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Author : G. N. Claassen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 0143026577
Author : George Claassen
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780143526995
South Africans embrace their sportsmen and women as heroes and symbols of hope, courage and reconciliation. Collected in In the Words of South African Sporting Heroes are comments - from the inspirational to the humorous to the downright bizarre - by those we hold with such high esteem, on subjects as diverse as Captaincy, Fame, Life, Money in Sport and Being a South African.
Author : Michael Jenkins
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143531074
This is a journey into the histories, hearts and homes of some of South Africa's greatest sporting heroes. Featuring the varied and very human stories of 13 icons of our time, including AB de Villiers, Ryan Sandes, 'Beast' Mtawarira, and Bridgitte Hartley, the book shows that it takes far more than natural talent to transform an athlete into the best that sport has to offer. Making Champions is an answer to the question: what goes into achieving champion status? It tells of the battles these sports stars have lost and won in their desire to set themselves apart from others just as gifted and aspiring for success. In the process, it equips all South Africans aiming to achieve in whatever field with the knowledge of the decisions and sacrifices these athletes have made, and the habits they have adopted on their way to the top.
Author : G. N. Claassen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political activists
ISBN : 0143026585
'We have lost a lot of freedom in the past 30 years. But it's only when we don't stand up for it that we lose all.' Alan Paton, teacher, author and liberal politician, 1978 'If it is for the truth that I must die, so let it be.' Joe Seremane, political prisoner, later Democratic Alliance chairperson 'In Africa, things sometimes happen upside down. Such as that the sun first had to set on the continent before it rose, and not the other way round,' Mathews Phosa, ANC exile, politician and Afrikaans poet
Author : Michael Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000431797
This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy – its "tough love" – in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "state-of-the-nation" issues – the usual approach to literature from South Africa – the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a "problem child". A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature – hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach – raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a "born free" novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event – the statue of Rhodes must fall – through a literary sensibility? Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the "limits of critique". Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy.
Author : Bronwen Leak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 177022453X
Features a selection of 100 South African sports personalities who have either excelled at their sport and/or helped shape South African sport as we know it. Covers all the major sporting codes, from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day such as mainstream sports such as rugby, cricket, soccer, tennis and golf to less-followed but equally fascinating disciplines such as surfing and freediving.
Author : George Claassen
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780143527848
We have lost a lot of freedom in the past 30 years. But it's only when we don't stand up for it that we lose all.' Alan Paton, teacher, author and liberal politician, 1978. 'If it is for the truth that I must die, so let it be.' Joe Seremane, political prisoner, later Democratic Alliance chairperson. 'In Africa, things sometimes happen upside down. Such as the sun first had to set on the continent before it rose, and not the other way around.' Mathews Phosa, ANC exile, politician and Afrikaans poet.
Author : Dee Rissik
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789814398664
Author : Mathevan Naidoo
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN : 1869284984
Author : John Murray
Publisher : Dino Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781786068217
'Chris was on top of the world. He had fulfilled his dream of winning the Tour de France, the sport's greatest race – but there was always a new challenge around the next corner.' Growing up in Kenya, the young Chris Froome loved cycling so much he built his own bike from spare parts so he could pound the roads in the blazing sunshine. This is the story of how Froome won the Tour de France, the hardest sporting test of them all – not just once, but three times.
Author : Michael Cooper
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 1770073116
Author : Ian Botham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845969035
In My Sporting Heroes, one of the country's great sportsmen, Sir Ian Botham, draws up his template of what he believes makes a true sporting hero. Botham singles out the ten qualities he believes are the basic elements in any true sportsperson - bravery, passion, composure, determination, skill, leadership, instinct, dedication, humour and compassion - then highlights the sportsmen and women who he believes best demonstrate each quality, backing up his selection with personal anecdotes of his time spent with them or watching them in action. Covering a wide variety of sports and discussing admired athletes of both the past and present, from Ian Woosnam, Paul Gascoigne and Jonathan Davies to Joe Calzaghe, Lewis Hamilton and Andy Murray, My Sporting Heroes is a lively celebration of exactly what makes a true sporting legend - from someone who knows a thing or two about it!
Author : Russell Field,Bruce Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317989790
1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the medals podium to decry the racism of North America. Meanwhile, students in Mexico demonstrated against social priorities in Mexico, the host of the 1968 Games. These events contributed significantly to the rejection of the idea that sports are apolitical, and stimulated the scholarly study of sport across the social sciences. Leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games, similar dynamics were played out across the globe, while a campaign was underway to boycott the ‘Genocide Olympics’. The volume, To Remember is to Resist, came out of a three-day conference on sports, human rights and social change hosted by the University of Toronto forty years after Mexico and eighty days before the Beijing Opening Ceremony. The contributions to this volume capture the memories of activists who were "on the ground" using sport as a site for the struggle for human rights and provide scholarly examinations of past and current human rights movements in sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Author : Helena Dolny
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780143027430
No company has ever succeeded simply because it has brilliant individuals in its ranks - in fact many have failed because they have not succeeded in getting great talent to work together as a team. Every single South African business lives or dies by its ability to get its people to work together, in constantly changing teams, towards achieving the common goals of the company. Team Coaching: Artists at Work shows how the right coaching interventions can build skills in individuals so that they can become effective team players in a variety of work situations. The book is, not surprisingly, a team effort. A group of top South African coaches got together to share everything they had used individually when coaching teams. This pooling of best practice was so exciting, the outcome so much more than anticipated, that they decided to write this book together. This is not a DIY manual, nor is it a bible. Corporate teams are often temporary and shifting in nature with continuous restructuring, promotions, new people moving in, others resigning. Flexibility and creativity are critical. That's precisely where team coaching interventions come in, to increase individual self-awareness, enhance people's ability to adapt to the styles of others, and create cohesion and commitment of how to work together. That's when the real people power of an organisation starts to make itself felt, when talented individuals become effective team members. Coaches are artists, who bring their facilitation talents and tools to the team to make this happen. This is a book for business and team leaders who would like to turn a collection of outstanding individuals into an unbeatable team. Coaching is one of the fastest growing professions and this book contributes to wider understanding of what potential coaching offers not only for business teams but also for societal transformation.
Author : Daryl Adair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135693688
Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the field. Today sport is much more inclusive, with athletic ability of greater importance than skin colour or ancestry. Yet enmity and antagonism still appear in sport via instances of racial vilification or hostility between some groups. Other problems include the relative absence of minorities from positions of power and influence in sport, as well as folkloric assumptions about athletic ability based upon stereotypes about 'race' or ethnic background. This book discusses issues of diversity, capacity and equity in the colourful world of global sport. A panoramic approach, covering 'race', ethnicity and identity is consistent with the contemporary global migration of professional athletes, as well as the multicultural contexts of sport in various regions. This collection of essays therefore addresses international dimensions of sport, commonality and difference, as well as the special circumstances of sport and social relations in particular places. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
