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South African Decor & Design 2015 - The Buyers Guide (Hardcover, 18th Edition): Marcia Margolius South African Decor & Design 2015 - The Buyers Guide (Hardcover, 18th Edition)
Marcia Margolius 1
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R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This year we have made some exciting changes, rendering The Guide up-to-date with the latest and greatest decor and design trends while reflecting cultural and social change. Complete with an eye-catching new look, fresh content and intriguing editorial offerings, we believe that we have achieved just that and more. The new and improved edition of The Guide is packed full of everything you need in order to create beautiful spaces. We begin by helping the reader to realise their design vision with Marcia's solutions-whether it's deciding what flooring to install or learning how to turn your bathroom into a sought -after sanctuary. Plus Marcia has hunted down an array of must-have products for stylish homes, from decorative accessories to furniture for outdoor spaces and so much more, which can be found in the Marcia Loves It! Features. The core of the Guide remains the same with thousands of entries covering top local interior designers, as well as household goods, design manufacturers, service providers and suppliers. Updated year in and year out, it's the most comprehensive and reliable guide of it's kind in the country, not to mention an essential tool for industry experts and anyone who is renovating or redecorating.

Recovery RSA (Paperback): Barbara Hutton Recovery RSA (Paperback)
Barbara Hutton
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R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

South Africa has one of the highest rising rates of addicts in the world with the majority between the ages of 22 and 35 years old, 37% are unemployed (SANCA 2011). Once an addict decides to ask for help, it is very difficult to obtain coherent advice about how to proceed with their recovery - this book aims to do this. To date there are no local books which help recovering addicts and there families. Recovery RSA is the go-to guide for recovering addicts, families, significant others, professionals, para-professionals and support people. It provides background information on treatment options, as well as useful and practical guidelines to help people navigate their way through the recovery process in South Africa. Recovery RSA documents the South African experience within the field of addiction recovery. The collection was developed in an attempt to document our local South African knowledge, skill and practice in one resource, and to share this with others, in the hope that it will bring some understanding, strength and hope to those who are affected by addiction.

The Poetic Journey Of Self-Leadership - Leadership Development Along Stages Of Psychological Growth (Paperback): Babar Dharani,... The Poetic Journey Of Self-Leadership - Leadership Development Along Stages Of Psychological Growth (Paperback)
Babar Dharani, Kurt April, Kathy Harvey
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R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Everyone is on a journey of growth, from birth to death. The authors used their research data, to tap into the vital stages of this journey of growth from a psychological growth perspective. They linked the stages of psychological growth to self-leadership development. Additionally, they linked different stages of self-leadership development to different types and styles of leadership. For example, they found that authoritative leadership is linked to earlier stages of psychological growth, while inclusive leadership is linked to latter stages of psychological growth.

The Poetic Journey of Self-Leadership: Leadership Development along Stages of Psychological Growth is relevant to those interested in self-reflection (as it assists to assign oneself to a stage of psychological development), personal growth (as it anticipates processes to follow during one’s current stage of development), self-leadership development, as well as useful for leadership assessment by practitioners (by assigning leadership to stages of development). Additionally, from an academic perspective, the book is relevant to psychology, sociology and leadership students.

Contents include:

  • Surviving: Abandonment versus overwhelment; Survival-stage leader
  • Conforming: Internality versus externality; Conforming leader
  • Differentiating: Social predestination; Differentiated leader
  • Individuating: Guilt versus fear; Journey to individuation; Conquering complexes; Authenticity; Individuated leader
  • Self-actualizing: Kintsugi; Traumas; Magical other; Self-actualised leader
  • Integrating: Values; Heroes; Purpose; Integrated leader
  • Serving: Servant leader

Books about leadership and poetry are mostly written from the perspective of leaders, but The Poetic Journey of Self-Leadership: Leadership Development along Stages of Psychological Growth, focuses on self-leadership development, and not the usual listing of heroic leader capabilities that must be strived for. The authors used self-reported poetry from diverse participants, and in their own voices as their main data collection source. The book presents a diversity of writing styles and topics, and makes it much wider in scope and richer than other books.

