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# ANFASA

Academic & Non-Fiction Authors' Association of South Africa

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- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 4, 2025](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-9-issue-4-2025/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 9, Issue 4, 2025 17 October 2025 ANFASA is pleased to release the 4th issue of our magazine for 2025... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran had to Die](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-shadow-state-why-babita-deokaran-had-to-die/) - Jeff Wicks, The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran had to Die (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2025) WHETHER South Africa is already, or is becoming, a mafia state is a matter for debate. Corruption on a grand scale is pervasive, eating away at every level of government. Not only is it morally unacceptable, but it widens the gaps between
- [Attacking the Heart of Apartheid: The ANC’s Special Operations Unit](https://www.anfasa.org.za/attacking-the-heart-of-apartheid-the-ancs-special-operations-unit/) - Yunus Carrim, Attacking the Heart of Apartheid: The ANC’s MK Special Operations Unit (Cape Town: Penguin, 2025) MK’s Special Operations (Ops) unit emerged from a long debate within the ANC in exile about the role of violence in the anti-apartheid struggle. The regime was unlikely to be defeated by guerrilla warfare for a variety of factors, not
- [The High Treason Club: The Boeremag on Trial](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-high-treason-club-the-boeremag-on-trial/) - Karin Mitchell, The High Treason Club: The Boeremag on Trial (Cape Town: Penguin, 2025) THE TRIAL lasted nine years, occupied 1 280 court days, involved over 200 witnesses and produced a transcript of 60 000 pages. Twenty-three accused were charged with high treason and some of them with murder, sabotage and terrorism in March 2003. Verdicts were handed down
- [ANFASA Annual Report 2024/25](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-annual-report-2024-25-2/) - ANFASA Annual Report 2024/25 ANFASA presents its Annual Report for the years 2024 and 2025. Take a look at the performance of our organisation. The report is in PDF format, simply click on the link to download it. ANFASA ANNUAL REPORT 2024/2025 David Robbins Presentation Elitha van der Sandt
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 3, 2025](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-9-issue-3-2025/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 9, Issue 3, 2025 14 August 2025 ANFASA is pleased to release the 3rd issue of our magazine for 2025... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [Hollywood on the Veld](https://www.anfasa.org.za/hollywood-on-the-veld/) - Ted Botha, Hollywood on the Veld: When Movie Mayhem Gripped the City of Gold (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2025) RARELY can the central character of a book appear so elusive. The American Isidore William Schlesinger (IW) arrived in South Africa from New York in 1894 and made a fortune in insurance and property. Exactly how he did this
- [Comrade & Commander](https://www.anfasa.org.za/comrade-commander/) - Ronnie Kasrils and Fidelis Hove (eds), Comrade & Commander: The Life and Times of Joe Modise (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024) THE EDITORS of this book provide a summary of Joe Modise’s life and then describe it in detail through interviews with about fifty people who interacted with him in various ways. Almost all of them may be described
- [Guilty and Proud: An MK Soldier’s Memoir of Exile, Prison and Freedom](https://www.anfasa.org.za/guilty-and-proud-an-mk-soldiers-memoir-of-exile-prison-and-freedom/) - Marion Sparg, Guilty and Proud: An MK Soldier’s Memoir of Exile, Prison and Freedom (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2024) EXTRAORDINARY and challenging circumstances raising matters of conscience can have unpredictable outcomes. Among the small group of white South Africans who joined the armed resistance to apartheid, MK, Marion Sparg stands out. From a conservative background in the eastern
- [Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa](https://www.anfasa.org.za/available-light-omar-badsha-and-the-struggle-for-change-in-south-africa/) - Daniel Magaziner, Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2025) Daniel Magaziner, Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2025) ARTIST, photographer, trade unionist, community activist, historian and archivist, Omar Badsha is perhaps best summed up as an organic intellectual immersed in community struggle. He
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 2, 2025](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-9-issue-2-2025/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 9, Issue 2, 2025 16 May 2025 ANFASA is pleased to release the 2nd issue of our magazine for 2025... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [Election 2024 South Africa: Countdown to Coalition](https://www.anfasa.org.za/election-2024-south-africa-countdown-to-coalition/) - Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall (eds), Election 2024 South Africa: Countdown to Coalition (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024) IT was widely assumed from the start of the 2024 general and provincial election campaigns that the ANC would lose its national and some provincial majorities. The question was by how much; and what sorts of coalition might be formed. Opinion
- [Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid](https://www.anfasa.org.za/together-apart-the-story-of-living-in-apartheid/) - Xolisa Guzula and Athambile Masola, Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024) No-one under 35 can have a first-hand understanding of life in apartheid South Africa. To many of today’s children it is no doubt simply an historical term; to some just meaningless. That makes Xolisa Guzula and Athambile Masola’s history written for
- [The Super Cadres: ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-super-cadres-anc-misrule-in-the-age-of-deployment/) - Pieter du Toit, The Super Cadres: ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) STATE capture nearly bankrupted South Africa. Its mechanics and perpetrators were well documented by investigative journalists and then by the admirable Raymond Zondo’s commission. But less attention has been paid to the way it came about, and why.
- [The Bams of Grasslands Farm: A Family History](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-bams-of-grasslands-farm-a-family-history/) - Seán Morrow, The Bams of Grasslands Farm: A Family History (Johannesburg: Staging Post, 2024) WHAT might the course of South African history have been had the Christian African middle class of the nineteenth century been shown greater regard by the colonial authorities? If it had not then been further disadvantaged by racial prejudice and segregation, would apartheid
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 1, 2025](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-9-issue-1-2025/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 9, Issue 1, 2025 13 March 2025 ANFASA is pleased to release the 1st issue of our magazine for 2025... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [Capitec: Stalking Giants](https://www.anfasa.org.za/capitec-stalking-giants/) - T.J. Strydom, Capitec: Stalking Giants (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2024) THE LIBERATION of the majority of South Africans after 1990 has all too often been seen in terms of the vote. This was always going to have its limitations. And, indeed, some improvements in people’s lives have more to do with economic forces. One was microlending. Both during
- [I Will Not Be Silenced](https://www.anfasa.org.za/i-will-not-be-silenced/) - Karyn Maughan, I Will Not Be Silenced (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2024) BETWEEN 2023 and 2024, the international press freedom monitoring organisation Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) downgraded South Africa’s rating from 25 to 38 among 180 nations. Acknowledging our robust constitutional context, RSF nevertheless noted the obstruction of reporters out on the beat and the increased incidence of
- [ANFASA Annual Report 2023/24](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-annual-report-2023-24/) - ANFASA Annual Report 2023/24 ANFASA presents its Annual Report for the years 2023 and 2024. Take a look at the performance of our organisation. The report is in PDF format, simply click on the link to download it. ANFASA ANNUAL REPORT 2023/2024
- [Sector Engagement Letter](https://www.anfasa.org.za/sector-engagement-letter/) - Click on the links below to access documents. Subsector Engagement Letter - Download Annexure I - Download Annexure II - Download Annexure III - Download Revised Clusters - Download
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 4, 2024](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-8-issue-4-2024/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 8, Issue 4, 2024 05 December 2024 ANFASA is pleased to release the 4th issue of our magazine for 2024... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [By Andre Myburgh: an article in Litnet about AI and copyright](https://www.anfasa.org.za/by-andre-myburgh-an-article-in-litnet-about-ai-and-copyright/) - https://www.litnet.co.za/ki-en-kopiereg-kreatiewe-skryfwerk-van-die-masjien-versus-kreatiewe-skryfwerk-van-n-mens/
- [Hunting the Seven: How the Gugulethu Seven Assassins were Exposed](https://www.anfasa.org.za/hunting-the-seven-how-the-gugulethu-seven-assassins-were-exposed/) - Beverley Roos-Muller, Hunting the Seven: How the Gugulethu Seven Assassins were Exposed (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) THE ATTEMPTED ambush of a police van in Gugulethu on 3 March 1986 resulted in the deaths of seven MK terrorists. Heroic security forces suffered barely a scratch even though only one of them was kitted out for a
- [Breaking Bread: A Memoir](https://www.anfasa.org.za/breaking-bread-a-memoir/) - Jonathan Jansen, Breaking Bread: A Memoir (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) This is the story of a transformational journey from exclusive fundamentalist religion to international inclusivity and a broad-minded approach to higher education. Jonathan Jansen’s parents were Anglican from Cape Town and DRC from the Boland; but they became devout Plymouth Brethren; in his father’s case a preacher
- [The Truth about Cape Slavery](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-truth-about-cape-slavery/) - Patric Tariq Mellet, The Truth about Cape Slavery: The Foundations of Colonial South Africa (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2024) CAPE slavery has often been described as relatively benign, a sideshow to the main drama of South African history. Patric Mellet disputes this interpretation in a book he hopes bridges the gap between academic writing and easy reading. He
- [Hunting with the Hawks: Untold Stories from the Elite South African Crime-Fighting Unit](https://www.anfasa.org.za/hunting-with-the-hawks-untold-stories-from-the-elite-south-african-crime-fighting-unit/) - Graham Coetzer, Hunting with the Hawks: Untold Stories from the Elite South African Crime-Fighting Unit (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2024) THE FAMED Scorpions, the Directorate of Special Operations which fell under the NPA and combined investigative and prosecutorial capacity in pursuit of organised crime and corruption, were disbanded in January 2009. They had been far too effective in
- [High Times: The Extraordinary Life of a Joburg Dope Smuggler](https://www.anfasa.org.za/high-times-the-extraordinary-life-of-a-joburg-dope-smuggler/) - Roy Isacowitz and Jeremy Gordin, High Times: The Extraordinary Life of a Joburg Dope Smuggler (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) CHARM, charisma and confidence are worth more than any academic qualification; but they can spill over into dangerous hubris. Michael Medjuck was born in 1950, grew up in Johannesburg and was deputy head boy of King David High
- [Botha, Smuts and the First World War](https://www.anfasa.org.za/botha-smuts-and-the-first-world-war/) - Antonio Garcia and Ian van der Waag, Botha, Smuts and the First World War (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) MEMORIALS to generals Louis Botha and Jan Smuts have not fared well in recent years; removed or defaced. This should not surprise. Both were products of a racist age and framed their attitudes and actions accordingly. But today’s antipathy
- [The First Black Dominican Sisters in Natal (1922‒39): At the Crossroads of Race and Gender](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-first-black-dominican-sisters-in-natal-1922‒39-at-the-crossroads-of-race-and-gender/) - Philippe Denis, The First Black Dominican Sisters in Natal (1922‒39): At the Crossroads of Race and Gender (Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2023) THE KEY event of this book is the rushed and slipshod transfer of black sisters without consultation from Lennoxton (Newcastle) to Montebello (Noodsberg) in January 1939. The resultant distress resonated down the years and
- [Crash and Burn: A CEO’s Crazy Adventures in the SA Airline Industry](https://www.anfasa.org.za/crash-and-burn-a-ceos-crazy-adventures-in-the-sa-airline-industry/) - Glenn Orsmond, Crash and Burn: A CEO’s Crazy Adventures in the SA Airline Industry (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) FOR nearly thirty years I was regularly told that higher education needed to follow a business model. Clearly the promoters of that notion knew nothing of the airline industry. Glenn Orsmond spent a working lifetime with South African airlines
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 1, 2024](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-8-issue-1-2024/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 8, Issue 1, 2024 17 February 2024 ANFASA is pleased to release the 1st issue of our magazine for 2024... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 3, 2024](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-8-issue-3-2024/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 8, Issue 3, 2024 12 August 2024 ANFASA is pleased to release the 3rd issue of our magazine for 2024... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [Prisoners of Jan Smuts: Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa in WWII](https://www.anfasa.org.za/prisoners-of-jan-smuts-italian-prisoners-of-war-in-south-africa-in-wwii/) - Karen Horn, Prisoners of Jan Smuts: Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa in WWII (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) RELUCTANT soldiers who readily surrendered, then enjoyed a largely contented and creative life in South African prisoner of war (PoW) camps with many staying on, or returning, after the war as emigrants: that is a nostalgic stereotype perpetuated
- [Saving South Africa: Lessons from the uMngeni Municipality Success Story](https://www.anfasa.org.za/saving-south-africa-lessons-from-the-umngeni-municipality-success-story/) - Chris Pappas and Sandile Mnikathi, Saving South Africa: Lessons from the uMngeni Municipality Success Story (Johannesburg: Pan Macmillan, 2024) IT is hard to imagine two people less alike in appearance. One is white, short and slight; the other African, tall and large. The one was educated at Hilton; the other at Howick High. But both are fully
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 2, 2024](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-8-issue-2-2024/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 8, Issue 2, 2024 21 May 2024 ANFASA is pleased to release the 2nd issue of our magazine for 2024... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit](https://www.anfasa.org.za/breaking-the-bombers-how-the-hunt-for-pagad-created-a-crack-police-unit/) - Mark Shaw, Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2023) THE NEGOTIATED political settlement of the early 1990s opened up South Africa in more ways than one. By mid-decade, Cape Town was awash with drugs, in particular tik, creating deep concern and fear in middle-class coloured suburbs. The
