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by Amanda on May 23rd, 2013
The Sunday Times shortlist for the Alan Paton Award and the Fiction Prize were announced at the Franschhoek Literary Festival on Saturday 18th of May.
Random House Struik is pleased to announce that Killing for Profit by Julian Rademeyer and Rat Roads by Jacques Pauw were both shortlisted for the 2013 Alan Paton Award, both published under the Zebra Press imprint. Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry (published by Umuzi) has been shortlisted for the 2013 Fiction Prize.
Killing for Profit has been described as a good book on a bad subject – the tracking and poaching of rhinoceroses that is threatening to make these animals extinct. A terrifying true story of greed, corruption, depravity and ruthless criminal enterprise…
Rat Roads is a searing story of hardship and survival, and an unforgettable tale of courage and triumph. In this extraordinary book, celebrated journalist Jacques Pauw gives a human face to some of the most tumultuous events in recent African history.
In the world of Imraan Coovadia’s tragicomic novel, The Institute for Taxi Poetry, taxi companies thrive in a single-party state. Taxi poets are admired, sliding-door men rule, professors and politicians strut and fret and connive in a society shaped by violence and ambition, love, and the unsettling power of the imagination.
Other 2013 Alan Paton shortlisted titles include: Biko: A Biography by Xolela Mangcu, The Last Afrikaner Leaders by Hermann Giliomee and Endings and Beginnings by Redi Tlhabi.
Other 2013 Fiction prize shortlisted titles include: The Book of War by James Whyle, For the Mercy of Water by Karen Jayes, The Unlikely Genius of Dr Cuthbert Kambazuma by Chris Wadman, Entanglement by Steven Boykey Sidley.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 29th.
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by Amanda on Apr 26th, 2013
Tim Noakes, co-author of Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career, was interviewed by Matt Johnson from Runner Academy about the research he has conducted on running. Noakes spoke about his own running experiences and the lessons he’s learned. He also elaborated on the research that he has conducted over the years.
Noakes explained why he changed his position on encouraging runners to eat a high carb diet and spoke about the problem of overhydration:
Noakes delivered a TEDx talk last year in which he goes into detail about how the problem of runners overhydrating came about and the consequences it can have:
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by Amanda on Apr 12th, 2013
Jacques Pauw, author of Rat Roads, spoke to John Maytham on 567 Cape Talk on the 20th anniversary of Chris Hani’s assassination.
Pauw was working for Special Assignment covering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission when South African Conservative Party member Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Waluś both appealed their sentences for the assassination, but were not granted amnesty by the Commission. Pauw and Maytham discussed the case:
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by Amanda on Apr 9th, 2013
Twin sisters Jeanne Nielson and Jaqueline Duncan approached Tim Noakes last year to help them with the idea of each twin following a different eating plan in order to gage which worked the best in terms of preventing the high cholesterol that they are genetically prone to.
Nielson followed Noakes’ recommended high fat/protein eating plan while Duncan followed an eating plan that was high in carbs. The twins have blogged about their experience and stress that this is not a scientific study but rather a project that is in the public interest, in which they can demonstrate the impact that your diet can have on your health.
Read their blog to find out more about their project:
How it started
My identical twin sister and I have a family history of high cholesterol (or is it? See the section on cholesterol). Having had it tested a few days apart from each other earlier this year it became a topic of discussion at our grandmother’s birthday dinner. We were debating the big C with our brother when we hit on the differing theories surrounding the dietary causes of cholesterol and how to deal with it.
Health24 reported on the results of the project and spoke to the twins who discussed the results and said that they both felt that the high fat/protein diet was better for them as they are carb resistant:
Twin sisters Jeanne and Jacqueline Howie embarked on the Twin Noakes experiment to test Professor Tim Noakes’ controversial theory about the dangers of a high carbohydrate diet compared to a high fat diet. The experiment is now over, and these are the results.