Wild Weekends - Place To Go, Things To Do (Paperback, New edition): Claire Keeton Wild Weekends - Place To Go, Things To Do (Paperback, New edition)
Claire Keeton; Photographs by Marianne Schwankhart 1
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R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sunday Times adventure travel writer, Claire Keeton, and photographer Marianne Schwankhart have worked together to make sure you never have to spend another weekend at home wishing you were doing something more exciting.

They’ve collected over 30 great weekend destinations and given you the lowdown on the adventure activities you can do in each – visit Waterval Boven and try climbing, a mountain bike trail or learn to fly fish; take your children on a hike to explore the sandstone formations of the Cederberg; go horse riding in the Drakensberg; or tackle an urban adventure and bungee jump from the Soweto cooling towers.

Decide where you want to go and they’ll tell you what adventures are waiting for you, or decide what activity you want to do and they’ll tell you the best weekend destinations to head for.

Die Groot Afrikaanse Heldeboek (Afrikaans, Hardcover, 2nd Hers Uitg ed.): Pieter W. Grobbelaar Die Groot Afrikaanse Heldeboek (Afrikaans, Hardcover, 2nd Hers Uitg ed.)
Pieter W. Grobbelaar
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R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hierdie bekende kultuurhistorikus se heldeboek bevat gunstelingverhale oor onder andere bekende helde soos Racheltjie de Beer, Shaka, Dirkie Uys, Wolraad Woltemade en Klara Majola. Dit is ’n hele paar jaar dat Grobbelaar al skrywende met die mense van sy land die heldepad loop – al die mense van sy land, omdat hy met opset nie net die heldedade van sy volk beskryf nie. Hy het helde en heldedade op verskillende maniere benader: soms van buite, soms van binne, soms deur die oe van ’n buitestander.

God Is Daar 'n Ander Antwoord? - 'n Bevryende Reis (Afrikaans, Paperback): Ben du Toit God Is Daar 'n Ander Antwoord? - 'n Bevryende Reis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Ben du Toit
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R330 R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Save R46 (14%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

Hierdie manuskrip was nie bedoel om gepubliseer te word nie. Dit was aanvanklik ’n bestekopname van die skrywer se betrokkenheid by en blootstelling aan die NG Kerk-familie waarin hy gebore is, grootgeword en uiteindelik as predikant gedien het.

Ben du Toit se eerste boek, God? Geloof in ‘n postmoderne tyd, is in 2001 met die gesogte Andrew Murray-prys vir Christelike publikasies bekroon. Dit het ’n woordeskat gebied vir talle ander mense se reis. Amper twee dekades later neem hy die vraag oor God en die relevansie van godsdiens en geloof verder.

Vir baie mense sal hierdie boek nie ’n gemaklike leeservaring wees nie. Daar sal egter lesers wees wat ’n eie bevrydende ervaring in hul verhouding met die kerk, geloof en met God sal beleef deur die boek te lees. En wat ’n woordeskat sal vind.

Net soos Du Toit se eerste boek baie mense minder alleen met hulle teologiese ongemak en kritiese vrae laat voel het, kan hierdie boek ’n wonderlike verrassende volgende fase van hul lewens inlei, soos dit tans met die skrywer die geval is.

Die afronding van die teks het plaasgevind aan die begin van die wêreldwye Covid-19-pandemie. Hierdie boek toon hoe die vraag na die betrokkenheid van God gevra word, net soos telkens in die verlede tydens ander krisisse.

Net soos wat die Covid-19-pandemie ’n nuwe era inlui, kan hierdie publikasie ’n nuwe denkraamwerk ten opsigte van geloof inlui.

Hier word baie name genoem en na vele stemme geluister. Uiteindelik gaan dit nie oor hulle as individue nie, maar wel, kollektief, oor Die Kerk – ’n bepaalde verteenwoordiging van die verskynsel wat Godsdiens genoem word. Maar inderwaarheid gaan dit nie eers oor hulle nie, maar oor God – terwyl die enigste manier waarop ons iets van God kan weet, deur die woorde en lewens van mense is.

