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101 Water Wise Ways
by Moffett, HelenThis book, a “can-do” collection of more than 101 water-wise tips, is a guide to changing your relationship with water. Long-term, immediate, big, small, from the sensible to the quirky, from kitchens to bathrooms, businesses to institutions, there’s something here for everyone...
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Abundance
by van der Westhuizen, MarleneIn Marlene van der Westhuizen's latest cookbook she shares the abundance of living simply in her hometown of Cape Town. With all the elegance of her French cookbooks, Delectable and Sumptuous, Abundance sets the standard for easy city living with flair and style...
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A Bantu in My Bathroom
by McKaiser, EusebiusWhy are South Africans so uncomfortable with deep disagreement? Why do is their such a high level of intolerance for people with opposing views? Eusebius McKaiser is on a mission to raise the level of debate in South Africa. He provokes readers from their comfort zones and lures them into the debates that shape opinions and society...
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The Battle for Cosatu
by Craven, PatrickFrom his early start as a passionate pro-labour and anti-apartheid campaigner in Britain in the 1960s, to championing and defending the rights of workers in South Africa for the last 30 years, Patrick Craven first served as the editor of the Congress of South African Trade Union's magazine, then rose through the ranks of the Congress to become National Spokesperson...
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Begin Jou Eie Besigheid
byIn tye van onsekerheid en verandering, is die veiligste plek vir jou toekoms as dit in jou eie hande le. Baie Suid-Afrikaners wil graag entrepreneurs word, maar hulle is nie altyd seker waar om te begin nie. Entrepreneurskap hou baie geleenthede in, maar daar is ook slaggate wat jy moet vermy om seker te maak jy kry die beste uit jou nuwe besigheid...
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Black Like You
by Mashaba, HermanHerman Mashaba rose from humble beginnings to become one of South Africa’s wealthiest and best-known entrepreneurs, and the Executive Mayor of Johannesburg - Africa's largest and most important city. This is his story.His remarkable story begins in a small village in Gauteng, South Africa, where we meet the cocky youngster who refused to settle for a future that offered nothing...
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Capitalist Crusader
by Mashaba, Herman‘When I had to give up my university studies 35 years ago I was so angry that I wanted to leave South Africa, get military training and an AK47 and come back to kill evil white people … I’m just as angry now as I feel my economic freedom is under threat, but I’m staying to fight for what I believe in...
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The Colour of Wine
byThe Colour of Wine isn’t just another book about picturesque Cape Winelands vineyards in South Africa. Instead, it tells the remarkable story of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy through the personal journeys of black winemakers...
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Could I Vote DA?
by McKaiser, EusebiusHelen Zille said of Eusebius McKaiser: 'Don't give him oxygen. He wants a controversy. Narcissism in extremis. Attention seeking.' (Twitter, September 2013) McKaiser says of Zille: 'I think Helen Zille is a good leader.' ... but he also says: 'She is the wrong person to have a crack at leading the party to a victory against the ANC beyond 2014'...
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Death By Carbs
by Nick, PaigeWhen someone kills dieting guru, Professor Tim Noakes, Detective Bennie September has more suspects than solutions.It’s not a whodunit, it’s a who-donut.Banting culture, otherwise known as the HFLC lifestyle (high fat, low carb), spearheaded by Professor Tim Noakes, has exploded in South Africa and is soon to hit the world...
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Decadent Dinners
by van der Westhuizen, MarleneMarlene van der Westhuizen, celebrated author of Delectable and Sumptuous, shares her favourite recipes for decadent dinners with friends and family in this accessible little book. There are recipes for formal dinners around a beautifully laid table with all your best cutlery and glassware, but also for casual meals served in front of the fire on a cold winter's evening...
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Delectable
by van der Westhuizen, MarleneThe day one sets foot in France you can take it from me, pure happiness begins ... Nancy Mitford A passion for food is a gift that I love to share ... with rolled up sleeves and my hands covered in flour, a rather messy glass of superb red on the side...
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Delightful Desserts
by van der Westhuizen, MarleneMarlene van der Westhuizen, acclaimed food author and chef, gave us her favorite lunch and dinner recipes in Lazy Lunches and Decadent Dinners. But Marlene has saved the best for last -- the desserts. Abandon the diet and join Marlene on an indulgent journey through her favourite mouth-watering desserts...
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The Democratic Republic of Braai
by Braai, Jan‘It is your democratic right to eat properly braaied (barbequed) food. The Democratic Republic of Braai is wherever you gather around fires with friends and family for a celebration of the nation. Where conversations are had and stories are shared. It is a place where you never have to suffer from badly braaied food.’ This is the promise of Jan Braai’s Democratic Republic of Braai...
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The Disruptors 2
by Myres, KerrinFollowing the success of 2016’s The Disruptors comes the next book on social entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Interest in the social enterprise movement by the formal business sector is growing, as social entrepreneurs often operate in highly complex and constrained environments and offer corporates and other businesses the opportunity to learn new ways of managing and leading...
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The Disruptors
by Krige, KerrynCan business change the world? Can the world change business? For a new breed of social entrepreneurs, striving to build and grow enterprises that fight social ills, foster opportunity, and help to improve society, the answer is not can, it’s must. Impassioned by purpose, driven by dreams, emboldened by ideals, social entrepreneurs imagine a better way to a better world...