Noakes and the twins appeared on the Dr Mol Show to discuss the project and Noakes explains some of the reasoning behind the high fat/protein eating plan:
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by Amanda on Apr 3rd, 2013
Corina van der Spoel gesels op dié aflewering van die RSG-program “Skrywers en boeke” met die joernalis en skrywer Jacques Pauw oor Rat Roads, sy boek oor die lewensverhaal van Kennedy Gihana. Gihana was ’n Rwandese rebellesoldaat wat 5000km gestap het van Rwanda af na Pretoria om hom daar as prokureur te kwalifiseer.
Pauw vertel ook van die trauma waaraan ‘n ondersoekende joernalis soos hy blootgestel word tydens sulke navorsing.
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by Amanda on Apr 2nd, 2013
Die span van die kykNET-program Reis na gister het by die voormalige springbokrugbybreier Peter de Villiers gaan draai om meer uit te vind oor sy kinderjare in die Boland.
De Villiers se outobiografie, Politically Incorrect: The Autobiography, het verlede jaar verskyn. De Villiers wys vir aanbieder Jak de Priester die skool waar sy liefde vir rugby ontstaan het en hy onthaal ook vir De Priester in sy huis.
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by Amanda on Mar 27th, 2013
Health24 has published an article by Tim Noakes, co-author of Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career, that explains his high-protein, low-carbs eating plan in detail. He explains how this is not a diet, but a life-long eating plan that is suited for people with carbohydrate resistance.
Noakes addresses concerns people may have about cutting out carbs, such as whether they will still be able to exercise properly. He points out that people who currently eat high-carb diets but who maintain a healthy weight may not benefit from this eating plan.
There has been an extraordinary recent media interest in exactly what Tim Noakes is eating. Some have even asked for the full details of “Tim Noakes’s diet”. It is clear that many South Africans are unhappy with the way they eat or with the unpleasant consequences that they perceive to be due to their dietary choices.
To begin with some initial points. First the eating plan I follow was first prescribed in 1861 by a Harley Street surgeon Mr William Harvey with great success to a corpulent London undertaker, Mr William Banting. Thus it is more appropriately named the Harvey/Banting diet. In time the term to “bant” was introduced into the English language. It referred to the use of this low carbohydrate diet for weight loss.
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by Amanda on Mar 25th, 2013
Kennedy Gihana, whose life story was the subject of Jaques Pauw’s book Rat Roads, appeared on the South2North television talk show on Al Jazeera hosted by Redi Tlhabi.
Gihana addressed the issues that face stateless people, and what happens when a people are faced with genocide, such as the tragedy in the Myanmar community of the Rohingya that’s currently unfolding. Gihana, having himself fled Rwanda’s genocide, has a special empathy for those facing a similar plight. The show’s guests included Maung Tun khin, a Rohingya, and a human rights activist. Beatrice Mtetwa, a human rights lawyer, was the third guest on the show, and the show was filmed just a few days before she was jailed in Zimbabwe.
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by Amanda on Mar 11th, 2013
Tim Noakes joined Kgomotso Matsunyane on the Weekend Breakfast show on 567 Cape Talk. This week he explained the concept of the “Bliss Point”, which is manufactured by the food industry by adding enough fat, salt and sugar into food to make it “blissful” and therefore addictive.
Noakes explained that we are hard-wired to love sugar and that once the food industry realised this they spent billions on creating food that taps into our cravings. He said that you can exercise as much as you like but you won’t lose weight unless you cut out the addictive food:
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by Amanda on Feb 19th, 2013
Tim Noakes joined Kgomotso Matsunyane to discuss diet and exercise on 567 Cape Talk. He explained why his dietary advice has changed over the years from the high carb diet that he was prescribing in the 80s to the high fat and low carb diet that he now recommends.
Noakes said that many people are carb resistant and offered a test to tell if you’re one of them: “Walk towards the mirror and if your stomach hits before your nose, then you’re carbohydrate resistant!”
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