In Being There, Leon reflects, too, on the nostalgia we often feel, through pain and pride, of childhood, school and the many ‘what ifs’ which inform a well-lived and varied life on the frontlines of South Africa and its history-in-the-making. And how a wrong turn, or too few votes, can change the course of one life.
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Die gewilde skrywer en bekroonde joernalis Pieter du Toit het gaan ondersoek instel op Stellenbosch. Du Toit kyk krities na hierdie klub van miljardêrs: Wie is hulle en belangriker nog, hoe is hulle onderling verbind? Hy beskryf ook die opkoms van Markus Jooste en die impak wat die Steinhoff-skandaal gehad het.
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’n Ongekende opkoms van Afrikaner-magnate het die Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie die afgelope drie dekades gekenmerk. Dit is veral merkwaardig in die lig van die regering se omvattende program van swart ekonomiese bemagtiging.
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Kate Sidley offers renewed and touching insight into Mandela by retelling humorous, heartwarming and momentous moments from his life, roughly chronologically, drawing from his own writing and the memories of contemporaries, historians and ordinary people.
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What happens when South Africa’s tumultuous political life becomes entangled in the courts of law? This book offers a highly readable analysis of some of the most widely publicised and decisive instances of lawfare.
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What happens when South Africa’s tumultuous political life becomes entangled in the courts of law? This book offers a highly readable analysis of some of the most widely publicised and decisive instances of lawfare.
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Here is the Cape Town underworld laid bare, explored through the characters who control the “protection” industry – the bouncers and security at nightclubs and strip clubs. A book that lays bare the myth that violence and gangsterism in Cape Town is confined to the ganglands of the Cape Flats – wherever you find yourself, you’re only a hair’s breadth away from the enforcers.
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Leon, with unique access and penetrating insight, presents a portrait of today’s South Africa and prospects for its future, based on his political involvement over thirty years with the key power players: Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk.
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This deeply personal and revelatory account describes the challenges faced by a civil servant who refused to be ‘captured’ and his disillusionment at how the principles of the struggle were undermined during the Zuma era.
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