13-year-old Leo Jantjies loves playing Theatre of Gods and Heroes (TOGAH). He’d play all day and night if he could – if it weren’t for nuisances like school and chores.

When a clip of Leo playing TOGAH goes viral, he doesn’t expect to get a call from a pro team wanting to recruit him for the Esports World Championship in Paris.

But soon Leo, his best friend Fiks, and his sister Lauren jet off to Europe for an adventure none of them thought was possible.

Marli Botes het op skool haar hart op Wickus verloor, maar hy het haar skaars raakgesien. Ná dertig jaar loop hulle mekaar weer raak toe sy hom kontrakteer om haar huis te restoureer en sy besef gou haar hart het hom nie vergeet nie.

Hy is nou alleenloperpa van 'n matriekdogter en sy 'n weduwee wat met moeite drie kinders alleen grootgemaak het. Haar buurvrou terg haar en voorspel dat sy voor Kersfees 'n bruid gaan wees. Die geskiedenis herhaal homself sowaar toe sy dogter verlief raak op haar seun wat haar in dieselfde lig as sy jonger sussie beskou. Intussen veg beide Wickus en Marli hard teen die ontwikkelende gevoelens tussen hulle.

Hoekom het die noodlot hulle weer saamgegooi? Is dit moontlik dat Wickus hierdie keer haar liefde sal beantwoord? Kan hulle 'n verhouding laat werk?

Van ’n teddiebeer wat lewend word, tot ’n snotmonster wat ’n koshuis terroriseer en ’n spookmeisie wat in die middel van die nag in jou oor fluister. Hierdie bundel bevat 11 naelkou-lekker kortverhale deur twee skrywers wat presiés weet hoe om al die hare op jou kop regop te laat staan.

Die laaste storie is boonop ekstra spannend en onvoorspelbaar, aangesien dit as ’n aflosverhaal geskryf is – een hoofstuk elk, afwisselend deur hierdie twee grilverhaal-meesters.

Mindie Rochebrandt en haar tweelingsuster, Mandelien, is beide swanger met hul eersteling. Ná ’n onsmaaklike insident tydens Mindie se ooievaarstee besluit sy egter om haar advokaatman, Marius, te verlaat sodra sy geboorte geskenk het.

Maar enkele dae later kom Mindie af op ’n gruwelike toneel in Mandelien se meenthuis. Wie verniel ’n swanger vrou en haar ongebore baba so wreedaardig? En hoekom?

Siembamba is ’n naelbyt-riller. Angswekkend, aksiebelaaid en propvol onvoorspelbare intriges.

The Madikwe Game Reserve, situated against the Botswana border, just three hours' drive from both Johannesburg and Pretoria, is one of South Africa's prime safari destinations and its fifth biggest game reserve. Madikwe is a Big Five game reserve covering some 75,000 hectares. The rich diversity of vegetation ensures a wide range of game, and the topography offers ideal game viewing opportunities for wilderness safaris. Madikwe is also one of the few places where you can see the Brown Hyena and the Aardwolf, making it extra special.

The perfect companion to any foray into the savannah, Madikwe Game Drive includes not only beautiful photographs of a wide array of birds, mammals and reptiles, but informative text which is both extremely compact and highly comprehensive.

All statistics that could conceivably help a viewer to identify, catalogue and learn about each animal are provided in concise and clear format. The Latin and colloquial names for each animal are included, along with the Afrikaans, French, German and Zulu names. The listings are given ratings for rarity of sightings, and each animal a tick box for viewers to mark upon sighting.

Are you tired of feeling stuck and unsure in your love life? Have you been searching for answers on how to improve your relationship but haven’t found anything that works?

Whether you’re struggling with attracting the wrong partners, feeling unsure about investing more in your current relationship, or simply seeking to strengthen your connection with your partner, “Uncomplicated Love” is the definitive resource to help you move forward with confidence.

This book is your ultimate guide to navigating the complex landscape of love and building a thriving partnership with your significant other.

