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Suid-Afrika is groot genoeg vir ’n leeftyd se reise. In Voetspore in Suid-Afrika 2 kry die Voetsporespan weer die geleentheid om ons land se natuurskoon en gasvryheid te beleef. Hulle drie maande lange reis begin in Pafuri, in die noordoostelike hoek van Suid-Afrika. Van daar af is dit verby Klaserie, Dullstroom, die Waterberge, die suid-Vrystaat, die Groot-Karoo, die Sederberge, die Weskus, oor die Hottentots-Hollandberge en tot aan die suidpunt van Suid-Afrika: Agulhas. Vrystaatse vlaktes, grootste Drakensberge, Bosveld, Kaapse strande – noem maar op – daar is ’n oorvloed om te geniet. Die langpad in Suid-Afrika roep … Benewens pragtige foto’s van die mooiste dele van ons land bevat hierdie reisgids ook:
Die verteller en haar man, Liefie, besluit om digby aftrede hulle lewe in die stad agter te laat en ’n plaas naby Greyton te koop. Hulle word verlei deur die blou berge en plattelandse idille. Wanneer hulle eers daar woon, word hulle egter ontnugter deur die werklikheid van die plaaslewe. Daar is ’n prys te betaal vir die mooi prentjies waarna gehunker word. Gif wat blom, plant, vrug en dier perfek vir die mark laat gedy sodat die landskap sag op die oog val, terwyl die versweë giwwe in die samelewing ook uitgespit word. Die alewige wind en vragmotors wat stof na die huis toe laat waai, teister hulle en stof word amper ’n soort hoofkarakter in die verhaal. Liefie sukkel om die boerdery winsgewend te maak, terwyl die verteller tevergeefs met die bouers stoei om die plaashuis in haar droomhuis te omskep (en tevergeefs skoonmaak aan die stof!). Die skrywer het ’n uitstekende waarnemingsvermoë en die beskrywing van die swaarkry en gesukkel op die plaas word verweef met ’n fyn sin vir humor. Die leser word ingetrek in die wêreld van die verteller, Liefie en hulle hond, Saar – asook hulle bure en die plaaswerkers.
Liefdesles is die derde en laaste boek in Vita se trilogie. Klaskamer en Skoolgeld was die eerste twee. Daniël en Emma se verhouding is steeds ingewikkeld: Daniël probeer sy vervreemde vrou, Sally, oorreed om die egskeiding toe te staan en Emma sukkel om vir Daniël te vertel dat sy swanger is. Sal Daniël haar steeds na sy klaskamer neem? Is BDSM veilig tydens swangerskap? Sal Daniël kan vrede maak met die verlede en sy verhouding as jong seun met die onderwyseres, die verhouding wat sy seksvoorkeure bepaal het, sien vir wat dit was? Vir Daniël en Emma kom die liefde uiteindelik met baie lesse.
Sophia het weer een van die episodes gehad waar sy eenvoudig wegraak.
Asof sy in die put is waarin sy as kind met haar troetelkuiken,
Rebecca, geval het. Swart. Niks.
New edition of the late Stephen Ellis' meticulously researched book that penetrates the secrecy of the ANC in exile for the first time. After the ANC was banned by the apartheid government in 1960, many of its leaders and members were forced to leave the country. During the next three decades, it had to operate in exile and underground. Yet the real history of this period remains shrouded in mystery. Some events, such as the Rhodesian campaign of 1967–1968 and the Kabwe conference of 1985, are well known, but lesser known are the intense factional struggles within the organisation, recurring pro-democracy protests and the creation of a security apparatus that inspired widespread fear. Some networks within the exiled ANC became heavily involved in corruption, even colluding with elements of the apartheid security police and secret services. External Mission aims to provide a full account of the ANC’s years in exile, penetrating the secrecy the organisation erected around itself and testing the myths that emerged from that period. It is based on an exceptionally wide range of sources, including the ANC’s own archives and foreign archives such as those in East Germany, where the movement’s security personnel were trained. Incisive and revealing, External Mission is key to understanding South Africa today.
