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            <description><![CDATA[“My name is Mandla Shabalala. Around these shacks people call me Lord of the Shacks. Eish. When somebody first start that calling, I tell them stop making nonsense. What lord? Which lord? If I really was a lord, I still be patching holes in my roof with old campaign posters every election season? Hawu. I am borrowing extension cords from neighbours when my illegal electricity connection decide it is tired of working? Cha, mfowethu. But people in the settlement like give names to things. Once a name stick, it just stick. The truth is I not own these shacks. Nobody really own them. The government say one thing. The municipality say another thing. Every few years some important-looking people arrive with clipboards and promises. They walk around taking measurements, pointing at things, nodding at each other like doctors who talking about a patient. Then they disappear. We never see them again until the next election. Meanwhile we continue living our lives.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[We never get an instruction manual about how money works. We never have to pass a test to get our Money Licence before we can take a new credit card for a drive. Most of what we learn about money comes from advertising or from other people who know as little as we do. No wonder so many of us just decide to stick our heads in the damn sand and never deal with it. When this book first came out in 2018, Corona was just a beer, Cyril Ramaphosa still had that fresh president smell and ‘working from home’ was code for ‘unemployed’. A lot of shit’s happened since then, so it’s time for a refresh. In this UPDATED AND EXPANDED edition of her bestselling book, money dork Sam Beckbessinger tells it to you straight once again. You’ll learn:]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[For every well-known name in South African history, there are others whose contributions, though no less significant, have received far less attention. Isaiah Bud-M'belle (1870–1947) was one such figure.   He was one of the most accomplished Black South Africans of his generation, yet his story has been largely overshadowed by history. He is remembered, if at all, as the brother-in-law of the more famous Sol Plaatje. In 1892 he became the first African to pass the Cape Civil Service ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[With his signature wit and lucidity, Tim Cohen’s ruminations on the strange rules and the even stranger new rulers of this random world will help you make sense of it all! Loose Canon, named after Cohen’s popular blog, is a collection of the very best of his writing. He tackles everything from Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa to BEE and Bitcoin.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tzarina and Jaynab are the daughters of a successful Muslim confectioner, Osman Mithaiwala, whose House of Burfee has become a sensation in Johannesburg. When Tzarina breaks with tradition to run her father’s business empire, she transforms the brand with modern innovations while honouring her family’s heritage recipes. In the meantime, her younger sister Jaynab’s messy marriage forces her to re-evaluate her life and forge her own path. Their mother, Djamila, worries about their futures while tending to her own demons. And then a family secret surfaces that will test Osman’s relationship with his daughters. The Burfee Seller’s Daughters traverses the delicate balance between family expectations and personal dreams. This is a love story of how the sweetness of forgiveness – much like burfee – can bring people together in celebration of what truly matters. ABOUT THE AUTHOR]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[When corruption has no borders, justice needs no rules... Gold. Tobacco. Blood. Some fortunes are built to fall. In the mafia world of African tobacco and gold trafficking, a Harare-based Smuggler Kingpin rakes it in. Can he be stopped? Or is South African gangsterism and Zimbabwean corruption out of control? Can activist Thandi, her mentor The Veteran and the mysterious Sniper, band together again with SA Security Minister Yasmin to fight back against the looting and the mafiosi? As this pacey plot unfolds to a dramatic climax, fresh characters appear and familiar characters confront a jolting truth about their own mortality.]]></description>
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            <title>Love and Violence: The Revolt Against Permanent Juniority </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi grew up fatherless. When he excelled in matric, and his father reached out to him, he turned away. Yet, years later, when he stumbles upon his father’s name while studying the 1984 Vaal Uprising for his doctorate, he decides to interview him . . . In Love and Violence, based on this original research, Ndlozi explores colonial violence and its impacts, including ‘black-on-black’ violence and black self-hatred. With the youth revolt of the 1980s, black youth wrestled back their humanity, in the streets and in the schools, transcending what he terms the state of ‘permanent juniority’.]]></description>
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