Leon and his twin Norman were born in August 1929, the youngest of four children born to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. His father died when Leon was six; to heroic degree, his mother carried the family – financially, practically and emotionally – in her widowhood. Leon was an intensely bookish boy but left school aged sixteen to help makes ends meet through a series of jobs. Deeply affected by the events of the Second World War and the Holocaust, Leon was radicalised in the Hashomer Hatza’ir, a left-wing Zionist youth movement. He was seventeen when he joined the Communist Party and became a committed young activist.

In 1953, at the age of twenty-four, Leon became a full-time trade unionist. ‘It was a defining moment in my life story,’ he writes. ‘It gave practical form to my political beliefs; it also determined the shape and scope of my life. It transpired that I would spend the next six decades and more working in trade unions, industrial relations and mediation.’

A comrade in the trade union movement nicknamed Leon, TsabaTsaba – which means “here, there and everywhere”. Anyone who reads Leon’s account of his years as a full-time unionist will agree that the soubriquet was well earned. (Alongside trade union work, Leon was also committed to the remarkable Discussion Club, which he co-founded and ran throughout the 1950s; he was also secretary of the South African Peace Council from 1951 to 1961.) In the mid-1950s, he was part of a small group of progressive trade unionists who pushed for the formation of the first non-racial trade union federation in South Africa. These aspirations were realised in March 1955 with the launch of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). Later that year Leon was elected president and remained in that position for nine years. SACTU linked day-to-day concerns of workers with support for national liberation and the abolition of apartheid and was one of the five organisations which formed the Congress Alliance. As SACTU leader, Leon served on the committee that directed the activities of the Alliance; he was present at Kliptown when the Freedom Charter was adopted – and as SACTU president was one of the five original signatories of the Freedom Charter.

Political activism of this order came at a high price. Leon Levy was served with banning orders and arrested several times; he was Accused No 4 of the 156 people arrested and charged with treason, and from November 1958 was one of the final 30 (and with Helen Joseph one of only two whites) who faced charges until the trial was finally dismissed in March 1961. He was detained for five months during the 1960 State of Emergency. In May 1963 he was the first person to be detained under the notorious General Laws Amendment Act, known as the 90-day Act. Unable to continue his work he chose to go into exile in the United Kingdom. There, he studied politics, economics and industrial relations at Oxford – and then applied what he had learned in a series of positions in industrial relations. After 1994, he was determined to make the skills and knowledge that he had acquired available to a democratic South Africa – and he and his wife Lorna returned to the country of their birth in 1997. In a remarkable final phase of his career, Leon took office shortly after his 70th birthday as a full-time commissioner for the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration – and spent the next 19 years in this capacity.

Jan Braai Junior is ’n boek vir die volgende geslag braaiers in Suid-Afrika. Gevul met Jan Braai se heel beste braairesepte en vereenvoudig deur maklik-om-te-volg, stap-vir-stap instruksies, kan kinders en die hele gesin Jan Braai Junior geniet. Hierdie gebruikersvriendelike boek dek al die grondliggende braaikennis wat elke Suid-Afrikaner behoort te hê, met basiese toerusting en bekostigbare bestanddele. En met Jan Braai se wenke en raad sal Jan Braai Junior jou die eerste treë laat gee om die res van jou lewe soos ’n kampioen te braai!

“Let us, then, set off together on a series of journeys around South Africa with an old kitbag full of books instead of maps to guide us. Let us follow meandering paths through the landscapes of literature, and celebrate how local authors, characters and readers are shaped and inspired by place …”

In this gripping travelogue, Justin Fox goes on a one-of-a-kind journey. Marrying his love for travel and writing, he sets off to explore the places of his favourite books. From the mountainous eastern Karoo of Olive Schreiner to the big-game lowveld of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, from Deneys Reitz’s wide-open Cape interior to the bushveld of Eugène Marais’s Waterberg, Fox reveals the majestic power of place. Through the savannah of Herman Charles Bosman’s Marico, the dusty plains of JM Coetzee’s Moordenaars Karoo, the forests of Dalene Matthee’s Garden Route, the subtropical hamlets of Zakes Mda’s Wild Coast, and finally the sandstone crags of Stephen Watson’s Cederberg, he brings to life the settings we’ve only seen through characters’ eyes.

Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature and landscape, and taking the reader on a breath-taking journey – into the heart of South Africa’s spectacular landscape and the inner-worlds of its most celebrated authors.

Legendary South African dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma’s childhood was marked by a deep connection to the rhythms of his hometown, Soweto. From a young age, he showed a passion for dance and music, playing the big drum in the community marching band and starting his own group before winning a place in a dance company – against his father‘s wishes.

Maqoma’s upbringing in the 1980s, a politically charged era, nurtured his desire to use his art for good. He has always had a profound respect for his cultural heritage, a commitment to social justice and an unwavering belief in the power of the arts to transform, to heal and to rebuild. Gregory never allowed his challenges to define his experience. His journey from Soweto to the global stage reveals his courage, creativity and determined spirit.

Maqoma has written a dazzling memoir, which encourages everyone to embrace their passions, overcome obstacles and believe in the strength of their dreams. It is a testament to the great heights you can reach when you dance to the rhythm of your own soul!

Load-shedding sucks! You know it. We know it. The whole country knows it. It’s also no secret that it’s here to stay for the foreseeable future. Is it annoying, frustrating and downright infuriating? Yes, no question about it.

However, every blackout is a fire begging to be built, a juicy chop ready to be turned and a family braai just waiting to happen. With a little planning, some clever thinking and 40 great recipes – quick and easy, plan ahead and weekend winners – load-shedding can go from the worst part of your day to the best.

Follow more recipes to become the king of condiments and the sultan of sauces, then power up your pantry with a store-bought collection of spices, smears, sauces and jazzer-uppers.

Put your money where your braaibroodjie goes and join the Beer Country duo as they dive into their best braai recipes for the Eishkom disaster. Welcome to the braaight side of load-shedding life!

Building on the success of her previous books, in Good + Simple, Sarah Graham continues to celebrate an abundance of vegetables and natural, whole foods in the same simple and accessible style her loyal army of followers have come to know and love.

Good + Simple is the result of learning how to live, cook and eat through a global health pandemic. For Sarah, this meant adapting to a changing daily routine, and becoming more flexible in her approach to cooking and eating. Naturally, she ended up reworking a lot of family favourites to be as fast and easy as possible, and to take up minimal time and energy.

Good + Simple offers a collection of wholesome and delicious recipes for the whole family, specifically designed to be easy to achieve with simple ingredients. Covering a variety of dietary preferences and needs, simple substitutions for the occasional meat-eater, and including five-ingredient and one-pot dishes, the book makes cooking and meal planning easy, enjoyable and memorable.

Nostalgie is Herman Lensing se sewende kookboek en volg op die uiters suksesvolle Huiskos/Home Cooking in 2021, wat vir ’n Gourmand-toekenning benoem is, en Dit Proe Soos Huis (Human & Rousseau), wat in 2019 verskyn het.

Herman se laaste boek in die trilogie vertel – in sy eie woorde – die storie van sy lewe tot op 36 jaar. Die eerste proe of geur van kos laat jou terugdink en verlang – dit bring Nostalgie. En om met kos ’n oorgang van die verlede na die hede te bring is vir Herman belangrik. Nostalgie is nes jy Herman se kombuis ken: Hy gebruik kos om mense te laat onthou en te verenig.

Nostalgie bevat meer as 80 resepte, van bykos tot hoofgeregte; van brood tot kos uit jou yskas; van kos van die kole af tot vleisgeregte, en van vakansiekoekies tot nageregte. Elke hoofstuk weerspieël Herman se liefde vir kos en vir mense, met staaltjies waarin jy jou kan verkneukel.