Evolving Public Space In South Africa - Towards Regenerative Space In The Post-Apartheid City (Hardcover): Karina Landman Evolving Public Space In South Africa - Towards Regenerative Space In The Post-Apartheid City (Hardcover)
Karina Landman
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R3,992 Discovery Miles 39 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Evolving Public Space In South Africa discusses the transformation of public space highlighted in the country. Drawing on examples from major cities, the author demonstrates that these spaces are not only becoming wasted space, but are also adapting and evolving to accommodate new users and uses in various parts of the city.

This process of evolution tends to challenge the more traditional visions and general global views of declining public space in cities and argues that it rather resembles the resilience of these spaces and the potential for regeneration through continuously emerging and mutating forms, functions and meanings.

Including over 20 black-and-white images, this book would be beneficial to academics and students of urban planning and design and those interested in the regeneration of cities.

In the Shadow of Policy - Everyday Practices in South Africa's Land and Agrarian Reform (Paperback): Paul Hebinck, Ben... In the Shadow of Policy - Everyday Practices in South Africa's Land and Agrarian Reform (Paperback)
Paul Hebinck, Ben Cousins; Paul Hebinck, Ben Cousins, Henning Klerk, …
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R385 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R84 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Notions of land and agrarian reform are now well entrenched in post-apartheid South Africa. But what this reform actually means for everyday life is not clearly understood, nor the way it will impact on the political economy. In the Shadow of Policy explores the interface between the policy of land and agrarian reform and its implementation; and between the decisions of policy 'experts' and actual livelihood experiences in the fields and homesteads of land reform projects. Starting with an overview of the socio-historical context in which land and agrarian reform policy has evolved in South Africa, the volume presents empirical case studies of land reform projects in the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape provinces. These draw on multiple voices from various sectors and provide a rich source of material and critical reflections to inform future policy and research agendas. In the Shadow of Policy will be a key reference tool for those working in the area of development studies and land policy, and for civil society groups and NGOs involved in land restitution.

Abantu Abamnyama - Lapa Bavela Ngakhona (Zulu, Paperback): Magema M. Fuze Abantu Abamnyama - Lapa Bavela Ngakhona (Zulu, Paperback)
Magema M. Fuze; Edited by Trevor Cope 1
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Le ncwadi eyinqophamlando ngeyokuqala ngqa eyabhalwa ngesiZulu ngumbhali ongumZulu. UMagema Fuze wayibhala ekuqaleni kweminyaka ye-1900, wayishicilela ngasese ngowe-1922 ngesihloko esithi Abantu Abamnyama, Lapa Bavela Ngakona.

Kule ncwadi eyisimanga, umbhali usethulela akutholile ngemvelaphi nokwehlukana kwezizwe, achaze nokuthi bazinza kanjani abantu kwelaseNatali. Ubuye abhale ngamasiko amaZulu, asitshele ngomlando wamaZulu ngezikhathi zeziphithiphithi ngekhuluminyaka leshumi nesishiyagalolunye, konke ekubuka ngeso lamaZulu ayephila ngaleso sikhathi. Kulo mlando welaseNatali, uFuze ubuye adidiyele ukubhala kukaMbhishobhi Colenso uFuze abuye aphawule ngendlela okubekwe ngayo. Okubuye kwayicebisa kakhulu le ncwadi yisandulela esibhalwe nguHlonipha Mokoena esiphawula ngokujulile ngezimo zezikhathi zakudala ezazinezinselelo.

Abantu Abamnyama umthombo ohamba wodwa nje ongaba yigugu kubafundi abafuna ulwazi ngomlando wamaZulu nendlela okwakuphilwa ngayo ngezikhathi zawoShaka. Lo msebenzi uyimpendulo kubantu abahlale bebuza ukuthi – “Kodwa abantu abamnyama bavelaphi?”

