This biography reads like a novel: exciting, moving and humorous. It is the story of an inspiring politician who wrote verses on the back of cigarette boxes, a minister with the finesse of a battering ram, a peacemaker, and ambassador who never had to take "No" for an answer, and a man who was happiest when sitting next to a campfire in the bush. And it is far more. Theresa Papenfus depicts Botha against the broader political and social background of his time. This work is also an account of a tempestuous period in South African history. New facts are revealed on events such as the aviation disaster in which samora Machel was killed. The research covers a formidable range of sources, including personal interviews and correspondence with authoritative and prominent South African and international figures. And then there are Pik Botha's verses, personal documents and the numerous interviews he granted. Valuable. Thorough. Absorbing. ' Jeanette Ferreira, literary critic, editor and writer...." An authoritative source of information ... that could never be ignored ... direct, with no mincing of words or empty praise ... a work that attests to intensive research and broad knowledge, sensitive but without sentimentality or obfuscation.' Marinus Wiechers, Professor Emeritus of Constitutional , International and Indigenous Law and former principal, Unisa. ...' "History owes her a favor for writing this book. I enjoyed it immensely.' Peter Sullivan, former editor of The Star and Group Editor-in-Chief, Independent Newspapers, South Africa.

Pik Botha and his Times

Biographies & Memoirs

Papenfus, Theresa

Historical

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This is a full-color guide to hunting in Africa for beginners and professionals alike, covering all aspects of hunting. Africa is one of the last natural frontiers for the serious hunter. Since its publication in 2000, Hunting Africa has become known as a trusted standard guide for hunters, an essential source of African hunting information, and a scientific field guide to over 130 African species. Sections include: the professional hunter, preparation, tracking, shot placement, rifles and ballistics, emergencies, trophies, measurements and records, and ethics and the law. This new edition was updated to contain the very latest information available at the time of printing.

Hunting Africa: A Practical Guide

Science & Math

Swan, Gerhard

Biological Sciences

In 1993, South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that six-and-a-half nuclear bombs had been secretly built and destroyed. No other country has ever voluntarily destroyed its nuclear arsenal. In this book, nuclear physicist Nic von Wielligh and his daughter Lydia von Wielligh-Steyn tell the gripping story of the splitting of the atom and the power it realizes. It is an account of groundbreaking research and the scientists responsible; it deals with uranium enrichment, the arms race, and South Afria's secret program. The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme is a story of nuclear explosions, espionage, smuggling nuclear materials, and swords that became ploughshares. Professor Waldo Stumpf, the former CEO of the South African Atomic Energy Corporation, called The Bomb, “the only comprehensive work so far on South Africa's part in this historic subject that has been turned into a thoroughly readable story.”

The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme

History

Von Wielligh, Nic

Von Wielligh-Steyn, Lydia

Africa

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