Nuwe boeke by NB Uitgewers hierdie April

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Dubbelspel
Wilna Adriaanse
ISBN: 9780624068037
Prys: R 199.95

Ellie McKenna het gedog sy weet waarvoor sy haarself inlaat toe sy die gevaarlike onderwêreld van georganiseerde misdaad infiltreer het. Sy kom gou agter hoe verkeerd sy was


London – Cape Town – Joburg
Zukiswa Wanner
ISBN: 
9780795706301
Prys: R 175.00

“I would’ve been able to live like this if Zuko hadn’t been born . . . London was good. Is good. I love London. But . . .”

1994

The world is about to change. The first truly democratic election in South Africa’s history is about to unite Nelson Mandela’s rainbow nation at the ballot box. And, across the world, those in exile, those who could not return home, those who would not return home, wait. Watch and wait . . .

London

Martin O’Malley isn’t one of those watching and waiting. He is too busy trying to figure out if Germaine Spencer really is the girl for him and why his best friend is intent on ruining every relationship he gets involved in. And then . . . And then Germaine is pregnant and suddenly the world really has changed for Martin O’Malley.

South Africa

A land of opportunity. A place where a young black man with an MSc from the London School of Economics could have it all, would have it all. But what does Martin O’Malley, London born and bred with an Irish surname, really know about his mother’s country? His motherland. A land he has never seen.

 

Postmortem: The Doctor Who Walked Away
Maria Phalime
ISBN: 9780624057604
Prys: R 185.00

Inhuman hours, overflowing emergency rooms, poor resources and little support – this is the daily reality of most doctors and nurses in South African public hospitals. 

Maria Phalime was once a bright-eyed young medical student with high expectations of what life as a doctor would be like and how she would make a difference. But then she went out into the field. During her tenure at hospitals in Mitchell’s Plain and Khayelitsha she was overwhelmed by the conditions under which she had to work and the physical and psychological needs of her patients. Medical school had not prepared her for the ethical dilemmas she had to face.

Maria decided to change careers, but for many years reproached herself for this decision. As she goes in search of answers, she also speaks to other doctors who have left medicine. Her conversations with former doctors like comedian Riaad Moosa shed light on some of the major problems in the public health sector.

“This is my story and the stories of other doctors who chose to walk away,” she writes. “Ours is a private anguish filled with the niggling suspicion that we should have been stronger, more committed, more able to handle the daily realities of practicing medicine in South Africa.”

A gripping personal account which exposes not only the deficiencies in the public health sector but also the personal pressures and expectations which come with being a doctor in South Africa.

 

Stippellyn
Erika Murray-Theron
ISBN:
 9780624067771
Prys: R 210.00

Sy het gedink dit was verby. ’n Hoofstuk van haar lewe wat afgesluit is, maar toe sien sy uit die hoek van haar oog die gestalte by die begrafnisdiens inloop: ’n lang, benerige man met ’n effens ongekoördineerde manier van beweeg...

Storieman Omnibus 6
Leon Rousseau
ISBN:
 9780798166294
Prys: R 155.00

This omnibus edition presents some of the most popular stories from the famous Storieman part works. The book includes two audio CDs with the original recordings, so that children can read and listen together. Stories included in this edition are: “Timmertak”, “Simon se kanaal”, “Die laaste vlentertjie reënboog”, “Oom Stoffel eet by ’n towenaar”, “Die parasol”, “Die vriendelike beer”, “Die gemmerbroodman”, “Duimelize” and more!

A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years
Frans Cronje
ISBN:
 9780624068662
Prys: R195.00

Picture South Africa in ten years: Are the angry poor rising up, seizing land and businesses? Will the ANC survive three more elections? Will the middle classes still braai in suburbia or will we go the way of Zimbabwe? 

South Africa is currently at a tipping point. Unemployment, slow growth, threats to freedom of speech, and poor education can send the country in any direction. Frans Cronje, CEO of one of the country’s leading think-tanks, identifies the key trends in the economy, politics and society which hold the clues to our immediate future.

While living standards have for instance improved since 1994, in an ironic twist this is fuelling ever-increasing expectations by the populace. The “curse of rising expectations” lies at the root of much of the instability in the country.

Cronje uses key trends in our society to outline the four most likely scenarios for the country, which he quite fittingly calls the Narrow Road, the Wide Road, the Rocky Road and the Toll Road.

Sobering, shocking and hopeful in turn, no South African can afford to ignore the convincing futures Cronje paints.

 

 

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