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17/05/2024

Hidden Destruction – A story of Courage, Guile, and determination

This novel tells a familiar story. Laurence, a farm boy from the then Northern Transvaal, finds himself at 19 years old conscripted into the South African Defence Force. From his parents he had learned the disciplines of ethical behaviour and hard work, and from the African bush, he learned to respect the value of living things through his experience of tracking and hunting for the pot.

His first year in the military, he spent training as a combat engineer. As a qualified Sapper, he then volunteered as a paratrooper and soon earned his coveted wings. Then, it was into the sweltering Angolan wilderness for his baptism of fire. He becomes the commander of a small group of Sappers whose primary duties comprised tracking the enemy to destroy transport infrastructure and the flow of weaponry being supplied by the Soviet Union, Cuba, and East Germany

For Laurence and his men, their efforts are to foil war by diminishing the wherewithal rather than to directly engage in the death and destruction. From this perspective, these young South Africans are often able to see the human side of war where all those involved are marked with joy, love, and visions of peace and in the next moment are flooded with heartache and trauma and a terrible drowning of their innocence.

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17/04/2024

Doing Business In Africa – https://3k2q.short.gy/BusinessIAfrica

If you are a game changer who wants to enter or expand your business into the African market, but do not yet have the local knowledge and capabilities, this book is for YOU! It’s personal and expert insights are both theoretical and practical, that apply to both African and global organisations looking to navigate Africa.

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06/03/2024

Out now

DECEASED ESTATES, THE EXECUTOR’S CHALLENGE FOR EVERYONE, THE ALTERNATIVE TO A DISCRETIONARY LIVING TRUST.

THIS IS A BOOK THAT EVERYONE WITH AN ESTATE SHOULD READ.

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22/02/2024

📍🗓️ Join us at EB Cresta Shopping Centre for a book launch for The Priest and the Gondolier by Mervyn Nel.

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06/11/2023

The Adventures in the Golden Castle – Book by Ifechidelu Didi Orji

06/11/2023

Ships, Sleighs and Christmas Lights – Book  by Colleen Brice

06/11/2023

The Adventures in The Magical Forest by Ifechidelu Didi Orji – Books

06/11/2023

Gags, Quirks and Facts – Humour by Sizwe Zulu

06/11/2023

Tiseke – My family’s many African United Nations – Makwena Manamela –

06/11/2023

A Wound Unhealed – Does Contribute to ? – History – Nicholas Brabazon Kerr

06/11/2023

From Journeys to Words - Wobbly tales of expert wives / expat lives – - by Pearl Kasujja-Van De Velde & Julie Epenu-Robert

06/11/2023

The Priest and the Gondolier – Mystery / Thriller – Fiction – Mervyn Nel -

06/11/2023

After Birth – A mother’s Natural Guide to Postpartum Health and Happiness – by Luanne Epstein

18/05/2023

Billionaire Advice

‘There is no relationship between money and salvation.’ This is one of the recurring themes in this book of 260 aphorisms, all from the pen of author Bishop Mogodiri. In a previous book, he made reference to ‘the purse robbers and tithe cheats’ of many of the charismatic churches operating in South Africa today. But there is more besides. The aphorisms begin with ‘Faith is our unique access to divinity’ and ends with ‘What Christians should learn from atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, is that love is powerful. It is what all belief systems share.’ Although expansive on ideas and wisdom, the book is physically small, specifically designed to fit comfortably in pocket or handbag.

18/05/2023

Live Without Expectations

Here is an excellent companion for those who might feel lost sometimes in the ‘heavy seas’ of everyday life. It’s like a refresher course for Christians – or a solid introduction for those leaning in that direction – and it’s designed to be intensive. So choose your month, any month of any year, and immerse yourself in a daily helping of solid biblical teaching, complete with supportive chapter-and-verse references and appropriate prayers. At more than eight pages a day, this is not merely a book of daily feel-good platitudes but a deep dive into the fundamental Christian message.

18/05/2023

It's all about a young player named Adam who dreamed of becoming a professional and signing for a big-league club. No, not any old big-league club, but for Barcelona, the legendary Spanish team. Of course, Adam's dreaming has a happy ending, when he runs onto the hollowed grass of Camp Nou with players like Suarez, Friezman, Vidal, Pique, and of course Lionel Messi.

Here's another 'of course' when Adam scores the winning goal and is mobbed by his illustrious teammates in the rough-and-tumble way that world-class soccer players have of showing their appreciation.

24/02/2023

Many thousands of South African children are brought up by their grandmothers. This is one of the many manifestations of an unstable and distraught society, where the mother to child bond is too often broken, causing pain and a deep-seated sense of loss to both parties. Each Gogo-raised child’s story is different, but the general theme is the same: it deals with abandonment, with only qualified acceptance, but most of all with the simple absence of a real mother presence. The title of Vanessa Neo Mathope’s book – Orphaned, with Living Parents – tells it all. A monstrous imbalance has occurred, and the consequences run deep.

For sale from the Porcupine Press shop.

17/02/2023

A group photo after a successful grassroots training day at , outside in the .

Gail Robbins addresses a class of grassroots writers at the -Centre in in the densely populated Nelson Mandela Metro


INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT GRASSROOTS WRITING?

WHETHER YOU’RE A GROUP OR AN INDIVIDUAL, CONTACT DAVID ROBBINS [email protected]


WE WANT TO SPREAD THE GRASSROOTS WORD – AND THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT GO WITH IT.

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12/02/2023

Nine writers assembled at the Mohlakeng Container Library to participate in the inaugural pilot of GRASSROOTS WRITING, THE BASICS. This training course is part of the Cross-Border Books initiative, an imprint of well-known Johannesburg publishers, Porcupine Press.

Other pilots are planned at Constitutional Hill and Orange Farm, and in the Eastern Cape at Nelson Mandela University, the Harvest Christian School in Gqeberha, and a loveLife youth centre in Kariega.

There is a grassroots books revolution going on in South Africa. Thousands of writers are writing, hundreds of DIY publishers are springing up, more than 170 black-owned bookshops are spread across the country – and yet millions of households and thousands of schools are without books.

The Cross-Border Books initiative, supported by the National Arts Council, will not only offer training to all the sectors involved in the books revolution, but will also build a viable publishing and international distribution and selling platform for South Africa’s largely ignored grassroots writers.

The Mohlakeng Container Library was established by the Mohlakeng Youth Movement after the municipal library was burnt down during service delivery protests some years ago. It’s the Wild West Rand out there.

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24/11/2022

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24/11/2022

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07/11/2022

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07/11/2022

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Mark Smoot, professional Landscape architect and passionate photographer from California, took a job in South Africa in 1982 at the height of Apartheid. Fascinated to learn about this new world, he…