Wie is die beste Springbok van die moderne era?

Hoe kies jy tussen Bakkies Botha en Eben Etzebeth? Was Jaque Fourie of Lukhanyo Am die beste buitesenter? Moet Os du Randt of Beast Mtawarira jou skrum anker? Sou Juan Smith vir Pieter-Steph du Toit disnis duik? Soek jy Joost van der Westhuizen se skeppende spel, of Fourie du Preez se berekende skopvoet?

Hierdie vrae, en soveel meer word deur ’n gesaghebbende paneel van voormalige Bok-afrigters soos Carel du Plessis, Nick Mallett, Jake White en Peter de Villiers, asook van die land se top rugbyskrywers, in die Rapport 30 beste Bokke beantwoord. Die tydperk het ingesluit drie Wêreldbekers en Drienasies-titels, een Rugbykampioenskap-titel, ’n destydse wêreldrekord van 17 agtereenvolgende wedstryde sonder ’n nederlaag, en twee reeksseges oor die Britse en Ierse Leeus.

Dié boek stel ons voor aan die 30 beste Bokke. Dit bevat ook onderhoude, statistiek, foto’s en staaltjies uit die kleedkamer. Onmisbaar vir elke rugby-liefhebber.

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.

Dawid skryf in Psalm 119:103, “Hoe aangenaam is U Woord, soeter as heuning in die mond.” Soos wat ’n vars byekorf nog uitgepers moet word om egte, onverwerkte heuning voort te bring, so help Soeter as heuning jou om Bybelse waarhede te ontdek en selfs te herontdek, soos jy diep oor elkeen nadink en dit in jou lewe toepas.

Deur God se Woord sorgvuldig in te neem, ontdek Dawid die diepte van God se liefde en vergifnis. Hy ervaar innerlike genesing en lewensvreugde wat net God in sy lewe kon bring.

Soeter As Heuning kan jou help om ook so ’n ervaring soos Dawid te hê.

When the Springboks smashed the British and Irish Lions in Cape Town in 2021 to celebrate their emergence from Covid-19 lockdown, it was exactly 130 years since they had played their first match, also against the British Lions.

There has never been a dull moment in between as the Boks have taken South Africans on a roller coaster ride of success and setback but, more importantly, there has always been rich entertainment. Springbok history boasts a treasure trove of tales about colourful characters and riveting dramas and seasoned rugby scribe Mike Greenaway has brought a host of them back to life in his meticulously researched book.

The tales in this collection begin in the 1890s and cover every era of Springbok history right up to the present day. The Fireside Springbok is a hardcover coffee table book. Richly illustrated, there are cartoons by the much-loved Dr Jack while rare black-and-white photographs capture the mood of the historical chapters and award-winning photographers supplement the modern inclusions.

This book is a collection of heart-warming stories that will bring a smile to a reader who is perhaps ensconced in an easy chair, maybe next to a glowing fire and enjoying a favorite tipple.

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.

Vir sjef Tiaan Langenegger was dit sedert sy kinderjare ’n droom om sy eie kookboek te hê. Vandat hy op dertienjarige ouderdom Jamie Oliver se eerste kookboek, The Naked Chef, gesien het, het hy geweet dit is wat hy ook wil doen – hy wil met kos werk en ’n “seleb” wees – dis nou voordat hy besef het wat laasgenoemde regtig behels!

Na aanleiding van Tiaan se kookprogramme Tiaan onthou, Tiaan kook en Tiaan proe op kykNET en Showmax het hy baie navrae van kykers gekry oor waar hulle die resepte kan kry, en só is die idee vir sy eie kookboek gebore.

Dit is geïnspireer deur sy ma en ouma se kos, en dis baie anders as wat hy jare gelede gedink het dit sou wees: Dit is meer “back to basics”. Hy deel ook resepte wat hy deur die jare geleer maak het waar hy in verskillende bekende restaurante gewerk het, waaronder Le Quartier Français op Franschhoek en Overture op Stellenbosch.