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The Vanishing Nation

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In his autobiographical book The Vanishing Nation, Thami Nodwele recounts his story as a black child growing up in apartheid South Africa and his life amid the post-apartheid challenges. He recognises that since the country's shift to democracy in 1994, life is different, but also increasingly harder as crime and unemployment have escalated.There is a sense of living in a hopelessness society, ... Read more

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In his autobiographical book The Vanishing Nation, Thami Nodwele recounts his story as a black child growing up in apartheid South Africa and his life amid the post-apartheid challenges. He recognises that since the country's shift to democracy in 1994, life is different, but also increasingly harder as crime and unemployment have escalated.There is a sense of living in a hopelessness society,
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Truth to Power

My Three Years Inside Eskom

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When André de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa.Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that Eskom was crippled by corruption on a staggering scale. Fake fuel oil deliveries at just one power station cost Eskom R100 million per month; kneepads retailing for ... Read more

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When André de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa.Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that Eskom was crippled by corruption on a staggering scale. Fake fuel oil deliveries at just one power station cost Eskom R100 million per month; kneepads retailing for
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A Hustler's Bible

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth president of the United StatesTen years ago, in 2003, Gayton McKenzie was released from maximum-security prison in Bloemfontein after a long jail term. Like most ex-convicts he had no money and very big dreams. Unlike most ex-convicts he went on to become South Africa's most ... Read more

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth president of the United StatesTen years ago, in 2003, Gayton McKenzie was released from maximum-security prison in Bloemfontein after a long jail term. Like most ex-convicts he had no money and very big dreams. Unlike most ex-convicts he went on to become South Africa's most
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Behind the Badge

The Untold Stories of South Africa's Police Service Members

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Every South African has a strong opinion on crime and policing, but most know very little about the lives and experiences of the average cop in the 185 000-strong South African Police Service. This book is composed of excerpts from interviews with current and former members of the service who, for the first time, share their personal experiences of life behind the badge. The book covers a wide ... Read more

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Every South African has a strong opinion on crime and policing, but most know very little about the lives and experiences of the average cop in the 185 000-strong South African Police Service. This book is composed of excerpts from interviews with current and former members of the service who, for the first time, share their personal experiences of life behind the badge. The book covers a wide
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I Am Because We Are

An African Mother’s Fight for the Soul of a Nation

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In this innovative and intimate memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria.Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister.A woman in a ... Read more

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In this innovative and intimate memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria.Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister.A woman in a
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Still With Us

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Still With Us is a heartbreaking and at-times horrific account of one boy's flight from terror during the 1996 war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Forced to become a father to his two younger siblings and mainstay for other lost children, Msenwa Oliver Mweneake gives his eyewitness account of the carnage of war, including indiscriminate mass murder and rape. He survived the dehumanizing ... Read more

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Still With Us is a heartbreaking and at-times horrific account of one boy's flight from terror during the 1996 war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Forced to become a father to his two younger siblings and mainstay for other lost children, Msenwa Oliver Mweneake gives his eyewitness account of the carnage of war, including indiscriminate mass murder and rape. He survived the dehumanizing
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Dead Cows for Piranhas

A Perilous Journey Inside the Drug Trade

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A high-octane journey into the brutal underworld of the South African and transnational drug trade.Journalist Hazel Friedman was on assignment in Thailand to document the stories of the increasing number of South Africans convicted as drug mules when she made a horrifying discovery. Many of the drug traffickers are in fact decoys.These individuals find themselves coerced or deceived into drug ... Read more

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Cop Under Cover

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In the 1990s deep-cover police agent RS536 took on the Durban underworld as part of a new organised crime intelligence unit. He rubbed shoulders with drug lords, smugglers and corrupt cops, and was instrumental in busting an international drug ring and foiling a bank heist, among many other dangerous engagements.But then, as the country's new democracy birthed a struggle between the old and the ... Read more

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Two People Against the Weight of Bureaucracy

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The Oyeniyi family – my family - almost disintegrated before it even began. LOVE VERSUS GOLIATH chronicles my battle against bureaucracy, antiquated laws, and a pair of governments whose regulations and oversights threatened to separate me forever from the husband and children I love. When I was 15, my parents committed suicide six months apart. Their deaths, and the ensuing government oversights, ... Read more

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Give Us More Guns

How South Africa's Guns were Armed

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'With remarkable courage, insight and access, Mark Shaw takes the reader into the darkest corners of South Africa's ganglands.' – Mandy Wiener The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called 'guns to gangs' saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa's criminal underworld. It began in 2007 when ... Read more

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'With remarkable courage, insight and access, Mark Shaw takes the reader into the darkest corners of South Africa's ganglands.' – Mandy Wiener The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called 'guns to gangs' saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa's criminal underworld. It began in 2007 when
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The Man Who Forgave God

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The way and manner religious institutions are behaving and selling God lately, we no longer know who created who, weather God created man or man created him for a purpose.This book is written to sensitize the masses against the growing ugly trend of 419 schemes happening on the internet; in churches and other religious bodies; in GSM companies, stock and investment companies; at the grassroots; ... Read more

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The way and manner religious institutions are behaving and selling God lately, we no longer know who created who, weather God created man or man created him for a purpose.This book is written to sensitize the masses against the growing ugly trend of 419 schemes happening on the internet; in churches and other religious bodies; in GSM companies, stock and investment companies; at the grassroots;
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