The South African Vegan Cookbook 2 (Paperback): Leozette Roode The South African Vegan Cookbook 2 (Paperback)
Leozette Roode
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R420 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R59 (14%) In Stock

In Leozette Roode’s second book, she pays homage to all her favourite recipes.

Discover new vegan favourites like courgette and lemon tea loaf, couscous roulade, lemon pepper pasta, polenta fries and green couscous salad with tzatziki, as well as much-loved classics that she has veganised, like her version of a Peppermint Crisp tart, a lentil shepherd’s pie and paptert with chakalaka.

If you are starting your vegan journey, then this collection of delectable recipes will make your time in the kitchen effortless.

Truly Prospering In Good Health - Revealed Secrets To Help You Make Money And Protect Your Health In South Africa (Paperback):... Truly Prospering In Good Health - Revealed Secrets To Help You Make Money And Protect Your Health In South Africa (Paperback)
Eric Boakye, Augustina Boakye, Peter Asafo-Adjei
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R275 R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Save R60 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book has been produced to educate readers about how lack of finances impacts a person’s health and how bad health impacts finances, as well as the right actions to take to achieve a success in these two areas.

The book has been ‘tagged’ as a life-long reference and educational book, which is bound to make users aware of their financial and health conditions, and more importantly, help them take the necessary action. It contains a wealth financial and health nuggets that can propel readers to achieve their objective in these two intertwined areas of life.

The Age Of Sustainability - Just Transitions In A Complex World (Paperback): Mark Swilling The Age Of Sustainability - Just Transitions In A Complex World (Paperback)
Mark Swilling
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R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.

Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting evidence that deeper transitions are underway that suggest we may be entering another period of great transformation equal in significance to the agricultural revolution some 13,000 years ago or the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This book helps readers make sense of our global crisis and the dynamics of transition that could result in a shift from the industrial epoch that we live in now to a more sustainable and equitable age. The global renewable energy transition that is already underway holds the key to the wider just transition. However, the evolutionary potential of the present also manifests in the mushrooming of ecocultures, new urban visions, sustainability-oriented developmental states and new ways of learning and researching.

Shedding light on the highly complex challenge of a sustainable and just transition, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with establishing a more sustainable and equitable world. Ultimately, this is a book about hope but without easy answers.

Some Afrikaners Photographed (Hardcover): David Goldblatt Some Afrikaners Photographed (Hardcover)
David Goldblatt
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Goldblatt began working on Some Afrikaners Photographed, first published in 1975, in 1963. He had sold his father s clothing store where he worked, and become a full-time photographer. The ruling Afrikaner National Party many of its leaders and members had supported the Nazis in the Second World War was firming its grip on the country in the face of black resistance. Yet Goldblatt was drawn not to the events of the time but to the quiet and commonplace where nothing happened and yet all was contained and immanent. Through these photos he explored his ambivalence towards the Afrikaners he knew from his father s store. Most, he guessed, were National Party voters, yet he experienced them as austere, upright, unaffected people of rare generosity of spirit and earthy humor. Their potency and contradictions moved and disturbed him; their influence pervaded his life.

The book includes an essay by South African writer Antjie Krog: Three kinds of Afrikaners look out at us from these photographs, she writes, of which the poor Afrikaner is the most haunting the simple one who, by the sweat of his brow, eats his bread in isolation.

Art critic Ivor Powell charts the outraged reaction of the Afrikaner media towards photos that showed rural Afrikaners at a time when the Afrikaner elite was trying to establish itself on the international stage, as well as his own reaction to the original book: It was all but incandescent with tension and revelation, with a sense of souls being held up to scrutiny, of skins being peeled away.

