In September 2008, Thabo Mbeki was ‘recalled’ as president of South Africa, seven months before his term was due to end. This book takes stock of Mbeki’s presidency, by focusing on a simple question: how has South Africa prospered or weakened under his stewardship? The Mbeki Legacy considers how Mbe ...
For more than a decade, Jacques Pauw has traversed his native continent in pursuit of warlords and drug traffickers, child soldiers and charlatans, adventure and anarchy. What he found was a rich array of personalities and a panoply of stories, ranging from the profoundly tragic to the intensely per ...
Max du Preez het ‘n helse storie om te vertel. Tydens sy loopbaan as ‘n hardegat-joernalis is hy drie keer afgedank; sewe keer weens laster gedagvaar; dertien keer krimineel aangekla en het hy drie vliegtuigongelukke, twee sluipmoordpogings en ‘n bomaanval oorleef. Hy was in Soweto op 16 Junie 1976, ...
Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he’s survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two assassination attempts and was a regular on right-wing hit lists. He was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, w ...
Kate Jowell was the director of the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business – the first woman to hold such office in South Africa – when, at the age of 59, she was diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s disease. Attractive, glamorous and hard-working, she had, up till then, been a brilliant ...
Bloody crimes of passion, political assassinations, sinister poisonings, investment fraud and mass mining disasters … Dr David Klatzow has seen it all. During his extraordinary twenty-six-year career as South Africa’s foremost independent forensic scientist, he has investigated countless high-profil ...
Moenie verwag dat hierdie stories enigsins gaan wees soos die geskiedenis wat jy op skool of universiteit geleer het nie. Max du Preez sit die mense, die karakters, terug in die geskiedenis. Oor krygers, korrelkoppe en konkelaars bevat ‘n keur van die verhale uit die uiters gewilde Of Warriors, Love ...
Boer Boy is the touching true story of a ten-year- old farm boy’s traumatic but fascinating experiences during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. When Charles du Preez and his father were discovered hiding in the mountains of their eastern Free State farm, they were taken prisoner by the English and t ...
Boerseun is die hartroerende ware verhaal van ‘n tienjarige plaasseun se traumatiese maar fassinerende ervaringe gedurende die Anglo- Boereoorlog van 1899-1902. Wanneer die Engelse Charles du Preez en sy pa in hul skuilplek in die berge op hul Oos-Vrystaatse plaas opspoor, word die twee gevange gene ...
As countries come to terms with the global financial crisis their citizens become more assertive in many parts of the world. Challenges to conventional wisdom on economic governance are accompanied by the popular rejection of archaic systems of state government. At the global level new economic and ...
