Vusi

Author : Vusi Thembekwayo
Publisher : Tafelberg Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Businesspeople, Black
ISBN : 0624077713

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Vusi by Vusi Thembekwayo Pdf

"I have learned the truth about the world: that it isn't as round as a tennis ball, and it isn't shaped like itself. It is shaped the way we shape it, according to the way we see it, the way we mould it to our ambitions and our destiny. I know the colour of who I am. I am a black man, running for my life, for my freedom, for opportunity born from struggle, possibility born from sacrifice. And I am running too, for my father, who never became what he hoped to be, and who never got to see what his children would one day become. 'Maverick. Leadership genius. Self-made millionaire. Dragon. The rock star of public speaking. Vusi Thembekwayo has been called many things. Join him in his inspiring journey from the township to the top echelons of South African business, to becoming one of youngest directors of a listed company and CEO of a boutique investment firm. As a 'Dragons' Den' judge and a sought-after public speaker across the globe, Vusi doesn't just talk business - he lives it. Now you can learn the secret of his success and how to shape your own destiny."--

Author : Boitumelo Phala
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9783748756941

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Wake Up Vusi by Boitumelo Phala Pdf

A story about a homeless man who struggles with the corona fiction lockdown in the streets of Johannesburg. He struggles with his mental health and this in turn makes this particular lockdown situation rather difficult for him.

Author : R. Kumalo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956551552

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From Plough to Entrepreneurship by R. Kumalo Pdf

From Plough to Entrepreneurship is motivated largely by the fact that Africans were deprived of economic and political autonomy by white government in South Africa. This marginalisation lies in the complex and interconnected processes of displacement and dispossession by which Africans were first dispossessed of their own land; then deprived of independent productive opportunities. The increasing scarcity of land as scarce commodity and African land ownership in Evaton, best explains the history of African local economic independence. For the local residents, land possession in Evaton provided a space where a moral economy that fostered racial pride and solidarity was forged. This richly sourced monograph develops the logical explanation that sticks together all forces that constrained Africans to give up labour to an industrial economy in Evaton. It provides the reader and student of racialised inequalities in South Africa with an understanding steeped in historical ethnography on how local Africans struggled for economic independence, and how whatever independence their struggles yielded, changed over time in Evaton.

Author : J. Michael Williams
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253221551

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Chieftaincy, the State, and Democracy by J. Michael Williams Pdf

As South Africa consolidates its democracy, chieftaincy has remained a controversial and influential institution that has adapted to recent changes. J. Michael Williams examines the chieftaincy and how it has sought to assert its power since the end of apartheid. By taking local-level politics seriously and looking closely at how chiefs negotiate the new political order, Williams takes a position between those who see the chieftaincy as an indigenous democratic form deserving recognition and protection, and those who view it as incompatible with democracy. Williams describes a network of formal and informal accommodations that have influenced the ways state and local authorities interact. By focusing on local perceptions of the chieftaincy and its interactions with the state, Williams reveals an ongoing struggle for democratization at the local and national levels in South Africa.

Author : Harvey Pitkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520096126

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Wintu Grammar by Harvey Pitkin Pdf

Author : Nomkhosi Cynthia Thabethe
Publisher : Room to Read
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:dogs-versus-cats

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Dogs versus Cats by Nomkhosi Cynthia Thabethe Pdf

Dogs Versus Cats is the story of an uncommon friendship between a dog and a cat. But what happens when the cat is invited to live inside a nice, warm house--and the dog must still live outside? Story Attribution: This story: Dogs versus Cats is translated by Alisha Berger. The © for this translation lies with Room to Read, 2013. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/) Based on Original story: 'Akwatiwa lokwacabanisa inja nelikati,' by Nomkhosi Cynthia Thabethe. © Room to Read, 2013. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Other Credits: This story 'Dogs versus Cats' has been published on StoryWeaver by Room to Read.