- [Capture in the Court: In Defence of Judges and the Constitution](https://www.anfasa.org.za/capture-in-the-court-in-defence-of-judges-and-the-constitution/) - Dan Mafora, Capture in the Court: In Defence of Judges and the Constitution (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2023) THIRTY years down the line from its first democratic elections, the political landscape of South Africa may best be described as a struggle between constitutionalists and anti- constitutionalists. There has been complacent assumption of widespread acclaim for what is regarded
- [20 Battles: Searching for a South African Way of War, 1913-2013](https://www.anfasa.org.za/20-battles-searching-for-a-south-african-way-of-war-1913-2013/) - Evert Kleynhans and David Brock Katz, 20 Battles: Searching for a South African Way of War, 1913‒2013 (Johannesburg: Delta Books, 2023) THE PURPOSE of this book, written by military scientists and historians, is to identify a distinctive South African way of fighting battles. Correctly, they believe that successful military operations depend on an appreciation of history. Their
- [IAF, IFRRO, IPA and STM urge President Ramaphosa to withhold signing Copyright Amendment Bill](https://www.anfasa.org.za/iaf-ifrro-ipa-and-stm-urge-president-ramaphosa-to-withhold-signing-copyright-amendment-bill/) - NEWS RELEASE IAF, IFRRO, IPA and STM urge President Ramaphosa to withhold signing Copyright Amendment Bill Geneva, Brussels, London, Wednesday 20 March 2024 Full statement here Last week, 20 March 2024, the major representatives of authors and publishers around the world, IAF, IPA and STM, and IFRRO, representing the collective management organisations in the text
- [Copyright Reform or Reframe?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/copyright-reform-or-reframe/) - Copyright Reform or Reframe? was published last week and can be read on Juta’s on-line platform. (See below for description and contents). This book deals with the South African Copyright Amendment Bill that is currently under consideration. For readers concerned with the anticipated effects of the Bill on universities and the national research economy, please
- [Copyright Bill Implications for Universities & Creative Industries Masterplan](https://www.anfasa.org.za/copyright-bill-implications-for-universities-creative-industries-masterplan/) - Copyright Amendment Bill: Contradictions to Hit the South African Education Sector By Keyan Tomaselli and Hetta Pieterse Copyright Amendment Bill: Contradictions to Hit the South African Education Sector | Education as Change (unisapressjournals.co.za) or https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC/article/view/14325 Our article was published in mid-December 2023. This analysis focuses on the anticipated effects of the Bill, if enacted,
- [Back to the Front: A Memoir](https://www.anfasa.org.za/back-to-the-front-a-memoir/) - Leon Levy, Back to the Front: A Memoir (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2023) BOOK ENDING a life seems an appropriate approach to memoir, although in this case Leon Levy does it unevenly. Born in 1929, he left South Africa in 1963 on an exit visa and worked in industrial relations in Britain until his return home in 1997. His
- [The Thabo Bester Story: The Facebook Rapist, the Celebrity Doctor and the Escape from Cell 35](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-thabo-bester-story-the-facebook-rapist-the-celebrity-doctor-and-the-escape-from-cell-35/) - Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn, The Thabo Bester Story: The Facebook Rapist, the Celebrity Doctor and the Escape from Cell 35 (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2023) IT is tempting to regard this story as truth stranger than fiction. But that discounts the basic normality of the characters involved given Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn’s conclusions about the ‘banality,
- [Statues and Storms: Leading through Change](https://www.anfasa.org.za/statues-and-storms-leading-through-change/) - Max Price, Statues and Storms: Leading Through Change (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2023) THERE’S a song in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance that has the refrain ‘A policeman’s lot is not a happy one …’ A modern-day South African version might well substitute the word vice-chancellor. The latest memoir is by Max Price who headed the University of Cape
- [Blood has a Voice: Stories from the Autopsy Table](https://www.anfasa.org.za/blood-has-a-voice-stories-from-the-autopsy-table/) - Hestelle van Staden, Blood has a Voice: Stories from the Autopsy Table (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2023) SHE describes herself as a normal middle-aged, suburban woman; but her profession would be regarded by many as highly unusual. From childhood, Hestelle van Staden wanted to be a forensic pathologist and her ambition has led her to conduct 7 000 autopsies
- [Rhoda: A Biography](https://www.anfasa.org.za/rhoda-a-biography/) - Joel B. Pollak, Rhoda: A Biography: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!’ (Johannesburg: UJ Press, 2023) CONTRARIAN is the word Joel Pollak chooses to best describe the complex Rhoda Kadalie. Her life moved from radical anti-apartheid activist to liberal and feminist critic of post-apartheid South Africa. This was hardly unusual and is readily explained. What defies
- [Eskom: Power, Politics and the (Post) Apartheid State](https://www.anfasa.org.za/eskom-power-politics-and-the-post-apartheid-state/) - Faeeza Ballim, Eskom: Power, Politics and the (Post) Apartheid State (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2023) FOR many years a joke has gone the rounds. Satan is visiting South Africa and is sitting at a bar. ‘And who,’ asks another patron, ‘are you?’ ‘I,’ says Satan, ‘am the prince of darkness.’ ‘Eish!’ exclaims the other drinker, ‘then you must work
- [ANFASA Annual Report 2022/23](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-annual-report-2022-23/) - ANFASA Annual Report 2022/23 ANFASA presents its Annual Report for the years 2022 and 2023. Take a look at the performance of our organisation. The report is in PDF format, simply click on the link to download it. ANFASA ANNUAL REPORT 2023
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 7, Issue 4, 2023](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-7-issue-4-2023/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 7, Issue 4, 2023 19 October 2023 ANFASA is pleased to release the 4th issue of our magazine for 2023... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [Takka Takka Bom Bom: A South African War Correspondent’s Story](https://www.anfasa.org.za/takka-takka-bom-bom-a-south-african-war-correspondents-story/) - Al J. Venter, Takka Takka Bom Bom: A South African War Correspondent’s Story (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) THE TITLE is Swahili for the water-cooled machine guns of World War One used in East Africa where Al Venter’s father served. Later he worked for South Africa Railways, during the next war in a significant logistical post. His mother
- [Whitey: The Rise and Rule of the Shoprite King](https://www.anfasa.org.za/whitey-the-rise-and-rule-of-the-shoprite-king/) - Niel Joubert, Whitey: The Rise and Rule of the Shoprite King (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) WE have three supermarkets at our local shopping centre: Woolworths, Pick n Pay and Spar. Although their clienteles are mixed, each has a distinct socio-economic profile observable at entrance and exit. What is missing is Shoprite Checkers, the largest food retail group
- [Zondo at your Fingertips](https://www.anfasa.org.za/zondo-at-your-fingertips/) - Paul Holden, Zondo at your Fingertips (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2023) STATE capture amounted to treason: not only did it involve massive theft of national resources, but the deliberate subversion of the South African constitution and the rule of law. We knew a great deal about it from press reports building up to the fortuitous Gupta Leaks of 2015,
- [Standing up for Science: A Voice of Reason](https://www.anfasa.org.za/standing-up-for-science-a-voice-of-reason/) - Salim S. Abdool Karim, Standing up for Science: A Voice of Reason: South Africa’s Chief Covid-19 Adviser at the Frontlines of the Pandemic (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 2023) OUR first authoritative assessment of the Covid-19 pandemic, autobiography, and a stout defence of the logic and rationality of scientific method. Salim (Slim) Abdool Karim blends all three effectively in this
- [ANFASA Magazine Volume 2, Issue 4, 2009](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-2-issue-4-2009/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 2, Issue 4, 2009 ANFASA is pleased to release the 4th issue of our magazine for 2009... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on the bottom right
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 3, Issue 1, 2010](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-3-issue-1-2010-2/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 3, Issue 1, 2010 ANFASA is pleased to release the 1st issue of our magazine for 2010... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on the bottom right
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 3, Issue 1, 2010](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-3-issue-1-2010/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 3, Issue 1, 2010 ANFASA is pleased to release the 1st issue of our magazine for 2010... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on the bottom right
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 3, Issue 2, 2010](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-3-issue-2-2010/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 3, Issue 2, 2010 ANFASA is pleased to release the 2nd issue of our magazine for 2010... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on the bottom right
- [ANFASA Magazine | Volume 7, Issue 3, 2023](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-magazine-volume-7-issue-3-2023/) - ANFASA Magazine Volume 7, Issue 3, 2023 10 August 2023 ANFASA is pleased to release the 3rd issue of our magazine for 2023... The hyperlinks in the magazine can be activated, taking readers directly to the sources cited. We have created it as a single page view (All right-hand pages so the number appears on
- [ANFASA COPYRIGHT GROUP](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-copyright-group/) - ANFASA COPYRIGHT GROUP MEMBERS Prof Keyan Tomaselli (Academic Sector) keyant@uj.ac.za Prof Owen Dean Don Mthobela Hetta Pieterse Maria Tsvere (Observer) Samu Mfuphi (ANFASA National Coordinator) samu@anfasa.org.za WHAT THE GROUP DOES ANFASA has been following the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) for the past few years, and has actively participated in the debates about it. ANFASA has
- [How to Steal a Gold Mine: The Aurora Story](https://www.anfasa.org.za/how-to-steal-a-gold-mine-the-aurora-story/) - Dianne Hawker, How to Steal a Gold Mine: The Aurora Story (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2023) LIQUIDATION of mines is not unusual. Often, they are bought, rehabilitated and returned to production. But virtually everything about the liquidation of Pamodzi’s mines at Springs on the East Rand and at Orkney in the Free State raises questions answered by a
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- [Our Heartfelt Condolences to the Seakhoa Family & le Roux Family](https://www.anfasa.org.za/our-heartfelt-condolences-to-the-seakhoa-family-le-roux-family/) - Our deepest condolences to the Seakhoa Family for the passing of Sindiswa Seakhoa a long-time friend of ANFASA and well-known musician. We would also like to our heartfelt condolences to the le Roux family especially to Beth le Roux for the passing of her husband.
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- [Grant Scheme Winners 2020](https://www.anfasa.org.za/grant-scheme-winners-2020/) - ODILILE PATRICIA LINDIWE AYODELE Does Trade Follow the Flag? The Story of Mobile Telephony and South Africa’s Foreign Economic Policy In this book, I argue that the international relations (IR) of telecommunications in Africa highlight the thin line between corporatism and its consequences for a state’s global relationships. I make the two key assertions: first,
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- [Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid](https://www.anfasa.org.za/women-in-solitary-inside-the-female-resistance-to-apartheid/) - Shanthini Naidoo, Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) APARTHEID was based on complex legislation, increasingly distanced from the rule of law. Before the National Party regime resorted to lawlessness from the early 1980s onwards, it kept up the pretence, for various reasons, of legality; thus a sequence of trials that
- [Making Sense of Research](https://www.anfasa.org.za/making-sense-of-research/) - Keyan G. Tomaselli (ed.), Making Sense of Research (Pretoria: Van Schaik, 2018) THE ESSENTIAL purpose of universities is easy enough to define: training and practice in the acquisition, refinement and dissemination of new knowledge – information to which method has been applied. All too often universities are used for other purposes, but research is their ultimate goal,
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- [The Lie of 1652: A Decolonised History of Land](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-lie-of-1652-a-decolonised-history-of-land/) - Patric Tariq Mellet, The Lie of 1652: A Decolonised History of Land (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) PATRIC Mellet has multi-ethnic roots and a family history disrupted by apartheid’s Population Registration Act. This book involves a search for his own past, an eclectic approach to South Africa’s history that promotes restorative justice. It is campaigning history and the
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- [Lansdowne Dearest: My Family’s Story of Forced Removals](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lansdowne-dearest-my-familys-story-of-forced-removals/) - Bronwyn Davids, Lansdowne Dearest: My Family’s Story of Forced Removals (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2020) THERE has been much contestation over the definition and identity of the South African coloured community. Bronwyn Davids brings her idiosyncratic view to bear in Lansdowne Dearest, underlining the futility of any attempt to generalise the past. From birth in 1961 until her
- [The Afrikaners: A Concise History](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-afrikaners-a-concise-history/) - Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners: A Concise History (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) THERE is much to be said for concise books: many modern publications are far too long. This one is the progeny of an 18-hour documentary for kykNet that resulted in a 700-page book; the short version being just a third of its length. Hermann Giliomee is
- [Inside the Belly of the Beast: The Real Bosasa Story](https://www.anfasa.org.za/inside-the-belly-of-the-beast-the-real-bosasa-story/) - Angelo Agrizzi, Inside the Belly of the Beast: The Real Bosasa Story ([N.p.]: Truth be Told Publishing, 2020) TWO photographs: one shows a slim, 16-year-old trainee chef; the other, a corpulent ageing man with a Ferrari in a garage full of expensive memorabilia. What happened to Angelo Agrizzi in the intervening years is a quintessential South African
- [The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-man-who-killed-apartheid-the-life-of-dimitri-tsafendas/) - Harris Dousemetzis with Gerry Loughran, The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas (Jacana, 2018) EXACTLY who was Hendrik Verwoerd’s assassin? In this comprehensive, thoroughly researched account of the life of Dimitri Tsafendas, Harris Dousemetzis straightens out the historical record, but wisely leaves that question open. The more that is known about Tsafendas, the greater
