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Excerpts From An African Diary – Paula Draycon

Anna Howcroft — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:19:12 +0000

Paula Draycon is profoundly influenced by the sights and sounds of Africa, and continually reflects on her experiences. Paula is living proof that a very ordinary English girl s dream, was not only met, but transcended. Her life at 60 years is one of pure gratitude, and her religious and spiritual faith, along with her like-minded friends around the world, have enriched and fortified her life. She was able to find an unusual peace, when her beloved friend, mentor and travelling companion died just months before the book was published.

The end depends upon the beginning…

Entertaining With Potjiekos – Matie Brink

Anna Howcroft — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:01:05 +0000

Dr Matie Brink, well known Dutch Reformed Church minister from Paarl, may well be called South Africa’s foremost potjiekos pioneer. As country wide travelling chef, catering frequently for anything up to 3000 guests at a time, as sought-after judge at potjiekos competitions and as best selling author on the subject, he has played a major part in popularising this trend of outdoor entertaining. Tens of thousands of copies have been sold of previous books: “This is Potjiekos” and “Dis nou Potjiekos”, “Entertaining with Potjiekos” is also available in Afrikaans as “Onthaal met Potjiekos”

The Secret Letters of Jan Van Riebeeck – Robert Kirby (editor)

Anna Howcroft — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:16:49 +0000

Long concealed by the authorities, Jan van Riebeeck’s surreptitious correspondence with his cousin in Holland reveals the often grotesque truth of what actually took place in the early Cape Colony

On The Shoulder Of Marti – Don Burness

Anna Howcroft — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:30:46 +0000

Fiction and poetry dealing with the painful years in Africa by the “Volunteer” forces sent over by Castro to help defeat the “reactionary” regimen in Angola-laced together by Burness’ narrative of past and present wars and rebellion. One must understand the particular qualities of Cuban and Angolan landscapes to appreciate the literary harvest that has been produced.

Don Burness teaches English at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire

Barefoot Over the Serengeti – David Read

Anna Howcroft — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:07:04 +0000

A real “Boy’s Own” adventure – but “Barefoot over the Serengeti” is factual, not fiction. It is a unique and evocative tale of childhood adventure in a world that very few Europeans have experienced. The book covers Read’s adventures between seven and fourteen years in the Serengeti, homeland of the Maasai, whose customs and lifestyle he reports, as seen through the eyes of a child

Children of the Sun God – Linda Tucker

Anna Howcroft — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:30:46 +0000

It is a mystical journey into knowledge and ceremonies of old Africa, in which humans and lions are able to cross the species barrier – in accordance with most guarded secrets of ancient Egypt and mankind’s greatest riddle, the sphinx. It is also a real living journey.

Scientists in our day have established that humankind’s most significant evolutionary leap occurred as a result of our ancestor’s interaction with great cats at Sterkfontein

Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa – Dean Allen

Anna Howcroft — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:03:59 +0000

This is the untold story of how James Logan was instrumental in developing the game of cricket in South Africa at a time when the country was heading towards war with the British Empire. Logan immigrated to South Africa in 1877 at the age of 19 and almost immediately began amassing a fortune through business, politics and his high-profile association with that most favoured of imperial pastimes. In Empire, war & cricket in South Africa, readers will learn how one of the first international cricket matches between South Africa and England took place at Matjiesfontein; explore the controversial 1901 South African cricket tour to England in the midst of the Anglo-Boer War; read the amazing story of how Logan once had the captain and manager of England’s cricket team arrested as they boarded their ship home; and discover Logan’s close relationship with Rhodes and how their shady dealings brought down the premier’s first government