SOUTH AFRICAN Categories
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Platter’s 2021 South African Wine Guide (Hardback)
Condition: As new
This 41st edition of the authoritative South African wine guide features 211 Five Star wines out of over 8,000 wines reviewed. Platter’s features descriptions of over 900 producers across the vibrant wine regions of South Africa and also offers the 100-point equivalents for the familiar star ratings, as well as useful information for learning about and travelling in these beautiful wine lands. The guide’s independent ratings and reviews are the result of a best-of-both-worlds system of sighted and blind tastings.
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20 South African Schools – A Pictorial History Don Nelson Publishers (Hardback)
Condition: As new.
This book is a wonderful review of pictures and text which captures the history of 20 South African Schools. Schools form the foundation of society and in South Africa. We are blessed with excellent schools, many of which were founded well over 100 years ago.
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THE CAPE SKETCHBOOKS OF SIR CHARLES D’OYLY 1968 (Hardback)
Condition: Very Good
Depicting Cape Town, the country side and neighbouring villages, with an introduction by A. Gordon-Brown
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Life and Soul: Portraits of Women Who Move South Africa by Karina Turok (Hardback)
This title presents a series of portraits of inspirational and iconic South African women. The 75 women, from different backgrounds and all walks of life, include writers, storytellers, business women, musicians, artists, actresses, sports women, journalists, spiritual leaders, politicians and doctors
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Life at the Cape: A hundred years ago by A Lady (Hardback)
Condition: 119 pages (complete). The dustjacket is worn and scuffed and marked but the book is well secure.
The book was compiled from a series of articles published in the Cape newspapers at the turn of the century (1890 – 1910) all written by a “Lady” whose ability to describe her travels and the sights she took in, is invaluable to the interested reader. She describes the wonders of the natural beauty of the Cape, causing the imagination to look beneath the City of Cape Town that has grown to accommodate 3 million people in 2010.
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Avenge Tobruk by E.P. Hartshorn (Hardcover)
No dust jacket, Tightly bound,no hight lighted pages .
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Art & Artists of South Africa: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary and Historical Survey of Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists Since 1875 by Esme Berman (Hardback)
An illustrated biographical dictionary and historical survey of painters and graphic artists since 1875.
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Cape Wine Homesteads by Cor Pama paintings by Ted Hoefsllot (Hardcover)
Condition: Good. Dust jacket is shelf worn
A short history of wine farming and a tour of the historic homesteads that grace the well-known estates.
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Help! There’s a Stove in My Kitchen by Annabel Frere (Paperback)
From learning the basics to producing impressive, yet cunningly simple, meals, Help! there’s a stove in my kitchen gives you an easy way to get started in the kitchen. With over 170 recipes, Help! there’s a stove in my kitchen is primarily a cookbook for school leavers and young adults who have mostly never had to cook for themselves and who need a few ideas on what to prepare and how to go about it.
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A Cask of Jerepigo by Herman Charles Bosman (Hardback)
The enduringly funny A Cask of Jerepigo has become a South African favourite, with pieces like Shanty Town, Johannesburg Riots, Street Processions and Jam Session frequently reprinted and performed. The satirical sharpness and unique comic reporting of South Africa’s jaunty man about town are still unmatched.
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Mafeking Road by Herman Charles Bosman (Hardback)
Arguably the most enduring collection of South African short-fiction, Mafeking Road has never been out of print since its first publication in 1947.
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Jan Braai The Vegetarian Option (Paperback)
Jan Braai’s friends have been badgering him to write a vegetarian braai book for years, and he has finally done it! Once he sat down to tackle the task, he realised that his books have loads of great vegetarian recipes, but it isn’t fair to make the vegetarians buy all the books to find them. So Jan collected all his best vegetarian recipes together, and then added a whole lot more. If you’re looking for a meat-free Monday option, have to cater for your son’s new vegetarian girlfriend or the grandchildren, or have even decided to take the vegetarian plunge yourself, there’s no reason to neglect your braai – Jan has you covered.
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Reader’s Digest Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story (Hardback)
Surveys the history of South Africa from its early civilizations to significant twentieth-century events
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MasterChef South Africa – The Cookbook published by Human & Rousseau (Paperback)
Signed by Judge, Pete Goffe-Wood
They came, they cooked. Only one conquered!
