Download or read book Mamkhize written by Shaun Mkhize and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shauwn 'Mamkhize' Mkhize is a larger than life personality who, like her father and brother before her, is loved and misunderstood in equal measure. Her combination of political and business acumen runs in her family, and so is her ability to garner the sometimes-grudging admiration of those who have followed her rise to fame and fortune in the democratic dispensation. In her memoir, Mamkhize: My World, My Rules, this remarkable businesswoman shares the details of her cloistered but privileged childhood, which was torn asunder by the assassination of her father and the subsequent quest by her brother to avenge his death. She tells the story of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from her unique vantage point, as a family member of a victim. As a young accounting graduate freshly returned from an overseas experience, Shauwn lands what initially seems to be a dream job with the multinational corporation that had sponsored her training abroad. It soon dissipates into disappointment - work that receives insufficient pay and she bravely ventures into business. In this book, she dispels the urban legends about her wealth, family, marriage and subsequent divorce. She reflects on the much-publicized story of her reinvention as Mamkhize, the soccer boss, and shares the lessons that she has learned from the experiences that life has given her. A woman with incredible agency, Mamkhize allows the reader a glimpse into her family life and her formative years. She illuminates how they have shaped the woman that she is today. Not one to reveal every single trick of her trades (after all, she is the business), Shauwn Mkhize manages to regale without spoiling her aura of mystique. While touching the reader with her love for her parents, siblings and children, this memoir displays the dexterity with which she navigates modern life while striving to maintain a sense of tradition that keeps her grounded.
Download or read book Running and Other Stories written by Makhosazana Xaba and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning her back on what is considered conventional, Makhosazana Xaba engages with her subject-matter on a revolutionary level in Running and Other Stories. She takes tradition be that literary tradition, cultural tradition, gender tradition and re-imagines it in a way that is liberating and innovative. Bracketed by Xabas revisitings of Can Thembas influential short story, The Suit, the ten stories in this collection, while strongly independent, are in conversation with one another, resulting in a collection that can be devoured all at once or savoured slowly, story by story. By re-envisioning the ordinary and accepted, Xaba is creating a space in which womens voices are given a rebirth.
Download or read book Castles in the Air written by Kenneth Khulekani Khoza and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castles in the Air is an attempt to open discussions on some often overlooked issues which affect education, particularly in rural and township government schools. In order to make it a truly South African drama, I have drawn from oral tradition by including songs and poems which play an integral part in traditional storytelling. There are many folksongs which were included in earlier versions, but I decided to remove them in the final version because I did not intend to write a musical. There are also some praise poems that I composed for the main character and his father. I studied oral tradition, and I am confident that the praise poems I composed have all the qualities of the real praise poems, and because I could not compose them in English, I, therefore, wrote them in isiZulu with translations in the glossary at the end.
Download or read book Sbonelo Snoop written by Sarah Groves and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name is Sbonelo, but everyone calls him Snoop. That’s short for detective, in case you hadn’t heard. Ten-year-old Sbonelo hangs up his sign in the village market every Saturday, where – at R5 a time – he investigates all sorts of mysteries for his eager clients. Find out how he solves the case of the missing sheets, the Christmas lights and the mysterious parcel, and the headmaster’s words.
Download or read book Born White Zulu Bred written by GG Alcock and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have read GG Alcock's books about the kasi economy; now follow his journey to the dynamic world of KasiNomics and learn about the tribal forces that shaped him. Born White Zulu Bred is the story of a white child and his brother raised in poverty in a Zulu community in rural South Africa during the apartheid era. His extraordinary parents, Creina and Neil Alcock, gave up lives of comfort and privilege to live and work among the destitute people of Msinga, whose material and social well-being became their mission. But more than that, this is a story about life in South Africa today which, through GG's unique perspective, explores the huge diversity of the country's people – from tribal Zulu warriors to sophisticated urban black township entrepreneurs. A journey from the arid wastes of Msinga into the thriving informal economies of urban townships. GG's view is that we do not live in a black and white world but in a world of contrast and diversity, one which he wants South Africans, and a world audience, to see for what it is without descending into racial and historical clichés. He takes us through the mazes of township marketplaces, shacks and crowded streets to reveal the proud and dignified world of township entrepreneurs who are transforming South Africa's economy. This is the world that he moves in today as a successful businessman, still walking those spaces and celebrating the vibrant informal economies that are taking part in the KasiNomic Revolution. GG's story is about being truly African, even as a white person, and it draws on the adventures, the cultural challenges, the informal spaces and the future possibilities of South Africa.
Download or read book Global Citizen written by Olga Legoale and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He who sleeps with a full stomach while neighbours are sleeping on pangs of hunger is not one of us. This book is fictional based on a true story. It is about an African girl who grew up in South Africa and went through a lot of adversities in her lifetime and emerged triumphantly as a global citizen. The book has several chapters with titles like One-Woman Army; Jordan, the Land of John the Baptist, Pre-rainbow Reawakening; Little Girl Rebels against Traditional Healer and many more. It has several black and white illustrations of various photographs snapped from around the globe. Ntokozo grows up against all odds to become a globetrotting tourist. The illustrations in the book are real places that she visited in her insatiable quest to understand other people and their special various cultures. In both picture and narration, the reader is transported from South Africa to various countries in the Middle East, Far East and beyond through the eye of the main character. The book clearly illustrates what it means to cross the bridge of ignorance and poverty. The fictional main character in the book is the authors persona.
