A book that taps into the current debate around resource rentals in South Africa, and outlines practical steps that can be taken to a different tax regime.

Land rent can provide jobs for all if we just collect it instead of taxing those who create wealth or seek merely to survive. This rent, or the locational advantage of each piece of land, is owed to the community, whose grant of security of tenure enables the owner to enjoy its man-made and natural advantages. Rent has been a phenomenon since the time of the Physiocrats and Adam Smith, but its potential has been ignored and the world has got lost in an economic jungle of its own making.

This book is based on a very simple proposal: replace most taxation with collection of land and other natural resource rentals. It shows the way to the broad uplands of prosperity for all, and explains why it is time for us to talk about rent! It taps into the current debate in the media and economic and political circles around resource rentals in South Africa, and outlines practical steps that can be taken to a different tax regime. This book is highly relevant and topical, and offers much to stimulate further debate whilst offering something positive and workable.

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.

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.

South African identities, as they are represented in the contemporary South African novel, are not homogeneous but fractured and often conflicted: African, Afrikaner, `coloured’, English, and Indian – none can be regarded as rooted or pure, whatever essentialist claims members of these various ethnic and cultural communities might want to make for them. All of them, this book argues, are deeply divided and have arisen, directly or indirectly, out of the experience of diasporic displacement, migration and relocation, from the colonial, African and Indian diasporas to present-day migrations into and out of South Africa and diasporic dislocations within Africa. This study of twenty works by twelve contemporary South African novelists – Breyten Breytenbach, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Aziz Hassim, Michiel Heyns, Elsa Joubert, Zakes Mda, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karel Schoeman, Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Ivan Vladislaviç and Zoë Wicomb – shows how diaspora is a dominant theme in contemporary South African fiction, and the diasporic subject its most recognisable figure.

Eco-friendly gardening is fast catching on. Butterflies are visible signs of a healthy garden, and, with their whimsical flight patterns and glorious colours, they are among the most alluring of our aerial visitors. Gardening for butterflies shows how to attract these beautiful insects, giving step-by-step instructions for planning and planting a garden that will cater for the greatest number and diversity of butterflies. Using a Durban garden as a case study, it includes a recommended layout and plant lists for this area, as well as for other regions around the country. The book showcases 95 garden butterflies and moths, showing their full life cycle, including pupa, eggs and caterpillar. Stunning photography and point-form text ensure accurate identification of each stage in the cycle, and an interesting introduction discusses such topics as the extraordinary process of metamorphosis and the curious habits of these mercurial insects. Whether you’re tempted to undertake a full-scale transformation of your garden to attract butterflies, make smaller adjustments to it, or if you simply want to identify those insects already visiting your space, this book will amaze and enchant you.

Global public health has improved vastly during the past 25 years, and especially in the survival of infants and young children. However, many of these children, particularly in Africa, continue to live in poverty and in unhealthy, unsupportive environments, and will not be able to meet their developmental potential. In other words, they will survive but not thrive. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stress sustainable development, not just survival and disease reduction, and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health proposes a Survive (end preventable deaths), Thrive (ensure health and wellbeing) and Transform (expand enabling environments) agenda. For children to thrive they must make good developmental progress from birth until the end of adolescence.

Addressing the social determinants of developmental problems, this volume offers a broad, contextualised understanding of the factors that impact on children and adolescents in Africa. Unlike other works on the subject it is Africa-wide in its scope, with case studies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa. Covering mental health as well as physical and social development, it looks at policies and practice, culture and priorities for research, identifying challenges and proposing solutions.

Recommended for academics, students and practitioners in psychology, including developmental psychology, child clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology, psychiatry, human ecology, and in schools of education. It will also be of interest to nurses and paediatricians, health workers and those interested in early childhood development.

Minjonet en bitterbos is Thomas Deacon se vyfde digbundel in Afrikaans.

Die bundel sentreer om ouer word, die jeugdige energie wat daarmee afneem, ‘n herbesoek aan dit wat was en ‘n skrynende begeerte daarna. Deacon slaag uitmuntend daarin om die oerbron van herinnering en nostalgie telkens deur ‘n ander merafoor, ‘n ander tyd en met ander woorde te laat spreek.

Die bundel bevat ook ‘n heuglike inslag van Boerneef se loslittige Afrikaans met ‘n voorkeur vir die kontreiwoord en -uitdrukking.

In Gardens To Inspire, Keith Kirsten introduces 25 notable South African gardens, chosen for the ‘wow’ factor that sets them apart.

Great gardens are not simply an accumulation of plants. They are planned and nurtured over years, even decades, and they reflect the personality or intention of their creators. The selected gardens range from classic-traditional to quirky-eclectic to those that strive to meet the challenge of being environmentally sustainable. Some are grand estates, others are more modest, some are open to the public, others are not readily accessible. But whether they are private or public, big or small, exotic or indigenous, this book reveals something of the story behind each garden, introducing the owners or custodians and discussing the plants and landscaping that makes each one special.

Many of the featured gardens have been years in the making, others are more recent creations, but gardens are never static; man and nature are always reshaping them, and this book presents a moment in the life of each of these inspirational gardens.

