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by Amanda on Feb 20th, 2012
Zebra Press presents two Cape Town launches for Ben Freeth’s Mugabe and the White African (Mugabe en die wit Afrikaan).
On Thursday, 23 February, you can join the author for lunch at Groot Constantia’s Jonkershuis restaurant. Tickets cost R225 per person and includes food and wine (see menu).
Alternatively, you can catch Freeth at Kalk Bay Books on Friday, 24 February, where he will be in conversation with Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett SC. See you there!
Event Details: Groot Constantia
- Date: Thursday, 23 February 2012
- Time: 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Venue: Jonkershuis,
Groot Constantia Wine Estate,
Off Constantia Road,
Cape Town | Map
- Cover charge: R225 per person (includes food and wine)
- RSVP: Sandy, sandybailey@telkomsa.net, 021 685 8016
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by Amanda on Feb 16th, 2012
Tim Noakes, Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, has caused a jolt to the worlds of health and sport by doing an about-turn on his belief in carbo-loading.
Noakes now argues that a diet high in carbohydrates can be dangerous to some who may, unknowingly, suffer from a condition called “carbohydrate-resistance” – a condition Noakes himself was diagnosed with last year.
In an interview with Cape Talk’s John Maytham, Noakes says that he has added a chapter to his memoir, Challenging Beliefs, to reflect these latest findings and a reissue of the book is scheduled for later this year:
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Sports science expert Professor Tim Noakes has caused a stir in health circles by refuting his own nutritional advice, widely espoused as athletics gospel.
In an about-turn, Noakes is blaming food containing carbohydrates for the rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
The sports physician, affiliated to the University of Cape Town and the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, won worldwide acclaim for his book Lore of Running, described as the “Runner’s Bible” and first published in 2003.
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by Amanda on Feb 9th, 2012
Donna McCallum, author of The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What You Want, recently stopped by the morning show Expresso, where she shared some of her advice for achieving success and fulfilment in your life.
She spoke to Michael Mol and Liezel van der Westhuizen about the right way to set goals and use creative visualisations to get what you want:
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by Amanda on Feb 8th, 2012
Praise was heaped on double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius, aka “Blade Runner”, after he was awarded the 2012 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with Disability Award in a globally televised ceremony on Monday.
Sebastian Coe, Laureus Academy member and chairman of the London Olympic Games Organising Committee, said, “I think what Oscar has done is to really make us challenge our own orthodoxies, our own views about disability.”
Johannesburg – South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius, the athlete known as the ˜Blade Runner” because he runs on carbon fibre blades, was named as the winner of the 2012 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award on Monday.
In 2011, Pistorius became the first amputee to win a non-disabled World Championship track medal, as a member of the South African silver-medal-winning 4x400m relay team, in Daegu, South Korea.
Gideon Sam, president of the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, also expressed his satisfaction at seeing Pistorius win the award. He says Pistorius is a “key weapon” in South Africa’s battle to win even more medals at the Paralympics.
South Africa’s Olympic boss lauded double amputee Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday after the Blade Runner scooped an accolade at the Laureus World Sports Awards.
Gideon Sam, president of the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), said the country would rely on Pistorius to boost them up the medals’ table at the London Paralympic games in August.
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by Amanda on Feb 6th, 2012
Donna McCallum, author of The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What You Want, was recently interviewed on Chai FM about the important role passion plays in leading an extraordinary life. She says one must not be afraid of setting wild, crazy goals, as small risks will only lead to small gains. Listen:
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by Amanda on Feb 3rd, 2012
Erich Rautenbach, author of The Unexploded Boer, spoke to Sue Grant-Marshall about growing up as a pretty, poor boy in District Six and rebelling against his Afrikaans heritage by avoiding conscription.
Grant-Marshall describes Rautenbach as a “dud boer: – someone “who would not detonate anything, would not explode, to ensure apartheid’s survival”.
