In three short years between 1987 and 1990 the Ashley Kriel Detachment conducted a host of operations that helped bring about the fall of the unjust apartheid system. Twenty years later, 18 members of the AKD speak out about their often shocking and traumatic experiences. Through a series of sensitive interviews, in this book Gunn and Haricharan give them the opportunity to relive and reflect on that eventful time.
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Book Stories People is a podcast for people with an appetite for the story behind the story. Whether a book, a play, a movie, poem, song, a blog – or even a tweet, there’s always a back story – more to it than meets the eye. Or the ear. And that’s often where the gold lies. So that’s what I hope to bring you on BSP, the less well-trumpeted tales, the inside intel – from wordsmiths of all disciplines – known, unknown celebrity or completely unheard of. And who am I? You might well ask. Just an independent journalist from the tip of Africa with an appetite for stories that matches your own. Nancy Richards, yours in stories.
Capetonians display their talent and their taste in a marathon, groundbreaking and revealing exhibition called Home is Where the Art Is. It’s on show at the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town – which is also known as the Mother City.
Storytellers from the San indigenous peoples centre: At a place called !Khwa Ttu, up in the hills of the West Coast of South Africa, is where indigenous and original San culture, legacy, language, and stories especially, are cherished and shared. See more on www.khwattu.org and take a listen here…
A punishing mountain cycle challenge, a words and pictures book of close looking and listening, and a maxim of action-learning all make up one man’s world view. Join him for the ride…
The Sunshine Tour is a professional golf tour based in South Africa – a country which has proven itself by producing some of the world’s finest players. The game itself has an interesting history as well as present and potential future in South Africa – a great deal of which sports journalist Dan Retief has captured in a generously outsized book called The Sunshine Boys – the epic story of how South Africa’s golfers conquered the world. He looks at the game heroically but honestly with all its pros and cons.
