Download or read book Apartheid in My Rucksack written by Ted Botha and published by J. Ball Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author gives his impressions of South Africa as influenced by the treatment he received on his travels through the world.
Download or read book Apartheid South Africa written by John Allen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Speaking from firsthand knowledge and with an intimate understanding of the situation, the author takes us beyond the media hype that so dominated Western television screens to answer some of the most vital questions concerning the apartheid era ...bringing to light little known facts concerning historical detail and providing the reader with eyewitness accounts of day-to-day life in one of the most dangerous countries in the world". (back cover)
Download or read book Betrayal My Journey through South Africa written by Matthew Pilkone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Pilkone shares a fascinating story of struggle, love, and loss in apartheid-era South Africa in this memoir. Born in the rural farming community of Middelburg, it's not until his late teens that Matthew moves to Cape Town, where he falls in love with Amanda. The couple gets serious fast, and when it is time for Matthew to decide whether to join the police, it is an easy choice: joining the police gives him a guaranteed career path that enables him to take care of his widowed mum and Amanda. After graduating from a training college, he's sent to the crime-ridden city of Johannesburg. As a result of his excellent service record, he's singled out for an elite training course, and although he's frequently in peril, he eventually returns to Cape Town and marries Amanda. Life seems perfect, but it unravels when he discovers a terrible betrayal that ends with him leaving South Africa and losing everything he'd worked so hard to accomplish.
Download or read book The Girl with the Crooked Nose written by Ted Botha and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Girl with the Crooked Nose, Ted Botha tells the absorbing story of Frank Bender, a gifted, self-taught artist who can bring back the dead and the vanished through a unique, macabre sculpting talent. Bender has been the key to solving at least nine murders and tracking down numerous criminals. Then he is called upon to tackle the most challenging and bizarre case of his career. Someone is killing the young women of Juarez. Since 1993, the decomposing bodies of as many as four hundred victims, known as feminicidios, have been found in the desert surrounding this gritty Mexican border town. In 2003, prodded by local political pressure and international attention, the Mexican authorities turn to the United States to help solve these horrific crimes. The man they turn to is Bender. Through breathtakingly realistic sculptures, Bender reconstructs the faces of unknown murder victims or fugitives whose appearances are certain to have changed over years on the run. The busts are based in part on the painstaking application of forensic science to fleshless human skulls and in part on deep intuition, an uncanny ability to discern not only a missing face but also the personality behind it. Arriving in Mexico, Bender works in secrecy, in a culture of corruption and casual violence where the line between criminals and law enforcement is blurry, braving anonymous threats and sinister coincidences to give eight skulls back their faces and, hopefully, their histories. Drawn to one skull in particular–"The Girl With the Crooked Nose"–Bender gradually comes to suspect that perhaps he is not meant to succeed, and that the true solution to the mystery of the feminicidios is far more terrible than anyone has dared to imagine. Ted Botha brilliantly weaves Bender’s story–the cases he has solved, the intricacies of his art, the colorful characters he encounters, and the personal cost of his strange obsession–with the chilling story of the Juarez investigation. With a conclusion as shocking as its story is gripping, The Girl with the Crooked Nose will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. “…[a] crackling account of a quirky, maverick forensics artist, Frank Bender, and his largely successful efforts in facial reconstruction of murder victims…. extraordinary is Botha's writing, with his unerring depiction of Bender's painstaking work and the eventual unraveling of the brutal crimes it solves…. the tales in this book accurately capture the dark motives and complexities of senseless murder, and even the most savvy true-crime reader will not be able to resist the author's insightful storytelling."--Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Mongo written by Ted Botha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing journey inside the eccentric world of nonprofessional garbage collectors offers a series of colorful portraits of all kinds of collectors unified by their mutual obsession with mongo, discarded items rescued from the trash, despite their individual motivations for collecting. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Download or read book Joint Acquisitions List of Africana written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daisy de Melker written by Ted Botha and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn't get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity. Against the backdrop of Johannesburg in its golden age, a booming metropolis of opulence and chaos nicknamed the 'City of Gold' and the 'University of Crime', she had quietly gone about her sinister business while around her sensational crimes grabbed the headlines. There was the marauding Foster Gang, which left at least ten people dead; a dashing German hustler; a local Bonnie and Clyde; an innocent student walking in Zoo Lake park at the wrong time and a man who escaped death row to become one of South Africa's most revered authors. These interlinking stories are told in the style of a thriller and with riveting, kaleidoscopic detail. In Daisy de Melker, Ted Botha weaves together a fantastic cast of killers and con men, detectives and lawmen, journalists and authors – even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Herman Charles Bosman – to depict a grand and desperate city. For almost twenty years Daisy hid in the shadows but when someone finally spoke up about the suspicious deaths around her, it led to a trial like nothing the City of Gold had ever seen and spread her name across the world.
