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by Lindsay on May 24th, 2012
Verdict: carrot
While channel-hopping a few months ago, I ended up settling on watching some pre-recorded Scandinavian motor-rally re-run on the telly.
I can’t really say I have a very keen interest in motor rallying and Indy Car or Oval Track racing, but watching those rally drivers skilfully negotiating their way through some treacherous terrain, took me back to the heyday of a certain Sarel Daniel van der Merwe.
I wondered at that point what had become of South Africa’s legendary multiple rally champion and former track star Sarel van der Merwe, fondly referred to as ‘Super Van”.
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by Carolyn on May 24th, 2012
Uitspraak: wortel
As jy daarvan hou om in die diep, donker poele van die mens se skadukant te swem, dan is dié speur-en-spanningsverhaal presies jou doepa.
Dit is ’n woeste bangmaakstorie vol klipharde donderweer en vlymskerp blits, die hemele wat oopskeur en sinjaalrooi bloed wat hard uit wolke neergiet.
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by Lindsay on May 24th, 2012
Verdict: carrot
Tristan Görgens appreciates the well-structured argument in Marie Huchzermeyer’s Cities with ‘Slums’ by but finds fault with her assertions about the Informal Settlements Network. Carrot or Stick? You decide:
The roots and manifestations of the alienation felt by poor urban residents are complex. At their heart lies a burning frustration with the state’s inability to translate progressive rights and legislation into people-centred action. People want houses, they want jobs, and they want a place in South African cities and, because the state has been unable to facilitate this, they have satisfied these needs by building ‘informal’ settlements. In her book Prof Huchzermeyer builds a detailed argument that traces the relationship between the urgent drive for ‘urban competitiveness’ in the metropolitan regions of Africa, and a target-driven discourse, entrenched in the Millennium Development Goals, that conceptualises these informal communities as ‘slums’ to be ‘eliminated’.
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- Cities with ‘Slums’: From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa by Marie Huchzermeyer
EAN: 978191989539
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by Luso on May 24th, 2012
Verdict: carrot
It’s incredibly difficult to ‘diss’ a novel like this one, especially when I know my genre isn’t afay with Young Adult – Yet, I find myself reading more and more of them each month. Lily Herne (aka Sarah and Savannah Lotz) has once again shown us that she (they) is/are here to stay.
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by Lindsay on May 23rd, 2012
Verdict: carrot
ANYONE who dismisses Twitter as a useless time-waster or a source of inane drivel either hasn’t tried it or is following some time-wasting inane idiots.
Used properly, Twitter is a great way of finding out news before it reaches the traditional news channels, and for sharing links to useful articles and websites that would otherwise pass you by.
It’s also a way of reaching a far wider audience than your immediate circle, which is why Prof Jonathan Jansen adopted Twitter to disseminate words of wisdom originally aimed at his two children as they entered adulthood.
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by Carolyn on May 23rd, 2012
Uitspraak: wortel, alhoewel Crous die “introspektiewe Esterhuizen” verkies
Amper elders, Louis Esterhuizen se negende digbundel, het as subtitel “Reisjoernaal” en aktiveer sodoende die reisgegewe wat in die bundel voorkom. Reeds uit die inhoudsopgawe kan die leser aflei dat hier versindrukke oor reise en plekke in Engeland, Vlaandere en Oos-Europa gegee gaan word.
In ’n onderhoud wat Louis Esterhuizen met Marlies Taljard op die webblad Versindaba (Maart 2012) gevoer het, sê hy onder meer die volgende oor die ontstaan van die bundel en die keuse van die titel (ek haal dit volledig aan, want dit kom in etlike gedigte in die bundel voor):
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by Luso on May 23rd, 2012
Verdict: carrot
Share the Stage is a book dealing with play production in Primary Schools by Patrick Coyne. It is based on recollections of true events and dedicated to “all those who have taken part, both onstage and backstage, in the production of so many plays”.
In his foreword, well-known actor and director Garth Anderson describes the book as “an excellent aid for any teacher attempting to produce a school play, either an inter-house play or a full production, It has very good guidelines for any producer, and would even be of great assistance to producers of amateur work.”
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by Carolyn on May 23rd, 2012
Uitspraak: wortel
Vir baie was Afrika se geheime onweerstaanbaar, ook vir skrywers soos Joseph Conrad, Lawrence Greene en Sangiro.
Onvermydelik is Afrika toe ook betreklik onlangs as eksotiese agtergrond ontdek deur ons skrywers van Afrikaanse spanningsverhale, onder wie Piet van Rooyen met sy belangstelling in die volkekunde en politiek.
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by Lindsay on May 23rd, 2012
Verdict: carrot
Set in a very unstable Zimbabwe, The Unlikely Genuis of Dr Cuthbert Kambazuma follows the exploits of hospital bus driver Teddington Chiwafambira. Teddington copes with the borderline crazy Zimbabwean landscape by taking chances where he can.
After dumping a collection of mentally infirm patients and orphans on the side of the road for a larger fare of stranded passengers, he unwittingly drops the leadership of the MDC to Harare’s main psychiatric ward.
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by Luso on May 22nd, 2012
Verdict: carrot
A lyrical, boundlessly imaginative young adult fantasy novel that will have you falling in complete and utter hedonistic book love. There are so many misconceptions about Cat Hellisen’s When the Sea is Rising Red. It’s been labelled as being everything from historical fiction and romance, to paranormal and even, get this, dystopian fiction. All of which it is not.
What the book is, is a masterfully told and beautifully written fantasy novel that even fights against the strains of the very genre it is defined by. It’s a novel of magic and mayhem. It’s a book world that is filled with a wondrous kind of wind-swept beauty, starkly juxtaposed by the divisive lines between the rich and the poor.
In short? It’s a book that every fantasy lover should read and it’s also a novel that surprised me on so many different levels, in so many different ways.
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