Random House Struik: 161 books
Behind the Badge
The Untold Stories of South Africa's Police Service Members
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Every South African has a strong opinion on crime and policing, but most know very little about the lives and experiences of the average cop in the 185 000-strong South African Police Service. This book is composed of excerpts from interviews with current and former members of the service who, for...
Stones Against the Mirror
Friendship in the time of the South African Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
A brave and moving memoir which is both a family history and a story of friendship and betrayal between people caught up in the wrenching forces of the South African Struggle. It is framed as a journey between two railway stations. The departure is from Park station Johannesburg and the destination...
A Part Hate, A Part Love
The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Evita Bezuidenhout, still regarded as the most famous white woman in South Africa, was born Evangelie Poggenpoel of humble Boer origins in the dusty Orange Free State town of Bethlehem on 28 September 1935. Illegitimate, imaginative, pretty and ambitious, she dreamt of Hollywood fame and fortune,...
Networking
How to Get Your Black Belt in Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Networking is THE essential business tool in today’s business world Do you want to build a network of useful contacts in order to kick-start your career but don’t know how? Are you aware of the crucial importance of networking but lack the know-how to get started? Or do you think networking entails...
by Tony Manning
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Worldwide, business faces daunting challenges. Competition in every industry is increasingly hostile. The operating environment is increasingly complex. And the cost of missteps and lost opportunities is rising. In this new arena, strategic planning is more important than ever and the ability to turn...
A Spook’s Progress
From Making War to Making Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
From the 1960s, Maritz Spaarwater was an intelligence agent for the South African government, first for Military Intelligence and later for National Intelligence. In the late 1980s, he was among the first to start official discussions overseas with the exiled leadership of the ANC, and he became involved...
by David Tidboald
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Born in England in 1926 in the historic naval port of Plymouth, David Tidboald now enjoys his retirement in Simon’s Town, South Africa’s equivalent. Improbably enough, it was while doing national service in the Royal Navy that he was sent, at the end of World War II, to Berlin and was there presented...
by Erich Rautenbach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
In the winter of 1975, Erich Rautenbach’s life took a serious turn for the worse when he was bust for selling weed by gun-toting undercover cops. He’d been selling the dope to raise money to leave South Africa in a bid to escape his army call-up and resist having to shoot people in the name of...
by Fred Khumalo
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
As a teenager Fred Khumalo greeted his friends with a handshake and the words 'touch my blood'. It implied friendship and trust. The saying became his name. More than that, it became the way he viewed his world. Everything touched Fred Khumalo. Twice he was bewitched. Twice his father - the 'moegoe',...
by Chris Marnewick
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Pierre de Villiers has walked a hard road. Tortured by his own army, his family killed, surviving cancer; his new life in New Zealand is supposed to bring him peace. But just when his life seems to be on an even keel, his daughter is kidnapped in Auckland and his brother-in-law's wife abducted in...
Never too Naked
A Thrilling Tale of Love, Lust, Loss and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Evita Bezuidenhout might be the most famous white woman in South Africa, but her younger sister Bambi, the blonde Afrikaans girl who married a Nazi and became a stripper in the fleshpots of Europe, has a much juicier story to tell. In her autobiography, assisted by Pieter-Dirk Uys, Bambi traces her...
“But I Digress …”
A selection of his best columns
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Gathered together for the first time, a selection from the columns and occasional writings of Darrel Bristow-Bovey. For the better part of this century and the worst part of the last, Darrel Bristow-Bovey has been making enemies, allies and occasional friends with his newspaper and magazine columns....
by Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Few people have courted as much controversy or evoked such strong and divergent emotions as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Adored by some, abhorred by others, she bears a name famous throughout the world, yet not many people know the woman behind the headlines, myths and controversies, or the details...
Dances with Devils
A Journalist’s Search for Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
For more than a decade, Jacques Pauw has traversed his native continent in pursuit of warlords and drug traffickers, child soldiers and charlatans, adventure and anarchy. What he found was a rich array of personalities and a panoply of stories, ranging from the profoundly tragic to the intensely personal....