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- [Incorruptible: The Story of the Murders of Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani](https://www.anfasa.org.za/incorruptible-the-story-of-the-murders-of-dulcie-september-anton-lubowski-and-chris-hani/) - Evelyn Groenink, lncorruptible: The Story of the Murders of Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani (Privately published, 2018) IN February 1990 we liberated the contents of the banned book cupboard in the local university library. Apartheid was dead and so, too, we reckoned was censorship. It was indeed in one sense, but much of the deeper
- [Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932](https://www.anfasa.org.za/sol-plaatje-a-life-of-solomon-tshekisho-plaatje-1876-1932/) - Brian Willan, Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876–1932 (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2018) MAGISTERIAL is an apt description of this massive biography – for its depth of research, breadth of context and precision of writing. ‘South Africa had (and has) an extraordinary capacity to distort its past,’ writes Brian Willan. He has done an enormous amount
- [Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored](https://www.anfasa.org.za/ministry-of-crime-an-underworld-explored/) - Mandy Weiner, Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 2018) ALL countries have a criminal underworld. But when it merges with the overworld, society is in deep trouble. Mandy Wiener’s latest book concludes that the South African Police Service is so deeply compromised and corrupted that our country is wide open to organised crime. The controversial
- [Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid](https://www.anfasa.org.za/black-consciousness-and-progressive-movements-under-apartheid/) - Ian Macqueen, Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid (Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press, 2018) IN popular perception Black Consciousness (BC) is often portrayed as a breakaway, isolationist tendency; a mirror image of apartheid promoting the interests of black advancement and upliftment. In contrast, Ian Macqueen has produced a brilliant and readable analysis that shows BC to be the
- [Heist: South Africa’s Cash-in-Transit Epidemic Uncovered](https://www.anfasa.org.za/heist-south-africas-cash-in-transit-epidemic-uncovered/) - Anneliese Burgess, Heist: South Africa’s Cash-in-Transit Epidemic Uncovered (Cape Town: Penguin, 2018) VIOLENT crime is a long-standing South African tradition and at the top of the hierarchy are the gangsters who hijack cash-in-transit vehicles. These robberies are highly organised with military precision, planned over many months, and involve numerous specialists. The objective is to seize millions of
- [As by Fire: The End of the South African University](https://www.anfasa.org.za/as-by-fire-the-end-of-the-south-african-university/) - Jonathan Jansen, As by Fire: The End of the South African University (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2017) UNIVERSITIES are fragile institutions. They require calm and as little change and disruption as possible to enable their primary purpose of teaching, learning and research. Such are the basic conditions for reflection and rational discourse. Even the most revolutionary of new
- [Caught in the Middle: The Autobiography of Mike Procter](https://www.anfasa.org.za/caught-in-the-middle-the-autobiography-of-mike-procter/) - Mike Procter and Lungani Zama, Caught in the Middle: The Autobiography of Mike Procter (Cape Town: Don Nelson, 2017) A FEROCIOUSLY fast bowler who could turn to off spin, a dominating and entertaining middle order batsman, a good fielder and often successful captain – Mike Procter was an immensely talented cricketer. His English county, Gloucester, to which he
- [The Big Fix: How South Africa Stole the 2010 World Cup](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-big-fix-how-south-africa-stole-the-2010-world-cup/) - Ray Hartley, The Big Fix: How South Africa Stole the 2010 World Cup (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2016) THE RUN-UP to the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa lasted five years. It was a remarkably febrile time when extraordinary claims were made for sport, football in particular. The few people who publicly expressed scepticism were treated at
- [The Testimony of Steve Biko and No Fears Expressed: Quotes from Steve Biko](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-testimony-of-steve-biko-and-no-fears-expressed-quotes-from-steve-biko/) - Millard W. Arnold (ed.), The Testimony of Steve Biko and No Fears Expressed: Quotes from Steve Biko (Picador Africa) APARTHEID was a theatre of both fear and farce. Steve Biko, by then a banned person, was asked to give evidence for the defence at the South African Students Organisation/Black Peoples Convention (SASO/BPC) trial of Saths Cooper and eight activists
- [A Legacy of Spies](https://www.anfasa.org.za/a-legacy-of-spies/) - John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies (Penguin Random House) IN the novel that first made John le Carré’s name, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Alec Leamas and Elizabeth Gold are shot dead in 1963 at the newly built Berlin Wall. Leamas had been part of an MI6 operation to protect the identity of a
- [The President’s Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and out of Prison](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-presidents-keepers-those-keeping-zuma-in-power-and-out-of-prison/) - Jacques Pauw, The President’s Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and out of Prison (Tafelberg) HE became South Africa’s president in 2009 already deeply compromised by the arms deal. Subsequently Jacob Zuma has behaved like an archetypal dictator, amassing wealth for himself and his vast family through deals with shady operators. Jacques Pauw provides details: the Guptas,
- [Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld](https://www.anfasa.org.za/hitmen-for-hire-exposing-south-africas-underworld/) - Mark SHAW, Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2017) WANT someone rubbed out? It could cost you as little as R10 000 in a society in which extreme violence is commonplace – and commercialised. Killing is effectively an occupation for many, complete with potential career path although it is often all too short.
- [Oliver Tambo: A Jacana Pocket Biography](https://www.anfasa.org.za/oliver-tambo-a-jacana-pocket-biography/) - Hugh MACMILLAN, Oliver Tambo: A Jacana Pocket Biography (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2017) HAD it not been for the Treason Trial of 1956, Oliver Tambo would almost certainly have become an Anglican priest. He was close to Trevor Huddleston and for some years was a teacher of maths at St Peter’s, although by 1951 he had completed his articles
- [Not Without a Fight: The Autobiography](https://www.anfasa.org.za/not-without-a-fight-the-autobiography/) - Helen ZILLE, Not Without a Fight: The Autobiography (Cape Town: Penguin Random House, 2016) HELEN Zille arrived home one night after a visit to a Cape Town township believing her car had been stoned. However, there was a large bruise at the base of her spine: she had in fact been shot at, the bullet penetrating the
- [The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-man-who-founded-the-anc-a-biography-of-pixley-ka-isaka-seme/) - Bongani NGQULUNGA, The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Cape Town: Penguin, 2017) THE title of this book is a little misleading. The significance of Pixley ka Isaka Seme’s life lies not so much in his political role, but the breadth of his professional involvement and above all the apparent ease
- [Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson](https://www.anfasa.org.za/spy-uncovering-craig-williamson/) - Jonathan ANCER, Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2017) HUNDREDS of apartheid-era operatives have quietly disappeared into the forgotten recesses of post-liberation South Africa. An exception is the much-reviled Craig Williamson: “I feel anger; seething anger towards him,” says Janet Love in this book. Journalist Jonathan Ancer constructed his biography from a wide range of interviews
- [God, Spies and Lies](https://www.anfasa.org.za/god-spies-and-lies/) - John MATISSON, God, Spies and Lies: Finding South Africa’s Future Through its Past (Cape Town: Ideas for Africa in association with Missing Ink, 2015) THE essence of John Matisonn’s book lies in its sub-title. He was well enough placed throughout his career as a journalist to write both personal and political memoir; basically a study of the
- [Fordsburg Fighter](https://www.anfasa.org.za/fordsburg-fighter/) - Amin CAJEE as told to Terry Bell, Fordsburg Fighter: The Journey of an MK Volunteer (Face2Face, 2016). ANC Youth League president Collen Maine recently called on Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) veterans to defend the nation’s president Jacob Zuma as he stumbles through the state capture crisis. It was all too reminiscent of Julius Malema’s call of a
- [Student, Comrade, Prisoner, Spy: A Memoir](https://www.anfasa.org.za/student-comrade-prisoner-spy-a-memoir/) - Bridget HILTON-BARBER, Student, Comrade, Prisoner, Spy: A Memoir (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2016) WE are reminded by Timothy Garton Ash, journalist and academic expert on central Europe, that ‘the key to betrayal is trust’. And this is a book about that archetypal event of apartheid South Africa: betrayal to the security police by a member of a
- [Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa: Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities](https://www.anfasa.org.za/academic-freedom-in-a-democratic-south-africa-essays-and-interviews-on-higher-education-and-the-humanities/) - John HIGGINS, Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa: Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013) THIS is an unusual book: title and sub-title could be reversed, yet still make logical sense. John Higgins undertakes his stout defence of the humanities with a brave decision to republish or adapt a
- [Confronting the Corrupt: Accountability Now’s Battle Against Graft in SA](https://www.anfasa.org.za/confronting-the-corrupt-accountability-nows-battle-against-graft-in-sa/) - Paul HOFFMAN, Confronting the Corrupt: Accountability Now’s Battle Against Graft in SA (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2016) CADRE deployment is the key to the epidemic of corruption that has systematically eaten away at the fabric of the South African nation for the last twenty years. It is a Leninist practice based on the premise that ruling party and
- [Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me: A Memoir of Sorts](https://www.anfasa.org.za/hitler-verwoerd-mandela-and-me-a-memoir-of-sorts/) - Marianne THAMM, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me: A Memoir of Sorts (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2016) THE British newspaper The Guardian runs, alongside its conventional obituaries, a parallel series called ‘Other lives’. South African publishing of biography and autobiography follows a similar path: predominance of the great and good and the occasional contribution from a less prominent writer that illuminates
- [History Matters: Selected Writings, 1970–2016](https://www.anfasa.org.za/history-matters-selected-writings-1970-2016/) - Bill NASSON, History Matters: Selected Writings, 1970–2016 (Cape Town: Penguin, 2016) SOMETHING of a self-indulgence? Many might regard auto-anthology in such terms, but would surely excuse a writer of Bill Nasson’s exceptional quality. If the opinion of another leading South African historian, Charles van Onselen – ‘The hearse of history is not far from the playground, and
- [No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela](https://www.anfasa.org.za/no-longer-whispering-to-power-the-story-of-thuli-madonsela/) - Thandeka GQUBULE, No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2017) Her whispering was so pronounced that Thuli Madonsela’s media appearances were often all but inaudible. This was in stark contrast to the power and importance of her judgments as Public Protector for seven critical years during which South Africa
- [We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge](https://www.anfasa.org.za/we-the-people-insights-of-an-activist-judge/) - Albie SACHS, We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016) THE South African Constitution is a constant benign presence in this book, Albie Sachs’s anthology of writings and talks. It is laced with great deal of his own personal experience, testimony and wisdom, largely to the benefit of readability and background, although
- [The Knock on the Door: The Story of the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-knock-on-the-door-the-story-of-the-detainees-parents-support-committee/) - Terry Shakinovsky and Sharon Cort with Lauren Segal, The Knock on the Door: The Story of the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee (Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2018) DURING the 1980s, in its desperate attempt to delay liberation, the government turned South Africa into an outlaw state. Some of its opponents it murdered; thousands were simply locked up without trial
- [IN MEMORY OF REV MXOLISI SONTI](https://www.anfasa.org.za/in-memory-of-rev-mxolisi-sonti/) - In Memory of Rev Mxolisi Sonti (4 January 1978–22 December 2020) Rev Sonti was a dedicated member of ANFASA. He would venture, from the Eastern Cape Province, taking unreliable public transport, to attend the ANFASA AGM. On one occasion he came to the ANFASA office seeking guidance on how to plan the Annual Zakes Mda
- [Royal Society of Literature launches RSL International Writers](https://www.anfasa.org.za/royal-society-of-literature-launches-rsl-international-writers/) - Royal Society of Literature launches RSL International Writers Dear ANFASA Member On 30 November, the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), a charity which promotes and represents the voice of literature in the UK, announced RSL 200; a five-year festival which launched with a series of major new initiatives in celebration of its 200th birthday. A
- [The Whistleblowers](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-whistleblowers/) - Mandy Wiener, The Whistleblowers (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 2020) MANDY Wiener’s book needs no sub-title; and it is a scathing indictment of the state of South Africa. It begins with a lament for whistleblowers amid doubt about their designation and definition. Journalists get plaudits and even awards on the back of whistleblowers’ courage. In turn, the latter experience unemployment,
- [Foreign Native: An African Journey](https://www.anfasa.org.za/foreign-native-an-african-journey/) - R.W. Johnson, Foreign Native: An African Journey (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2020) LIBERAL social democrat is Bill Johnson’s self-description; and in this world of rampant and rabid populist nationalism his thinking should be highly prized. He points out, for instance, that while sympathy with the downtrodden is imperative, it is important not to compromise over what is done
- [Seven Votes: How WWII Changed South Africa Forever](https://www.anfasa.org.za/seven-votes-how-wwii-changed-south-africa-forever/) - Richard Steyn, Seven Votes: How WWII Changed South Africa Forever (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2020) SOUTH Africa’s decision to go to war against Germany on 6 September 1939 was made a year after the government had established it would do so only if directly threatened. War followed a 7-6 margin in Cabinet and a parliamentary vote of 80-67;