Many adults who had challenging childhoods find that their childhood fears impact on their lives as adults. If you behaved in a very responsible and reliable manner when you were a child and if, now that you are an adult, you often feel childlike and vulnerable in stressful situations, you are in all likelihood an adult child. Having a childhood that is unpredictable or inconsistent in any way often results in a range of characteristics and limiting beliefs which include a need to be perfect, an inability to trust others, and a horror of asking for help. It doesn’t really matter what was going on in your family, or why you felt like you needed to be a grown-up when you were a child. What matters is that you did.

Recover from your Childhoodwill take you on a journey of self-discovery and provide you with powerful tools to will guide you through a process of healing. It will bring you relief from the confusion and anxiety that may have been your constant companions, and it will guide you to a place of understanding and acceptance of yourself.

This book will help you to change – not who you are, but how you are.

Seks, leuens en die internet is ’n rou, eerlike vertelling deur ’n vrou wie se hart gebreek is, maar weier om moed op te gee. Op 50 lyk al die prinse en perde bra gehawend, maar vasbeslote durf sy die wilde wêreld van aanlyn afsprake aan, moedig op soek na haar sielsgenoot. Hierdie boek is deel van die immergewilde selfhelp-genre en kombineer die onderwerpe van verhoudings; seks en selfondersoek. Dis ’n eerlike en soms skreeusnaakse memoir - maar ook ’n nuttige gids oor die wêreld van aanlyn afsprake.

Broken Porcelain is not just a book of essays describing one Black woman’s experience of mental illness, but rather a memoir-in-essays that shatters the walls of our hearts and guides us towards empathy – all while providing social commentary that demystifies stigmas of mental illness.

In her singular lyrical prose, Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika covers topics such as social media’s role in how we view depression, generational trauma, what self-care really is, taking anti-depressant medication, and finding love when you are mentally ill.

The author writes with poignant honesty about the darkness of her mental illness and breaks down what mental illness is (and is not).

"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning-from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics infl uence all individuals in a multilingual society.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries – from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa – make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters – the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development – make up its framework. All authors and editors are African, as is the publisher. The only exception is Göran Therborn whose recent book, Cities of Power, served as motivation for this volume. Accordingly, the issue common to all case studies is the often conflictual powers that are exercised by national, global and popular forces in the development of these African cities.

Rather than locating the case studies in an exclusively African historical context, the focus is on the trajectories of the postcolonial city (with the important exception of Addis Ababa with a non-colonial history that has granted it a special place in African consciousness). These trajectories enable comparisons with those of postcolonial cities on other continents. This, in turn, highlights the fact that Africa – today, the least urbanised continent on an increasingly urbanised globe – is in the thick of processes of large-scale urban transformation, illustrated in diverse ways by the case studies that make up the foundation of this publication.

Joanne Hichens lost first her mother, then, in quick succession, her husband, her father and her mother-in-law - two deaths anticipated, two coming as the worst kind of shock. In this memoir of grief and recovery, she writes with honesty and humour of death, our 'constant companion', and the stumbling journey through the country of grief.

By turns searing and sparkling, her account gives compelling insight into the losses that stalk us all, while also celebrating the mainstays of life - friendship, family, and the memories of those we love and lose.

Umgcagco Wosizi ukhuluma ngentombazane (uZesuliwe) eyabhekana nosizi lokufunda kanzima ngenxa yokushiswa komuzi wakubo, yaze yeswela nendawo yokuhlala. Ukuhlaliswa ngomakhelwane (uMaShozi) ogcina ngokuyiphoqelela ukuba igane umntanayo (uMzweleni) ngenkani, iyeke isoka layo (uManqoba) kubange impikiswano enkulu, yaze yacishe yazibulala. Ukubekezela kukanina kaZesuliwe (uMaMthembu) nokubhekisa phansi ikhanda kukayise (uFuze) ukuze bahlale kahle kwenze bacgina bethole isisombululo ekugcineni. Zitholele kulo mdlalo ukuthi ngubani oshise umuzi kaMaMthembu, futhi kwenzekani kuye ekugcineni?

Hier’s Armand weer, sonder klere voor jou deur…

Armand se eerste kookboek was ’n wegholsukses. Sy toeganklike benadering tot kos het baie mense oortuig van ’n nuwe manier van eet én leef – vars, onopgesmuk, met sakpas-bestanddele in die keto- en banting-styl. Sy boek het gewys: Van lekker eet kom gesondheid en optimale gewig.

In sy nuwe boek stroop Armand sy gunstelingdisse (en homself) nog verder. Sy selfopgelegde uitdaging was om bestanddele wat reeds in sy koskas was, te gebruik. Dié kreatiewe verkennings lei tot ’n ‘van-plaas-tot-tafel’-aanslag wat wys dat die smaaklikste en gesondste kos eenvoudige kos is.

Armand Kook Kaal 2 bestaan uit 50 banting- en keto-vriendelike disse. Stap-virstap, en met pragfoto’s daarby, wys Armand hoe om heerlike disse te skep uit vars bestanddele sonder om die skaal of beursie te laat ly.