Author : Njabulo S. Ndebele
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770104204

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Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele Pdf

Fools and Other Stories is an intricate and subtle collection that deals with the formative experiences of growing up in a Johannesburg township during the apartheid years. ‘These five stories are part of a long project in which I am attempting to explore imaginatively various aspects of life in the community I grew up in in South Africa. The first part, which these five stories cover, deals with the themes of early childhood and adolescence. In the second part I hope to explore adult life up to old age; lastly, I want to imaginatively study the movement of social change.’ – Njabulo S. Ndebele

Author : Anton Ferreira
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429998468

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Zulu Dog by Anton Ferreira Pdf

An honest and compassionate look at post-apartheid South Africa Vusi, an eleven-year-old Zulu boy growing up in poverty in rural South Africa, is enchanted by the helpless puppy he finds in the bush. He names it Gillette for its razor-sharp teeth and hides it from his mother, who disapproves of bush dogs as pets. His devotion to Gillette only grows stronger after the puppy is mauled by a leopard and loses a leg. But as boy and dog play carefree games, storm clouds are gathering over Vusi's family - ruthless rival taxi owners are trying to drive his father out of business. While Vusi and Gillette learn to hunt together, they meet the daughter of a neighboring white farmer. Gillette becomes the catalyst for their unlikely friendship, which has a decisive impact on the fate of Vusi's whole family - and the larger community. A starkly realistic story set against the backdrop of the country's tortured racial history, Zulu Dog holds out the hope that a new generation of South Africans can create a better future for their land. Zulu Dog is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Pieter du Toit
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781776191352

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The ANC Billionaires by Pieter du Toit Pdf

'We were talking about the rise of Japan, about Ronald Reagan's Star Wars ... globalisation, technology. And they were still banging on about the Freedom Charter.' – Anglo American's Michael Spicer on the ANC in the mid-1980s. In 1985, a group of white South African business leaders, led by Gavin Relly, the executive chairperson of Anglo American, travelled to a game lodge in Zambia to meet with the exiled ANC leadership under Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. This visit set in motion a coordinated and well-resourced plan by big business to influence and direct political change in South Africa. In The ANC Billionaires, top-selling author Pieter du Toit draws on first-hand accounts by major roleplayers about the contentious relationship between capital and the ANC before, during and after the country's transition to democracy, and shows how the liberation organisation was completely unprepared to navigate the intersection between business and politics. He also ties the rise of the new elite – including Cyril Ramaphosa, Patrice Motsepe and Saki Macozoma – to the ANC, a party of government and patronage.

Author : Gregory C. Jenks
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666752496

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Cultural Afterlives of Jesus by Gregory C. Jenks Pdf

This collection of essays explores the impact of Jesus within and beyond Christianity, including his many afterlives in literature and the arts, social just and world religions during the past two thousand years and especially in the present global context. This third volume focuses on the diverse afterlives of Jesus within contemporary culture and the arts. Moving beyond the explicitly religious afterlives traced in the first two volumes, this set of essay traces selected afterlives of Jesus within Indigenous cultures around the Pacific, as well as in the arts and in the contested fields of gender and sexuality. The contributors include religion scholars from diverse cultural contexts, as well as faith practitioners reflecting on Jesus within their own particular context. While the essays are all grounded in critical scholarship, reflective practice, or both, they are expressed in nontechnical language that is accessible to interested nonspecialists.

Author : Jan Lodewijk Pierson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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General Index of the Manyosu by Jan Lodewijk Pierson Pdf

Author : Chris Barnard
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415202135

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Bundu by Chris Barnard Pdf

In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens, then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly determined to serve. But the inundation soon becomes too much for them, and there is no help from outside. Within the small community of outcasts a plan takes shape that is as outrageous as it is inspired. The illegal adventure that follows is a humanitarian act of heroic proportions, yet unsung in the greater world. And in its wake unanswered questions remain: what is it that lies just beyond our reach; why can we not take the final step towards each other? Bundu is about the people and the animals of Africa at the height of their beauty and the depth of their despair. It is a love story and a meditation on the mystery of our powers and the limitations that we share with our brothers, the animals.

Author : Anton Ferreira
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 1919931910

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Sharp Sharp, Zulu Dog by Anton Ferreira Pdf

In post-apartheid South Africa, a Zulu boy keeps secrets from his family as he cares for an injured dog and befriends the daughter of a white farmer.

Author : Vusi Pikoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1770103457

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My Second Initiation by Vusi Pikoli Pdf

Traces Pikoli's journey from manhood in the hills of the Eastern Cape to his life-shaping experience in the corridors of powerin government.

Author : Max Mojapelo
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781920299286

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Beyond Memory by Max Mojapelo Pdf

South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still fi nds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.