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Elon Musk: Risking It All
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In 2022 Elon Musk - one of the richest and best-known people on earth - made headlines worldwide with his bid to buy Twitter, and he is often in the news for his entrepreneurial exploits and his controversial tweets. Who is this boundary-pushing billionaire with grand plans of inhabiting Mars,...
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It Takes A Tsunami: Knocked down, but Not gone. Lessons in catastrophe and tenacity
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When Rael Levitt stepped onto the podium at Quoin Rock Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in December 2011, he was CEO of the industry-pioneering Auction Alliance and at the pinnacle of a glittering 20-year career. But then disaster struck. After being accused by a powerful...
A Woman Makes A Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success
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When Maye Musk decided to make grey hair glam, she became an international cover model in her sixties - a far cry from the single mother living in a small Durban apartment trying to make ends meet to provide for her three kids. Things have not always been easy or glamorous for the mother of...
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Tough Love: The Amazing True Story of a Boxing World Champion Turned Lawyer
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Growing up in extreme poverty in Messina (today Musina) in the early 1980s, Lovemore Ndou was forced to start fighting to protect himself, his parent and his siblings. At an early age he experienced the injustices of the apartheid system when his arm was broken during a beating in a police cell...
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Winnie & Nelson (Portrait Of A Marriage)
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One of the most celebrated political leaders of our time, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with...
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Breaking Bread: A Memoir
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Professor. Pundit. Public nuisance. In his columns, books and on social media, Jonathan Jansen is prolific, and he likes to speak his mind about schools and universities, race, politics and our complex South African society. He has brought incisive analysis, compassion and a sense of humour...
A Testament Of Hope: The Autobiography Of Dr. Sam Motsuenyane
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A Testament of Hope is an uplifting story about one man's dream to succeed and achieve, despite severe political and socio-economic obstacles. The book traces Dr Motsuenyane's humble beginnings in a village in the North West Province and reveals how he reached the highestechelons of black...
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A Life Of Colour: A South African doctor’s pursuit of integrity
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DR ERROL HOLLAND: A LIFE OF COLOUR A SOUTH AFRICAN DOCTOR’S PURSUIT OF INTEGRITYErrol Holland grew up in Coronationville, a then ‘coloured’ township in Johannesburg. As a child he witnessed the destruction of the flamboyant racially mixed suburb of Sophiatown. As a young medical student in Cape...
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Take Charge: Life Lessons on the Road to CEO
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‘I believe there are many potential senior leaders out there who simply lack the self-belief and toolkit to begin their own journey to the top. There are, as they say, many ways to skin a cat . . .’ Join Nyimpini Mabunda on his journey from his childhood in an apartheid-era homeland to the CEO’s...
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That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses’ Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever
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THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the...
The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What's Really Important
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Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of ground-breaking surgical procedures, a doctor who turns impossible hopes into joyous realities. He is also known as a compassionate humanitarian who reaches beyond corporate boardrooms to touch the lives of inner-city kids. Where does this drive...
Khwezi: The Remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo
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In August 2016, following the announcement of the results of South Africa’s heated municipal election, four courageous young women interrupted Jacob Zuma’s victory address, bearing placards asking us to ‘Remember Khwezi’. Before being dragged away by security guards, their powerful message had...
Maggie Smith: A Biography
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This perfect gift book for fans of  Downton Abbey  will take them behind the scenes of the Grand Dame who brings the Dowager Countess to life. No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines...
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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Shortlisted for the  Financial Times  and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball  is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend...
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 – more than half a century after the passage of a federal...
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Just A Moment A Memoir
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One of the greats of South African rugby shares the many layers of his colourful and eventful life. From rugby legend to businessman, wine farmer, cultural custodian, musician, father and grandfather, Schalk Burger’s memoir is an intensely personal and honest journey of the triumphs and...
The Heart Of A Woman
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From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'  BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of...
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Good Morning Mr. Mandela
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There are numerous books about Nelson Mandela, but  Good Morning, Mr. Mandela  is the first by a trusted member of his inner circle. In addition to offering a rare close portrait, Zelda la Grange pays tribute to Madiba as she knew him—a teacher who gave her the most valuable...
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Bernard Magubane: My Life & Times
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Born in 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal, South Africa, Ben Magubane would almost certainly have grown up to be a farm worker had his father not moved the family suddenly to the city of Durban following a clash with the farm's owner. In Durban, the family lived in the Cato Manor squatter...
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Ramaphosa: Path To Power
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Ray Hartley reveals how Cyril Ramaphosa pulled off one of the greatest political comebacks of modern times, and what lies in store for the new president as he embarks on a hefty clean-up operation of a country in shambles. Ray Hartley's bestselling 2017 biography, Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would Be...
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The BEE Billionaires: Redressing the imbalances of the past, or creating new ones?
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South Africa is in the eye of a slow-building economic storm: junk status, political upheaval, civil unrest, spiralling unemployment, state capture and the fallout from Covid-19. There is no better time to assess the impact of one of the biggest economic experiments in Africa that began a...
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The Power Of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom
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Britain's most authentically prophetic voice -  Daily Telegraph 'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.' From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in 1991, through to his death in November 2020, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks made an...
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Hero/Villian: Satoshi: The Man Who Built Bitcoin
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The inside story of the man who invented Bitcoin and his battle to protect it. In 2008, when the Bitcoin Whitepaper was published online, the technology world changed forever.  Hero / Villain: Satoshi: The Man Who Built Bitcoin  tells the story of how an awkward Australian...
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I Loved A Girl: A Private Correspondence
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The spiritual vision of Trobisch's classic answers to love's questions is reproduced here in a new edition. It presents a compilation of letters between a German missionary pastor and two young Africans, one of whom is attracted to a Christian girl. The book offers reflections on love,...
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
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A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.  'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'  BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to...
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