An old man sits for me. A black child comes and stands next to him, looking at me with curiosity. The man turns and says to the child, Yes, what are you doing here, you black rubbish? the insult meant and yet said with affection. How is this possible? I don t know. But the contradiction was eloquent of much that I found in the relationship between rural and working-class Afrikaners and their black workers: an often comfortable, affectionate, even physical intimacy seldom seen in the liberal circles in which I moved, and yet, simultaneously, a deep contempt and fear of black people. David Goldblatt

[Br]other (Hardcover): James Oatway [Br]other (Hardcover)
James Oatway; Photographs by Alon Skuy
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More than twelve years have passed since deadly xenophobic attacks swept unexpectedly through South Africa’s townships and informal settlements. The wave of violence left more than 60 people dead, hundreds injured and tens of thousands displaced from their homes and having to find refuge in makeshift refugee camps, community halls and police stations.

Now in 2021, xenophobia continues to rise. South African social media timelines are frequently punctuated with inflammatory language steeped in hatred. New episodes of violence are referred to as “cleaning” and refugees and migrants are called “cockroaches”. This is translating into real life violence: migrants were attacked in Durban as recently as this month.

[BR]OTHER is a visual record of this violence over the past twelve years. The foreword, written by former Constitutional Court Judge Justice Edwin Cameron, is accompanied by critical texts by Achille Mbembe, Joao Silva, Justice Malala, Koketso Moeti and others.

In documenting these events, the book aims to draw attention to the dangers that lie in hatred, intolerance and indifference. It is an urgent call to action. We must not ignore the warning signs.

Avoiding Potholes In Translation - A Practical Perspective On Translation between English And isiZulu (Paperback): Phindile... Avoiding Potholes In Translation - A Practical Perspective On Translation between English And isiZulu (Paperback)
Phindile Dlamini
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R210 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R46 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This is a comprehensive introduction to translation studies between English and isiZulu. Drawing from different theories of translation, the book incorporates crucial concepts for understanding the basics of translation within a South African languages’ context, and it lays a foundation for further studies in translation.

Its content coverage, while broad, is also in-depth, and it skilfully integrates examples from varied types of texts. The practical and accessible style makes it both engaging and informative. The diverse examples illustrate not only technicalities of translation as a process but vivid dynamics brought about by the fact that the languages involved in the translation process belong to different language families.

The use of examples for almost every aspect of translation discussed makes this book unique and valuable to both translation scholars and practitioners alike. Even though the book uses isiZulu examples, it serves as a valuable reference for translation scholars and practitioners working with different indigenous languages of South Africa.

Market Foods - South Africa (Paperback): Dianne Stewart, Jessica Cairns, Lissa Stewart Market Foods - South Africa (Paperback)
Dianne Stewart, Jessica Cairns, Lissa Stewart 1
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R546 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R54 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Which is your favourite market? The explosion of markets all over South Africa led Dianne Stewart and her daughters, Lissa and Jessica, on a trip around South Africa in search of the best market food. Each market has its own distinct personality, and provides locals and visitors with relaxed and informal meeting places where family and friends can get together, share a meal and fill their baskets with some of the finest home-made fare and produce this country has to offer. Use Market Food to find a top local market - some tucked away in bustling harbour precincts, others on lush wine estates, in parks or inner-city warehouses. Then choose your favourite recipes from the dazzling array of artisanal recipes featured in the book... or track down the dish that tickles your fancy and visit that market!

Welvaartskeppers - Strategieë Wat Jou Lewe Kan Verander (Afrikaans, Paperback): Riaan Botha Welvaartskeppers - Strategieë Wat Jou Lewe Kan Verander (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Riaan Botha
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Wat is die geheim van selfgemaakte miljoenêrs, dié uitgelese groep wat welvaart skep, hetsy as entrepreneurs, professionele lui of as salaristrekkers, selfs te midde van uitdagings en ná terugslae? Die skrywer, ’n onafhanklike finansiële adviseur, het oor jare heen ontdek dat sekere strategieë suksesvolle welvaartskepping aan die hand werk. Hierdie boek bevat 68 welvaartstrategieë asook suksesstories van ’n diverse groep gewone Suid-Afrikaners wat soms van voor af oor moes begin maar steeds ’n uitdagende omgewing suksesvol kon navigeer.

