Book Review

Rose of Soweto:The Dingaan Thobela Story by Deon Potgieter

I first heard on Robert Marawa’s Sport Centre on Metro FM that the life story of one Dingaan “The Rose of Soweto” Thobela had been bound into a book format by the award winning journalist Deon Potgieter. So when I saw I Rose of Soweto: The Dingaan Thobela Story on the sport section at a local library, I knew that I wouldn’t leave without it even though I hadn’t planned on taking a book that day. The book is, for me, a success just by virtue of it having being written. There’s a painful and conspicuous deficit when it comes to books documenting the lives of Africans athletes in the republic, particularly in boxing.

posted
2012

Mar

When We Ruled (Robin Walker)

Afrikan history is hectic. Both in volume, magnitude, presence and…absence. And more absent than present. Because, where is really our contemporary sense of the historical roots of the ontinent? Obscured, hidden, misinterpreted and forgotten.

This is where “When We Ruled” falls down from the Afrikan sky as a gift to knowledge- hungry readers.

posted
2011

Oct

Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

About 2 years back i found myself in a 9 to 5, making my employers tons of money (iam a web designer/developer by profession). The websites i created for my employer made an average of R16 000 per project, whereas my salary was a measley R4000 a month: i knew right there and then that something was not right. In my search for finicial insight or atleast trying to understand why the corporate world works the ways it does i came across a person who would change my life forever.

posted
2011

Sep