Download or read book The Journey of My Life written by Peter Thwallies and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey of My Life is a story about ancestral spiritshow they can drive you, your life, and your path to your future. A lot of people say that ancestral spirits are not real, but in Africa, if you dont follow what your forebears tell you, you might ruin your life.
Download or read book Mamkhize written by Shauwn Mkhize and published by African Perspectives Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her memoir, Mamkhize shares the details of her cloistered but privileged childhood, which was torn asunder by the assassination of her father and the subsequent quest by her brother to avenge his death.
Download or read book Bloody Parchment written by Nerine Dorman and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes gentrification brings with it unexpected, sinister results, or your neighbours harbour secrets. Social media has a darker side or maybe it’s your kitchen appliances that are plotting against you. Who knows? The South African HorrorFest Bloody Parchment anthology, Beachfront Starter Home, Good Bones and Other Stories, offers you a selection of tales that will take you from the comfort of your home to deeper, disturbing destinations drawn from its 2013 competition finalists. Step inside, draw up a chair near the fire, and discover the dark visions of these authors.
Download or read book Blank written by Hilton Judin and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a compilation of over forty essays, both written and photographic, which seek to present the complexities of the built environment and the deep structures of divisive spatial planning in South Africa"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Voicing Demands written by Sohela Nazneen and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women’s empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on women’s political engagement in formal institutions to examine feminist activism for building and sustaining constituencies through raising, negotiating and legitimizing women’s voice under different contexts. Bringing together the reflections and experiences of feminist researchers and activists in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, this unique volume explores how various global trends, such as the development of transnational linkages, the rise of conservative forces, the NGOization of feminist movements, and an increase in the power of donors, have created opportunities and challenges for feminist voice and activism.
Download or read book Eating from One Pot written by Sarah Mosoetsa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa, the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? Eating from One Pot provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork, it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse. That they keep going at all can largely be attributed to the struggles of older women against poverty. They are the fulcrum on which household survival turns. This book describes how households in two different areas in KwaZulu-Natal are sites of both stability and conflict. As one of the interviewees put it: ‘We eat from one pot and should always help each other.’ Yet the stability of family networks is becoming fragile because of the enormous burden placed on them by unemployment and unequal power relations. Through careful analysis, the experiences of survival are discussed in relation to the restructuring of the country's welfare and social policies, and the extension of social grants. Mosoetsa argues that these policies shape the livelihoods that people pursue in order to survive under desperate conditions, but fail to address the root causes of poverty and inequality.
Download or read book Indigenous African Language Media written by Phillip Mpofu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about indigenous African language media that are affected by structural factors of politics, technology, culture and economy and how they are creatively produced and appropriated by their audiences across African cultures and contexts. This book explores indigenous African language media about media representations, media texts and contents, practice-based activities, audience reception and participation, television, popular culture and cinema, peace and conflict resolution, health and environmental crisis communication, citizen journalism, ethnic and identity formation, beat analysis and investigative journalism, and corporate communication. There are hardly any similar works that focus on the various issues relating to this body of knowledge. The book provides a valuable companion for scholars in various fields like communication, media studies, African studies, African languages, popular culture, journalism, health and environmental communication.
Download or read book A Passion for success written by Sivalingum Moodly and published by Jet-line Printers Montana. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this book, titled “A Passion For Success”, demonstrates forcefully how the identified individuals, despite their blindness, surmounted challenges in their own lives in order to achieve success, and, in doing so, invariably improved the quality of lives of others. Consisting of fourteen chapters, each containing a unique story with a compelling theme, the underlying message in the book appears to resonate with the view of Booker T Washington (1856-1915), a leading African American intellectual of the 19 century, who observes that “Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Download or read book Mandela s Ego written by Lewis Nkosi and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly witty depiction of the seductive power - and crippling consequences - of hero-worship, by a skilful and beguiling writer
Download or read book Population Health and Development in Africa written by Pan African Association of Anthropologists and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ujamaa written by Dawood Adekoya and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinky left her country many years ago, and her and her husband have worked very hard to build their dream in Toronto Canada and ever since she left she never looked back and the desire to go home to see family and friends was lost as time went by. But the sudden death of her husband brought an emotive wave of pain and sadness both in South Africa and in Canada and the need to reconnect with family became apparent but the gravity of the loss and responsibility that came afterwards posed a hugte challenge. Paul her 26 year old son stepped up to the challenge and for the first time decided he would go on a visit to South Africa but his encounter with his granny changed his point of view and he decided to stay in South Africa to make granny happy instead of his own mother.
