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Joost and Amor
The celebrated Springbok rugby hero Joost van der Westhuizen and his wife, the singer Amor Vittone, were a glamorous couple who captured the imagination of many South Africans. Known as their country’s own ‘Posh and Becks’, they were blessed with success, fame, public adulation and an apparently happy marriage. Until a shock report appeared on the front page of a local Sunday newspaper about a sex video ... In this book, the well-known journalist, and a personal friend and confidante of the Van der Westhuizens, Gavin Prins, now recounts the story behind the story – one that has never been published before. Prins, who broke the sex-video scandal on the front page of Rapport, chronicles how a simple farm boy who had become a national rugby hero met the woman of his dreams and married her, only to fall from grace in the most publicly humiliating way possible. With his confession came a measure of redemption – until he was brought to his knees by a life-threatening illness ... Hard-hitting, often shocking but ultimately uplifting, this is the true story behind the sensational headlines that have dogged South Africa’s most high-profile couple.
No More Heroes
On the morning of Valentine's Day 2013, Paralympic icon and South African national hero Oscar Pistorius u the fastest man on no legs u carried his mortally wounded girlfriend down the stairs of his house. In this story, however, Pistorius was no champion. Following a suspected argument, the woman he loved was dying from wounds he has since been accused of inflicting. As the world awoke to the sensational story, the question on everyone's lips was: How did this happen? Now, for the first time, the true story behind the headlines can be revealed. Based on in-depth interviews with all the relevant players, first-hand information and on-the-scene reportage, No More Heroes covers the events leading up to the murder, the subsequent trial and its outcome, and investigates broader social concerns: the high level of violent crime in South Africa, particularly against women and children; the controversial matter of gun control; and the fallen-hero syndrome, as seen in the cases of Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong. Written by Jacques Steenkamp and Gavin Prins, this is the definitive account of the murder case that will define this decade and, perhaps, the society we live in.
Joost and Amor
Also available in Afrikaans as: Joost en Amor: agter die skerms.
The Griekwastad Murders
New edition includes the sentencing and identifies Don Steenkamp as the murderer for the first time ... Just after dusk on Good Friday, 6 April 2012, the peace and quiet permeating the small Northern Cape town of Griekwastad was disrupted when a young teenage boy sped into town in his father’s Isuzu bakkie and screeched to a halt in front of the town’s nearly deserted police station to announce that his parents and sister had been brutally shot and killed on the family farm, Naauwhoek Based on interviews with all the role-players, including the investigating officers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased, this is the riveting account of what really happened on Naauwhoek farm on that fateful day, as told by the reporter who first broke the story ...
Joost en Amor
Die gevierde Springbok-rugbyheld Joost van der Westhuizen en sy vrou, die sangeres Amor Vittone, was ’n glansryke paartjie wat die verbeelding van menige Suid-Afrikaner aangegryp het. Hulle het as hul land se eie “Posh en Becks” bekend gestaan en was geseënd met sukses, roem, ophemeling deur die publiek, en ’n oënskynlik gelukkige huwelik. Totdat ’n skokberig oor ’n seksvideo op die voorblad van ’n plaaslike Sondagkoerant verskyn het ... In hierdie boek vertel Gavin Prins, die welbekende joernalis en ’n persoonlike vriend en vertroueling van die Van der Westhuizens, nou die storie agter die storie – die een wat nog nooit tevore gepubliseer is nie. Prins, wat die seksvideo...
Loui Fish: Onsinkbaar
Onsinkbaar is ’n verhaal van passie, dwelms, geweld en liefde. Van ontwerpersklere en die gejaag na sukses. Maar dit vertel ook van ’n weerlose Loui, wanneer sy gestroop van al hierdie dinge besef dat geld en glorie nie geluk bring nie.
Benn's Media
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Mense van my asem
In Mense van my asem vertel Steve Hofmeyr uiteindelik sy lewensverhaal, in kenmerkende trant: openhartig, humoristies en uitgesproke. Hy begelei ons op ’n fassinerende reis deur sy kinderjare, sy tyd in die weermag en sy loopbaan daarna, en staan kort-kort stil by die gebeurtenisse en mense wat ’n groot impak op hom gehad het. Alle aspekte van sy lewensgeskiedenis word blootgelê - sy onkonvensionele godsdienstige en politieke oortuigings, sy liefdesverhoudings en buite-egtelike kinders, ’n selfmoordpoging, sy huwelik en die ernstige operasies wat hy ondergaan het. Hierdie boek gee ’n boeiende - en soms skokkende - kykie in die lewe van dié omstrede kunstenaar en mens.
Tweede kanse
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Ralph Haynes – Godfather van die Wes-Rand
Bekendes soos Steve Hofmeyr het hom ’n vriend genoem. Vir die armes van Randfontein was hy ’n vrygewige Robin Hood wat groente en geld kom aflewer het. Vir sy vrou, Jacky, was hy agter toe deure die man wat minderwaardig gevoel het oor sy kunsbeen en omdat hy oorgewig was. Maar vir die meeste mense was hy die gevreesde Godfather van die Wes-Rand. Saam met sy ewe berugte vriende, Ferdi Barnard, Corrie Goosen en Dawie Lötter, het Ralph Haynes sy slagoffers behoorlik laat deurloop met die een verbysterende skelmstreek na die ander. Miljoene rande is uit mense geswendel met valse transaksies in goud, diamante, motors en selfs kookolie. Op 21 Januarie 2011 verdwyn Ralph Haynes egter spoorloo...