Download or read book 10 Rules for Talking written by Tim Harkness and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist Tim Harkness has noticed sometimes it seems everyone is shouting, but nobody is listening. Surely we don't need to learn how to talk? And yet, in an age of Brexit and Trump, where social media provides a platform for instantaneous, unfettered opinion, doesn't it feel that we've lost our ability to move discussions forward? 10 Rules for Talking is a timely guide to help you talk to people who don't share your opinion. Harkness focuses on difficult conversations - the complex, emotional and recurring discussions that persistently affect our personal and professional lives. The ten rules will teach you to remember most people are good and worthy of respect (Rule 3), why it is important to keep a conversation safe (Rule 5) and how to truly listen (Rule 9). Learn how to persuade, respond and - most importantly - keep the conversation progressing. Welcome to a new way of talking.
Download or read book A Nun and the Pig Tales from South Africa written by Treive Nicholas and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartwarming story of the year Treive Nicholas spent in a forgotten corner of apartheid South Africa, where humour and kindness flourished amid grinding poverty and brutal racism. Funny and shocking in equal measure, tale of a British teenager far from home - and his unlikely friendship with a local nun - is one of adventure, ambition and hope.
Download or read book A Select Index to South African Literature in English written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes from the Middle World written by Breyten Breytenbach and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.
Download or read book A Kiss and a Cup of Tea written by Graham Fisher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports writer Graham Fisher and his wife Joan get the travel bug. Both undergo cancer scares after planning a round-the-world trip only after an edge-of-the-seat ordeal do they make it. Five and a half weeks later they are back, exhilarated but broke. They decide to sell their beloved Victorian home to fund more exotic adventures and that too is a roller coaster ride. Graham Fisher recalls the thrills and the pitfalls and adds some sardonic thoughts about modern travel and life after retirement. It is a tale that will strike a chord with those of his generation and inclination.
Download or read book The Wall It Fell written by Tony Musgrave and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phakama written by Caoimhe McAvinchey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international arts organisation and network engaging with music, dance, theatre and visual art, Phakama creates adventurous, site-responsive performances with large groups of people from diverse backgrounds. With contributions from participants, artists, academics and cultural commentators from India, Ireland, South Africa, the UK and USA, this book features case studies, interviews and articles covering two decades of practice. At the heart of the book is a selection of carefully explained and beautifully illustrated exercises which will enable Phakama's methodology to be used by organisations and practitioners working with young people internationally. Phakama is a Xhosa and Zulu word for stand up, arise, empower yourself. With a focus on collaborative, non-hierarchical performance making, Phakama invites cultural sharing and critical engagement with the world we live in. As well as engaging with political and critical concerns about contemporary theatre and performance, the book offers unique approaches to devising theatre, applied and social theatre, intercultural performance practices and pedagogic models of collaboration and cultural leadership.
Download or read book Travelling While Black written by Nanjala Nyabola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.
Download or read book A Hat a Kayak and Dreams of Dar written by Terry Bell and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1965, in a smoke-filled hotel room in Morocco, South African journalist Terry Bell accepted a challenge: to paddle a kayak from London to Tangier. At the time, Terry and his wife Barbara were living as political exiles in London. By August 1967, they agreed it was time to get back to Africa. But they decided to up the ante. Their plan: paddle 11 000 kilometres from England to Dar es Salaam in a 5-metre glass fibre kayak.
Download or read book Apartheid written by Pep Subirós and published by Actar D. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays a visual and conceptual approach to old and new forms of prejudice and racial discrimination, through original artistic works and documentary material from the nineteenth century to the present day. It documents the main stages and characteristics of an infamous history which speaks not only of the South African experience, but of Western racial ideologies and clichs. Featuring key works from the most internationally acclaimed South African artists - Jane Alexander, David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Santu Mofokeng, Berni Searle, Penny Siopis, Sue Williamson, as well as emerging new artists including Conrad Botes, Churchill Madikida, Johannes Phokela, Nandipha Mntambo, Tracey Rose, Lolo Veleko, Donovan Ward. The book conveys the continuous vitality of the South African art scene and a renewed commitment to its historical context. Many original works are published here for the first time.
