Matilda's journey begins with the knowledge of possibilities, the taming of her mind and the control of her body. The story takes you on her journey through the unknown; of her life growing up in a humble Coloured township during apartheid and her venture through the joy, pain and laughter that was the abyss of her love life. She makes one think about the parts of us that others don't and will never see, and parts of us that others will never know. The parts of ourselves, our minds and our cares that teach, admonish, criticise, are conflicting yet simultaneously belong and exist in the same person. Her view shows the lighter side of apartheid - because that was the way that she saw and experienced it: watching white kids enjoy themselves, her attempts to act as a "Play-white", her reclassification, her defiance of the Immorality Act, her mixed marriage, heartbreak, ridicule and pre-judgement, painting these as a set of comical challenges. She exposes the thoughts and the depth of her existence and essence that are invisible and intangible, yet present through experiences of love, lust, trust, delight, pain and death; having no beginning and no conclusion. The deeply complex character has fun talking to her mind and to The World at large, telling tales of the past, the present and the future, guided by a prayer: 'Grazie e Dio, Lo sai che ci sono qui. Thank You, God. I know that You know that I am here.'

Panaché - The Spirit of Life

Literature & Fiction

Lassen, Dr Cheryl

Genre Fiction

Kwarts Publishers

In 1906 while the Namas, indigenous first people of Namibia, were engaged in a war with the German colonial Schutztruppe, the Luchtensteins, an immigrant family, arrived by ship in Luderitzbucht. They then left by ox wagon to a new home, three hundred kilometres into the interior. Ahead of them lay the treacherous sands of the Namib Desert; thirst, searing heat, freezing nights, the fury of the desert wind, wild animals - and the enemy. A Nama commando led by Cornelius Fredericks, son-in-law of Hendrik Witbooi, attacks them but Cornelius allows them to escape unharmed, only to fall victim himself to his enemies. A strong bond develops between the young Ernst Luchtenstein and the captured Nama captain, Cornelius Fredericks. Ernst embarks on a quest for a new life and meets Regina, but fate intervenes forcing him to confront his identity. He returns to Keetmanshoop, waiting for Regina to be released from internment, and becomes the unwitting custodian of the history and legacy of the Namas, and a symbol of resistance to the greatest evil of the Twentieth Century, the Holocaust.

The Scourge of the Kaiserbird

Marais, Koos

It cost me an arm and a leg

Biographies & Memoirs

Louw, Braam

Community & Culture

A coach touches more lives in one season than most people will touch in a life-time. True coaching is about one's ability to guide and assist someone in becoming a master in both a particular sport as well as in life.Jannie Putter is a leader in the field of mental coaching in South Africa. He was a provincial and national sportsman and has degrees in Psychology, Sport Science and Sport Psychology. He is the author of several top-selling books regarding parenting, mental coaching, self-mastering and leadership. He is a well-known motivational speaker and works with many sport teams and individuals from all spheres of life.

THE SPORT COACH: The Psychology behind coaching

Sports & Outdoors

Putter, Jannie

Miscellaneous

The Reluctant Cuckoo

Donald, Cathy

Who are we? What is the mind, what is consciousness and what is reality? This book offers educated answers and explanations to all these questions and more. This is an ¿easy to read¿ book which motivates the reader to reconsider everything they think they know about themselves and the world today, examining the different models of creation and evolution, the essence of matter and of life itself, exploring all manner of scientific, theological, psychological and philosophical hypotheses. Can it be, that this complex, living, breathing, sophisticated, opinionated, creative and conscious entity that we call human, is made up merely from a few invisible atoms of nothingness? We are not simply made from flesh and blood - we are beings of an infinity of dimensions, too vast to contemplate, but our brains and our senses are only able to perceive that which is rooted in matter, for that is the substance from which we believe we are made. What we call reality, is most definitely not what it appears to be.

The Universal Mind

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Weisz, Peter

Psychology & Counseling

Mirror Cracked

Khan, Raashida

Die langverwagtige boek met uittreksels van die steeds groeiende en gewilde Afrikaanse webblad, Hekelwoorde van my Hart, is gepubliseer op versoek van lesers, volgelinge, geraaktes en vervlegtes vir vashou en koester en liefhê. Die boek bestaan uit kort skryfstukke sowel as gedigte. Die mees konsekwente terugvoer wat Tania van lesers ontvang, is dat sy dit regkry om emosies te verwoord wat hulle self nog altyd gevoel het, maar nog nooit woorde voor kon vind nie. Die eerlike en opregte manier waarop sy met haar eie tekortkominge omgaan, hoe raak sy emosies oor alledaagse probleme en situasies verwoord, en veral die deurdagte manier waarop die mees persoonlike gedagtewêreld van elke mens pynlik akkuraat en reguit deur haar omskryf word, is uniek. Glendine Chrisholm, bekende skilder van De Rust in die Wes Kaap, het die illustrasies gedoen - en die eindproduk is 'n perfekte sinergie tussen siel en woord, wat moeiteloos en sonder enige voorspelbaarheid hulself, elkeen op sy eie tyd, deur die loop van die boek openbaar. Tania Smit woon in Oudtshoorn saam met haar twee tienerkinders, Julia en Adrian. Sy skryf oor die voel van haar eie lewe as reënboogkind, single dating in haar veertigs, haar vrese en oorwinnings, om gevat en gelos te wees, genoeg en te min te wees, en oor wyn en vure en kos en reis en ma-wees en menswees. Sy is 'n dromer maar ook 'n realis. Die woorde in hierdie boek is haar storie, maar ook almal se storie.

Hekelwoorde van my Hart (Afrikaans Edition)

Smit, Tania

Poetry

THE WAUCHOPES - GENERATIONAL ACTIVISM

Sifuba, Natalia

Historical

"Jong, ek gaan sommer met die deur in die huis val. Die rede hoekom ek hier is gaan oor dinge wat ons in ons studentedae aangevang het en nou geboemerang het." "Hoe nou?" vra Ruan uit die veld geslaan."Ek weet nie of jy nog kan onthou van die eerstejaartjie wat met haar ontgroening met jou 'getrou' het nie?" vra Johan. "Ja, die stil stemmige enetjie. Dit was nogal 'n ding en baie prettig," lag Ruan. "Kan jy nog die troue onthou?" vra Johan. "Vaagweg lui daar 'n klokkie want ek het nooit ingestem nie behalwe die een keer, want sy was een van die mooiste meisies en in 'n ander klas as die ander meisies," lag Ruan. "Jy was lekker gekoring en toe word ek sommer nadergetrek om dit na 'n werklike troue te laat lyk," verduidelik Johan. "Jy was maar net so lekker gekuier," lag Ruan kliphard."Wel, sy en jy is toe per ongeluk werklik deur my getroud," antwoord Johan versigtig...Hoe sal jy voel as jy skielik uitvind jy is eintlik getroud wanneer jy veronderstel was om jou droom te gaan uitleef oorsee? Het jy ook ondeurdagte dinge in jou jongdae gedoen wat later kinkels in jou lewe veroorsaak het?

Kinkels in die Kabel (Afrikaans Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

van der Walt, Sanna

Christian Books & Bibles

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