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Conquering the Poverty of the Mind: From Shipping Container to BUSY CORNER – The Entrepreneurial Journey of the Shisanyama Pioneer
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'When you see a township resident driving past in their new car, and they wave, and you wave back, it is extremely gratifying to know that they built their chakalaka business based on the small contract you gave them ten years previously, and now they have expanded and provide other companies...
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I Choose To Live, Life After Losing Gugu
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In July 2016, Letshego Zulu set off with her husband, SA racing champion Gugulethu Zulu, to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro. She had no idea that she would return to South Africa days later with her husband’s body in a coffin. This is the untold story of what really happened on Kilimanjaro. Told in...
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Love And Fury A Memoir
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Love and Fury is the compelling and intimate account of the life, loves and furies of Margie Orford. In this brave memoir, the renowned South African crime writer divulges some of the harrowing experiences that have shaped her life and influenced her writing. Through sexual assault, divorce,...
You Got Anything Stronger?
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"You Got Anything Stronger continues the project of unshackling. It's soul-baring work." - The Washington Post So. Where were we Right, you and I left off in October 2017. When I released We're Going to Need More Wine, the response was so great people asked when I would do a sequel....
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We're Going To Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
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NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Named a Best Book of the Year by The Root Chosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir “A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever...
On The Rocks: Memoir of A High-Functioning Alcoholic
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Thirty-nine-year-old Thando is living in total denial about her drinking. On the surface her life looks aspirational – great job, apartment, snazzy car. But behind the façade she harbour"s a shameful secret – she can’t control her drinking. To the outside world she's...
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Stand Against Bland
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Multi-award-winning Sylvester Chauke is a self-confessed Madonna crazy, entrepreneur and founder of DNA Brand Architects. After an illustrious career as the national marketing manager for Nando’s South Africa, Sylvester joined broadcasting giant MTV Networks Africa as its director of marketing...
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How I Took Back My Power
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‘I feel as if I have been holding onto myself and holding my breath; as if I have had a bomb strapped around my body and have had to watch my every step and move – just in case it exploded. Slowly, I’m gaining the confidence to breathe deeply and exhale longer. Slowly, I’m reclaiming the freedom...
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White Trash: My Year as a High-Class Call Girl
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Raised during the Rhodesian bush war and immigrating to SA at the age of 11, Terry is shaped by a white culture that is racist, unstable and deeply divided. Her childhood is bizarre as adults around her insist on living their version of normality while the world falls apart.  White Trash...
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Rafa: My Story
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As he announces his retirement, relive the story of one of the greatest to ever play the game - Rafael Nadal. This winning memoir, in Rafa's own words, gets to the heart of his major achievements on and off court, and is a fascinating insight into the making of a champion. 'A...
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Being Chris Hani's Daughter: A Memoir
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Award-winning publisher, Melinda Ferguson, of MFBooks Joburg, an imprint of Jacana Media, is ending 2016 on a high. Winner of the prestigious 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton award for Rape: A South African Nightmare by Dr Pumla Dineo Gqola, MFBooks promises to inject its bestseller magic into the...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times
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THE #1  SUNDAY TIMES  BESTSELLER Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly. How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?...
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I Don't Want Die Unknown: We Need To Listen To Our Inner Voice
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Dan Moyane was 10 years old when he lay on his back on a patch of grass at his parents' home in White City Jabavu, Soweto, looking at the moon and thinking, 'I don't want to die unknown.' The year was 1969, and Neil Armstrong and his team had recently achieved immortality by completing the first...
The Boy Who Never Gave Up
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In 1994, 16-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked out of war-torn Sudan with nothing and nowhere to go after he had been tortured at the hands of government forces, who falsely accused him of spying for the rebels. When he finally managed to escape, he literally took a wrong turn and, instead of being...
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