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Flame in the Snow by Brink, Andre and Jonker, Ingrid
R350.00The love affair between Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker and Andre Brink, two pivotal South African authors, was recorded in a series of letters to each other, which Brink kept in his study. Just three months before his death, in February 2015, he released the letters for publication. Jonker’s last letter is dated April 1965 and three months later she drowned herself in Three Anchor Bay. Poignant and powerful, this is arguably one of this season’s most exciting releases.
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Mr Bitcoin : How I became a millionaire at 21 – Mpho Dagada
R195.00Mr Bitcoin: How I became a millionaire at 21, shares his story of triumph and failure. He tells his story from the beginning: being brought up by business-minded and accomplished grandparents who planted in him the seeds of what it means to be successful in business.
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The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme – Ngqulunga Bongani
R280.00Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 – Alan Paton Award Winner
It is well known that the African National Congress was formed in 1912 and is considered the oldest political organisation on the African continent. What is often not widely known is that the person who founded it was one Pixley ka Isaka Seme, a thirty-year-old black South African from Inanda outside the city of Durban. What is remarkable about Seme’s achievement in founding the ANC is not only that he succeeded where most had failed at forging black political unity.
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Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith – Lerato Mogoatlhe
R250.00In 2008 Lerato Mogoatlhe left South Africa for a three-month journey around Africa, and returned only five years later. As a young girl she was inspired in one of those precious moments of ‘true education’ when a teacher opens an inner door to a world of passionate intellectual curiosity.
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We Don’t Talk About It. Ever. – Desiree-Anne Martin
R225.00In 1980’s apartheid Cape Town, five-year-old Desiree-Anne is grappling with how she’s going to turn her tar baby doll’s skin into sweet, soft lily-white. What she has learnt is that Whites are better than “everyone else”. She doesn’t know how to force her father to stop drinking or gambling or make her mother love her or get the boys and men to stop touching her in secret.
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An Accident Waiting to Happen — Melinda Ferguson & Patricia Taylor
R195.00Ever since the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013, the topic of Oscar Pistorius’s innocence in the incident as been a subject of hot debate in our country: to what degree could his claim that the shooting was a tragic accident be believed. The trial has stretched on and on until finally, on Friday 12 September, the morning papers carried pictures of Oscar at the verdict of his trial, in tears of relief as the judge finds him not guilty of pre-meditated murder.