Dink na oor die grootste hoogtepunte en die mees kosbare tye in jou lewe. Die skrywer is oortuig dat die meeste hiervan iets te doen het met mense, mense met wie jy 'n warm, kwaliteitsverhouding beleef. Hoekom is hy so oortuig? Want die lewe bestaan uit verhoudings.

God se DNA is liefde. Hy is die God van genade en gemeenskap. Dit is wie en wat Hy is. Dit gaan hand aan hand met die ware aard van God om Homself onophoudelik met ons te deel. In hierdie wonderlike boek delf Johan Smith diep in Bybelse waarhede oor die kern van verhoudings. Hy wys vir ons dat God 'n God van innige verhoudings is, en daarom moet ons in sy voetspore volg en weer passievol oor verhoudings raak.

Kom Saam is spesiaal geskryf vir vroue wat inspirasie, wysheid en hoop nodig het vir hul lewensreis.

Ons dae is tot oorlopens toe vol met aktiwiteite, beplanning, besluite, krisisse en vrese. Hoe weet ons wat is die regte keuses as daar so baie is? Wat gebeur as ons verkeerde besluite neem en hoe hanteer ons die gevolge? Elke dag moet ons te midde van die gewoel koers kies en antwoorde ge-reed hê oor die lewe vir onsself en ander; en nie net ten opsigte van ons persoonlike- en werksverhoudinge nie, maar ook ons geloof. Gelukkig is daar ook vreugde, vriende en samesyn op die paaie van ons lewensreise – en ons betroubare, drie-enige God.

Hierdie dagstukkies nooi jou uit om teen jou eie pas Jesus Christus beter te leer ken, om te begryp hoe innig God jou lief het, en hoe naby Hy langs jou stap op jou lewenspad.

Urban governance as a term captures the complex interaction between stakeholders or groupings that influence urban development. In South Africa, this complexity emerged with the transition from apartheid over two decades ago. Today, governance influences priorities in a wide range of urban domains, from public transport to policing; from engagements at the neighbourhood level to city-wide strategies. In different configurations, urban governance shapes innercity districts and gated estates on the urban periphery. The contributors to this volume cover urban governance in contemporary South Africa across three spheres, the state, the community and the private sector, through a variety of lenses. Spatial concerns are central to many of the analyses and case studies, in which the authors highlight different modes that influence the steering of South Africa's largest cities. This book illuminates post-apartheid tensions and urban dynamics in a way that will be of value to scholars, practitioners, decision-makers, politicians and activists alike.

The first book for a popular audience on the transformative, democratising technology of 'DeFi'.

After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen. What happens beyond Bitcoin? The answer is decentralised finance - 'DeFi'.

Tech and finance experts Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle argue that DeFi - which enables all manner of financial transactions to take place directly, person to person, without the involvement of financial institutions - will redesign the cogs and wheels in the engines of trust, and make the remarkable rise of Bitcoin look quaint by comparison. It will disrupt and displace fine and respectable companies, if not entire industries.

Sidley and Dingle explain how DeFi works, introduce the organisations and individuals that comprise the new industry, and identify the likely winners and losers in the coming revolution.

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.

The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their distinctive gendered dynamics. "A World of Their Own" is the first book to explore the meanings of black women's education in the making of modern South Africa. Its lens is a social history of the first high school for black South African women, Inanda Seminary, from its 1869 founding outside of Durban through the recent past.

Employing diverse archival and oral historical sources, Meghan Healy-Clancy reveals how educated black South African women developed a tradition of social leadership, by both working within and pushing at the boundaries of state power. She demonstrates that although colonial and apartheid governance marginalized women politically, it also valorized the social contributions of small cohorts of educated black women. This made space for growing numbers of black women to pursue careers as teachers and health workers over the course of the twentieth century. After the student uprisings of 1976, as young black men increasingly rejected formal education for exile and street politics, young black women increasingly stayed in school and cultivated an alternative form of student politics. Inanda Seminary students' experiences vividly show how their academic achievements challenged the narrow conceptions of black women's social roles harbored by both officials and black male activists. By the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, black women outnumbered black men at every level of education--introducing both new opportunities for women and gendered conflicts that remain acute today.

Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity from a committed social worker, and a young girl finds her missing father and her role in the political struggle. This collection of stage plays, one radio play and a cinepoem, captures the essence of Zakes Mda’s method as a dramatist- a slow but intimate process of revelation (on the part of the characters). It is an artistic cooperation of the most pleasurable kind.