- [Prisoner 913: The Release of Nelson Mandela](https://www.anfasa.org.za/prisoner-913-the-release-of-nelson-mandela/) - Riaan de Villiers and Jan-Ad Stemmet, Prisoner 913: The Release of Nelson Mandela (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) EVEN trees in the garden of Nelson Mandela’s cottage at Victor Verster Prison were bugged. Only one inside room was not. This was Mandela’s last place of incarceration before his 11 February 1990 release, and after transfer from Robben Island
- [The Murder of Ahmed Timol](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-murder-of-ahmed-timol/) - Imtiaz A. Cajee, The Murder of Ahmed Timol: My Search for the Truth (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2020) AN inquest in 1972 returned a verdict of suicide. The re-opened inquest in 2017 concluded that murder had been committed. The death in question was that of Ahmed Timol at John Vorster Square (JVS, now Johannesburg Central Police Station) in October
- [War Party: How the ANC’s Political Killings are Breaking South Africa](https://www.anfasa.org.za/war-party-how-the-ancs-political-killings-are-breaking-south-africa/) - Greg Ardé, War Party: How the ANC’s Political Killings are Breaking South Africa (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) ORGANISED crime resorts readily to violence; so it is no surprise that the ANC, which Durban-based journalist Greg Ardé describes as a ‘criminal syndicate’, is bedevilled by it, often with fatal consequences. In his foreword, Sam Sole makes a comment
- [Maverick Africans: The Shaping of the Afrikaners](https://www.anfasa.org.za/maverick-africans-the-shaping-of-the-afrikaners/) - Hermann Giliomee, Maverick Africans: The Shaping of the Afrikaners (Tafelberg, 2020) HERMANN Giliomee deploys the acute observation that nations are created not just from their own dynamics, but also by their enemies. He raises the question in a reader’s mind whether Afrikaner identity would have emerged without the arrogance of British imperialism, the abandonment of the bywoners and hensoppers after the
- [Death Flight](https://www.anfasa.org.za/death-flight/) - Michael Schmidt, Death Flight: Apartheid’s Secret Doctrine of Disappearance (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) PARKED at an East Rand airport you may find a Piper Seneca II, registered ZS-KFG. This is the aircraft used in the 1980s to drop the bodies of anti-apartheid insurgents into the Atlantic. The advantages of such disposal were deniability and destruction of any
- [The Berlin Shadow](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-berlin-shadow/) - Jonathan Lichtenstein, The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport (London: Scribner, 2020) HANS Eugen Lichtenstein, aged 12, arrived alone from Berlin at London’s Liverpool Street station in mid-1939, one of ten thousand young Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. (He reckoned it was the last one and that the children
- [Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History](https://www.anfasa.org.za/advantage-play-technologies-that-changed-sporting-history/) - Steve Haake, Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History (Arena Sport, 2018) PHYSICS and materials science meet sport in a book written with a strong dose of personal experience, a great deal of enthusiasm and appropriate turns of phrase. Some of this derives from participation: the author has taken part in the Nemean Games in Greece
- [Undeniable: Memoir of a Covert War](https://www.anfasa.org.za/undeniable-memoir-of-a-covert-war/) - Philippa Garson, Undeniable: Memoir of a Covert War (Jacana, 2020) A CONSTANT presence in this book is the question of the third force. Was it, in the period leading up to South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, part of an orchestrated, clandestine campaign run by the government? Did it exist at all? Or was it
- [Unspeakable: The Autobiography](https://www.anfasa.org.za/unspeakable-the-autobiography/) - John Bercow, Unspeakable: The Autobiography (London:Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2020) THE FORMER Speaker of the House of Commons is often described as a Marmite figure. By that measure (in a frank declaration of reviewer interest) I lean to the positive, although this would not have been so in the years up to the mid-1990s. Influenced
- [The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-terrorist-album-apartheids-insurgents-collaborators-and-the-security-police/) - Jacob Dlamini, The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2020) DURING eight months in 1993, following a verbal command to destroy all operational records, South Africa’s state security service, police and military immolated in Iscor furnaces 44 tons of documents (a ‘paper Auschwitz’) and film. Only the
- [APNET’S STATEMENT ON THE WORLD LITERACY DAY 2020](https://www.anfasa.org.za/apnets-statement-on-the-world-literacy-day-2020/) - African Publishers Network (APNET) extends our deepest gratitude to all African publishers, publishers’ associations and other players in the publishing industry which constitute authors, editors, illustrators, designers, printers and booksellers as we mark this relevant celebration — World Literacy Day on this ceremonial day, 8th September. Whenever a book (teaching, learning and reading material) is
- [ASSAf Presidential Roundtable](https://www.anfasa.org.za/assaf-presidential-roundtable/) - Science, Scholarship and Society on: ‘Is Scholarly Publishing becoming Unaffordable?’ An Evidence-based Dialogue on the Implications of a European Plan S on South African Research Launched in 2018, Plan S is an initiative by Science Europe for Open Access publishing. The initiative that promotes making full and immediate Open Access a reality, has received much
- [Online catalogue of members’ published books](https://www.anfasa.org.za/online-catalogue-of-members-published-books/) - ANFASA is excited to announce the call for details of your published works so that they can be included in our online book catalogue. This is going to be a useful marketing tool that will publicise books you have written on the ANFASA website which is linked to social media, and through public searches such
- [ASSAf Open Access Week 2019 Diary – Save the Dates! “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge” 21 – 25 October 2019, Everywhere](https://www.anfasa.org.za/assaf-open-access-week-2019-diary-save-the-dates-open-for-whom-equity-in-open-knowledge-21-25-october-2019-everywhere/) - The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is looking forward towards participating in Open Access Week, celebrated globally from 21 until 27 October 2019, themed: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”. We invite all members of the scholarly community to participate in the following series of events, to be presented by ASSAf, in collaboration with other
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- [Why the President must send the Copyright Amendment Bill back to Parliament](https://www.anfasa.org.za/why-the-president-must-send-the-copyright-amendment-bill-back-to-parliament/) - Opinion Piece by André Myburgh published by Mail & Guardian: 01 Nov 2019 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The Copyright Act of 1978, last amended in 2002, urgently needed updating. But the Copyright Amendment Bill passed by Parliament earlier this year raises concerns about whether South Africa is going to give it all away. “The free use of foreign copyright
- [Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies](https://www.anfasa.org.za/critical-arts-south-north-cultural-and-media-studies/) - The Contents Pages below list selected articles published in Critical Arts on the topics of authorship and readers, literacy, language and publishing, copyright and intellectual property rights, all topics of interest to Anfasa. The studies cover both academic publishing and the industry, of both books and journals. The articles can be accessed via university libraries
- [Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies of Value and Enabled Recolonisation](https://www.anfasa.org.za/humanities-citations-and-currency-hierarchies-of-value-and-enabled-recolonisation/) - Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies of Value and Enabled Recolonisation Abstract A comparative analysis examines the relevance of journal measurement indices for the Humanities and the Sciences. It explains how different measurements work, what they measure and their impact on the integrity of research, paradigm change and citation levels. The increasing use by university auditors
- [Important Letter to Authors](https://www.anfasa.org.za/letter-to-authors/) - Dear Authors Last year there was much debate about the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) which had set out, according to the Department of Trade and Industry, to ‘update’ the Copyright Act of 1978 as amended with the objective, amongst other things, of increasing the incomes of creative workers, including authors, and of giving readers and
- [Political Economy of the Copyright and Performers Protection Bills: Implications for Universities](https://www.anfasa.org.za/political-economy-of-the-copyright-and-performers-protection-bills-implications-for-universities/) - Sometimes, new legislation starts off well-intentioned, but then loses its way and is subjected to partisan constituency manipulation. One such example was the Protection of State Information Bill (2015) that was intended to consolidate existing legislation into a single omnibus compilation. By Keyan G. Tomaselli The protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) is often alleged
- [South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for Universities](https://www.anfasa.org.za/south-africas-copyright-amendment-bill-implications-for-universities/) - ‘Free to Reproduce, Free to Exploit’ was first published in The Conversation on 14 March 2019.1 The Conversation encourages republication with acknowledgement and The Star republished the article on 20 March 2019, changing the title to ‘Opening Door to Plagiarists’.2 Ironically, attribution was missing from The Star’s version. Perhaps this omission was a sub-editing error?
- [‘Twelve Years Later: Second ASSAf report on Research Publishing in and from South Africa (2018)’: Some issues arising](https://www.anfasa.org.za/twelve-years-later-second-assaf-report-on-research-publishing-in-and-from-south-africa-2018-some-issues-arising/) - Responding to the extraordinary challenges facing publication in the digital age is the holistic view taken by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) on threats and opportunities that characterise this conjuncture. Twelve Years Later, researched by Wieland Gevers, Robin Crewe and Susan Veldsman on national publishing strategies, provides the ‘nuts ’n bolts’ that
- [Perverse Incentives and the Political Economy of South African Academic Journal Publishing](https://www.anfasa.org.za/perverse-incentives-and-the-political-economy-of-south-african-academic-journal-publishin/) - Amongst the items usually under discussion in academia are peer review and the alleged unreasonable profits made by multinational publishing firms.1 Allied to these are issues of open access. Finally, the question of predatory journals that prey on the ‘publish or perish’ syndrome is a growing concern. These four topics background more specific concerns addressed
- [The Power of Books and their Censorship in South Africa](https://www.anfasa.org.za/the-power-of-books-and-their-censorship-in-south-africa/) - When I was a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) during the late 1970s, De Jong’s Bookshop, easily accessible across Jan Smuts Avenue, became one of the clandestine centres that sold banned books in Johannesburg. ‘A new consignment is in’ was the rallying cry for the Left who immediately descended on the bookshop
- [INDETERMINACY, INDIGENEITY, PEER REVIEW AND THE MIND–BODY PROBLEM](https://www.anfasa.org.za/indeterminacy-indigeneity-peer-review-and-the-mind-body-problem/) - BACKGROUND Declining funding over the past decade for tertiary education in South Africa resulted in tens of thousands of disillusioned students engaging in national protests during 2015 and 2016. The grievances were many, but included de-colonisation of curricula, together with a call that linked peer review to perceived forms of Eurocentric gatekeeping. This paper examines
- [#Publishingpaidme](https://www.anfasa.org.za/publishingpaidme/) - The #Blacklivesmatter movement in the UK has sparked an intriguing and seemingly overdue examination into the disparity between the advances offered to black authors on the one hand and to white authors on the other. In The Guardian online on 8 June, the article, headlined ‘#Publishingpaidme: authors share advances to expose racial disparities’, reports on
- [ANFASA mourns the passing of the great Andrew Mlangeni](https://www.anfasa.org.za/anfasa-mourns-the-passing-of-the-great-andrew-mlangeni/) - ANFASA mourns the passing of the great Andrew Mlangeni. His was a life of steadfastness and sacrifice. He will always have a place of honour in South African history. Read Further Here
- [Address by Andrew Mlangeni to the ANFASA AGM](https://www.anfasa.org.za/address-by-andrew-mlangeni-to-the-anfasa-agm/) - In 2017, mindful that the theme of the ANFASA AGM was ‘Authors as the conscience of the country’, we invited Andrew Mlangeni to deliver the keynote address. On the day itself, Dr Mlangeni was ill, but he sent us his speech to be read out on his behalf. This is an edited version. Address by
- [Of Theses, Supervisors and Public Investment](https://www.anfasa.org.za/of-theses-supervisors-and-public-investment/) - Dear Members, When students tell me that the thesis is ‘all their own work’ I ask them to consider the multiple investments in their thesis by taxpayers, the university, administrators, committees, supervisors, examiners, mentors, peers, classmates, funders, deans, academic coordinators, lecturers, school boards, senate, librarians and other support mechanisms too numerous to list here. Read More
- [Copyright Amendment Bill](https://www.anfasa.org.za/copyright-amendment-bill/) - 20181115 Copyright Amendment Bill Final
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- [DSAC Manuscript Application](https://www.anfasa.org.za/dsac-manuscript-application/) - Submit manuscript The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) in collaboration with the Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association of South Africa (ANFASA) announces the 2025/26 Open Call for the submission of manuscripts for the DSAC Publishing Hub. This is an industry stimulus project to support authors and revitalise the books and publishing industry. Also, encourage
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- [PhD Thesis Book](https://www.anfasa.org.za/phd-thesis-book/) - Presented by Andrew Joseph & Roshan Cader Begin the Course The Workshop ANFASA has partnered with Wits University Press to deliver a concise guide on turning your PhD thesis into a book you can publish. Read more about Converting your PhD Thesis into a Book here This workshop is for academics who want to see
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- [Grant Scheme Winners 2015](https://www.anfasa.org.za/grants-grant-scheme/grant-scheme-winners-2015/) - Belinda Kholeka Shange was born in Ulundi, Kwazulu Natal. She is a Wits University graduate with a Master's degree in Film and Television Studies. She is the cofounder of Be Kind Speak Out, a Johannesburg based collective that uses photography and film to challenge heterosexism in society. She is a writer for the Mail &
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- [Minutes of the 2017 Annual General Meeting](https://www.anfasa.org.za/blog/minutes-of-the-2017-annual-general-meeting/) - ANFASA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017 18 MARCH 2016 14:00 to 16:00 WITS Club, BRAAMFONTEIN, JOHANNESBURG MINUTES Present: Nomonde Makaula, Mxolisi Sonti, Jedi Ramalapa, Newman Sigenu, Kholeka Sigenu, Nonhlanhla Vezi, Don Mthobela, Rodney Gowana, Tyrone August, Barbra Mapuranga, Mikhail Peppas, Senabelle Ebrahim, Winston Mohapi, Haseenah Ebrahim, Nelson Nohashi, Maishe Maponya, Walter Chakela, Mpho Sehoto, Ilyana Van

