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On Route in South Africa - 4th edition
From Pofadder, eMkhuze and Haenertsburg to Cookhouse, Klipplaat, Maokeng and Taung ... South Africa's amazing diversity is an invitation to take to the road.
Bart de Graaff is 'n Nederlandse historikus en joernalis wat 'n besonderse belangstelling in die Suid-Afrikaanse politiek en kultuur het. In 2015 en 2016 het hy verskeie besoeke aan Suid-Afrika en Namibië gebring. Sy oogmerk was om die nasate van die Khoi-Khoin, synde die eerste “ware mense” van die subkontinent, op te spoor, en aan die woord te stel. Hierdie boek is die resultaat van sy onderhoude.
In sy onopgesmukte skryfstyl, vol deernis en humor, vertel De Graaff van hierdie ontmoetings en gesprekke en algaande kom die leser onder die indruk van die sistemiese geweld wat teen die Khoi-Khoin oor soveel eeue heen gepleeg is. Dit is 'n belangrike boek wat die geskiedenis en huidige stand van die bruin mense onder hulle landsgenote se aandag bring.
Daar is nie 'n grondpad te sinkplaat, plaasdraad te hoog of aanwysings te gebrekkig om Jackie Grobler te keer nie. As hy eers 'n monument in sy visier het, sal hy dit vind. In hierdie boek reis hy Oor berge en dale van Lichtenburg in Noordwes tot die heuwels van Tabankulu in die Oos-Kaap op soek na interessante monumente en gedenkplekke.
In die Vrystaat soek hy na oorblyfsels van twee konsentrasiekampe en in Limpopo kom hy af op monumente aan 'n Anglo-Boereoorlogkanon (die Long Tom). Sy reise na die Oos-Kaap neem hom na gedenkplekke vir Steve Biko en in die Wes-Kaap gaan hy op die spoor van die Portugese ontdekkingsreisigers.
Elke provinsie sal 'n kaart hê wat die monumente aandui. 'n Boek vir liefhebbers van die langpad én vir leunstoelreisigers.
The Overberg has been a home or point of interest for explorers, innovators, artists and writers, for figures as varied as Bartholomew Diaz, Olof Bergh, Hendrik Verwoerd, Gregoire Boonzaier, Audrey Blignault and Breyten Breytenbach. Some of South Africa's oldest towns, houses and missionary stations can be found here, and its treacherous coastline has been the cause of hundreds of shipwrecks for centuries.
Enlivened by historical and current photographs and informative side panels, this book is a collector's item.
Aan die begin van 2015 was bekroonde Weg!-joernalis Erns Grundling oorwerk, oorstuur, oorgewig, beseer - en pas gediagnoseer met slaapapnee. Vanselfsprekend was ál ding om te doen om die ellelange Camino-staptog in Spanje aan te pak - g'n selfoon, g'n makkers, net dapper en stapper. Kom stap saam!
Geloof alleen - Reise deur die kerkhervormings
As 'n Afrikaanse kerkmens uit Afrika moes wens vir 'n boek wat saamval met die 500-jaarviering van die Reformasie, sou 'n mens kwalik kon wens vir 'n meer fassinerende boek as dié. In Geloof alleen neem André Pretorius sy leser op 'n pelgrimstog na 'n verskeidenheid plekke waar sleutelgebeure van die Reformasie afgespeel het of waar dié geskiedenis spore gelaat het. Hy neem jou na daardie gebeure toe en dan weer terug na die hede en die neerslag daarvan. Uiteindelik neem hy sy leser na 'n dieper verstaan van die Kerkhervorming van 500 jaar gelede, en daarmee saam na 'n dieper verstaan van onsself. Wat sou 'n mens meer kon vra?
- Neels Jackson (Redakteur: Kerkbode)
Hamerslae teen 'n Duitse kerkdeur. Vyf eeue later weergalm hulle steeds van waar Martin Luther sy rebellie teen die Kerk begin het. Van hierdie kerkdeur loop die spore van Kerkhervorming deur aangrypende landskappe.
