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There Goes English Teacher
On a considered whim writer Karin Cronje packs up her life and flies across the world to teach English in a small Korean village. The result is a poignant, heart-achingly funny, scandalous, and deeply moving account of incomprehension, awe, dislocation, belonging, the sticky business of identity and the loss of it, sanity, and the loss of that. Characters like Dae-ho, her guru man, who reminds her to breathe; dazzling Mae and her bar, Goldfinger; Leona with her rattle snake tongue, and all the others she cant understand are now the people in her life. Back home is her son who has fallen in with a suspect character and her friends who now seem like dung beetles each rolling their own ball of muck. They, together with the tip of the African continent, are about to disappear into the sea. She has only herself. And that sure as hell feels inadequate. With her inimitable voice Karin Cronje shocks and delights as she digs deeply into the full catastrophe of being human.
Boerejood
Depicts South Africa through the eyes of a Boerejood, a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer who struggles with issues of race and identity, as does his nation.
Boerejood: One Man’s Quest to Understand the Miracle of Democracy in South Africa
“Brilliant: engaged, intelligent, personal… and funny” – Financial Times Ten years after democracy arrived in South Africa here is a book that gives a voice to the Afrikaner, speaking in English about the ‘Miracle’ of the peaceful transition to majority rule – their worst nightmare. This is a book that goes beyond politics with the very human story of one man, giving insight into the hearts and minds of a people struggling to find their identity as white Africans trying to secure their place in Africa. They are seen through the eyes of a Boerejood – a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer – who struggles himself with issues of identity, reflecting the struggle around him. In t...
Diamond Mind
The role of the brain in creating happiness, wisdom, compassion, and clarity--as well as unhappiness, anxiety, agitation, desire, anger, and grief--is explored in this introduction to the psychology of Buddhism.
Performing South Africa's Truth Commission
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commission as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.
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My Only Story
In November 2019, Deon Wiggett’s sensational weekly podcasts held South Africa in thrall as he hunted down the paedophile who raped him as a schoolboy. Now, in My Only Story, he completes his exposé of Willem Breytenbach, the once brilliant teacher and later media luminary who led a predatory life. Deon’s mission to expose his abuser takes him from Breytenbach’s high-school years at an agricultural school in South Africa’s hinterland to the famous Grey College in Bloemfontein and the media titan Naspers. But his quest reveals so much more. As he traces systemic failures through schools great and small, he uncovers a culture of complicity that presents a clear and horrid danger to So...
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
'The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: An Annotated Bibliography' is a much-needed reference work for those who are studying and pursuing the outcomes of Truth Commissions around the world. However, it is also a valuable tool for all researchers from diverse disciplines. For example, those specialising in the fields of sociology, political science, and literature will find material that appeals and is relevant to their areas of research. There is little doubt that students and researchers pursuing courses such as Conflict Resolution, Good Governance and International Relations would find this compilation more than beneficial since it covers not only an assortment of themes but it also includes ingenious cartoons by the famous Zapiro and memorable photographs by George Hallet. In addition, the compiler also inserted a select number of poems that dealt with the issues and themes related to the TRC process.
Moord en ander speletjies
Daar skort iets met Cronje se kollega en vriend Richard Roux, hy tree geruime tyd al geheimsinnig op. Op aandrang van hul bevelvoerder, moet hulle die gesiene Regter Taljaard se verjaardagviering bywoon. Die Regter word vermoor en Cronje ontdek dat hy die heeltyd ’n buitestaander in ’n kat en muis speletjie is. Omdat Roux die hoofverdagte is, moet Cronje noodgedwonge terugstaan, terwyl Jan Visagie, ’n onbeholpe speurder, die ondersoek in ’n verkeerde rigting dwing. Nuwe bewyse kom aan die lig, en Cronje besluit om sake in eie hande te neem. Hierdie besluit verander die koers van sy loopbaan en sy vriendskap met Roux. Met soveel op die spel moet die enigmatiese speurder Cronje nie net fyntrap nie, maar ook sy persoonlike gevoelens eenkant skuif, anders kan die skuldige wegkom met moord...
Kaapse bibliotekaris
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