## Courses

- [How to Turn your PhD Thesis into a Book](https://www.anfasa.org.za/course/how-to-turn-your-phd-thesis-into-a-book/)
- [Self Publishing Workshop](https://www.anfasa.org.za/course/self-publishing-workshop/)
- [Power Of Authors Conference](https://www.anfasa.org.za/course/power-of-authors-conference/)

## Lessons

- [Information](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/information/) - Join us as we celebrate the Power of Authors The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa (ANFASA) is hosting a two-day virtual international conference, to explore and debate the role and status of authors in society. Why attend? Knowledge production and the voice of the author has never been more important. Authors need
- [THE POWER OF AUTHORS](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/the-power-of-authors/)
- [THE BASICS OF TYPESETTING AND DISTRIBUTION AS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER by CLARE-ROSE JULIUS](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/the-basics-of-typesetting-and-distribution-as-an-independent-publisher-by-clare-rose-julius/)
- [Andrew Joseph | Turning Your PhD Thesis into a Book](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/andrew-joseph-turning-your-phd-to-a-book/)
- [Roshan & Andrew QA | Turning Your PhD Thesis into a Book](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/bonus-lesson-roshan-joseph-qa-turning-your-phd-to-a-book/)
- [Roshan Cader | Turning Your PhD Thesis into a Book](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/roshan-cader-turning-your-phd-to-a-book/)
- [PROFESSIONAL EDITING, PROOF READING AND COPY WRITING SERVICES by SIMONE BARROSO ](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/professional-editing-proof-reading-and-copy-writing-services-by-simone-barroso/)
- [MY JOURNEY TO SELF-PUBLISHING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES by SIPHIWO MAHALA](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/my-journey-to-self-publishing-challenges-and-opportunitiessiphiwo-mahala/)
- [THE PROCESS OF LEGAL DEPOSIT by HARRY NKADIMENG ](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/the-process-of-legal-deposit-by-harry-nkadimeng/)
- [ISBN by MARIETJIE DeBEER](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/isbn-by-marietjie-debeer/)
- [BOOK COVER DESIGN by FHUMULANI MSANDIWA](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/book-cover-design-by-fhumulani-msandiwa/)
- [DISTRIBUTION AND SALES by CLARE-ROSE JULIUS](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/distribution-and-sales-clare-rose-julius/)
- [ONLINE MARKETING ON A BUDGET by XOLANI SEDIBE](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/online-marketing-on-a-budgetxolani-sedibe/)
- [THE BOOK VALUE CHAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA by MONICA SEEBER](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/the-book-value-chain-in-south-africa-by-monica-seeber/)
- [YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/yesterday-today-and-tomorrow/)
- [CLOSING ADDRESS](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/closing-address/)
- [ARE AUTHORS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES? PART 1](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/are-authors-an-endangered-species-part-1/)
- [ARE AUTHORS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES? PART 2](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/are-authors-an-endangered-species-part-2/)
- [FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE DIGITAL AGE: THE MANY VOICES OF THE AUTHOR THROUGH TIME](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/from-the-stone-age-to-the-digital-age-the-many-voices-of-the-author-through-time/)
- [DISSIDENCE FUELS CREATIVITY – DECONSTRUCTING AND CRITIQUING OUR CRAFT](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/dissidence-fuels-creativity-deconstructing-and-critiquing-our-craft/)
- [WHAT MAKETH THE AUTHOR?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/what-maketh-the-author/)
- [How can I protect my book?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/assigning-copyright/) - ANFASA often receives requests from authors about “registering”, and thus “protecting” a book, or a poem, or a play that they have written. In South African copyright law there is no requirement for registration. Copyright arises automatically as you write the work, and the law itself is your protection. If someone else takes what you
- [What is copyright?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/what-is-copyright/) - It is the right of the creator of a work embodying intellectual property to control the use and exploitation, or management, of that work. The right of copyright is limited in duration as we shall see below, but while it subsists it gives its owner what Dr Owen Dean has called a ‘qualified monopoly’. Simply
- [Copyright on the Internet](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/copyright-on-the-internet/)
- [What is Plagiarism?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/what-is-plagiarism/)
- [What is Copyright Infringement?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/what-is-copyright-infringement/)
- [The Statute Governing Copyright](https://www.anfasa.org.za/lesson/the-statute-governing-copyright/)

## Memberships

- [Ordinary Membership](https://www.anfasa.org.za/membership/ordinary-membership/) - This membership applies to individuals
- [Associate Membership (For Organisations Only)](https://www.anfasa.org.za/membership/associate-membership-for-organisations-only/) - Applies to literary groups/writers’ organisations
- [Lifetime Membership](https://www.anfasa.org.za/membership/life-membership/) - Applies to an ordinary member who pays 10 years membership fees up-front.
- [Student Membership](https://www.anfasa.org.za/membership/student-membership/) - For Registered Undergraduates
- [Power Of Authors Conference](https://www.anfasa.org.za/membership/power-of-authors-conference/) - Join us as we celebrate the Power of Authors. The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa (ANFASA) is hosting a two-day virtual international conference, to explore and debate the role and status of authors in society.
- [Power Of Authors - Media](https://www.anfasa.org.za/membership/power-of-authors-media/)

## Products

- [Student Membership](https://www.anfasa.org.za/product/student-membership/) - Registered Undergraduates
- [Ordinary Membership](https://www.anfasa.org.za/product/ordinary-membership/) - This membership applies to individual South Africans or foreign nationals resident in South Africa.
- [Power Of Author Attendee](https://www.anfasa.org.za/product/power-of-author-attendee/)
- [Power Of Author Media](https://www.anfasa.org.za/product/power-of-author-media/)
- [Life Membership](https://www.anfasa.org.za/product/life-membership/) - Applies to an ordinary member who pays 10 years membership fees up-front.
- [Copyright Course](https://www.anfasa.org.za/product/copyright-course/)
- [Associate Membership (For Organisations Only)](https://www.anfasa.org.za/product/associate-membership/) - Applies to literary groups/writers' organisations and to non-resident foreign nationals.

