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Every athlete will testify that not finishing a race is one of the worst feelings they can have. For once started, the aim indeed is to finish, preferably in first place, but finish nonetheless. Like those running a race, when going through a wilderness experience, the determination to endure is what...

This book is a collection of poems which were written over a number of years, the author was influenced by his South African experiences. They come in both isiZulu and in English. Politics, the economy, religion and social changes have occurred in South Africa as it has been happening elsewhere in...

This book is for anyone aged nine to ninety plus. Dip into it at any time of day. Read it quietly or out loud. Let it uplift you.

Decent World is a collection of tough poems. Each bleeding comes from a heart desperate to name the truth of my life, revealing that in their very telling has set me on a journey at once, terrible and fine. I might even venture, redemptive. For within these words is a searching, relentless but pure,...

This Ms. is written in the romantic adventure genre, with the various love affairs of the characters taking place against the 1960S backdrop of South West Africa and Angola, when it declared its independence from Portugal, becoming the Peoples Republic of Angola in November 1975. The characters include: *...

"A record of an era of rapid transition, this is a collection in the poetic idiom covering the last years of exile and the early days of the new democratic South Africa - a book bound together more by its documentary nature than strictly aesthetic considerations. It is a sober account of happenings around the world by a mature sensibility, by all means African."

This story starts with a boy of about fourteen years of age, who has lots of dreams and ambitions, as fourteen-year-old boys do. He wants to make his life and that of his brother, sisters, and mum better. He dreams of a life with money and believes he was destined to make loads of it. His father always...

Misheard is my story, written in the form of poetry. I cannot write about the bigger historical picture of South Africa, but I can write about my micro history. The small moments, the magic of childhood, the love of open wide spaced land, the loss and terror and pain of family. These poems are images...

The idea of this book has been born in my mind. It came from the desire to express and introduce the difficulties and the sacrifices I went through in my life, as an emigrant- an outsider, in a new and very harsh country. In this book I will attempt to describe my life and perhaps some customs of...

A cathartic account of dealing with the process of healing after a stillbirth and believing that music not only acts as spiritual companionship but exists before and after the event.

The book encourages Christians to take valid scientific theories on board. They are Gods way of displaying the profundity, complexity and greatness of Gods creation. They can become Gods instruments to master the looming economic-ecological crises. Science can help believers update their worldview,...

In Volume I the author analyses the Word of God and the response of the Christian community in a lucid and accesible way. In this second volume he interprets the classical assertions of the Christian faith in terms of Gods creative and redemptive project in the world of today. His experiential approach...

The thesis of In Our Image is that the traditional Christian assertion that God made man in his image (Gen. 1: 26) has been turned on its head by Christian orthodoxy, and that it is most often the believer who makes God in his image. It is true that the Bible as a whole seems to support the traditional...

This book is about freedom; freedom from established institutions such as schools, jobs and marriage laws. A persons biography could deal only with his/her movement within this institutional framework. But this would exclude the part of life that falls between the cracks of the social structure. It...