Die reisskrywer, André Pretorius, gaan loop daardie voetval na en hoor die eggo's in ons tyd. Hy volg Luther waar sy weg kruis met dié van Calvyn. Hy reis na plekke waar geloof geformuleer is op 'n manier wat steeds ons wêreld vorm. Die spore lei hom van Europa na Indië en Amerika waarheen Katolieke sendelinge en Calvinistiese Puriteine uitgewaaier het.
Maar ook deur sy eie familiegeskiedenis na Suid-Afrika, van middagete op die Duitse plaas waar die Pretoriusse vandaan is tot sy NG-kinderjare op die Afri­kaanse platteland. Onderweg kom hy geloof teë, en geweld. Skoonheid vind hy in die kunstenaars van die Hervorming - Rembrandt en Bach en die Bybelvertalers. Maar ook die geskonde erflating van konflik en ikonoklasme.
Op sy reise eet, drink en gaan hy kerk toe waar die moderne wêreld baie lank gelede beslag gekry het. Dit is 'n meesleurende reis deur 'n wêreld wat beide oud en eietyds is.
Wat 'n heerlike kennismaking met China! Elkarien Fourie se joernaal ins 'n waardevolle tydsdokument wat my 'n week lank geboei gehou het en teen die einde daarvan ge;aat het met die gevoel dat ek nou meer begrip het vir hierdie antieke beskawing en sy moderne mutrasie.
This highly entertaining book tells the 'story' of Table Mountain as experienced by quite extraordinary visitors who have made it to the top of this strange mountain.
Ever since 1503 when an off-course seafarer climbed Table Mountain to find out where on Earth he was, visitors to the Cape have toiled, scrambled, ridden on horseback, run or climbed to the top - and written about it afterwards. Taken together, these reports provide a fascinating biography of the mountain. Looked at separately, they are thrilling reads, penned by larger-than-life voyagers and, often unlikely, adventurers.
The first seamen who clambered to the top wrote 'heroic' accounts of their daring feats, the flower-hunters and other explorers were more nonchalant about their ascents, and the women who followed in their tracks up Platteklip Gorge, thought it was a breeze. And has the mountain been tamed? Not in a million years, and not with modern mountaineers and their heart-stopping climbs up the sheer cliffs.
In On Top of Table Mountain you will meet, among others, botanist Carl Peter Thunberg who risked his life to pick an exquisite blue disa, growing precariously on a ledge; James Holman, the 'Blind Traveller' who rode up and down the mountain on horseback; and Lady Jane Herschel who, while pregnant, still managed to ride part of the way up and then went for a canter on top.
The life-stories of the 27 exceptional visitors are told with flair and humour, and together with the accounts of the ascents, provide a riveting read.
Joan Kruger is a seasoned journalist, columnist, author and editor. She concentrates on historical non-fiction.
The lost city of Southern Africa and its untold riches fascinated the Romans, European explorers and writers such as Rider Haggard, Alan Paton, Wilbur Smith and Lawrence Green. Even the apartheid government searched for it in vain.
Adam Cruise sets out on a quest across the Kalahari to find the mythical city that inspired King Solomon's Mines, and 'the Great Farini', the daredevil showman of the Victorian age at the heart of the legend.
South Africa's many paths, tracks and roads are long and winding. They twist from the familiar to the uncharted. And so do their stories. Luke Alfred spent more than a year travelling South Africa's highways and byways on foot, exploring the contested history of the country's cities and countryside. Written with deep insight, Alfred's eloquent and quirky personal observations are engaging and entertaining. It offers fascinating little-known stories about our past and our present.
When a burning sun dips low enough on the horizon to touch the brown-black earth, that is when South Africa is at its very best - a blazing expanse of broad landscapes of sea and veld, dusty savanna and equally dusty pavements. It is a vast country, extending from pristine coastal plain to rugged mountain passes across wide stretches of semidesert and forest, hills and valleys. Even travelling South Africans are unprepared for the sheer scale and enormous diversity of this grand landscape.
Every day, everywhere, there are new sights to behold and new experiences to share - a graceful old Cape Dutch homestead set against lush vineyards, blue-purple mountains, a bird on a wire. It is the sun, the sand, the textures, the colours and the sounds that conjure up the spirit of South Africa. This volume is a fine tribute to the country, its people and its land- and cityscapes. This is the face of the nation - the essence of South Africa.