After leaving South Africa for Canada, Rautenbach eventually came to feel remorse about not becoming part of the “Boer tribe”. As a result, he has created his own tribe who are “partially mythologised” in The Unexploded Boer. Read the interview in Business Day:
The Unexploded Boer (Zebra Press) is a compelling title for a lyrical, powerful memoir about a relatively unknown man who refused to become one of apartheid’s foot soldiers. It is a work of delicious prose, infused with tragedy, hilarity and peppered with expletives.
I want to read it again, not only for the prose but to glimpse again the blond boy, so beautiful that prostitutes pretended to faint when he passed by and gay men set elaborate, expensive traps for him.
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by Amanda on Jan 26th, 2012
Zebra Press highlights three great reads that you might have missed during the Christmas rush:
Tim Noakes is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science behind sport and a successful sportsman in his own right.
Through a lifetime of research, he has developed key scientific concepts in sport that have not only redefined the way elite athletes and teams approach their professions, but challenged conventional global thinking in these areas.
In Challenging Beliefs Noakes gives his views on everything from the myths perpetuated by the sports-drink industry and the dangers of overtraining and overdrinking to the prevalence of banned substances and the need to make rugby a safer sport.
The teams and athletes with whom Noakes has worked make fascinating backdrops to these topics, highlighting the importance of science in sport in human terms.
In providing an intimate look at the golden threads running through Noakes’s life and career, this truly remarkable book reveals the groundbreaking theories and principles generated by one of the greatest minds in the history of sports science.
NEW EDITION AVAILABLE MARCH 2012
Now includes;
- Why the Springboks lost the 2011 RWC
- How a low-carb; high protein diet will improve your life
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“Missing & Murdered is very different from anything published before in this field. It is a gripping read that will appeal to the expert and layperson alike, and it proves that forensic anthropology is flourishing in southern Africa. In fact, South Africa forensic anthropologist and the fascinating cases they have investigated have a great deal to offer the broader field of forensic science elsewhere in the world.” – Kathy Reichs
What can human bones tell us of a person’s life, or even death? How can information from bones solve mysteries both modern and ancient? And what makes the study of skeletonised human remains so imperative in southern Africa?
The answers to these and other questions are contained in Missing & Murdered, which lays bare the fascinating world of forensic anthropology. As the popularity of TV programmes such as the CSI trilogy and Silent Witness attests, people are fascinated by forensic science as a means of solving crimes, and in this book Alan G Morris follows the pathway into forensics via the fields of anthropology and anatomy.
He makes the practice of forensic anthropology, the skills base of skeletal biology and the study of archaeological skeletons hugely accessible to the layperson in a series of fascinating cases, from muti murders and political killings to the work of the Missing Persons Task Team.
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“A compelling account of adventure and endurance. I read it in one sitting” – Mike Nicol
In 1973, a young South African named Robert Fridjhon stole a yacht in Hawaii and set out to cross the Pacific solo during hurricane season. He had become involved with Russian gangsters in Los Angeles and witnessed a crime, putting his life in danger and forcing him to flee.
In Caterpillar Seas, Fridjhon tells his dramatic story for the first time. He describes the perils that he faced at sea: caught in violent storms, trapped in the doldrums with dwindling supplies, losing his mainmast and running aground on a reef, as well as contracting scurvy and fever. He recalls the months of solitude and despair, and describes his encounters with remote Pacific islanders and his return to civilisation in Fiji, where the consequences of his crime would catch up with him.
Compelling, entertaining and written with the insight of an experienced sailor, Caterpillar Seas is an astonishing tale of adventure, endurance and courage.
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by Amanda on Jan 25th, 2012
Zebra Press and The Book Lounge are delighted to invite you to the launch of Robert Fridjhon’s “gripping true story”, Caterpillar Seas. Fridjhon will be in conversation with Mike Nicol on Tuesday, 31 January, at 5.30 PM for 6 PM.
See you there!
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by Amanda on Jan 24th, 2012
Athletes are often advised to fill up on carbohydrates to improve their performance – a process known as carbo-loading. But now, prof Tim Noakes, author of Challenging Beliefs, says that about 50% of these atheletes are in fact carbohydrate resistant, without knowing it, which means that the carbs are simply going to their fat cells.
Noakes spoke to 702‘s John Robbie about his recent support of a high protein diet.
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