In this inspiring autobiography, Barry Cohen unveils the struggles and triumphs of facing societal pressures, overcoming self-doubt and following one's dreams.

Discover the profound lessons learned from encounters with luminaries in music, theatre, business, politics, and sports, gaining a glimpse into a world where every setback becomes an opportunity for personal growth.

Journey of a Muizenberg Boy is a testament to the human capacity for resilience, determination, and boundless potential. Join the author on a captivating journey of self-discovery and empowerment, where the pursuit of passion leads to extraordinary experiences beyond imagination.

In Landscapes Between Then And Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary work of photographers and artists made during the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid and into the contemporary era.

By examining specific artworks made in South Africa, Namibia and Angola, Brandt sheds light on established and emerging themes related to aftermath landscapes, embodied histories, (un)belonging, spirituality and memorialization. She shows how landscape and identity are mutually constituted, and profiles this process against the background of the legacy of the acutely racially divisive policies of the apartheid regime that are still reflected on the land. As a signpost throughout the book, Brandt draws on the work of the renowned South African photographer Santu Mofokeng and his critical thinking about landscape.

Landscapes Between Then And Now explores how practitioners who engage with identity and their physical environment as a social product might reveal something about the complex and fractured nature of postcolonial and contemporary societies. Through diverse strategies and aesthetics, they comment on inherent structures and epistemologies of power whilst also expressing new and radical forms of self-determinism. Brandt asks why these cross-disciplinary works ranging from social documentary to experimental performance and embodied practices are critical now, and what important possibilities for social and political reflection and engagement they suggest.

Acclaimed reviews:
"Landscapes Between Then and Now brilliantly explores how artistic and critical practices of post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia chart a creative and critical path out of habituated ways of looking at the world with a Western, colonial and inherently unjust gaze. This lucid, innovative and deeply ethical study of a range of genres and artists will quickly become an enduring and indispensable book for anyone concerned with camera-based art practices in our globalized age." ~ Ulrich Baer, New York University, author of Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma

"This is an extraordinary book for those interested in a more prismatic consideration of the visualization of history at the interstices of violence, race and modernity in Africa; here the landscape itself is the primary archive. Focused on Southern Africa, Brandt reaches beyond the knowing silence photography can engender, to give voice to formerly unspeakable things that perhaps can no longer remain unspoken." ~ Erica Moiah James, art historian, curator and professor

"Landscapes Between Then and Now, reminds us of the extraordinary enmeshment of histories in Southern Africa in spite of rigid man-made borders and the traumas that came with them. In tracing the work of key artists working in photography, performance and video art, it delves into the complex politics of land and reflects on nuanced tensions emanating from different places, spaces and time periods. In many ways it creates a context for important debates around collective memory and commemoration that are ongoing today." ~ Tandazani Dhlakama, Assistant Curator, Zeitz Mocca Museum, South Africa

"Brandt writes insightfully about the individual bodies of work selected for in-depth consideration. Her underlying argument, that contemporary ‘landscape’ photography in the region should be understood in relation to the social documentary practices predominant during the apartheid years, is both valuable and convincing." ~ Darren Newbury, author of Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa

"The past can be owned, just like landscape. The temptation to assert meaning, rather than to make visible, is as ancient as the hills. The writer guides us deep into this overlapping terrain as she examines landscape, memorial, monument and our memory of what happened to us." ~ Guy Tillim, South African photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson Award winner, 2017

"In this moment of seismic shifting – of ideas, of power, and of the ways we construct and interpret knowledge – Brandt’s book is an insightful guide to readers attempting to navigate ‘landscapes’ – both as physical environments, and more so, as social and psychic spaces." ~ Nomvuyo Horwitz, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

From a grand sandstone mansion rescued from dilapidation in the scrubby Free State veld, to a romantic Arts & Crafts style double-storey that presides over a halfacre of prime real estate in the high Berea suburb of Durban, Remarkable Heritage Houses of South Africa provides a privileged glimpse inside 20 of the country’s most distinguished, remarkable and treasured private residences.

Predominantly constructed no later than the mid 1950s and chosen for the singular legacy each keeps alive, these are homes that blend architectural integrity with an uncanny sense of place. Some more ‘historic’ than others, they have been sensitively rescued or meticulously preserved, or simply kept current with custodianship that has at all times respected their unique pedigree. Strikingly captured by distinguished photographer, Craig Fraser, they cover the full gamut of locations, architectural genres and interior decorating styles, yet have all been skilfully adapted to meet the demands of modern living.

