Meet the rebels, artists, troublemakers, athletes, dancing queens and freedom fighters that shaped our past – and are changing our future.

An A To Z Of Amazing South African Women tells the stories of 26 trailblazing South African women through accessible stories and illustrations that are as bright and bold as the women they depict. From Fatima Meer to Caster Semenya, Natalie du Toit to Dope St Jude, this is a book about women who ask too many questions, who defy injustice, who refuse to take no for an answer. It is a celebration of the courage and determination of the activists, scientists and storytellers who have gone before us – as well as a recognition of the everyday heroism of ordinary South African woman doing extraordinary things.

The book takes its inspiration from the worldwide bestseller An A To Z Of Rad American Women and is the work of writer Ambre Nicolson and illustrator Jaxon Hsu, a husband and wife team based in Cape Town.

Die forensiese wetenskap het in die afgelope dekades indrukwekkend ontwikkel. Ballistiek sluit in: die identifikasie van vuurwapens, bloedspatselpatrone en die aard van die wonde veroorsaak. Dikwels is die oplossings egter te laat. Die afsluiting wat dit bring vir die agtergeblewenes, te min.

Is this book for you? Yes! Know that if you are reading this right now, it is no co-incidence; it is divine guidance. You will find something of significance within, for your highest good.

In ‘Be Aware,’ you will go behind the scenes in a personal journey of healing and transformation. Tina has shared her process of awakening in the first section, ‘My Consciousness Healing Moments’. In the second section, she provides some guidance on the transformation process that awoke her to BEING. She teaches you how to transform your life.

Her journey takes us through the after-effects of childhood sexual abuse and illness to healing, intuition, psychic abilities, dreams, thoughts, mental telepathy, meditation, relationships, career changes, spirit guides, guardian angels, and archangels. ‘Be Aware’ will gently trigger your healing and guide you through a process of transformation in your own life.

Allow this book to be the divine guidance in your journey of awakening, self-discovery, healing and transformation.

Keen to get out there and get fit on your mountain bike but you lack the time or motivation?

Seasoned journalists & MTB riders Chris and Tim Whitfield will help you turn your weekend-warrior dreams into reality with tips on cool trails, events and advice on everything from equipment and safety to MTB lingo and fashion.

This fun handbook – packed with maps and tips – is your indispensable guide to getting out into the fresh air and to get ON YOUR BIKE …

Kom loop saam! nooi die skrywer. Tel op jou kruis, en bring al jou bagasie. Jy sal agterkom dat die bagasie stuk-stuk minder word soos die reis vorder. En die kruis dalk al hoe swaarder. Maar jou bestemming heet Hoop. En hoop is die eerste lig van ’n splinternuwe dag. Hierdie reis na hoop is ’n hartsreis vol moontlikhede. Dit help jou om nuwe gewoontes aan te leer en uitgediendes af te sweer. Dit leer jou om in die spieel te kyk en te sien hoe jy vir jou medemens lyk, en vir God.

In Vroue Na Aan My Hart val die kollig op vroue en vrouwees. Skink ’n koppie tee en skuif reg vir ’n hartsgeselsie met ’n vriendin.

Daar’s so baie om van te kies: Carike Keuzenkamp, Elize Cawood, Anna Neethling-Pohl, Michélle van Breda, Emsie Schoeman, Mariëtta Kruger, Ingrid Jones en selfs Evita. Kry ook ’n blik op die vroue na aan Hannes: sy ma, oumas, vriendinne.

Humoristiese vertellings – soms selfs lekker stout – sorg vir lekker lees en weer-lees.

Vrouekeur is ’n populere gesinstydskrif wat elke week ’n inspirerende rubriek deur Janine Bevolo-Manders publiseer. Die rubrieke het ’n Christelike inslag en bied raad, hoop en inspirasie. Die Vrouekeur kreatiewe & inspirerende jaarbeplanner bestaan uit ’n versameling van Janine se boodskappe, verpak in die vorm van ’n nuttige jaarbeplanner met oorspronklike illustrasies deur Rina Burger, ’n plaaslike kunstenaar, en illustreerder van die blitsverkoper ROUGE, inkleurboek vir grootmense. Dames kan boek hou van hulle afsprake, vriende en familie se verjaarsdae, sowel as om inspirasie te ontvang en hul kreatiwiteit uit te leef deur die pragtige verbeeldingryke illustrasies in die boek in te kleur. Inkleur vir grootmense is tans baie gewild! Nie net is dit ’n heerlike, verslawende, kreatiewe tydverdryf nie, maar dit het ook terapeutiese waarde.

Say Again? aims to regale you with many examples of South African English. An understanding of these items can be useful and enlightening to South Africans as well as to strangers in our midst.

Written in an accessible style, each chapter features words and phrases from different aspects of life – some serious and some not so serious – with actual examples of usage from written and spoken sources. These examples are interspersed with pictures and illustrations that liven up the text.

Kopano Ratele posits that all masculinities are working models, and some models might be more unworkable given the prevailing structural conditions. The more models of masculinity we have access to, the higher the likelihood that some will be workable, even liberating.

