WALK: A 52-Week Devotional Journey for Women is a meaningful companion and a thoughtful gift for anyone seeking to deepen her spiritual life.

Each devotion draws the reader into Scripture-based reflection, spiritual insight, personal journaling, and guided prayer, offering a gentle rhythm of renewal and connection with God throughout the year.

Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing diverse forms of expression such as site-specific performances, immersive installations, film, photography, and online performances.

The book is divided into three sections: The Restless City, Public Art for Multiple Publics, and Land, Home, Belonging. It introduces new perspectives on public sphere performance, such as Khanyisile Mbongwa’s re-imagining of township alleyways for public encounters and Mbongeni Mtshali’s study of everyday performances that challenge colonial and neo-colonial spatial organization.

The title, Restless Infections, is derived from the popular Infecting the City public art festival, symbolizing the persistent state of restlessness in a city still grappling with the legacies of colonialism, inequality, and racial segregation. This restlessness is tied to a desire for economic and political stability, expressed through transient art forms like Santu Mofokeng’s billboard photography.

The book shifts the focus of public art discourse in South Africa from static forms like monuments and statues to dynamic, temporary interventions that question the concept of publicness. These interventions engage with protest, public intimacy, audience interaction, and the disrupted topography of apartheid cities.

As the first scholarly volume to read public spheres through a multi- and interdisciplinary lens, Restless Infections argues that the diverse artistic modes explored are essential to understanding the complexities of publicness in South Africa.

In the period between the outbreak of World War II in 1939 and the enactment of university apartheid by the Nationalist Government in 1959, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) developed as an ‘open university’, admitting students of all races. This, the second volume of the history of Wits by historian Bruce Murray, has as its central theme the process by which Wits became ‘open’, the compromises this process entailed, and the defence the University mounted to preserve its ‘open’ status in the face of the challenges posed by the Nationalist Government.

The University’s institutional autonomy is highlighted by Yunus Ballim in his preface to the centenary edition of WITS: The ‘Open’ Years. He writes: ‘The emerging posture of a university willing to rise in defence of academic freedom was important because this was to become infused into the institutional culture of Wits.’

The book looks at the University’s role in South Africa’s war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals required by a rapidly expanding economy, and the rise of research and postgraduate study. Students feature prominently through their political activities, the flourishing of a student intelligentsia, the heyday of the Remember and Give (Rag) parade, rugby intervarsity, and the stunning success of Wits sportsmen and women. Wits: The ‘Open’ Years paints a vivid picture of the range of personalities who enlivened the campus – among them some well-known figures in the new South Africa.

The book includes chapters by Alf Stadler, who was Professor of Political Studies at Wits and the author of The Political Economy of Modern South Africa, and Jonty Winch, former Sports Officer at Wits and the author of Wits Sport.

Jan Braai’s friends have been badgering him to write a vegetarian braai book for years, and he has finally done it!

Once he sat down to tackle the task, he realised that his books have loads of great vegetarian recipes, but it isn’t fair to make the vegetarians buy all the books to find them. So Jan collected all his best vegetarian recipes together, and then added a whole lot more. If you’re looking for a meat-free Monday option, have to cater for your son’s new vegetarian girlfriend or the grandchildren, or have even decided to take the vegetarian plunge yourself, there’s no reason to neglect your braai – Jan has you covered.

Find delicious burgers, braaibroodjies, potjies, curries, breads and side dishes to keep you in vegetarian options for months. Even the meat eaters might be surprised to find how delicious a mushroom burger is!

Dominique is a self-righteous, headstrong lawyer, driven by the unconscious yearning for the approval of her successful mother, a judge, and an intellectually-demanding husband who, while raising four children, comes to the realization that she is, primarily, a mother. Her turmoil is evident from the time her first child is three months old when, thwarted by the demands of an unco-operative baby, she slumps down in the baby-rocker and begins to write. After all, she wasn’t really interested in children before she had one of her own. “I’m not even sure they interested me after I’d had my own,” she confesses.

From Courtroom To Cupcakes is the lighthearted story of her personal crisis: the story of an ordinary mother who finds sanity in writing and recording the endearing conversations of her children as she fetches and carries them to and from school - often while waiting at red robots. Her conflicts follow her while she and her husband temporarily escape the corporate world, seeking a life of undiscovered adventure by travelling overseas with their two young children. But her attempts at finding a ‘balanced life’ are complicated with the advent of baby number three and two years later, baby number four. Mindful of her own mother’s strength and success and the expectations of a patient husband who feels as though he has been misrepresented - believing her to be uncompromisingly career-orientated - it is through her obsessive documentation of it all that she finally comes to terms with the fact that she is, simply, a mother.