Dié boek bied praktiese advies asook toerusting om oor elke strategie na te dink, jou eie finansiële posisie te verbeter en selfs, uiteindelik, inkomste vir ander te skep. Dit sal jou help om ’n kopskuif te maak en moontlikhede in ’n bitter moeilike ekonomiese klimaat te identifiseer. Die stories sal jou inspireer en ook help om hierdie strategieë in jou daaglikse handel en wandel toe te pas.

Knowledge For A Sustainable World - A Southern African-Nordic Contribution (Paperback): Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen, Vyvienne Rp... Knowledge For A Sustainable World - A Southern African-Nordic Contribution (Paperback)
Tor Halvorsen, Hilde Ibsen, Vyvienne Rp M'Kumbuzi
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The search for answers to the issue of global sustainability has become increasingly urgent. In the context of higher education, many universities and academics are seeking new insights that can shift our dependence on ways of living that rely on the exploitation of so many and the degradation of so much of our planet. This is the vision that drives SANORD and many of the researchers and institutions within its network.

Although much of the research is on a relatively small scale, the vision is steadily gaining momentum, forging dynamic collaborations and pathways to new knowledge. The contributors to this book cover a variety of subject areas and offer fresh insights about chronically under-researched parts of the world. Others document and critically reflect on innovative approaches to cross-continental teaching and research collaborations.

This book will be of interest to anyone involved in the transformation of higher education or the practicalities of cross-continental and cross-disciplinary academic collaboration.

The Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a network of higher education institutions from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Universities in the southern African and Nordic regions that are not yet members are encouraged to join.

Hands Off Our Grants - Defending The Constitutional Right To Social Protection (Paperback): Black Sash Hands Off Our Grants - Defending The Constitutional Right To Social Protection (Paperback)
Black Sash
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This book examines the root causes of unauthorised, fraudulent and allegedly unlawful deductions from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa)-branded bank accounts into which monthly welfare grants were paid for South Africa's poorest citizens.

South Africa has one of the largest social assistance systems in the world. Today, the livelihoods of millions of poor people, particularly those living in rural and peri urban areas, are dependent on it and it has been lauded as one of the important achievements of the post-apartheid government. However for seven years, from 2012 when Sassa awarded the tender to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for country-wide distribution of social grants, this welfare system came under attack. This was during the Zuma presidency and was carried out with the alleged complicity of government officials and the Minister of Social Development at the time, Bathabile Dlamini, who now faces perjury charges for her role in the social grant crisis. This is however not another grim state capture tale. In this case the targeted social grant beneficiaries stood their ground. Supported by civil society organisations, they mobilised behind the Black Sash's Hands Off Our Grants (Hoog) campaign to reclaim their constitutional right to social security.

This is a valuable book because it enables us to understand how vulnerable people - poor, inadequately informed, even illiterate people - were able to defend themselves against exploitation and malpractice. This book is a story of dedication, determination and ultimately victory. However, it also reminds the reader of the need for ongoing monitoring of the use and distribution of state resources, accountability from political leadership, and advocacy around improved public service delivery for those who need it.

And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses - Four Works (Paperback): Zakes Mda And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses - Four Works (Paperback)
Zakes Mda
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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.

Becoming Worthy Ancestors - Archive, Public Deliberation And Identity In South Africa (Paperback): Xolela Mangcu Becoming Worthy Ancestors - Archive, Public Deliberation And Identity In South Africa (Paperback)
Xolela Mangcu; Xolela Mangcu, Ntongela Masilela, Frederik Zyl Slabbert, Martin Bernal, …
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Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa? These are the issues that the Public Conversations lecture series - an initiative of the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at Wits University - proceeded from in 2006. Five years later, cross currents in contemporary South Africa have made the resumption of a public debate to clarify the meanings of identity and citizenship even more imperative, and an understanding of 'archive' even more urgent. The 2006 lectures were subsequently collected, resulting in this volume which takes its title from Weber's point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson, that the future asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. The book, as did the lecture series, aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the topic is still of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of what it means to be a citizen of South Africa. Becoming Worthy Ancestors aims to make accessible the theoretically informed, sometimes highly academic work of its various contributors. With chapters from high profile international and local contributors, it will be of interest to South African and international audiences. Editing for publication has further enhanced the accessibility of each speaker's thinking without forfeiting any of its complexity, and the addition of an introductory chapter by the editor contributes to the coherence of the volume. While the target audience is the broad public, the book is based on a core of academic thinking and research.

