High-growth, high-return Africa, with much improved trading conditions, is the most sought after frontier destination for global investment today. However, there are 54 countries on the continent and even rigorous business plans can run aground on the unique and complex set of circumstances found in each of them. Business in Africa: Corporate Insights takes the reader to the coal face of doing business on the continent.
Penguin Books takes pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Conversations with My Sons and Daughters by Mamphela Ramphele.
Date: Thursday, 4 October 2012
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm
Venue: Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Road, Illovo, Johannesburg
In these conversations with people of a younger generation Mamphela Ramphele responds to the growing despair among young South Africans about the cracks that are appearing in our system of governance and threatening the idealism of the country that reinvented itself with the dawn of democracy in 1994.
Escaping an England crippled by the Great War, twin brothers Edward and Derek Hughes head to South Africa where, soon after their arrival, they discover a rare Desert Elephant – an animal believed by many to be a myth. Following an ancient ghost trail to Bechuanaland they find that the enormous matriarch is not alone. She is being pursued by relentless shadows, a black light that will stop at nothing to bring her down.
Graham, you first met these leopard cubs back in the early 1990s. Why did you decide to tell this story now?
G: For years, various people nagged me, urging me to get the story out. It took me a long time to do because this is an extremely emotional subject for me to talk about.
How did the two of you meet and why did you decide to work together?
Penguin Books and Kalk Bay Books take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of The Land Within.
Date: Thursday, 4 October 2012
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm
Venue: Kalk Bay Books, 124 Main Road, Kalk Bay
RSVP: books@kalkbaybooks.co.za or 0217882266
John will be doing his final talk on Spud – Exit Pursued by a Bear on Saturday 22 September at 10.00am. He will be in conversation with Terence Pillay, discussing his life as an author, as well as the journey behind the Spud books and movies. The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing session.
Penguin Books and The Bay Bookshop take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Simple & Delicious and Heerlik & maklik. Alida will be in conversation with Sam Woulidge.
Penguin Books and Exclusive Books take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Simple & Delicious and Heerlik & maklik.
Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm
Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists has been shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2012.