Her journey is related in a part-diary, part-narrative style, during which she meticulously scribbles down her reflections and thoughts of events that unfold. The culmination of these observations - honest and mostly humorous though often poignant and challenging of modern-day notions - is ultimately in completing her story which is what she finds most rewarding in her quest for inner peace.

A beautifully crafted collection of devotions designed to guide and inspire women of all ages on their daily walk through life. Each thoughtful entry centres on a holistic journey of faith, spiritual growth, and embodied discipleship, inviting readers to draw closer to God in every season.

With gentle wisdom and grace, Nande Boss leads readers on a year-long journey of learning to trust God with every step. Through four movements of spiritual transformation – walking with God, walking with others, walking alone, and walking in the created environment – she invites women to discover how faith can be lived and experienced in every aspect of life.

Each section unfolds into the next, forming a complete and reflective path from intimacy with God to love expressed in community, sacred solitude, and stewardship of creation. WALK: A 52-Week Devotional Journey for Women is a meaningful companion and a thoughtful gift for anyone seeking to deepen her spiritual life.

Each devotion draws the reader into Scripture-based reflection, spiritual insight, personal journaling, and guided prayer, offering a gentle rhythm of renewal and connection with God throughout the year.

A fascinating, unflinching and forensic work of non-fiction by Cato Pedder, the great-grand daughter of Jan Smuts, the South African prime minister responsible for heralding the age of apartheid.

Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be descended from the people who created the ultra-racist apartheid system in South Africa. Illuminating its turbulent history through the lives of her female ancestors, it is a history of South Africa like no other, told from the perspective of women long silenced in the historical narrative.

It asks, what were they doing while white supremacy was constructed?

In Moederland, Cato Pedder travels the centuries from the 1600s, when Cape Town was a remote outpost of the Dutch East India Company, to the kraal of a Zulu king in the 1800s before doubling back to Europe and then culminating with the English Quaker aunt who defies apartheid to marry across the colour line. As anti-racist campaigners call out the statue of Jan Smuts in Parliament Square, Cato painstakingly excavates the longforgotten life stories of the women of her prehistory, unpacking the legacy of her Afrikaans heritage and bringing their collective shame into the light.

Moederland brilliantly sits at the borderline between personal history and memoir and shares themes with The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, The Wife's Tale by Aida Edemariam and Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja, both of which use unknown
forebears to throw new light on the troubled past. It will also appeal to readers of Damon Galgut's Booker Prize winning novel, The Promise.

Reflections of South African Student Leaders: 1994-2017 brings together the reflections of twelve former SRC leaders from across the landscape of South African universities. Each student leader’s reflections are presented in a dedicated chapter.

Key topics covered in the chapters are:

• Personal background and context of getting involved in student leadership
• Role as member of the SRC, SRC model, SRC electoral system
• Involvement of political parties in student politics and the SRC
• Ongoing communication and consultation of the SRC with the student body
• Relationship with university management and support from student affairs
• Co-operative governance and student representation in university governance
• Main challenges, student grievances and demands
• Reflections on #FeesMustFall, #EndOutsourcing and #RhodesMustFall
• Lessons for current and future leaders of higher education institutions

South Africa’s progressive Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (No. 92 of 1996), which permits abortion at the request of a pregnant person in the first trimester, was hailed as transformative in terms of reproductive health and rights. Despite this promise, many challenges persist resulting in a lack of services, especially in rural areas where distances and transport costs are a factor.

Accessing abortion services in rural areas under conditions of liberal abortion legislation is neither straightforward nor simple. As the South African example shows, the liberalisation of abortion legislation was the first step in granting pregnant persons access to abortion care. Despite this and some progress in implementation, many challenges persist resulting in a lack of services, especially in areas where distances and transport costs are a factor.

Drawing on the findings of a study conducted in three rural districts of the Eastern Cape, the authors highlight the complexities involved in understanding problematic or unwanted pregnancies and abortion legislation within these communities; the reported barriers to, and facilitators of, access to abortion services among rural populations; and preferences for types of abortion services.

A key finding is the conundrum of costs versus confidentiality: lack of confidentiality involves additional costs to access services outside the area; high costs mean that confidentiality may have to be foregone, which leads to stigma. The authors place the findings within a reparative reproductive justice framework and present a comprehensive set of recommendations. Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa is an insightful and informative resource – the first of its kind –for scholars in health and sociology, health anthropology, health psychology, health sociology and social work, reproductive health policy makers, national planners, health facility managers and providers, and activists.

