Dan Moyane was 10 years old when he lay on his back on a patch of grass at his parents' home in White City Jabavu, Soweto, looking at the moon and thinking, 'I don't want to die unknown.
In The Chapter We Wrote, Len Kalane, former editor of the newspaper, tells not only the story of City Press, but also a tale of the stories and events that shaped contemporary South Africa.
When Neil Reynolds was first asked in 2003 whether he'd like to work in Iraq as a private military contractor, he didn't even know where it was on the map.
In this new biography of Chris Barnard we not only learn about the life of South Africa's most famous surgeon, from his Beaufort West childhood through his studies locally and abroad to his prominent marriages - and divorces - but James Styan also examines the impact of the historic heart transplant on Barnard's personal life and South African society at large, where apartheid legislation often made the difficulties of medicine even more convoluted.
Peter Brown, leader of South Africa's Liberal Party until its demise in 1968, is one of the unsung heroes of South Africa's struggle against apartheid in pursuit of non-racial democracy.
Two remarkable tales woven together - the story of the Kaokoveld, an arid eden in the remote north-west of Namibia, so nearly lost, but regained to become one of Africa's iconic wildlife tourism destinations, and also the story of a young man's search for an African way to do conservation in Africa.
Mind your Business is a compilation of the success stories of prominent South African businesspeople, from entrepreneurs to chief executives of multinational business giants.
When Charlene Wittstock married Prince Albert of Monaco in a star-studded wedding watched by millions across the world in 2011, rumours of her getting cold feet and her unhappiness about his love children swirled around the couple.
"e;Liz McGregor has always been a great journalist but only South Africa could have wrung out of her this single-minded account of the murder of her beloved father.
In die vroeë 1940's het die charismatiese Hans van Rensburg duisende volgelinge na die Ossewabrandwag gelok en die regering van Jan Smuts gekonfronteer oor sy deelname aan die Tweede Wêreldoorlog.
La colección "Materiales" se propone rescatar de los archivos documentos que permitan revisar la historia intelectual latinoamericana desde una perspectiva renovada.
Pedro Chamijo o Chamizo, también conocido como Pedro Bohórquez; producto de su tiempo; de un siglo XVII convulso a nivel político, social, religioso y económico… En la España del esplendor de la miseria, nacieron pícaros, truhanes, embaucadores… Nuestro personaje fue uno de ellos.
En 2013, la elección de un papa argentino generó una oleada de interés por sus años de formación y sus posiciones teológicas en los años sesenta y setenta.
En el presente libro, el autor ofrece una colección de 51 meditaciones (homilías) sobre los fragmentos del evangelio de Mateo que se leen en las Eucaristías dominicales y sobre la oración del Padrenuestro.
Continuando lo que inició en el libro sobre el evangelio según Mateo, el autor ofrece una colección de 48 meditaciones sobre los fragmentos del evangelio de Lucas que se leen en las Eucaristías dominicales.
'When you see a township resident driving past in their new car, and they wave, and you wave back, it is extremely gratifying to know that they built their chakalaka business based on the small contract you gave them ten years previously, and now they have expanded and provide other companies with products, because they were able to seize the opportunity you offered to them and developed it.
When Mark Boucher played one of his first games of cricket for South Africa, a senior player took him aside and bluntly told him he was the worst wicketkeeper ever to play in the national side.
Historical figures who transformed their societies often defy simple moral categorization, combining progressive achievements with oppressive actions, visionary reforms with brutal methods, and personal integrity with political ruthlessness.