Voeg Armand se keto-kruierolletjies, murgpamoen-röstis, en klappermelkpanna cotta tot jou kookarsenaal toe en pluk die vrugte.

Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town's foreshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam.

When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. But Sean starts to accompany the beachboys on trips around their everyday Cape Town, he becomes more than a casual observer, serving as sometime moneylender, driver, confidant and scribe, and eventually joining Adam on an unprecedented tour of Dar es Salaam's underworld and a reckless run down Africa's east coast.

Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard remaps both city and continent, introducing us to the places and people we so frequently overlook.

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.

Our Coast for Life captures the spirit, majesty, dynamism, beauty and diversity of the African coastline and celebrates the first steps of our journey towards truly sustainable coastal development and poverty alleviation. It salutes the work of nations and international organisations that are actively helping African coastal communities and champions the African people's struggle against adversity.

The book will be a cornerstone for future thinking and a valuable reference book for anyone involved in international sustainable development.

While the world's eyes are focused on exploring ways of implementing and managing sustainable development programmes, this book celebrates what is already being achieved and practised It commemorates the work that is helping alleviate poverty, empower and tram local communities and create alternative livelihood projects along Africa's coast.

"Elke gedig is ’n uiting van die sibille. "Die woorde deur Sowjet-digter Marina Tswetajewa eggo in Juanita Louw se debuutbundel, In die grot van die sibille, waar digkuns gelykgestel word aan die magiese woord wat deur die mitologiese profetes in haar grot gespreek is. Die leser gaan as't ware die grot binne waar klankryke, evokatiewe verse met droomagtige, eksotiese beelde die menslike kondisie belig. Louw werk met fassinerende stof uit ander kulture wat op prikkelende manier ontgin word.

On 5 February 2014, world-renowned scientist Tim Noakes fired off a tweet allegedly dispensing dietary advice to a young mother into a highly volatile media space; the fallout threatened to destroy his career. This is the untold backstory.

Veteran journalist and writer Daryl Ilbury unveils, layer by layer, a combustible mix of scientific ignorance, academic jealousy, the collapse of media ethics, and the interests of a world-renowned scientist in highlighting the intricacies of human nutrition and exposing those he believes have vested interests in regulating it.

Featuring interviews with people who have worked closely with Noakes, including former Springbok coach Jake White and polar swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh, as well as award-winning journalists and fellow scientists and academics, some of whom now consider Noakes dangerous and out of control, this book is bound to be as controversial as the man himself.

This text examines the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped 20th-century South Africa. The book draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on the country and weaves economic and cultural history into the political narrative.

Apartheid and industrialization, especially mining, are central themes, along with the rise of nationalism in the Afrikaner and African communities. But the author also emphasizes the neglected significance of rural experiences and local identities in shaping political consciousness. The roles played by such key figure as Smuts, Verwoerd, de Klerk, Plaatje, and Mandela are explored, while historiographical trends are reflected in analyses of rural protest, white cultural politics, the vitality of black urban life, and environmental decay.

The book assesses the analysis of black reactions to apartheid and the rise of the ANC.

Kintsugi is die Japanese kunstegniek om ’n gebroke keramiekvoorwerp met goud te herstel. Die tegniek maak ’n voorwerp mooier en meer kosbaar as wat dit in ’n ongebroke toestand was. Met die regte ingrype kan gebrokenheid waarde en skoonheid ontsluit. Hierdie idee is die draad wat deur dié boek loop.

In hierdie boek maak tientalle mense van verskillende agtergronde hul harte oop ter bemoediging en om insigte te deel.

In Suid-Afrika ly een uit ses mense aan depressie, angs en middelafhanklikheid en tot ses miljoen aan post-traumatiese stres. Agt duisend mense per jaar staan hul lewens aan selfdood af. Die Covid-epidemie dryf dit verder op die spits. Lees hier vir advies. Daar is hoop.

Heist is an in-depth look at 10 of South Africa’s most audacious heists.

From the 1996 ‘burning man’ case, where four security guards were burnt alive in their armoured vehicle after a ferocious fight-back against highly trained mercenaries, to the 2016 robbery of a cash centre in Witbank, where a gang made off with almost R107 million after impersonating police officers, this is an impeccably researched reconstruction of an endemic crime phenomenon that some analysts warn could bring South Africa to its knees. Using the information gleaned from thousands of pages of court documents and press reports, as well as interviews with scores of police officers, crime-intelligence agents, prosecutors, defence lawyers, researchers, journalists, security guards and the criminals themselves, Heist gives unprecedented insight into a type of crime that increased by a staggering 49 per cent in the first eight months of 2017 alone.

As informative and thought-provoking as it is distressing, this is a book by an investigative journalist at the top of her game.

The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4-page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80,000 people at a time – largely politisized black workers and youth – with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews.

The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society.

With over seventy poets represented, this is a bumper edition of the journal and given the number of interesting and accomplished poems received (over the past two years since publication of Botsotso 17), we believed it worthwhile to break from tradition and dedicate this edition wholly to poetry.