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A mysterious outbreak has ravaged the country turning most of the rainbow nation into mindless, flesh-eating zombies. After two years hiding in their Pretoria home, 16 year-old Kon, along with his brother and father make the decision to journey across the country to Robben Island, rumored to be a safe haven. Along the way, they befriend other survivors, and face an unrecognizable new world filled with new dangers: Raiders, religious zealots and lots...
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This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the influence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on...
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Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing...
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We cannot live in fear of tomorrow in South Africa. We must not make this nation look like a country sitting in a keg of gun powder on top of an active volcano. Together we shall make a better life for all South Africans in the common bonds that hold us together as a people. In this present world order around the globe, love is expensive and hatred is cheap. Violence is sensational and terrorism is intentional. The world is in turmoil and civil strife....
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South-African Folk-Tales provides an invaluable contribution to the literature on cultural anthropology, providing a rich and varied exploration of traditional folk stories from the region. Through an analysis of narrative structures, motifs, characters, as well as relevant social and cultural context, Honey offers an in-depth look at the diverse myths and legends of South Africa.
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In the latest Harlequin Medical Romance by Becky Wicks, an escape to South Africa is a chance for the GP to heal her heart, but she doesn't count on her brooding surgeon boss being the one to help her do it…
She isn't looking for love…
until she meets him!
GP Kaya has dreamed of visiting South Africa, her mother's homeland. Now, after a recent trauma, it seems the perfect escape. Kaya's mesmerized by the landscape, but she's even more stunned...
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South African Paralegalism and Holistic MediationBy Johan Claassens (Mpsy.D) Ph.D Attorneys teach paralegals the law, but only a successful paralegal can teach another paralegal how to run a successful business. That's what Johan Claassens aims to do through this book, South African Paralegalism and Holistic Mediation. In this complete guide, the author explains everything an aspiring paralegal in South Africa needs to know to start out and succeed...
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Talent alone is never enough to make one a superstar in the music business. Artists should familiarise themselves with the entire music business value chain to be able to realise your dreams and get the return on investment they desire and deserve. This book aims to lay a foundation upon which an ordinary talented individual can build a progressive and prosperous music career. You must know 'WHEN' to do 'WHAT,”HOW' and 'WHY' in this game so you...
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What are you served for dinner while in the company of a lecherous reverend, an aging beauty queen, a gay lottery presenter, a guru, a shrink, a few reporters, and an odd assortment of South African parodies? Why, dinner of course! The rest is just dessert!This novel takes a quirky look at South Africa, its inhabitants, and the comedy that is politics. This is what some real South Africans are like. Some you may like, and they will be back in their...
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Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life," proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality.
Rethinking the South...
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'One of the most exciting and provocative books that I've read in a long time' - Mike Davis, author of Planet of the Slums
Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book argues that they can.
In a study conducted in dozens of South Africa's shack settlements, where more than 9 million people...
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