Living In South Africa - Moving, Working, Enjoying Life (Paperback): Regina Graff, Derryn Campbell Living In South Africa - Moving, Working, Enjoying Life (Paperback)
Regina Graff, Derryn Campbell
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Living In South Africa is a comprehensive and practical guide handbook to working in and enjoying life in South Africa.

This guide is useful to all interested in embracing life in South Africa.

The carefully researched information is complemented with personal experience and includes helpful hints and recommended resources.

The Politics Of A South African Frontier - The Griqua, The Sotho-Tswana And The Missionaries, 1780-1840 (Paperback): Martin... The Politics Of A South African Frontier - The Griqua, The Sotho-Tswana And The Missionaries, 1780-1840 (Paperback)
Martin Chatfield Legassick
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This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia.

The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Tswana polities, frontiersmen, missionaries and the British administration of the Cape take centre stage in the analysis. The Griqua, of mixed settler and indigenous descent, secured hegemony in a frontier of complex partnerships and power struggles. The author's subsequent critique of the "frontier tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems.

Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re-emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.

Skeef - Wat Jy Van LGBTIQ-wees Wil Weet (Afrikaans, Paperback): Renaldo Schwarp Skeef - Wat Jy Van LGBTIQ-wees Wil Weet (Afrikaans, Paperback)
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In Skeef deel mediapersoonlikheid Renaldo Schwarp op sy kenmerkend spitvondige manier praktiese advies en verhale oor alle aspekte van gay-wees.

Uitkom, boelies, liefdesverhoudings, skooldae, universiteitsjare, ouers, verteenwoordiging, seksualiteit, geloof - geen onderwerp is taboe nie. Schwarp fokus op die leefwêreld van LGBTIQ+-Suid-Afrikaners, plaas dit in internasionale en historiese kontekste en bied 'n woordeskat. Schwarp vertel sy eie storie. Hy klop ook aan by bekendes soos Rian van Heerden, Marc Lottering, Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Boer Damian en Joe Foster om 'n genuanseerde beeld van eietydse gay-wees te skets.

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Selfs al is dinge soms moeiliker vir LGBTIQ-mense, dra Skeef 'n boodskap van hoop oor vir gay mense, hul ouers en bondgenote. Selfaanvaarding, outentisiteit, gesonde verhoudings en geluk is gays beskore - hierdie boek vertel hoe.

Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication - A South African perspective (Paperback): Russell Kaschula, Pamela Maseko, H.... Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication - A South African perspective (Paperback)
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To date, there has been no published textbook which takes into account changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication breaks new ground in this arena. The scope of this book ranges from macro-sociolinguistic questions pertaining to language policies and their implementation (or non-implementation) to micro-sociolinguistic observations of actual language-use in verbal interaction, mainly in multilingual contexts of Higher Education (HE). There is a gradual move for the study of language and culture to be taught in the context of (professional) disciplines in which they would be used, for example, Journalism and African languages, Education and African languages, etc. The book caters for this growing market. Because of its multilingual nature, it caters to English and Afrikaans language speakers, as well as the Sotho and Nguni language groups - the largest languages in South Africa [and also increasingly used in the context of South African Higher Education]. It brings together various inter-linked disciplines such as Sociolinguistics and Applied Language Studies, Media Studies and Journalism, History and Education, Social and Natural Sciences, Law, Human Language Technology, Music, Intercultural Communication and Literary Studies. The unique cross-cutting disciplinary features of the book will make it a must-have for twenty-first century South African students and scholars and those interested in applied language issues.

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