## Events

- [IAF AGM | POA | PAWS Symposiums](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/iaf-2023-annual-general-meeting-cape-town/) - The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association of South Africa (ANFASA) is excited to present the International Authors Forum (IAF) Annual General Meeting and Symposiums. The various events will be held from the 6 - 8 March 2023 in Cape Town South Africa. Our aim is to gather authors and writers from around the world to
- [The Power of Authors 2022](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/the-power-of-authors-2022/) - Join us as we celebrate the Power of Authors ANFASA is hosting its second annual Power of Authors Virtual Symposium The Power of Authors is a conversation among authors, about authors to debate and speak about the crucial role authors play and have played in bringing about change in society. Register Here
- [Publishing Contract For Authors 2022](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/publishing-contracts-for-authors-2022/) - Authors are sometimes worried about the publishing contract they need to sign when their book has been accepted for publication. They may not fully understand the terms and conditions of the contract. They may be dissatisfied with the royalty offered. These are just two of the many reasons authors have sought advice from ANFASA. In
- [The Power of Authors 2021](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/the-power-of-authors-2021/) - Join us as we celebrate the Power of Authors The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa (ANFASA) is hosting a two-day virtual international conference, to explore and debate the role and status of authors in society. Why attend? Knowledge production and the voice of the author has never been more important. Authors need
- [Business of the Book 2021](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/business-of-the-book-2021/) - The Business of the Book seminar brings together authors, publishers and booksellers in a frank discussion about the book business. This year, we are giving voice to all the players in a discussion which is long overdue amid the changing publishing industry. We aim to provide authors with an understanding of how books are made: from
- [NLV Workshop | North West](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop-north-west/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites North West based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing.
- [NLV Workshop Day 1 | Mpumalanga](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop-mpumalanga/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing
- [NLV Workshop | Limpopo](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/14555/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing
- [NLV Workshop | Northern Cape](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-northern-cape/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing
- [AGM 2022](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/agm-2022/) - THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022 The Chairman and members of the ANFASA Board invite you to the 2022 Virtual Annual General Meeting on 08 September 2022. 08 September 2022 12:00 pm Virtually on Zoom Queries and RSVP: admin@anfasa.org.za The 2022 AGM will be preceded by Monica Seeber’s Memorial Service The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association of
- [NLV Workshop Day 2 | KwaZulu-Natal](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop-2-kzn/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing.
- [NLV Workshop Day 1 | KwaZulu-Natal](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop-kzn/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing.
- [NLV Workshop Day 2 | Free State](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop-2/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing.
- [NLV Workshop Day 1 | Free State](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing.
- [NLV Workshop | Gauteng](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop-gauteng/) - The Academic and Nonfiction Authors Association of South Africa invites Gauteng based authors of novels and nonfiction in all official South African indigenous languages to a one day creative writing workshop. Authors may bring samples of their writing.
- [NLV Workshop Day 2 - Mpumalanga](https://www.anfasa.org.za/event/nlv-workshop-2-mpumalanga/)

## Flows

- [Power Of Authors Media](https://www.anfasa.org.za/?cartflows_flow=power-of-authors-2)
- [Power Of Authors](https://www.anfasa.org.za/?cartflows_flow=power-of-authors)
- [Test](https://www.anfasa.org.za/?cartflows_flow=test)

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- [Checkout (Woo)](https://www.anfasa.org.za/checkout-woo/)
- [Sales Landing](https://www.anfasa.org.za/sales-landing/)
- [Thank You (Woo)](https://www.anfasa.org.za/thank-you-woo/)