When the National Government assumed power in 1948, one of the earliest moves was to introduce segregated education. Its threats to restrict the admission of black students into the four ‘open universities’ galvanised the staff and students of those institutions to oppose any attempt to interfere with their autonomy and freedom to decide who should be admitted.

In subsequent years, as the regime adopted increasingly oppressive measures to prop up the apartheid state, opposition on the campuses, and in the country, increased and burgeoned into a Mass Democratic Movement intent on making the country ungovernable.

Protest escalated through successive states of emergency and clashes with police on campus became regular events. Residences were raided, student leaders were harassed by security police and many students and some staff were detained for lengthy periods without recourse to the courts.

First published in 1996, Wits: A University in the Apartheid Era by Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid. This new edition is published in the University’s centenary year with a preface by Firoz Cachalia, one of Wits’ student leaders in the 1980s. It serves as an invaluable historical resource on questions about the relationship between the University and the state, and on understanding the University’s place and identity in a constitutional democracy.

The contents of the book were written in the author’s late teen years until the age of 21. It contains the stories of different men, women and children from different specs of life.

The book has encounters that tackle the themes of culture, relationships, religion, racism, career and death. Some of the text is written in isiZulu. There is a notable reference to the Bible in the book. These stories are the events of women and men sold out by Africa for some promised gain that could or could not materialize in exchange for our livelihood, just like Miss Baartman.

The selected title was awarded based on the contents of the book and the known history of the late Miss Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman. Little is known about her factually, even her official death date has been contested by various parties. This book is about her and for her from her survivors, us the people. The cover photo reflects how those who we are not seen and hidden but not protected by the responders of 10111. The crown and red cross on the shoulder all contribute to the text within the book.

Although in the form of poetry and essays, some of the content may be a tad too graphic for readers younger than 14 but older teenagers are encouraged to read the book.

How do you teach the grace and quiet confidence that comes with the permission to be yourself? How do you teach someone to know what to do when they don’t know what to do? That kind of leadership cannot be taught. It must be experienced and understood, and it is a profoundly personal and dynamic journey.

Leading with Humanity is an invitation to take the first steps on the inside-out journey of understanding what it is to become and be a leader – discovering who we are meant to be in a world obsessed with what we do. Drawing from great thinkers and leaders through the centuries – and decades of personal leadership experience – Peter Laburn’s Leading with Humanity combines time-tested philosophical notions with proven research principles into an authentic guide for anyone striving to be a better human being, and thus a better leader, in business and life.

Living as a human being is challenging in a world that encourages and incentivises us to operate as human doings.

Cas van Rensburg se oeuvre kom op ’n klimaks tot afsluiting met Mans en hulle wonde. As Jungiaan kyk hy vroeër na drome (Jou drome – die onbewuste het al die antwoorde) en na die vroulike psige (Die prinses in elke vrou). Hier kom hy as bejaarde tot ’n uiteindelike evaluering van sy eie groei tot manwees. Petrovna Metelerkamp het ’n besondere diens verrig deur hierdie finale werk van Cas toeganklik te verwerk en só mooi postuum uit te gee. (Daar’s ’n aangrypende en gepaste skildery deur Van Rensburg op die voorblad.) Die boek is beslis nie net vir bejaardes of vir mans bedoel nie, “maar ook vir vrouens wat hulle mans wil verstaan, vir ma’s en pa’s wat hulle seuns wil verstaan en vir jong mans wat probeer om hulself te verstaan” (agterplat).

Die man is om verskillende redes in die 21ste eeu in die moeilikheid, of dit is as gevolg van “die opkoms van die feminisme en gays wat hulle regte opeis” of omdat “die Kerk sy houvas op die Westerse samelewing begin verloor (het) en daarmee saam die patriargale ingesteldheid wat so lank die botoon gevoer het”. Metelerkamp noem dat Van Rensburg navorsing vir sy boek begin doen het tydens die verhoor van Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius se verhaal van woede en geweld word ’n argetipiese Suid-Afrikaanse (Afrikaner-) storie wat deurlopend weerklank vind in die lig van ander stories, mites en sprokies.

Bybelse gelykenisse en verhale en hulle karakters word ook vanuit die perspektief van die analitiese sielkunde gelees. Dit sorg vir verfrissende interpretasies waarin Van Rensburg byvoorbeeld deur die lens van pa-en-seun-verhoudings na Bybelverhale kyk. Dis opvallend hoe dikwels Bybelkarakters die teenhangers van ander vorm (Kain en Abel, Abraham en Lot, Moses en Aäron, Eli en Samuel, Dawid en Saul, Dawid en Jonathan, Jesus en Johannes, Jesus en Petrus, Paulus en Timoteus). Dit sluit aan by droomontleding wat die besef bring dat verskillende karakters in dieselfde droom verskillende aspekte van dieselfde persoonlikheid kan verteenwoordig. Só is dit ook met sprokies die geval.