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.

Melissa Sussens (she/her) is a queer South African veterinarian, poet and editor.

Slaughterhouse is her debut poetry collection.

This compilation of accounts of people, events and incidents reflects how they shaped and continue to shape the future of South Africa. Now, as history is brought back into perspective, the unbiased stories, the stories of foolishness, bravery, happiness and sadness, can be correctly told.

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighborhoods.

A sequel to the acclaimed Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa, Common Ground reveals the great variety of styles and building types from this period, ranging from buildings for communities, religious practice, banking, industry, and civil infrastructure to the evolution of the Pretoria dwelling and low-cost housing.

These contributions are also contentious as they relate to the time of the entrenchment of apartheid. Yet these architects' extant work is an undeniable part of South Africa today and often still in daily service.

ky Guide Africa South 2018 is a practical resource for all astronomers, whether they be novice, amateur or professional. It covers the upcoming year’s planetary movements, predicted eclipses, meteor showers – any events and facets of the night sky that change annually.

Star charts plot the evening sky for each season, facilitating the identification of stars and constellations. The guide contains a wealth of information about the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, meteors and bright stars, with photos, diagrams, charts and images. There’s also an excellent list of useful websites and a comprehensive glossary.

Struik Nature again joins forces with the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa to publish this annual guide. Now in its 72nd year of publication, the book is prepared by a team of contributors, all specialists in their fields.

"Did Mandela work for nothing?"
"Mr Sushi comes to town"
"Give me a corrupt black any day"

These are just some of Eric Miyeni’s newspaper columns and opinion pieces, which have earned him friends and enemies alike. Known for his straight-talking frankness, his views on subjects ranging from politics and travel to big business and sport elicit strong responses.

Here Comes The Snake In The Grass is a selection of Eric Miyeni’s columns and occasional writings covering a variety of topics, from Julius Malema, Oprah Winfrey and Brenda Fassie to the value of radio, the true cost of crime, the need for excellence in South Africa and the difficulty of finding love in the modern world. Some of the writings in this collection court controversy, addressing issues many want hidden from view; others provide glimpses of the writer’s softer side. All show why Eric Miyeni’s is an unmistakeable voice in the South African media.

Alternately hard-hitting and personal, rousing and funny, Here Comes The Snake In The Grass is an entertaining and informative look at the South African cultural landscape.

Bakens van geloof is ’n kragtige getuienis en praktiese voorbeeld van ’n daaglikse bonatuurlike wandel met God. Hierdie boek sal jou ’n voorskou gee van hoe groot en hoe werklik God se goedheid is teenoor sy kinders.

Ilse Roux deel haar passie vir die Woord en haar praktiese geloofspad met God op so ’n manier dat mens net weer oorweldig word met wie hierdie liefdevolle God werklik is. Sy het die waarde daarvan ontdek om in kinderlike geloof op God se Woord te vertrou en sien die vrug daarvan in haar en haar gesin se lewens.

Die deurlopende draad van gehoorsaamheid aan God se beginsels en sy stem, sal jou inspireer om ook jou verhouding met Hom te verdiep en sal jou leer dat jy Hom ten alle tye kan vertrou. Kort voor lank sal jy jou eie bakens van geloof hê wat spruit uit jou persoonlike geloofspad met Hom.

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

The stories, blogs and poetry in this anthology explores the stark divides that exist in our communities and our country, South Africa.

Written by a range of writers – from published authors to talented school students – these powerful narratives give voice to those who are poor and discriminated against, and are threaded through with hope and resistance.

Low Carb Is Lekker is the brainchild of Inè Reynierse, who embarked on a mission to make the benefits of a low-carb lifestyle an achievable, budget-friendly reality for her friends and family. Her ‘decarbed’ versions of South Africa’s most popular and well-loved recipes soon caught the attention of various social networks and the growing need for a basic Low carb is lekker recipe collection.

There are easy low-carb, wheat-free and sugar-free alternatives to some all time family favourites (think bobotie, mac ’n cheese and curry and ‘rice’), quick comfort foods (gnocchi and chicken pie) as well as decadent treats (malva pudding, chocolate brownies and milk tart spring to mind).

Written by a mom for moms who want to feed their loved ones back to health, Low Carb Is Lekker is also a celebration for fellow South Africans who love the tastes of home without compromising health and wellness.