Instead of a singular, ahistorical and property that comes with having a penis, the book opens up a view where masculinities are culturally constructed relational models.

Covering a range of topics, from clothes and violent death, through a better sexual life and tradition, to race and feminism, Liberating Masculinities presents ways to understand the contestations around masculinity and gender relations.

Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press. They are ours: we experience and report crimes and have a right to access and understand their official record. It should not take any particular expertise to get a grasp on what we should make of the figures and graphs that the South African Police Service produces every year. Yet crime, its measurement and control, are as much political matters as they are technocratic.

While there is much that remains open to interpretation and discussion, there are some things that we should all be able to agree on, based on a sober reading of the evidence. As crime is a serious issue in South Africa, knowing what the official sources say is critical for productive debates on what we can do to make our country safer. A Citizen's Guide To Crime Trends In South Africa provides a basis on which to understand the statistics in a manner that is accessible to the general public.

Each chapter challenges a set of oft-repeated assumptions about how bad crime is, where it occurs, and who its victims are. It also demonstrates how and why crime statistics need to be matched with other forms of research, including criminal justice data, in order to produce a fuller account of what we are faced with.

Het jy met te min geld afgetree om in jou behoeftes te voorsien? Of is jou situasie so kritiek dat jou maandelikse uitgawes nie meer deur jou aftree-inkomste gedek word nie? Is jy onseker en weet nie wat jy kan doen om jou finansiële posisie te verbeter nie?

Hierdie boek bied jou wenke hoe om uit jou finansiële verknorsing te kom. Dis ’n versameling riglyne wat finansiële adviseurs wêreldwyd nuttig gevind het. Die planne word in eenvoudige taal en maklik verstaanbaar aangebied. Jy hoef nie ’n finansiële kundige te wees om hulle uit te voer nie.

Dis een verhaal, maar ook nie. Asof vanuit twee hoeke in dieselfde vertrek, vertel ma en dogter van hul worsteling nadat Henriëtte op 18 gediagnoseer is en Marga en haar man, Frans, die verdoemende woorde moes hoor: Jul kind is skisofrenies. Nou is dit 30 jaar later en Marga en Henriëtte het vrede gemaak. Met die siekte, maar ook met mekaar.

Since the publication of the first edition of A South African Renewable Energy Guide for Local Government, the costs related to non-renewable energy generation have increased exponentially, and coal-based energy systems have continued to generate large quantities of dangerous emissions. Conversely, sustainable energy generation has become more cost-effective, and in many instances renewables are now more economically viable than non-renewables. This narrowing gap in costs, coupled with an increased awareness of the environmental benefits of renewables, has greatly stimulated the sustainable energy market.

Over the last several years, metropolitan municipalities have engaged with innovative, cost-effective sustainable energy projects and solutions. Medium and smaller municipalities are beginning to understand the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders in the energy sector. They are learning how to work within the confines of the South African national, provincial and local policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks; how to embed renewables within local integrated development plans and strategies; how to utilise appropriate technologies and how to apply financing mechanisms and leverage partnerships for successful project delivery. It is critically important therefore that (particularly) small, medium and rural municipalities continue to explore, and receive capacity-building and support for, renewable and energy-efficient solutions

In line with these developments, this second edition provides useful information and solid examples of how politicians, city managers and government officials, in partnership with communities, can facilitate the adoption of renewable energy systems and technologies to achieve a more sustainable energy future for all.

Eczema is a skin condition that is characterised by inflammation and redness, leading to constant itching.

In this book you will get to know what eczema is, what causes it, how to treat and keep it under control, who gets it, and a help list.

It also includes tips and case studies.

What makes a woman kill? And how does it feel to share a cell with a murderer?

Carla van der Spuy visits four correctional facilities for females across South Africa and gets inside the heads of women who committed violent crimes. She visits the babies born behind bars, celebrates Christmas with the inmates and chats face to face with women who killed with knives, guns and the help of hit men, as well as a cleptomaniac and a prostitute. Women with blood on their hands.

What went so terribly wrong in their lives? And is there a person behind the criminal?

Outspoken columnist Gareth van Onselen boldly tackles South Africa’s holy cows, those touchy subjects we hesitate to mention by name for fear of offence or being misunderstood.

Incisive and witty, this book exposes the strange contradictions and ambiguities at the heart of South African society. Van Onselen identifies the many ways in which cultural practice or belief fly in the face of our much vaunted constitution. For instance, can lobola be reconciled with equal rights? And why are initiation rites, practiced not only by cultural groups, but also in university residences and by the Springbok rugby team, still accepted when they often lead to death or injury?

He mocks political correctness, dissects the booming business of death, superstition and witchcraft, and bemoans the growing influence of religion in politics.

Fiercely liberal and committed to constitutional values, Van Onselen will make you question accepted practices and see the absurdity of what passes for just another day in South Africa.

The perfect book for helping to prevent and manage allergies in children.

Sylvie Hurford, shows how you can delay children's exposure to allergens, allowing the body to mature enough to process the agents of incipient allergy. Informative and beautiful, this book appeals to all senses.

Yummy recipes such as Celebration cake, Carob muffins and much more will assist mothers to treat there young. Also included are chapters for sleep time and for the ill.