Vernaam in Van Rensburg se ontleding is dat die “moederkompleks” in die manwordproses aangespreek word sodat die “stryd met die moeder” op ’n manier besleg word. Wat my interesseer het, is dat die Kerk (generies gesien) dikwels as plaasvervanger vir die moeder dien. Seuns moet analoog aan sprokies op ’n “heldereis” gaan waarvoor hulle manlike mentors nodig het. Maar dan moet jy ook “begin by jou pa” en jou pa “agterlaat” deur hom te leer ken of verstaan.

Woede, eensaamheid en pyn kom volgens Van Rensburg algemeen onder mans voor te midde van hulle hunkering na geborgenheid en sekuriteit. Dis dikwels vir hulle moeilik om los te breek uit die gevangenskap waarin patriargie en gemeenskapsverwagtings hulle dompel. Dis juis die onvermoë van mans om met hulle gevoelens in aanraking te kom en dit te verwoord wat deurbreek moet word. Sprokies leer ons dat die skadukante van die persoonlikheid integrasie nodig het en dat mans die vrou in hulleself moet ontdek en omhels.

Van Rensburg sê dat Mans en hulle wonde nie ’n selfhelpboek met kitsresepte of -oplossings is nie. Hy is selfs nie baie krities oor Angus Buchan se Mighty Men-beweging nie en beskou dit as simptomaties van die krisis waarin mans verkeer en hulle behoefte aan geleenthede om uiting aan hulle emosies te gee. Hy vertrou dat dit wat in die boek ’n indruk maak, “in die onbewuste (sal) bly spook” met antwoorde wat mettertyd oprys.

"Mid-life crises don’t have to be boring and staid. Buy a mountain bike and the best adventure of your life is just over the next hill" - Quote unquote from the guy at the bike shop. What he didn’t tell you is that when you’re on a bicycle most hills turn into mountains. And he also didn’t tell you beware of riding next to guy with a long bucket list. Because he will casually ask if you want ride with him from Harare to Cape Town.

After completing the trip (unexpected experiences – both good and bad- forever skeyched in your memory), you get home exhausted but exhilarated, patting yourself on the back for having raised more than a million Rand for charity, and your friends call you lazy for choosing a downhill destination. So straight away, you look for another mountain to aim at, a pointy one this time called Kilimanjaro.

Cape Town to Kilimanjaro is about having fun, doing good, and above all doing epic. It will make you laugh and cry if you are on the receiving end of the intravenous antibiotics. Hopefully it will also inspire. All you need is a bike and a destination.

Hoe weet ’n klein seuntjie van skaars drie jaar oud dat hy in die verkeerde liggaam gebore is?

Wat ervaar daardie seuntjie in die eerste twee dekades van sy lewe dat hy so oortuig raak van wie en wat hy moet wees, dat hy die lang pad van geslagshertoewysing aanpak sodat hy sy droombestaan kan voer in die liggaam waarvoor hy gebore is?

Min het Pierre van der Merwe daardie tyd geweet wat Elise van der Merwe alles in haar nuwe bestaan sal ontdek en ervaar.

’n Hartstogtelik eerlike en roerende verhaal wat ook baie sal beteken vir mense wat met hierdie dilemma gebore is.

Does God exist? What caused the big bang? What is our purpose in life? Why does pain and suffering exist? Does science free us from religion? Which ‘god’ is the real ‘God’?

Deluded Gods is unique in the simple and concise manner in which it answers some of mankind’s age old questions. The reader is taken on a journey of discovery and is made to lay aside all presuppositions as they venture from the miniscule realm of quantum particles to the vast expanse of astrophysics. From start to end, the book is an exciting journey of discovery which leads to bold and interesting conclusions.

Whilst this book is written from a Christian perspective, it is respectful and considerate to all worldviews. Anyone with an open mind will be challenged to question their unconscious biasness and presuppositions.

Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are regarded by many as vital role players in improving the lives of the poor and bringing about social justice. This book includes contributions from NGO workers, academics and social movement activists in order to provide varying perspectives on what possible role NGOs can rightly play in popular struggles. Consequently, the book does not have a single message about what role NGOs ought to play in struggles for social justice, but rather invites careful reflection and critical discussion on their role both in South Africa and further afield.