The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond. Out of print for over three decades, this edition with an introduction by Max du Preez is available for a new generation. Formed in Johannesburg in 1918 by a group of young Afrikaners disillusioned by their role as dispossessed people in their own country, the first triumph of this remarkable organisation was the fact that it was largely responsible for welding together dissident factions within Afrikanerdom and thereby ensuring the accession of the National Party to power in 1948. This highly organised clique of Super-Afrikaners, by sophisticated political intrigue, waged a remarkable campaign to harness political, social and economic forces in South Africa to its cause … and succeeded. Political journalists Hans Strydom and Ivor Wilkins traced, at great personal risk, its development from the earliest days to the present. The book includes the most comprehensive list of Broeders ever published.
Few people have courted as much controversy or evoked such strong and divergent emotions as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Adored by some, abhorred by others, she bears a name famous throughout the world, yet not many people know the woman behind the headlines, myths and controversies, or the details of the fascinating story that is her life. This biography reveals the enigma that is Winnie Mandela, by exploring both her personal and political life. The reader is given a rare glimpse into Winnie's strict yet happy rural upbringing, where the foundations were laid for her faith, compassion and indomitable resolve. As a young social worker in 1950s Johannesburg, her beauty, style and character captivated the political activist and Tembu prince, Nelson Mandela. Together, they personified the rising aspirations and political awakening of their people, and, in so doing, inspired a nation. Through her fierce determination and dauntless courage, she survived her husband's imprisonment, continuous harassment by the security police, banishment to a small Free State town, betrayal by friends and allies, and more than a year in solitary confinement – all the while keeping the struggle flame alight and the name of Nelson Mandela alive. A sensitive and balanced portrayal, the title nevertheless thoroughly investigates and honestly examines the controversies that have dogged Winnie Mandela in recent years - the allegations of kidnapping and murder, her divorce from Mandela, and the current charges of fraud.
Voetspore op die ewenaar vertel van Johan Badenhorst en sy Voetsporespan se agtste reis deur Afrika. Hierdie keer pak hulle 'n reis op die ewenaar aan: 'n reis wat begin in Kenia, kronkel deur Uganda en eindig in die Demokratiese Republiek van die Kongo. Soos gewoonlik het die Voetsporemanne geen tekort aan avontuur, en hierdie keer selfs aan gevaar, nie. Hulle ontmoet president Barack Obama se ouma in Kenia, klim 'n deel van die Ruwenzoriberge in Uganda, bring 'n dag by die pigmee by Epulu in die DRK deur en sluit die reis af met 'n onvergeetlike bootvaart op die Kongorivier.
This book provides a detailed review of millimeter-wave power amplifiers, discussing design issues and performance limitations commonly encountered in light of the latest research. Power amplifiers, which are able to provide high levels of output power and linearity while being easily integrated with surrounding circuitry, are a crucial component in wireless microwave systems. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which introduces readers to mm-wave wireless systems and power amplifiers. In turn, the second focuses on design principles and EDA concepts, while the third discusses future trends in power amplifier research. The book provides essential information on mm-wave power amplifier theory, as well as the implementation options and technologies involved in their effective design, equipping researchers, circuit designers and practicing engineers to design, model, analyze, test and implement high-performance, spectrally clean and energy-efficient mm-wave systems.
This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and place and ultimately contributing to the debates about being human in the digital age. The upward and downward pull seem in a constant contest for humanity's attention. Both forces are powerful in the effects and affects they invoke. When tracing this iconological history, Amanda du Preez starts in the early nineteenth century, moving into the twentieth century and then spanning the whole century up to contemporary twenty-first century screen culture and space travels. Du Preez parses the intersecting pathways between Heaven and Earth, up and down, flying and falling through the concept of being "spaced out". The idea of being "spaced out" is applied as a metaphor to trace the visual history of sublime encounters that displace Earth, gravity, locality, belonging, home, real life, and embodiment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, media and cultural studies, phenomenology, digital culture, mobility studies, and urban studies.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari. At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier. Long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had also been a mother. This is the amazing tale of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century. In an extraordinary life, she crossed paths with the British Empire's great and good, royalty and rebels, soldiers and slaves. A medical pioneer, she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy, but for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.