## Published Works

- [India Bridal Collection](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/india-bridal-collection/) - India Bridal Collection. Sacred Ardhana. Thesis and Graphic Design . Department of Education.
- [Spiritual Classical Sitar Music as Cultural and Therapeutic Expression.](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/spiritual-classical-sitar-music-as-cultural-and-therapeutic-expression/) - Namaste . Spiritual Classical Sitar Music as Cultural and Therapeutic Expression. ISBN: 978-1-0492-2718-4 A Thesis lDedication and Tribute from Shashika Anguth at the Department of Music , Art Heritage & Culture. Dhandavat .
- [Sodl'ekhaya](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/sodlekhaya/) - Sodl’ekhaya: The Hunger Strike that Changed the South African Political Landscape, by Monty Sekhukhuni, is a fascinating account of a pivotal moment in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. This debut book delves into the courageous hunger strike of 1989, when political detainees risked their lives to demand freedom and justice. Through personal narratives and historical
- [Forever Hope](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/forever-hope/) - Forever Hope is an inspirational memoir that takes readers through the raw and emotional journey of multiple miscarriages, living with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), the challenges of a high-risk pregnancy, and the reality of a premature birth and NICU stay. Told with honesty and courage, this book not only shares Dominique V.’s personal story but also
- [King Mzilikazi kaMashobane](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/king-mzilikazi-kamashobane/) - The story of King Mzilikazi kaMashobane is a narrative that has been almost forgotten after it was first written and told almost exclusively by white missionaries, travellers, traders and slavers and was thus greatly slanted. Fortunately, on the other hand the story has been kept current and residual in the minds and lives of people
- [Madibana Mateng-Teng](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/madibana-mateng-teng/) - This book chronicles the broad history of Batswana from the time of migrations and their different hiving-off tendencies. It later delves into the explanation to how the different sub-tribes came to be before zoning in on the various family dynamics and its evolution.
- [Lide lidala lada lalimala](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/lide-lidala-lada-lalimala/) - In modern societies, certain things remain harmonious without the necessity for modifications or alterations; however, humankind unsettles these. This book unearths the challenges of ulwaluko (traditional male circumcision) as a direct consequence of distorting some cultural practices that should have been properly followed and that were used historically, which results in the death of initiates.
- [Merethetho ya dithothokiso](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/merethetho-ya-dithothokiso/) - “Merethetho ya dithothokiso” is a collection of poems from three authors that invites readers to explore their worlds. It has poetry that incorporates life's struggles and triumphs. Its pages have the power to heal, provoke thoughts, and inspire.
- [Combating Trafficking in Persons](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/combating-trafficking-in-persons-2/) - Human trafficking is a pervasive and heinous crime that strips individuals of their freedom, dignity, and basic human rights. "Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Comprehensive Guide for South Africa" delves into the multifaceted nature of trafficking, offering an in-depth exploration of the various dimensions of this global issue, particularly within the South African context. This
- [African National Criminals](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/african-national-criminals/) - The gloves are off! The hunt is on, to identify, catch & punish the most evil criminals! This is not a conversation, it’s an indictment. It is war. A prosecution, judgment and execution by a public jury. In a self-staged people’s court de jure’, the most legitimate and only lawful court, the author assumes prosecutor,
- [Combating Trafficking in Persons](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/combating-trafficking-in-persons/) - Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Comprehensive Guide for South Africa Human trafficking is a pervasive and heinous crime that strips individuals of their freedom, dignity, and basic human rights. "Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Comprehensive Guide for South Africa" delves into the multifaceted nature of trafficking, offering an in-depth exploration of the various dimensions of
- [Workplace Bullying-A South African Perspective](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/workplace-bullying-a-south-african-perspective/) - The book traces the origins of bullying and how bullying manifests in SA workplaces. It explores the various types of bullies and why they bully using an ecological model against the backdrop of the recently promulgate Code of Good of Good Practice for handling workplace harassment. It gives pointers on how to create bully free
- [Deep Thoughts](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/deep-thoughts/) - For Victor Hugo, "the poet is a world locked in a man." Christian Romeo NJIA, whose pen name is Alain-Roch Ngantcha, is no exception to this rule. His collection Deep Thoughts is a vast fresco of the world, of a fragment of the world, his world, the universe as he sees it, as he feels
- [Daughter Wound](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/daughter-wound/) - Daughter Wound (Hazel Press, 2024) explores a young woman’s negotiation of intimate relationships. The cover design features ‘Kin’, a commissioned painting by artist Anna Ilsley, whose work challenges the construct of the male gaze and offers a feminist disruption of patriarchal images.
- [Capture in the Court](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/capture-in-the-court/) - Are the courts against the people of South Africa? Since populist factions claim to be the people, judges confronting them do not just decide against the people; they are against the people. The judiciary faces a barrage of attacks not just from the ruling ANC but from other political parties clamouring for power. There comes
- [Dark White Light Black](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/dark-white-light-black-2/) - Dark White Light Black probes some of the most pivotal issues facing South Africa today: race, ‘othering’, unremembering, identity, gangsterism, addiction, and the process of making meaning of a society that has become unhinged from its moorings. The writer walks with the reader through a lion-hearted personal lens and through the purgatory of his travelogue,
- [Als is nie net swart en wit nie](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/als-is-nie-net-swart-en-wit-nie-2/) - Dis ’n powerful boek, skryf die akademikus en oudjoernalis Anastasia de Vries. Dit pols soos ’n slagaar waar die bloed – vertroebel deur die dinge van die verlede – donker deur die hede stroom, verswelgend, net om anderkant die soveelste troubled soul uit te spoeg. Sin vir sin, woord vir woord, beeld vir beeld ontplof
- [A KE JONA BOKHUTLO?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/a-ke-jona-bokhutlo/) - A ke jona bokhutlo?" E ke potso e mongwe le mongwe o ka ipotsang yona fa o kopana le dikgwetlho tse di kileng tsa fetola matshelo a batho lefatshe ka bophara mo ngwageng wa diketepedi-le-masomepedi (2020). Ga go gakgamatse go ka ipotsa jalo le go nna le kgopolo ya mothale o o ntseng jalo fa
- [A NDZI NGE SWI RIVALI](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/a-ndzi-nge-swi-rivali/) - Tsalwa leri ra ''Andzi nge swi rivali'' ri vulavula hi jaha Boyana wa Khume -mune wa malembe ,leri ri nga lahlekeriwa hi vatswari va rona ni ndzisana ya rona ya nhwanyana hi ndlela yo ka yi nga twisiseki. Jaha leri ri vuye ri baleka ri suka exitandzini ri ya edorobeni ra Giyani laha a nga
- [INTSINI ILOTYOLWA NGEENYEMBEZI](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/intsini-ilotyolwa-ngeenyembezi/) - Intsini ilotyolwa ngeenyembezi libali elisekwe kwiphondo iRhawuti; liyokugqibezeleka kwiPhondo leMpuma-Koloni. UNosipho Luswazi oyinzalelwane yase Mdantsane, kwiPhondo leMpuma-Koloni, ligqiyazana elifundile, eliphila ubomi belixesha ngakumbi obuza nemali. Imingeni yobomi bumenza aphatheke kakubi kwingqesho, aphazamiseka empilweni ngokwasenyameni, nangokomoya bade oogqirha basentshona, bathi unesimo sokudakumba. Uzibona, ehlangabezana nobunzima okuphupha, iingqaqambo zomzimba, umbilini nakukushiywa ngabantu abathandayo. Emva kokuxhathisa, enyamezele nakubeni
- [UMBIMBI NABABULALI](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/umbimbi-nababulali/) - UMbimbi nababulali yinoveli edingida ngezindikimba ezahlukene ezithinta ukuhlalisana emndenini. Ukuhlukumezeka kwabantu besifazane ngokomphefumulo kuhlala obala lapho usokhaya efulathela umuzi wakhe eshiya unkosikazi. Nezingane. Ukhwantalala yilona oludonsa indaba kuze kuphume umphefumulo. Okunye okugqama kakhulu udlame oluvuka ematekisini olubhekiswe kumninitekisi kodwa lugcine luchaphazele nabagibeli. Ukuqhuma kwesibhamu kuvela njengomkhokha osekude ukunqobeka ezweni lonke. Konke okuvela endabeni kugoqeke ndawonye
- [Beyond the Brick Walls](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/beyond-the-brick-walls/) - In recent years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of multi-unit property developments in South Africa, including apartments, townhouses, and other sectional title properties. The South African Sectional Titles Act was designed to regulate the ownership and management of these properties and ensure fair and equitable treatment for residents or property owners.
- [Colorblind Tools](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/colorblind-tools/) - In Colorblind Tools, Marzia Milazzo offers a transnational account of anti-Blackness and white supremacy that pushes against the dominant emphasis on historical change pervading current racial theory. This emphasis on change, she contends, misses critical lessons from the past. Bringing together a capacious archive of texts on race produced in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, the
- [Panya Routes](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/panya-routes/) - “This beautifully crafted book represents a new generation of scholarship, bringing together the fields of urban studies and art history. While cities and urbanization are themselves formal manifestations of the intersections across economy, politics and aesthetics that define modern life, the role of creative practice as a form of sociality is under theorized. Kim Gurney
- [Road to Nowhere](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/road-to-nowhere/) - Geoff Foster is a teenager like thousands, approaching his final school exams and hoping to go to university. Unlike many of them, though, he faces two complications. Firstly, he is disabled, with limited control of the left side of his body and prone to health problems. Secondly, his family is falling apart. The combined effect
- [Faith Defying Death](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/faith-defying-death/) - Three men are taken into exile to a foreign land, where they aspire to become prominent, successful and highly respected leaders in the cabinet of a king who ruled over one of the world's most powerful empires at the time. The three men now living high powered executive luxury lives are accused by jealous rivals
- [A New Logic for Faith](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/a-new-logic-for-faith/) - This is a book which will disarm agnostics and rattle atheists. The second book in the “Faith Today Trilogy”, A New Logic for Faith attempts to decisively defeat arguments for atheism as expounded by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins. If God isn’t dead, and no one, including Nietzsche, Hawking
- [Three Hundred and Twenty-One Haiku](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/three-hundred-and-twenty-one-haiku/) - The aim of the haiku poem is minimalistic: to crystallise the power of insights into a strict structure and short sequence of words. They capture instants of time in the life of a poet. This volume of over three hundred haiku describes these moments in time with maximum discipline, for a haiku has its own
- [Heartbeat](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/heartbeat/) - Heartbeat is a work of science faction describing in painstaking detail the true events, both dramatic and intense, of the world’s first human heart transplant carried out by Professor Christiaan Barnard and his heart team at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, in the early hours of the 3rd of December 1967. The story recreates the
- [Chrysalis](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/chrysalis/) - Chrysalis is Book 1 in the trilogy Metamorphosis: Stories of a Transplanted Man Jerry Fischer is in a race against time. He has Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) and there is no known cure for his disease. His skeletal muscles are wasting away and now his heart is starting to weaken. But when professional cyclist Roy
- [Poems From Home and Abroad](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/poems-from-home-and-abroad/) - The poems in this volume are descriptive lyrics about places and travelling, with sixty-four poems about experiences in South Africa, the poet’s home, and forty-eight poems about places encountered while travelling in Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the United States.
- [Passage to Faith](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/passage-to-faith/) - Passage to Faith is Book 1 in The Faith Today Trilogy series. Passage to Faith explores current scientific evidence supporting the case for the existence of a creator God. It draws on dozens of historical testimonies of individuals who had encounters with a Supreme Being which influenced them to change their lives, and sometimes the
- [Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/anglo-boer-war-blockhouses/) - The Blockhouses of South Africa is a fresh analytical look at the how the construction of over 9,000 small fortifications during the Boer War sought to change its course. From tracing the British Army’s use of blockhouses prior to the war, to what conditions were like for the average “Tommy” fighting in these structures; it
- [Dealing With Trauma](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/dealing-with-trauma/) - Want to improve your practical counselling skills? Need to help a loved one cope with a traumatic event? This practical guide was written to help those without formal training - benefit from the more than 30 years of experience of the author and seasoned trauma counsellor - Dr Jimmy Henderson. In this guide Jimmy looks
- [Understanding Metaphysics](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/understanding-metaphysics/) - Understanding and unlocking the power of metaphysics is no longer a secret or only meant for the guru, the serious disciple or the lifelong philosopher. New discoveries in science are moving the boundaries of what is possible and this is going to undoubtedly change the course of humanity’s evolution. However, you may be wondering exactly
- [A Comprehensive Guide to Crisis Counselling: How to grow your emotional intelligence and become a great counsellor and care-giver (The Essential Skills Series Book 1) by [Jimmy Henderson] Follow the Author  Mr. Jimmy Henderson Follow A Comprehensive Guide](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/a-comprehensive-guide-to-crisis-counselling-how-to-grow-your-emotional-intelligence-and-become-a-great-counsellor-and-care-giver-the-essential-skills-series-book-1-by-jimmy-henderson-follow-the-a/) - Want to become an emotionally intelligent counsellor or caregiver? This book was written just for you. The 1st edition of A Comprehensive Guide to Crisis Counselling proved an international success. Benefit now from the updated 2nd edition featuring even more valuable information and insight shared from the author, Dr. Jimmy Henderson. Using the same proven,
- [Time In](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/time-in/) - This book will help you to not only communicate more effectively with your children but also share your heart's desires and dreams with them. Step by step you will journey through this interactive devotional book, where you will be required to step outside your comfort zone, navigate to their level, understand their reality, and in
- [Als is nie net swart en wit nie](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/als-is-nie-net-swart-en-wit-nie/) - Dis ’n powerful boek, skryf die akademikus en oudjoernalis Anastasia de Vries. Dit pols soos ’n slagaar waar die bloed – vertroebel deur die dinge van die verlede – donker deur die hede stroom, verswelgend, net om anderkant die soveelste troubled soul uit te spoeg. Sin vir sin, woord vir woord, beeld vir beeld ontplof
- [Dark White Light Black](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/dark-white-light-black/) - Dark White Light Black probes some of the most pivotal issues facing South Africa today: race, ‘othering’, unremembering, identity, gangsterism, addiction, and making meaning of a society that has become unhinged from its moorings. The writer walks with the reader through a lion-hearted personal lens and the purgatory of his travelogue, which starts 15 years
- [Psalm for Chrysanthemums](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/psalm-for-chrysanthemums/) - "The struggle at the heart of the collection is one of the reasons these poems are so piercing and why they remain vital and memorable long after reading them. Psalm for Chrysanthemums, whose title prepares us for a song in praise of death, offers a vision that is both beautifully achieved and deeply disquieting." —
- [The Afropolitan Flâneur in Literature](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-afropolitan-flaneur-in-literature/) - This timely study engages in the Afropolitan debate via the streets of the literary city. It first provides a historical and theoretical framework to illustrate how the literary flâneur—an aimless wanderer of the city—migrated from Europe to Africa and the diaspora, and how this figure is to be understood in relation to current considerations of
