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When writer Harriet Perlman and photographer Mark Lewis set about documenting the lives of the families whose loved ones had been so horribly killed in the Life Esidemi tragedy, they were determined to honour the dead, and to recognise the sufferings of those left behind. They embarked on a journey across South Africa, meeting face-to-face with families grappling with the unimaginable loss of loved ones. Their heartbreaking stories, accompanied by powerful photographs, forge a deep connection with the victims. These portraits are not just faces on a page, but a testament to the human cost of this tragedy.
In late 2015 and 2016, South Africa witnessed a horrific human rights tragedy. 144 people entrusted to the public health system died from neglect, starvation, and torture. This book delves into this heartbreaking event, the Life Esidimeni tragedy, offering a powerful narrative built on the stories of those most affected.
The investigation goes beyond the headlines, exposing the systemic failures that led to this national crisis. It explores the vast distances families were forced to travel in search of their loved ones, many living on the periphery with limited resources. This unflinching book sheds light on the social and economic factors that contributed to the Life Esidimeni disaster.
This book is not merely a chronicle of loss; it is a celebration of resilience and courage. It shines a light on the tireless efforts of organisations like SECTION27, SADAG, and the Life Esidimeni Family Committee. These unsung heroes fought relentlessly for truth, justice and accountability, holding those in power responsible for their actions.
These are the memoirs of a magician, psychic consultant, hypnotist
and trick card salesman who has operated in different countries and
experienced all sorts of mischief and adventures. Mark Lewis is an
experienced, professional entertainer, having been a performer for
over 40 years. He has worked in the U.K., Holland, Germany Ireland,
the USA and Canada. While working in Ireland he virtually became a
household name as a psychic, with masses of media publicity. He is
recognised as one of the top sleight-of-hand magicians in the
world. If you think that biographies and memoirs are dull, boring
and stuffy, this book will change your mind. The author is a
magician but you ll find no tricks here instead, you ll find a
delightful, sometimes touching, and often hilarious account of the
life of a professional entertainer. Mark Lewis is a close-up and
cabaret magician, a children s performer, a pitchman, a psychic and
a hypnotist and now, a writer. In this wonderfully engaging memoir,
you will follow him from his early beginnings in posh London
nightclubs to selling trick decks of cards in Blackpool, England,
from being the most famous psychic in Dublin to becoming a
hypnotist in Toronto, from performing for drunks to performing for
royalty, and much, much more. Along the way, you will find a cast
of colourful and often remarkable people, none more so than the
author himself.
Two 1979 high school senior boys prepare and embark for the typical
Florida spring break when things do not go as planned. They do
reach a destination, however it is not what they had expected.
Hold on, and enjoy an amazing journey through the eyes of Mark and
Gary as they struggle to find their way through a strange land.
This is a critical analysis of the reasons underlying the emergence
of the Asia Pacific as an economic superpower and the need for
judicious evaluation of the likely shape and character of the
region's future development. The aim of this collection is to
illuminate key areas of debate concerning the People's Republic of
China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - here collectively referred to as
Greater China - in the belief that the destiny of the Pacific Rim
as a whole will be decisively influenced by eonomic and political
developments in this particular region.
This book, first published in 1996, focuses on the possible (but
problematic) emergence of a so-called 'Greater China' encompassing
mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the economic reforms,
inward investment, spatial disparities, and changes to business
culture that would ensue. The similarities, differences,
underpinnings, results and prospects for the future of Greater
China are analysed in close detail in the chapters collected here.
This book, first published in 1996, focuses on the possible (but
problematic) emergence of a so-called 'Greater China' encompassing
mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the economic reforms,
inward investment, spatial disparities, and changes to business
culture that would ensue. The similarities, differences,
underpinnings, results and prospects for the future of Greater
China are analysed in close detail in the chapters collected here.
The Birth of the New Justice is a history of the attempts to
instate ad hoc and permanent international criminal courts and new
international criminal laws from the end of World War I to the
beginning of the Cold War. The purpose of these courts was to
repress aggressive war, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide. Rather
than arguing that these legal projects were attempts by state
governments to project a "liberal legalism" and create an
international state system that limited sovereignty, Mark Lewis
shows that European jurists in a variety of transnational
organizations derived their motives from a range of ideological
motives - liberal, conservative, utopian, humanitarian,
nationalist, and particularist. European jurists at the Paris Peace
Conference in 1919 created a controversial new philosophy of
prosecution and punishment, and during the following decades,
jurists in different organizations, including the International Law
Association, International Association for Criminal Law, the World
Jewish Congress, and the International Committee of the Red Cross,
transformed the ideas of the legitimacy of post-war trials and the
concept of international crime to deal with myriad social and
political problems. The concept of an international criminal court
was never static, and the idea that national tribunals would form
an integral part of an international system to enforce new laws was
frequently advanced as a pragmatic-and politically
convenient-solution. The Birth of the New Justice shows that legal
organizations were not merely interested in ensuring that the
guilty were punished or that international peace was assured. They
hoped to instil particular moral values, represent the interests of
certain social groups, and even pursue national agendas. At the
same time, their projects to define new types of crimes and ensure
that old ones were truly punished also sprang from hopes that a new
international political and moral order would check the power of
the sovereign nation-state. When jurists had to scale back their
projects, it was not only because state governments opposed them;
it was also because they lacked political connections, did not
build public support for their ideas, or decided that compromises
were better than nothing.
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, the official journal of the
Society for Mathematical Biology, disseminates original research
findings and other information relevant to the interface of biology
and the mathematical sciences. Contributions should have relevance
to both fields. In order to accommodate the broad scope of new
developments, the journal accepts a variety of contributions,
including: Original research articles focused on new biological
insights gained with the help of tools from the mathematical
sciences or new mathematical tools and methods with demonstrated
applicability to biological investigations Research in mathematical
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The Colour of Wine isn’t just another book about picturesque Cape vineyards. Instead, it tells the remarkable story of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy through the personal journeys of black winemakers. Woven through their stories are interviews with wine producers and politicians, chefs and sommeliers, connoisseurs and teachers, drinkers and tasters.
The book, twinned with the documentary film The Colour of Wine (included on DVD), explores the turbulent history of winemaking in South Africa, and the varied careers the industry has to offer. Wine doyen John Platter offers insights into where South African wine is now, and where the industry needs to go. You’ll also discover a rich array of local recipes that complement South African wines.
The Colour of Wine gives a taste of the changing world of South African wine.
A single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city
Johannesburg uncovers layers of history-from its premise and
promise of gold to its current improvisations. It reveals the city
as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes
spearhead its rapid reshaping and transformation. In Wake Up, This
Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a
stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of
the city's ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents. Their photos
and essays take readers into meat markets where butchers chop cow
heads; the eclectic home of an outsider artist that features
turrets and full of manikins; long-abandoned gold pits beneath the
city, where people continue to mine informally; and lively markets,
taxi depots, and residential high-rises. Sharing people's private
and work lives and the extraordinary spaces of the metropolis, Zack
and Lewis show that Johannesburg's urban transformation occurs not
in a series of dramatic, wide-scale changes but in the everyday
lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.
An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human
Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants
and mimicry. Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask)
combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of
deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of
March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty
restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat,
emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial
glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the
monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's
no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility
that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and
mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's
recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might
survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with
extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the
present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily
could not include it.
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