Hierdie opwindende reeks vir eerste addisionele taal-leerders van Afrikaans is volledig herwerk om te voldoen aan die hersiene kurrikulumverklaring en bevat 'n verskeidenheid interaktiewe materiaal om leerders te boei. Die aktiwiteite in Kaperjol Graad 7 leerdersboek is rondom woordspeletjies, aksieliedjies, rympies, strokies en ander interessante brokkies gebou om te verseker dat die leerders nooit 'n vervelige oomblik in die klas beleef nie. So word die ses leeruitkomste vir die leerarea tale (Luister, praat, lees en kyk, skryf, dink en redeneer, en taalstruktuur en -gebruik) op 'n geintergreerde wyse ontwikkel. In hierdie uitgawe is meer aandag aan Leeruitkoms 6 (Taalstruktuur en -gebruik), met 'n deeglike uiteensetting van taalreels en -konstruksies agter in die boek. Kleurvolle en humorisities voorstellings verseker nie net dat visuele geletterheid aangemoedig word nie, maar bevorder ook kritiese denke en redeneervaardighede op 'n prettige wyse. Die Kaperjol Graad 7 leerderboek bied 'n prettige aanslag tot leer wat op 'n natuurlike wyse met ander leerareas integreer. Verder bied dit leerders ook die geleentheid om hulself te assesseer en om die doelstellings van uitkomsgebaseerde onderwys te verwesenlik. In die onderwysersgids is daar inligting oor die hersiene nasionale kurrikulumverklaring, assesseringsriglyne en -blaaie om te verseker dat alle leeruitkomste en assesseringstandaarde van die leerarea tale verwesenlik word, uitbreidings- en remedieringsaktiwiteit en riglyne oor hoe om taalverwerwing binne die kommunikatiewe benadering te verseker.
Frogs & Frogging in South Africa offers amateur froggers an accessible and practical introduction to frog identification. This edition of the highly popular guide has been expertly revised and fully updated to reflect the latest advances in taxonomy and nomenclature. It offers: all of the species in Africa south of latitude 22 °S; a section on frog biology and behaviour; how to photograph frogs and record their calls; how to attract frogs to your garden, and ideas for projects such as building a pond; the range of frog species to be found in different environmental niches; maps and colourful photographs with the updated accounts; a new key to the identification of tadpole genera; a CD with all 115 frog calls, which offer one of the best ways to find.
This book comprehensively reviews the state of the art in millimeter-wave antennas, traces important recent developments and provides information on a wide range of antenna configurations and applications. While fundamental theoretical aspects are discussed whenever necessary, the book primarily focuses on design principles and concepts, manufacture, measurement techniques, and practical results. Each of the various antenna types scalable to millimeter-wave dimensions is considered individually, with coverage of leaky-wave and surface-wave antennas, printed antennas, integrated antennas, and reflector and lens systems. The final two chapters address the subject from a systems perspective, providing an overview of supporting circuitry and examining in detail diverse millimeter-wave applications, including high-speed wireless communications, radio astronomy, and radar. The vast amount of information now available on millimeter-wave systems can be daunting for researchers and designers entering the field. This book offers readers essential guidance, helping them to gain a thorough understanding based on the most recent research findings and serving as a sound basis for informed decision-making.
Frogs of Southern Africa: A Complete Guide remains the most authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the frogs of the region ever produced, covering all aspects of frog and tadpole biology and behaviour. This new edition (with a slight name change) has been thoroughly updated to reflect taxonomic changes based on the most recent research and DNA studies, and includes 12 new species and more than 130 new images. All 169 southern African frog species, and their tadpole stages, are fully described, along with their conservation status, calls, habitat and habits. Identification is made easy with the aid of over 1000 large, full-colour images, keys to species and summary panels on ‘Key ID points’ and ‘Distinctive characters’. Calls for most species can be accessed instantly via QR codes in the book or downloaded from a dedicated website. Spectrograms of the calls are also included in the book. Written by respected authorities in the field, this timely updated edition will be of benefit to all nature lovers, amateur ‘froggers’, students and professional scientists.
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