Bookstorm: 45 books
Great South African Teachers
A Tribute to South Africa's Great Teachers from the People Whose Lives They Changed
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
At a time when newspapers are full of the woes of the South African education system and stories of teachers who let the children in their classes down, this book shows that this is not the whole picture; it is a celebration of heroic teachers who have struggled against great odds to give their students...
The Disruptors 2
How Social Entrepreneurs Lead and Manage Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Following the success of 2016’s The Disruptors comes the next book on social entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Interest in the social enterprise movement by the formal business sector is growing, as social entrepreneurs often operate in highly complex and constrained environments and offer corporates...
Really, Don't Panic!
Positive messages by South Africans, for South Africans
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
South Africans remember when electricity load shedding brought the country to a standstill in 2008. There was a rush on generators and property in Perth, Australia. An email from Alan Knott-Craig reminding South Africans of the upsides to living in South Africa went viral and elicited responses from...
A School Where I Belong
Creating Transformed and Inclusive South African Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Over the past few years, it has become clear that the path of transformation in schools since 1994 has not led South Africa’s education system to where we had hoped it could be. Through tweets, posts and recent protests in schools, it has become apparent that in former whites-only state schools,...
Moenie Stres Nie!
Positiewe boodskappe vir Suid-Afrikaners, deur Suid-Afrikaners
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Suid-Afrikaners onthou toe beurtkrag in 2008 die land tot stilstand gebring het. Daar was 'n stormloop vir opwekkers en eiendom in Perth, Australi?. 'n E-pos vanaf Alan Knott-Craig wat Suid-Afrikaners herinner aan die positiewe dinge verbonde aan 'n lewe in Suid-Afrika het soos blits versprei en reaksies...
Letters to My Children
Tweets to Make You Think
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It started as advice to his own two children entering adulthood, it spread to his students at the University of the Free State and now tens of thousands of his followers of Twitter and Facebook wait for Jonathan Jansen's words of wisdom every day. Each day Jansen (@JJ_UFS) writes a Letter to my children...
Making Love in a War Zone
Interracial Loving and Learning After Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Can racism and intimacy co-exist? Can love and friendship form and flourish across South Africa’s imposed colour lines?
Who better to engage on the subject of hazardous liaisons than the students Jonathan Jansen served over seven years as Vice Chancellor of the University of the Free State,...
Eyes in the Night
An Untold Zulu Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
**‘*1879, the year in which I grew up faster than I could shout my name. That year was the one in which we experienced events and encounters that no one, particularly a child, should ever witness. It was also the year my people lost everything – their land and fields – and were reduced to being...
Lied vir Sarah
Lesse van my Ma
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In Lied vir Sarah, Jansen se persoonlikste en mees intieme boek tot op hede, daag Suid-Afrika se geliefde professor die stereotipes en stigma uit wat so maklik op Kaapse Vlakte-ma's van toepassing gemaak word as luidrugtig, wellustig en sonder tande – en bied hy dié deernisvolle verhaal aan as...
Tech-Savvy Parenting
A Guide to Raising Safe Children in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
•Are you a parent looking to make sense of a daunting digital world, with new technical challenges appearing daily?
• Feel you’re not keeping up with the demands of technology?
• Feel you’re not keeping up with your children’s use of social media?
• Worried it’s getting harder to keep...
by Franco Busetti
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Why is the South African stock market important? First, it is classified as an emerging market. However, while the country shows emerging characteristics, its stock market is highly developed. It is one of the oldest stock exchanges in the world and is the eighteenth largest in the world in terms...
Vaya
Untold Stories of Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
“This project represents hope and pride. I have endured and persevered to get here. My story matters.”David Majoka – storyteller and writerVaya the film is based on the lives of four young men from the Homeless Writer’s Project: David Majoka, Anthony Mafela, Madoda Ntuli and Tshabalira Lebakeng,...
The Battle for Cosatu
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
From his early start as a passionate pro-labour and anti-apartheid campaigner in Britain in the 1960s, to championing and defending the rights of workers in South Africa for the last 30 years, Patrick Craven first served as the editor of the Congress of South African Trade Union's magazine, then rose...
The Disruptors
Social entrepreneurs reinventing business and society
Language: English
Release Date: April 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...