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February 15th, 2021

Two competing visions of wealth... one will keep you poor

This entry was posted on 15 February 2021.
In the cult-movie The Matrix, Neo is offered two pills. Take the blue pill, he is told, and life goes back to the status quo: predictable, familiar…and a lie. 
 
Should he take the red pill, his eyes will be opened. In a rush of revelation, he will be exposed to a whole new set of answers, then forced to confront the prospect that everything around him was artifice, and nothing was ever what it seemed to be. 
 

Q&A with Barack Obama

This entry was posted on 15 February 2021.
In his own words, Barack Obama tells in A Promised Land  the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency – a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
 
 

February 4th

February 3rd

Extract: The Push

This entry was posted on 03 February 2021.
About the book:
 
What happens when your experience of motherhood is nothing at all what you hoped for, but everything you always feared?
 
'The women in this family, we're different...' 
 

February 2nd

January 18th

Extract - At the Edge of the Desert

This entry was posted on 18 January 2021.
Within a few weeks I’d settled back into my old routine. My days began with cossie and goggles wrapped in a towel. I’d follow the road down to the Shark Island pool – a quick walk through Lüderitz – for a morning swim before returning home to edit my documentary. I spent my time attempting to make sense of South African prison gangs, struggling to decide if my film should focus on the men or their make-believe uniforms.

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