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Effective Investor
by Busetti, FrancoWhy is the South African stock market important? First, it is classified as an emerging market. However, while the country shows emerging characteristics, its stock market is highly developed. It is one of the oldest stock exchanges in the world and is the eighteenth largest in the world in terms of market capitalisation and trade...
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Eyes in the Night
by Mathiane, Nomavenda‘1879, the year in which I grew up faster than I could shout my name. That year was the one in which we experienced events and encounters that no one, particularly a child, should ever witness. It was also the year my people lost everything – their land and fields – and were reduced to being vagrants and beggars in the land of their birth...
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Finance Your Own Business
byEssential guidance for South African entrepreneurs running a small business. This book provides information on finance for business in three parts: An introduction to financial concepts for non-financial people -- income statements, balance sheets, interpretation of financial information, cash flow and budgeting...
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Free Fall
by Ray, MalcolmFree Fall recounts how and why the present education crisis in South Africa has become the leading cause for black university students...
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Great South African Teachers
by Jansen, JonathanAt a time when newspapers are full of the woes of the South African education system and stories of teachers who let the children in their classes down, this book shows that this is not the whole picture; it is a celebration of heroic teachers who have struggled against great odds to give their students a chance of success...
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A Handful of Summers
by Forbes, GordonFrom beginnings on a gravel court on a farm in rural South Africa, Gordon Forbes went on to travel the world with his long-time tennis partner Abe Segal during the late 1950s and early 60s: the glory days of Fred Perry, Roy Emerson and Virginia Wade...
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How to Fix South Africa's Schools
by Jansen, JonathanSouth Africa has an education crisis, despite the fact that the government spends the biggest slice of its budget on education, more than any other African country. And yet the crisis persists...
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I am Costa
by Carastavrakis, CostaI’m at the start of an Olympic Distance Triathlon! A Greek, about to get all Olympic, following in the footsteps of my ancestors who created the games to celebrate human endeavour its ability to be pushed to the limits...
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I'll Take the Sunny Side
by Forbes, Gordon‘Our lunches have become tradition. We take our places, pullovers guarding against draughts, pills taken – some to prevent things happening, others to make things happen. We’ve all had modest beginnings, fought the good fight, had hopes, dreams, good line-calls and bad ones, always kept a best foot forward...
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Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers
by Morton, ShafiqImtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a message that would dramatically change the lives of countless people.‘To my absolute astonishment he told me I would help people for the rest of my life...
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Key Financial Skills
by Brown, BrianMost managers and entrepreneurs end up in jobs or running companies where financial skills are critical to survival, but many do not have the basic understanding of money matters that is needed. Key financial skills is written in an easy-to-follow style to help the reader master what could be quite intimidating information...
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Kuierkos vir die Aand
by van der Westhuizen, MarleneMarlene van der Westhuizen, bekende skrywer van Delectable en Sumptuous, deel haar gunsteling-resepte vir lang, rustige aandetes saam met vriende en familie. Hierdie toeganklike boekie bevat idees vir formele etes met mooi gedekte tafels, maar ook vir knus, informele etes om die kaggel op 'n koue wintersaand...
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Lampedusa Pie
by Burgener, AndreaAn obsession with food. A nostalgia for the taste of childhood. Living in a fractured and constantly shifting city. These are the strands that South African chef, Andrea Burgener, weaves together to create an irresistibly quirky collection of recipes in Lampedusa Pie. Andrea describes herself as a magpie cook attracted to an eclectic combination of tastes that evoke her world...
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Lazy Lunches
by van der Westhuizen, MarleneMarlene van der Westhuizen, celebrated author of Delectable and Sumptuous, shares her favorite recipes for long lazy lunches with friends and family in this accessible little book. There are recipes for summer lunches in the garden and winter lunches in front of the fire, a casual kitchen lunch with family or a romantic lunch on the Victorian balcony of her home...
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Legendary Safari Guides
by Cazenove, SusieTwenty-four safari guides are profiled by experienced safari travel promoter, Susie Cazenove. She tells us their stories of adventure and dreams – of following their passion into the wild and of making their guests see Africa in a new light...
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Letters to My Children
by Jansen, JonathanIt started as advice to his own two children entering adulthood, it spread to his students at the University of the Free State and now tens of thousands of his followers of Twitter and Facebook wait for Jonathan Jansen's words of wisdom every day. Each day Jansen (@JJ_UFS) writes a Letter to my children -- a nugget of advice on life, love and becoming a compassionate, thinking human being...
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- Black Like You
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- Capitalist Crusader
- Colour of Wine, The
- Could I Vote DA?
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- Death By Carbs
- Decadent Dinners
- Delectable
- Delightful Desserts
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- Eyes in the Night
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- Finance Your Own Business
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- Handful of Summers, A
- How to Fix South Africa's Schools
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- I am Costa
- I'll Take the Sunny Side
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- Key Financial Skills
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- Lazy Lunches
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- Recover from your Childhood
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- Song for Sarah
- South African Dictionary of Finance
- Starting Your Own Business
- Sumptuous
- Sunday Times Big Pub Quiz Book, The
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- Tech-Savvy Parenting
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