Take a few moments and reflect on some of the greatest highlights and some of the most precious moments in your life.

The writer is convinced that most of these recollections have something to do with people, people with whom you enjoy a warm, quality relationship. Why is he so convinced? Because life is relationships. God’s DNA is love. He is the God of grace and community. This is who He is and what He does. It is part and parcel of the very nature of God to constantly share Himself with His creation and with all of us.

In this wonderful book Johan Smith unearths deep biblical truths about the essence of relationships. He shows us that God is deeply relational, therefore, we need to follow in his footsteps and become passionate about his kind of relationships again. Johan guides us masterfully how to grow and nurture such relationships with God and others in this must-read book!

In How to Raise a Man, as you learn more about the development of masculinity, identify your parenting style and familiarise yourself with the issues facing parenthood today, you will become a more compassionate, centred and effective parent. In this era of #metoo and #allmenaretrash, it’s evident that something is going wrong with the way men progress from childhood into adulthood, and few realise how critical the role of the purposeful and emotionally empowered mother is in a boy’s journey to maturity.

So, what does all this mean for you as the mother of an adolescent boy? Like it or not, mom, your son is Generation Z. He has been adored and treasured, photo-graphed and recorded. Many of his generation of adolescents are outwardly assertive and outspoken and have good boundaries, yet inwardly they are full of paradoxes. And they are confusing to manage – your GenZ rules you. They are clever. But as a mother, you need to be smarter.

Teenagers need centred adults to guide them. Confident, capable adults should never overreact, sulk, withdraw or blame, and if you find yourself resorting to this behaviour, it is time to reset your parenting methods. If you are confused or irritated by your pre-teen or teenage son, or feel bewildered and hurt by his behaviour, this book will guide you to a clear understanding of teenagers in general and teenage boys in particular. Written by a parenting expert, and drawing on Western psychology as well as Eastern philosophy, the processes and ideas in this practical guide will help you raise the man you want your son to be.

Decades of research show that the critical key to our success and happiness is the strength of our relationships. Winning at life depends on knowing how to win with people.

In this book Justin Cohen, one of the world’s leading experts on human potential, will show you how. With a combination of cutting-edge research, humour, entertaining examples and practical take-home tools, you will discover the 21 laws of influence to help you:

• Attract high-value people into your life.
• Motivate people to do what you want done.
• Prevent and resolve conflict.
• Inspire people to realise their full potential.
• Do the one thing that creates almost instant liking and rapport.

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power within wider systems of global and local inequality. Discourses of homophobia-related violence constitute subjectivities that enact violence and that are rendered vulnerable to it, as well as shaping political possibilities to act against violence. Blackwashing Homophobia critiques prevailing discourses through which violence and its targets are normatively understood, exploring the knowledge regimes in which multiple forms of othering are both reproduced and/or resisted.

This book draws on primary research on lesbian subjectivity and violence in South Africa examining the intersections of sexual, gender, race and class identities, and the contemporary politics of violence in a postcolonial context:

• What are the contending ways of knowing homosexuals and the violence they face?
• How are the causes, characters, consequence of, and 'cures' for, violence constructed through such knowledges and what are their power effects?

The book explores these questions and their implications for how violence, as an instrument of power, might be countered. Blackwashing Homophobia is a timely intervention for theorising the discourse of homophobia-related violence and what it reveals and conceals, enables and hinders, in relation to queer identities and political imaginaries in times of violence. The book's interdisciplinary approach to the topic will appeal to social and political scientists, philosophers and psychology professionals, as well as to advanced psychology undergraduates and postgraduates alike.

Hy is aantreklik, sjarmant en intelligent. Hy dra jou op die hande en julle hang aan mekaar se lippe. Maar dan begin dinge verander. Hy vereis voltyds aandag, goedkeuring en bewondering. Vir jou gevoelens en behoeftes voel hy vere. Trouens, hy beheer jou ten volle. Hy het selfs jou drome by die venster uitgegooi. Niks is ooit sy skuld nie en hy sê ook nie hy is jammer nie. Waag jy dit om hom teen te gaan, of te kritiseer, gooi hy ’n woedebui wat ’n tweejarige sal laat skaamkry.

Riette Rust ondersoek die narsisme-epidemie; hoe om narsiste te herken en te hanteer. Dit sluit in vroeë waarskuwingstekens, al die eienskappe, asook ’n kontrolelys, sodat jy kan kyk of jy met ’n narsis te doen het. Of dalk self een is.