Never before have South Africans been gripped by a food phenomenon quite like MasterChef South Africa, aired on M-Net. Now, with MasterChef South Africa – The Cookbook, the gazillion fans following every beat of the whisk can recreate the dishes that made celebrities out of 18 hopefuls.
This cookbook has it all: Behind-the-scenes moments, flashbacks of mystery box challenges and grueling pressure tests – not to forget the invention tests that had us wondering “what on earth will they pull off with those ingredients?!”
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Kokkedoor 2 Versamelresepte saamgestel deur Errieda Du Toit (Paperback)
Woelige weeksdae wat fyn verdeel word tussen werk, skool, sport en huiswerk beteken nie dat aandete moet bestaan uit gebakte boontjies op roosterbrood nie. 50 Prutpotgeregte wys vir jou hoe om met behulp van jou prutpot (slow cooker) en minimale voorbereiding heerlike bredies, sop, sappige braaistukke en selfs poeding kan gaarmaak terwyl jy aandag aan belangriker dinge skenk. Al die resepte maak gebruik van bestanddele wat reeds in jou koskas is of maklik by jou plaaslike supermark bekombaar is.
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Franschhoek: South African Winelands by Jeremy Browne (Hardcover)
Condition: NEW
An in-depth tour of this iconic South African winelands destination.
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Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed by Mandy Wiener (pperback)
In September 2005 one of South Africa’s most eminent mining magnates and businessmen Brett Kebble was killed on a quiet suburban street in Johannesburg. The investigation into the case was a tipping point for democratic South Africa. The top-level investigation that followed exposed the corrupt relationship between the country’s Chief of Police and Interpol President Jackie Selebi and suave Mafioso Glenn Agliotti. A lawless Johannesburg underbelly was exposed – dominated by drug lords, steroid-reliant bouncers, an international smuggling syndicate, a shady security unit moonlighting for the police and sinister self-serving sleuths abusing state agencies. -
Southern Cross by Jann Turner (paperback)
Anna and Paul are bound by a love so deep that it seems nothing can come between them. He is white, she is not, and in apartheid-riven South Africa, their work in the underground resistance movement is riddled with danger. Then, one night, Paul is brutally murdered. Trapped in a deep-seated grief, but sustained by Paul’s memory, Anna continues to fight for justice. Ten years later, in the newly democratic South Africa, Anna brings the unsolved murder to the Truth Commission, setting off a chain of events that uncovers the lies surrounding Paul’s death and a darker truth no one wants to see. -
After Dawn: Hope After State Capture by Mcebisi Jonas (paperback)
In October 2015, the Gupta brothers offered Mcebisi Jonas the position of minister of finance in exchange for R600 million. Then deputy minister of finance, Jonas turned down the bribe and a period of deep introspection followed for him. How did we reach this point, and what did the future holds for South Africa’s democracy and the economy?
In After Dawn, Mcebisi Jonas analyses the crisis at the heart of our current system, which places politics at the centre of policymaking and implimentation at the expense of growth. In this important and authoritative book, Jonas first unpacks and analyses the current balands of the South African economic and political landscape.
Time is of the essence and the window of opportunity is narrowing for all South Africans to work together towards the South Africa we all imagined was possible in 1994.
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Theology & Violence: The South African Debate Edited by Charles Villa-Vincencio (paperback)
The traditional willingness of the church to bless the use of state violence while opposing revolutionary violence is a natural consequence of its political location on the side of successive ruling classes – traceable back to the Edict of Milan in 313 CE.
It would be wrong, however, to suggest that it is for reasons extraneous to theology that some Christians understand or justify revolutionary violence, while others participate in revolution against tyrannical rulers. It is, in turn, naïve simply to condemn all violence, when in South Africa state repression is at an all time high and revolutionary resistance is intensifying daily.
The essays in this volume contribute to a quest for a responsible Christianity in a violent society. The contours of political violences in South Africa from the time of colonial and missionary expansionism, through the rise of Afrikaner nationalism to the black struggle for liberation are considered. Prominent black Christians, including Desmond Tutu and Frank Chikane, provide contextual theological comment on the use of revolutionary violence. The classical teaching of the church on violence is critically analysed and specific issues such as women and violence, conscientious objection and the ecumenical debate on violent revolution and military disarmament are considered.