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Shadow
Paul du Toit settled in the United Kingdom after leaving under a cloud ten years before. Now he is divorced and middle-aged, and bogged down in a boring job and a floundering relationship. He therefore readily accepts a straightforward – or so he thinks – assignment from a wealthy London financier that takes him back to South Africa. But the country has changed, and the waters are treacherous. Suddenly Paul has to battle not only the shodows of his own life, but also the hidden powers that control South Africa.
Legends
We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it’s easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen remarkable people – some well known, others largely forgotten – who changed Mzansi for the better. Most South Africans are proud of Nelson Mandela – and rightly so. His life was truly astounding, but he’s by no means the only person who should inspire us. There’s King Moshoeshoe, whose humanity and diplomatic strategies put him head and shoulders above his contemporaries, both European and African. And John Fairbairn, who brought non-racial democr...
No Man's Land
And the truth? The truth had somehow slipped away, not only from him but also from the TRC. Between him and the truth was a curtain, and the shadows behind the curtain kept on moving and changing shape. Hauled from the breathing spaces of his marriage and job to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Paul du Toit finds himself in a country that has no place for him anymore. A former Special Forces operative in the 1980s, he is obliged to apply for amnesty for a ‘project’ in which two civilians were killed and to confront questions arising from his long-buried past. No Man’s Land is set at the turn of the millennium in South Africa and London, where Paul becomes part of the large South African expatriate community created by the white diaspora from his country. Adrift in an inhospitable city, in search of a wife who has left him even before his application is judged, he reveals two sides of his nature – one deadly, the other vulnerable. And gradually, through transcripts of Paul’s TRC hearing, this profoundly moving novel explores the dual nature of his history and the troubled question of how ordinary people deal with a pervasive evil.
Geldenhuys Genealogy, Descendants of Albert Barends Gildenhuizen
Albert Barend Gildenhuizen (also spelt Gildenhuisz or Gildenhausen) arrived at the Cape in 1661 from Burgsteinfurt, Wesfale, Holland, as a sailor on board the ship "Princesse Royale". He became a "vryburger" on 23rd September 1661, the year before Cape founder Jan van Riebeeck returned to the Netherlands.He returned to Holland to marry Margaretha Hoefnagels and settled in the Cape in 1672. The Geldenhuys Stamvader was employed as a farm labourer from 1662 to 1665, and were known as knechts (hired hands released from the Garrison), working on various farms, among others with farmer Jacob Cloete. "Free burghers" were granted 11.5 hectares of land along the Liesbeek River. Their descendant son, Barend Gildenhausen born on 6th September 1682, was the first purchaser of Vergelegen - the Hottentots Holland wine farm established by Willem Adriaan van der Stel, the son of well-liked Simon van der Stel. Vergelegen borders the town Somerset West.
The Record
This 1838 work, compiled by a British colonial official, investigates the treatment of indigenous tribes in colonial South Africa.
Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid
This book considers South African writing for what it tells us about politics, culture and change after apartheid.
Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803
A history of the conquest and servitude of the Khoisan in the Cape eastern frontier.
Battles of South Africa
An interesting selection of battles found to be in some way pertinent, and important in the often misunderstood South African military history.
