Bookstorm: 45 books
Black Like You
An autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Herman Mashaba rose from humble beginnings to become one of South Africa’s wealthiest and best-known entrepreneurs, and the Executive Mayor of Johannesburg - Africa's largest and most important city. This is his story.His remarkable story begins in a small village in Gauteng, South Africa, where...
A Handful of Summers
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
From beginnings on a gravel court on a farm in rural South Africa, Gordon Forbes went on to travel the world with his long-time tennis partner Abe Segal during the late 1950s and early 60s: the glory days of Fred Perry, Roy Emerson and Virginia Wade. In this delightful insider’s account of tennis...
Capitalist Crusader
Fighting Poverty Through Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
*‘When I had to give up my university studies 35 years ago I was so angry that I wanted to leave South Africa, get military training and an AK47 and come back to kill evil white people … I’m just as angry now as I feel my economic freedom is under threat, but I’m staying to fight for what...
A Bantu in My Bathroom
Debating Race, Sexuality and Other Uncomfortable South African Topics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Why are South Africans so uncomfortable with deep disagreement? Why do is their such a high level of intolerance for people with opposing views? Eusebius McKaiser is on a mission to raise the level of debate in South Africa. He provokes readers from their comfort zones and lures them into the debates...
Your First Year of Work
A Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Are you in your first job? Are you trying to find your first job? Are you stressing about entering the workplace? Are your parents stressing about you finding your first job? Shelagh Foster has seen so many people just like you, battling to get ahead once they've finished matric, college or university....
The Disruptors Extended Ebook Edition
Social entrepreneurs reinventing business and society
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Can business change the world? Can the world change business? For a new breed of social entrepreneurs, striving to build and grow enterprises that fight social ills, foster opportunity, and help to improve society, the answer is not can, it’s must. Impassioned by purpose, driven by dreams, emboldened...
by Allon Raiz, Trevor Waller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
96% of small businesses fail within ten years -- so what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? How can you beat the statistics and create and grow a successful business? Allon Raiz challenges readers to find their entrepreneurial passion and to have the courage to stay focused and determined...
Mountains of Spirit
The Story of the Royal Bakwena ba Mogopa of the North West, South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A detailed account of the rich history and resilience of the Bakwena ba Mogopa, one of the most important traditional communities in South Africa. This seminal and lucid work depicts the scope of social, political and economic change of the community from its earliest beginnings as the Kwena tribe...
Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers
A Mercy to All
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a message that would dramatically change the lives of countless people.‘To my absolute astonishment he told me I would help people for the rest of my life....
by Jonathan Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ways of speaking can help heal or they can provoke; they can inflame passions or settle nerves.' Professor Jonathan Jansen is fast becoming a household name in South Africa, for his critical and at times inconvenient voice. In this collection of articles previously published in The Times Jansen highlights...
The Lion and the Thespian
The True Story of Prime Minister JG Strydom's Marriage to the Actress Marda Vanne
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Margaretha van Hulsteyn (also known as Scrappy) is the daughter of respected South African attorney Sir Willem van Hulsteyn, and an aspiring actress. While studying in London after the Great War, Scrappy changes her name to Marda Vanne and enters into a relationship with one of the foremost actresses...
Song for Sarah
Lessons from my Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In this, Jansen’s most personal and intimate book to date, South Africa’s beloved Professor contemplates the stereotypes and stigma so readily applied to Cape Flats mothers as bawdy, lusty and gap-toothed – and offers this endearing antidote as a praise song to mothers everywhere who raise families...
Recover from your Childhood
Life lessons for Adult Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Many adults who had challenging childhoods find that their childhood fears impact on their lives as adults. If you behaved in a very responsible and reliable manner when you were a child and if, now that you are an adult, you often feel childlike and vulnerable in stressful situations, you are in...
Could I Vote DA?
A Voter's Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Helen Zille said of Eusebius McKaiser: 'Don't give him oxygen. He wants a controversy. Narcissism in extremis. Attention seeking.' (Twitter, September 2013) McKaiser says of Zille: 'I think Helen Zille is a good leader.' ... but he also says: 'She is the wrong person to have a crack at leading the...