Paige is best known for A Million Miles From Normal, her weekly column in the Sunday Times Life & Style magazine. As one of the anchor columnists of the Life & Style section since 2011, she has produced hundreds of hilarious columns and received hundreds more hilarious responses.

Pens Behaving Badly is a collection of the best of her columns and the best of the wild letters they’ve inspired.

Racist thinking – that intelligence is influenced by racial origin, for example – was part of mainstream science a century ago and, surprisingly, is still endorsed by maerick scientists at some of the world’s most respectable institutions today. The myths being perpetuated on genetics, race, IQ and general intelligence are what Black Brain, White Brain challenges – precisely, systematically and in painstaking detail.

In this immensely readable book Evans tackles highly complex subjects, from the origin of humans and the genesis of intelligence to athletic performance and genes, IQ and cleverness, in a fluent and engaging style that makes science accessible and the facts absorbing. Persuasive, without being didactic or sermonising, and lightened by a wry sense of humour, Evans’s text weaves it all together in such a way that one is keen to follow all the threads the better to see the larger tapestry.

Carefully balancing claims, testing dodgy propositions and presenting fairly the theories of modern scientists and evolutionary psychologists, Evans shows just how uniform we are, genetically, as a species and that it’s mainly the environment we grow up and live in that’s the strong determining factor in general intelligence.

Die Glinster In My Grysheid is ‘n praktiese gids wat algemene uitdagings geassosieer met veroudering op gemaklike manier aanspreek.

Byvoorbeeld:

• Aanpassing by verandering
• Negatiwiteit
• Depressie
• Eetgewoontes
• Afname in energievlakke
• Geheueverlies
• Vrees vir val
• Kinders en kleinkinders wat verskillende prioriteite en leefstyle handaaf
• Hantering van gevoelens van waardeloosheid

Prente illustreer bewegings en tegnieke duidelik, wat dit eenvoudig en gebruikersvriendelik maak. In die boek is ‘n Mind Moves plakkaat ingesluit wat Mind Moves oefeninge bymekaar groepeer wat bogenoemde uitdagings aanspreek.

How does a middle-class Afrikaans boytjie from Springs, a rebellious product of Christelik-nasionale Opvoeding, end up in the grubby world of protest punk, slap-bang in the middle of the anti-apartheid struggle?

The '80s in South Africa were a mess, a schmangled clusterf*ck of a decade. For some, it was braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet. For others, it was a one-eyed bumbling about in a world without signage, desperately looking for the emergency exit. While the black population was becoming increasingly agitated and militant, the white dorps, towns and leafy suburbs of South Africa’s cities were mostly ignorant in their privileged bliss. Whiteys were like the frog in the cooker, not realising that the temperature was on the rise. Soon they would slowly, to their terminal surprise, turn white belly-up amid the froth of bubbles boiling from below. Soon it would be too late to get the hell out.

But in tiny pockets of white rebellion, the country was beginning to hum with resistant energy in Joburg, Cape Town and Durban. The '80s counter-culture and the music it produced was anti-establishment, anti-government, anti-apartheid, but not self-consciously so. While the state saw this strange white subculture as a hive of hedonists and drugged-up nihilists, this anarchic clutter of guitar-wielding, pill-munching, dope-smoking musicians and their followers were in fact a second front in the struggle against apartheid.

In brilliantly tragic and hilarious detail, Between Rock & A Hard Place is the epic memoir of Carsten Rasch’s role in the South African counter-culture Punk and New Wave scene in the late '70s and early '80s. Through his eyes as a musician, promoter and enthusiastic participant, it tells the story of those tumultuous and giddy times with heartfelt irreverence. Veering between lucid moments of desperate innovation and psychotic adventures on the rim of sanity, all the time riding roughshod at delirious speed over the potholes of “culture”, the reader is introduced to half-forgotten heroes, now fast disappearing into the fog of time, and the band of misfits who attempted to disrupt “the system”.

Keeping a group of campers occupied for vast periods of time is a daunting task, especially for newcomers to the outdoor education industry.

Luckily, this book is full of great ideas that will provide hours of fun and allow your group to learn essential life lessons while getting to know one another better through play.

We Are No Longer At Ease is a collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the student-led protest movement known as #FeesMustFall which began in 2015. It tells the journey of a youth that participated in a movement that redefined politics in post-apartheid South Africa and is the evidence of a “born free” generation telling their own story and leading discourse as well as action on transforming South Africa.

The collection includes works by the young student leaders turned academic and public commentators such as David Maimela, Thapelo Tselapedi and Sisonke Msimang; student newspaper journalists that were covering the protests like Natasha Ndlebe; public writing commentators with aims to inform and teach the broader South African society about the aspects of the movement like Yamkela Spengane and Rofhiwa Maneta; lecturers who were assisting the students articulate and find clarity in the way they shaped and voiced their ideas such as Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and then of course others were foot soldiers on the ground leading students through the police brutality of rubber bullets and pepper spray like Loverlyn Nwandeyi, Ntokozo Qwabe and Ramabina Mahapa.

"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.

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.