- [From a Family Album](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/from-a-family-album/) - This collection tries to find universal truths in the particular situation of growing up, living and (eventually) dying in South Africa through a collection of eclectic verse (whose largely South African subject matter is personal and political) written over a few decades. The poetical jokes are satirical verse about verse.
- [Tyd Saam](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/tyd-saam/) - Tyd Saam is 'n prettige en interaktiewe daaglikse oordenkingsboek wat jou kan bystaan op jou reis na gesonde samesyn met jou kind op 'n nuwe en opwindende manier. Ons help jou om jou verhouding met jou kind en julle gesin te ontdek deur al die speletjies, gebede en skrifgedeeltes.
- [Timing](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/timing/) - As a teenager, or even a young adult, it is difficult to know where to start reading the Bible – from the beginning; from the end to the beginning; Old Testament, or New Testament? It can all seem overwhelming, never mind someone asking you where to find a book without looking at the index. This
- [Mntam](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/mntam/) - Yusra escaped war from a country of her birth, Yemen to be a refugee in Bo-Kaap of Cape Town in South Africa. In search of her family she bumped to a young gentleman and as result she encountered religious difficulties and prejudiced to have a meaningful relationship with a young man. At the other side,
- [5 Days Wonders of God And The Mighty Revelations](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/5-days-wonders-of-god-and-the-mighty-revelations/) - 5 DAYS WONDERS OF GOD And The Mighty Revelations This book is a must read for those who want to discover the amazing power of God for the full benefits of their earthly existence. Prophet Stanley Kuforiji was lost in the forest of the beasts and evil spirits for five days when he was just
- [The Three-Fold Pillar Powers of Human Existence](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-three-fold-pillar-powers-of-human-existence/) - THE THREE-FOLD PILLAR POWERS Of HUMAN EXISTENCE - Knowing this will reshape your Life and Destiny forever! This is one of the greatest books ever written on earth! Prophet Dr. Stanley Kuforiji has written this great book to reveal the power of God in you; the Seed of greatness that germinates till eternity according to
- [Believers' Manifest](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/believers-manifest/) - Believers' Manifest - Anointing Power Reinforcement for Christians This book will lift you up spiritually and launch you into a plane that God ordained for you to be as His living human creature. At last, right now, you’ll find it all here all that you need to know about your past, present and future life
- [Biblical Keys to Dangerous Prayers](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/biblical-keys-to-dangerous-prayers/) - BIBLICAL KEYS TO DANGEROUS PRAYERS Truly, in today’s evil world, there is the need to be more violent in confronting the kingdom of darkness which poses a major threat to our destiny and the world as a whole. But results have shown that Dangerous Prayers or Warfare Prayers are prayed wrongly. Praying any Dangerous Prayers
- [Crushing The Prayer Vampires](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/crushing-the-prayer-vampires/) - CRUSHING THE PRAYER VAMPIRES With 100 Hot Deliverance Prayer Bullets Who is the Prayer Vampire that is hooking you up in the throat and dealing with you mercilessly each time you pray and blocking your answers to prayers? You will find answers to this question in this great book of power which has been written
- [The Ladies of Apostles](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-ladies-of-apostles/) - Ladies Of Apostles Prophet Stanley Kuforiji has written this book out of his passion for women in the ministry. God is revealed in the hearts of Ladies of Apostles in the Kingdom of our God on earth. From the beginning of age, the 20th century missionary movement witnesses the greatest number of women involvement in
- [Prayer Rain On My Anatomy](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/prayer-rain-on-my-anatomy/) - PRAYER RAIN ON MY ANATOMY Your Anatomy is the collective functional unit made by several organs in your body which work in complete coordination and in harmony with one another. If one of the organs is impaired then the body function is in trouble. With this special healing book which has been written by Prophet
- [Healing On My Anatomy](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/healing-on-my-anatomy/) - HEALING ON MY ANATOMY Healing On My Anatomy is a book created under the GOSHEN REMEDIES Series VOLUME 1 [God Spirituality Health and Natural Remedies] founded by Prophet Dr. Stanley Kuforiji. In this book of healing, Prophet Dr. Stanley explained his vision that he saw on HIV-AIDS and other major diseases that affect people’s lives
- [41 Days To Glory](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/41-days-to-glory/) - 41 DAYS TO GLORY - Becoming A Spiritual Champion Through Solitary Mountain Power Encounter! This book has been written for those who want to acquire divine power by connecting to the Throne of the Father through Worship, Praise and Thanksgiving and be in total control of their lives in this world of turbulence. Worship, Praises
- [Blessings And Power To The Kingdom Partners](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/blessings-and-power-to-the-kingdom-partners/) - Blessings and Power to the Kingdom Partners - With Love from Prophet Stanley Kuforiji The earth is under fire; the old Babylon the great has again re-incarnated in the midst of the son of men! True blessings and Power are hard to find. There is commotion and strive for power, there is struggle for money,
- [1000 Glory Killers](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/1000-glory-killers/) - 1000 Glory Killers Glory Killers are satanic agents and manifestations that kill the destiny of people. We are in a turbulent world filled with all manner of evil from the kingdom of hell. Every believer on earth needs the right anointing to overcome the turbulent satanic world and fulfill destiny according to God’s Will. Today,
- [The Missiles of the Night](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-missiles-of-the-night/) - THE MISSILES OF THE NIGHT - And How to Escape It Prophet Stanley Kuforiji has written this book to expose the forces of darkness and the various ways through which they wage war against your life. This book brings to light what happens in the corridor of darkness at night against your life. Missiles in
- [Moses' Black Book of Power - At The Lord's Command](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/moses-black-book-of-power-at-the-lords-command/) - Moses Black Book of Power - At the Lord s Command! - Power to the Prophets and the People of the Last Days! In the Bible account of the Book of Exodus the Lord sent Moses to liberate the Israelites who had been under captivity for over 400 years. God wrought overwhelming frightening miracles, signs
- [The Fortress of the Christians](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-fortress-of-the-christians/) - The Fortress of the Christians - A True Revelation Guide for Power When you look around you, darkness is enshrouding the world (Isaiah 60:1-2), and you will believe with me that the end-time has come. Satanism is far dominating the earth and Satan is trapping us by witchcraft and other methods of bewitchments. Christians now
- [The Book of the Holy Cross, Biblical Holy Mantles And Anointing](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-book-of-the-holy-cross-biblical-holy-mantles-and-anointing/) - The Book of the Holy Cross, Biblical Holy Mantles And Anointing - Also Learn the Secrets of Holy Sacrament Oil for Supernatural Power! In today’s emerging spiritual reality, Prophet Stanley Kuforiji exposes the truth about the Holy Cross, Holy Mantles and Anointing. Using a non-denominational approach Prophet Stanley Kuforiji has captured and simplified these difficult
- [Biblical Powers And Anointing That Move Your Mountains](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/biblical-powers-and-anointing-that-move-your-mountains/) - BIBLICAL POWERS AND ANOINTING - That Moves Your Mountains! The Holy Bible is full of great supernatural wonders and demonstration of God’s mighty Sovereign power on the surface of the earth of which the Author bring many to limelight here for your remembrance and understanding. God has done it before and He can do it
- [How To See Visions And Prophesy](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/how-to-see-visions-and-prophesy/) - How To See Visions And Prophesy Visions and Prophecies are simply spiritual manifestations or acts of knowing what God has in His plan for us now, and also for the future. The journey of human life from creation has been guided exclusively by the visions and prophesies of God which were revealed through the prophets
- [Activating Your Angels](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/activating-your-angels/) - ACTIVATING YOUR ANGELS - for ALL Good Things of Life Through the Power within You Angels have specific yet limited roles to play in declaring God's will and purposes for humanity. Within you there is divine power to do all things to the glory of God. The Holy Spirit has deposited in you spiritual potentials
- [The Book of Power for Pastors](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-book-of-power-for-pastors/) - THE BOOK OF POWER FOR PASTORS A pastorate is a place of power where all things are being controlled totally spiritually. The Pastor’s strength lies in the level of anointing at his disposal. He is God’s appointed vessel and representative, the apple of God’s eyes to utilize the anointing effectively over his own life, the
- [LIFE OF A BORN FREE IN SOUTH AFRICA](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/life-of-a-born-free-in-south-africa/) - The novel tells the story of Jacob Tlokana, a young South African teenager who grows up in a Black township at the west of Johannesburg. His personal experiences mirror the struggles encountered by many Black teenagers in post-apartheid South Africa. Jacob explores questions of Rainbow nation, language and South African disappointment. Jacob as a teenager,
- [Yahweh God of Our Ancestors](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/yahweh-god-of-our-ancestors/) - YAHWEH - God of our Ancestors - The Mysteries of the Supernatural Power Revealed! The writer of this book Prophet Stanley Kuforiji brought to limelight again the mysteries of the Supernatural power of YAHWEH God of the Universe for the remembrance and empowerment of the Children of God on earth. In the beginning; the book
- [The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-sacred-knowledge-of-the-desert/) - The African desert flower Mponeng is optimised to enhance her survival experience regardless of the magnitude of adverse conditions in the terrestrial space that continuously poses an impressive threat to her survival experience. This time-tested mystical strategy holds great promise for humanity with respect to the need to upgrade our coping and transcending skills and
- [How to Make an Income from Your Art:](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/how-to-make-an-income-from-your-art/) - Wanting to earn an income from art? You know you have that dream of turning your passion for art into a profitable income? Yet is it possible, and if so how? I'm Ann Gadd and my husband and I both had that dream. We were fortunate to succeed, and as a result have been able
- [Climbing the Beanstalk](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/climbing-the-beanstalk/) - Revealing the secret truths found in classic fairy tales, this groundbreaking spiritual guide inspires readers to discover their own interpretations of the stories and recognize the sacred values when retelling them. A wide range of ancient fairy tales are analyzed both psychologically and spiritually, and the resulting guidance, insight, and hidden messages will offer a
- [What Went Wrong with Mr Right?](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/what-went-wrong-with-mr-right/) - You know how you fell in love and it was wonderful? But then things started going wrong. In this book I show couples who are taking strain in their relationships, how to bring love back on track, through understanding why opposites attract and why that very attraction can create problems later. The fleeting nature of
- [Life's a Beach](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/lifes-a-beach/) - Discover the beauty of South Africa’s beaches with MapStudio's newly released Life's A Beach. This guide explores 9,500kms of the best beaches in the world, from Alexander Bay along the coast to Sodwana, visiting hundreds of beaches and exploring a magnificent coastline. The author, Ann Gadd, has tramped up dunes, scrambled over rocky cliffs, swam
- [Things ewe never Kn'Ewe about South African place names](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/things-ewe-never-knewe-about-south-african-place-names/) - Things ewe never Kn’ewe about South African place names is a humorous look at the place names of South Africa, written and illustrated by Ann Gadd. Gadd is known for her quirky "sheep" paintings, hence the sheep theme. Origins, mysteries & folklore surrounding the sometimes odd names that appear on the South African landscape. It
- [Healing Habits](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/healing-habits/) - NEW updated version. (Original edition 2001). Over 120 common habits explained. Why do you want to bite your nails? What makes your partner chew the back of a pen? Why does your child wet their bed? We all have habits that don't serve us. What drives us to indulge them? Through understanding our underlying emotional
- [The Enneagram of Eating](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/the-enneagram-of-eating/) - Ann Gadd shows how the Enneagram system of 9 personality types can explain your relationship to food and exercise. Including an easy test to find your type, she provides an understanding of each type’s emotional eating triggers, what exercise method will keep you motivated, and the best methods for weight loss or gain. Have you
- [A-Z Place Names of South Africa](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/a-z-place-names-of-south-africa/) - A-Z Place Names of South Africa contains alphabetically listed names of South African cities and towns, as well as most villages and certain settlements and townships where information was available. More than 900 places are included in what is an informative and educational look at place names, including the year they were established, origins, previous
- [Finding Your Feet](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/finding-your-feet/) - Examining the mind–body connection in specific relation to the chakras and feet, this treatment manual will appeal to both holistic professionals and dabblers. Key issues and ailments are listed for each particular aspect of the foot, along with further explanations and case histories—including overall shape, shoes, broken nails, calluses, footprints, and bunions. The format and
- [Sex and the Enneagram](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/sex-and-the-enneagram/) - Understanding your approach to dating, relationships, and sex through the lens of your Enneagram personality type • Explains the relationship and sexual differences in the 9 Enneagram personality types for both genders • Examines how we can create greater intimacy with our partners and what blocks our sexual enjoyment • Looks at each type’s fantasies
- [Drinking With Ghosts](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/drinking-with-ghosts/) - The book is a best-seller that was long-listed for the 2015 Alan Paton Award, and long-listed for the Academy of Science of South Africa’s 2016 Humanities Book Award. This book is a fascinating exploration of the dark corners of South Africa’s past by a veteran investigative journalist. Over more than two decades, his journalism took
- [A Taste of Bitter Almonds](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/a-taste-of-bitter-almonds/) - The book is a best-seller that was long-listed for the Academy of Science of South Africa’s 2016 Humanities Book Award. When Nelson Mandela took the oath as South Africa’s first democratically-elected president in 1994, it symbolised the triumphal defeat of almost three and a half centuries of racial separation since the original corporate raiders of
- [Death Flight](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/death-flight/) - "They must never return… This was the only answer." – Colonel Johan Theron, Delta 40 co-founder In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established, tasked with the murder
- [Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/some-writers-can-give-you-two-heartbeats/) - Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats is a book of writers on writing‐anecdotes, aphorisms, and excerpts culled from interviews and other sources. This edition brings together almost 150 Zimbabwean writers, editors, academics and publishers to provide a rare glimpse of what being a writer is really like.
- [Empowered To Perform](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/empowered-to-perform/) - This book will without a doubt invest in you the power to: Revision your life l Understand your value l Appreciate your small efforts l Don’t despise minor beginnings l Trust yourself to produce exponential results l Work smart on your craft l Lead a life full of courage l Join the league of the
- [Marriage Repackaged](https://www.anfasa.org.za/published-work/marriage-repackaged/) - This book aims to take the reader on a journey of redeeming the soul through constructively qualified energy until there is no longer separation between the soul and God but Oneness. The aim is to help heal the in her child in each one of us , in order to hold the immaculate concept of

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