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The success of Ann Bernstein’s The Case for Business in Developing Countries
Companies are frequently painted as social outlaws who need fundamentally to change their ways. Instead of provoking vigorous reaction to what amounts to the moral delegitimation of business, this determined attack has been met for the most part by acquiescence in corporate circles. The conviction driving this book is that instead of appeasing their critics, [...]
Continue reading...Sarah Blake to visit SA!
Friday, July 16, 2010
Sarah Blake author of the POSTMISTRESS shortlisted in the 2010 EXCLUSIVE BOOKS BOEKE FICTION PRIZE will be visiting South Africa in September this year, watch this space for more info on her visit!
Continue reading...The Case For Business in Developing Economies
Thursday, January 28, 2010
“Ann Bernstein has written the definitive answer to Naomi Klein’s hugely influential and hugely overrated, No Logo. This book not only offers a new agenda for the role of business in development, but is also a call to arms. Business leaders should take from it the intellectual confidence they need to defend the irreplaceable role [...]
Continue reading...Kings Of The Water by Mark Behr
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
KINGS OF THE WATER by Mark Behr   A compelling, moving novel by a major international writer. ABOUT THE BOOK:  When Michiel Steyn returns to the family farmstead in South Africa for his mother’s funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But even after fifteen years absence, neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to [...]
Continue reading...Invictus
Friday, November 13, 2009
John Carlin In SA 7- 11 December to promote the big screen release of Invictus  This paperback edition of Invictus is a film tie-in version of John Carlin’s Playing the Enemy. The film of Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, will be released nationwide on 11 December 2009. As [...]
Continue reading...Woman, Trashed
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
‘I didn’t know how to live and apparently neither did I know how to die. It was a psychic checkmate.’ Woman, Trashed By Joanne Brodie Suburban, middle-class, and from a good family – this is what makes Joanne Brodie’s story all the more shocking. It is the dual account of the relentless seduction of the impulse to [...]
Continue reading...Sleeper’s Wake by author Alistair Moragan
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sleeper’s Wake Alistair Morgan EAN: 9780143025962 Format: Trade Paperback Release Date: 1 July 2009 Price: R190 The novel is set in modern day South Africa and is the story of 46-year-old John Wraith, a freelance journalist, who regains consciousness after a car accident to learn that his wife and 5-year-old daughter died in the same accident. What is all the more [...]
Continue reading...Andy Petersen – One of 300 Young South Africans You have to Take to Lunch
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Dear Andy Congratulations ! On behalf of all of us at Absa, I would like to congratulate you on being honoured by the Mail and Guardian as one of the 300 Young South Africans You Have to Take to Lunch. We acknowledge the invaluable contribution you are making to driving South Africa’s transformation, and to creating a winning [...]
Continue reading...John van de Ruit- Journal Entry May 13th
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sunday 10th May – 1 Month until launch. SWINE SYPHILIS AND ADVENTURES IN A MINI-WAN (Part One) SWINE SYPHILIS Notwithstanding three delightful near death experiences in the back of a Cambodian tuk-tuk, it has been a rather pleasant trip as far as transport is concerned. That is until we reached Southern Thailand this week. Now [...]
Continue reading...South Africa’s Brave New World by R.W Johnson
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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