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This is packed with information about Zulu heritage, covering more than 50 topics that include beadwork, pottery, carvings and basket weaving; ceremonial dancing and stick fighting; courtship and marriage; Zulu dress; ancestor worship and more. It is the perfect memento for anyone fascinated by the history and culture of South Africa's largest ethnic group.
[Ebersohn] says while The Classifier is a love story, it is also something of a parable about our country and the attitude of Afrikaners at the time and the position in which they find themselves now. I can't wait to start reading it.
Wessel Ebersohn is probably better known for his gripping crime novels.
But this time he delivers a love story - with a twist.
It is a novel about a love story between a white boy and a coloured girl set in 1970s South Africa against the reality of the race classification system.
Ebersohn says while The Classifier is a love story, it is also something of a parable about our country and the attitude of Afrikaners at the time and the position in which they find themselves now. I can't wait to start reading it.
This is an important new guide to the birds universally known as "little brown jobs".
Using colour coding and careful design, the reader is guided through initial sorting stages - from family group, to visual group within the family, and to the species.
This guide will appeal to serious birders as well as keen amateurs.
Light Across Time
by Tom Learmont (Kwela Books, R190)
Light Across Time is an unusual science fiction romance. Set in London, Johannesburg and the Free State in the deep past, it is a world the main protagonists could never have imagined. Its intriguing plot will definitely get people reading this book.
A classic adventure, love story and meditation on nature.
This is a translation by award-winning translator Michiel Heyns. Chris Barnard's novel was first published 10 years ago in Afrikaans.
The story is set in a place on the border of Mozambique where you cannot be sure which country you are in.
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding as a drought tightens its grip on the people in this area.
All pleas for help have fallen on deaf ears so the community of outcasts hatch an outrageous plan to fly refugees to the nearest Red |Cross.
This is packed with information about Zulu heritage, covering more than 50 topics that include beadwork, pottery, carvings and basket weaving; ceremonial dancing and stick fighting; courtship and marriage; Zulu dress; ancestor worship and more. It is the perfect memento for anyone fascinated by the history and culture of South Africa's largest ethnic group.
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