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Discover Your Purpose Destroy Failure
by Ngila Michael Muendane

We play many different roles in life. Some of the roles are domestic, some professional, communal, economic, political, academic and so on. In fact we live every area of our lives only through roles. Around every role, there are people. We interact with people in terms of roles, which means there are people in our lives throughout. Our goals are set within roles and never out side them. We can however never achieve anything without the involvement of other people in the process of pursuing our goals. Consequently, whether other people coorporate with us or not. The greater the number of people that coorporate with one, the greater the number of things one achieves and therefore the higher one's quality of life will become.

What does it take for people to coorporate with us? This is the question this book answers. The formula for achieving rapport with people seems to be what we all need to get people to work with us, in order to achieve our goals.

What does it take for people to coorporate with us? This is the question this book answers. The formula for achieving rapport with people seems to be what we all need to get people to work with us, in order to achieve our goals.

By knowing and applying your life's purpose you will ensure that people you interact with in your different roles, give you the coorperation you need. We often complain about how badly some people treat us. In this book you will understand why some people seem to be treating you badly and how to deal effectively with both the good and the difficult people in life. The starting point towards dealing effectively with all kinds of people is to know and apply your life's purpose. What is it? By the time you finish reading this book you will know your true prupose.

The book is useful for anyone who deals with people at home, in business, in politics and in defferent social environments, for permanent peace of mind and successful living.

The First Edition flew off the shelves in a very short space of time through word of mouth. It is a credit to this book that one cannot finish reading it without having a strong urge to share its amazing revelations with others.
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I am an African

by Ngila Michael Muendane

by Ngila Michael Muendane

In the 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Paulo Freire gave the anti-colonial world the reason not to address itself to the master world, the Europeans, in 'The Wretched of the Earth', Frantz Fanon inspired the liberation movement, of the 'Third World' not only to find its own voice but also armed it with the confidence to speak to itself. Ngila Muendane now reinforces that idea of self-reflection in this book.

In their encounter with the African reality, Kwame Nkrumah, Anton Lembede, Mangaliso Sobukwe and Steve Biko similarly brought, to their respective revolutions, the ability for self-examination by the struggling people, whose salutary effect saw them not only redefining themselves anew, but also doing away with their victim status. Remarkably, all epochal interventions meant to assert and address the question of African identity, occur years that end with the digit, six.

In his 1906 prize-winning speech, 'The Regeneration of Africa', ANC founder member, Pixley ka Isaka Seme proclaimed, "I am an African." In 1966, in 'The Dilemma of the Pan-Africanist', Julius Nyerere did not miss to make mention of the fact: "I am an African". Thabo Mbeki, launching the South African constitution, in 1996, gave further impetus to that consciousness by declaring, "I am an African." Keeping the pattern alive, in 2006, Ngila Muendane pursues the subject matter in a book, "I am an African." The reigning view, in Muendane's timely undertaking, is the need for the African mind to exorcise itself of the enduring legacy whose cause and effects remain lamentably evident in the present day behavioral patterns of Africans even in the physical absence of a long defeated colonial master.

In Muendane's book, being African is deeper than just a matter of casual choice, exuberant declaration and geographic location of one's birth or naturalization. He explores further onto an area that writers such as Fanon and Biko had thrust themselves into: the mind. The battle against the colonizer has been won but the relationships that characterised colonialism have strangely maneuvered their way into a new era and continues to survive through statis mindsets. In this book, Muendane suggests bold solutions, which make the book a case for both reflection and a cause for redress in the battle to decolonise our minds. ----- Oupa Ngwenya

'Ngila Muendane has the gift of the pen indeed and, of course, an admirable sense of unity and balance. He has a diction that moves with a compelling stride. The style keeps pulling the reader on with a consistency of one who has his stuff under control. Much has also to do with his economy of language.' ------ Prof. Es'kia Mphahlele

This book is an exciting read and is thought provoking. The examples it uses make sense. Very few books on the same subject give much focus on the mindset point of view. Further, very few of them deal with African attitudes, together with those of our oppressors, in a post-colonial setting. The book will challenge those who insist Africa, in particular South Africa, is rid of colonial relationships, to rethink this view, and equally propel those who have always shared the message in this book, to soldier on. There remain other forms of struggle for liberation, including economic and intellectual struggles. The struggle therefore continues! ------ Jamwell Maswanganyi - Tshwane University of Technology

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The Leader South Africa Never Had
by Ngila Michael Muendane

This is the story of one of the most extraordinary men of our time.

You probably never heard of this remarkable man. Find out why. He single-handedly influenced the course of history in South Africa almost unnoticed.

He gave 52 of his 72 years of living to the struggle for liberation.

He led the most powerful bus boycott in South Africa, which was only equalled by the one led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and took place at the same time.

He was the youngest accused in the infamous Treason Trial of 1956.

He was the first high profile political activist ever to be banished from his home town to a remote area of South Africa by the Apartheid government.

He escaped from banishment and was pursued through four colonially ruled countries but was never caught, although he had countless close shaves.

He was the first South African politician to meet Emperor Haile Selasie and influenced him to support the South African liberation struggle.

He lived with Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Franz Fanon, Dr W. E. B DuBois, Che Guevara, Nina Simone, Max Roach, Sammy Davies Jr., Louis Armstrong and many other greats.

He was married to the famous writer, Maya Angelou.

He stopped John Vorster in his tracks when he tried to pursue his fraudulent detente policy in Africa by advising President Tolbert of Liberia against further entertaining Vorster's initiatives.

Together with his friend, they planned and successfully executed the move to expel Apartheid South Africa from the General Assembly of the United Nations.

He was a close friend of O. R. Tambo, shared a room with him.

This is a fascinating story, full of valour, pain, joy, triumph, humour, love, adventure, risk and many more. It reads like fiction and is written in a captivating style. It's truly a great read.

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 Most of my stories are about obsession: obsessive love, obsessive desire, about hero-worship and questing for a lost identity. Mandela's Ego is no exception. This is doubtlessly the story of exorbitant hero-worhip; Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest icons of the 20th and 21st centuries, the object of that worship.

Equally, Mandela's Ego is also the story of a kindly old Scottish priest Father Ross, a specialist of medieval romance and pastoral literature, attempting to find a match between Zulu tradition and stories of European chivalry, constantly trying to interpret native custom through the prism of medieval European convention of the pastoral and romantic idyll, unhappily for him resulting in an ironic misreading of local behaviour during which he becomes the butt of his student humour; his is often a matter of an unfortunate but harmless cultural mistranslation. The result is not always so innocent. But, introvertibly, this is the story of a Zulu young boy, fed on local myth and legend by a fun-loving mischievous uncle and mentor and by chafing older cousins; Dumisa is a boy rendered vulnerable by the mesmerising power of conflicting images in era of social and political upheaval.

            From his boyhood young Dumisa had one overriding ambition: to mould his behaviour and physical appearance in the image of his hero Nelson Mandela, with his snazzy charcoal grey suits and parted hair and from what he has learned from his uncle Simon, a great lover of many women; Nelson Mandela, the valiant, recklessly daring leader of of the South African Resistance Movement against apartheid. On the run from the Security Forces, and lovingly nicknamed The Black Pimpernel for eluding all attempts at capture, Mandela provides young Dumisa (whose Zulu name means "Let us praise him") with the single dominant image of heroic defiance and adroit skill for outmanoeuvring his enemies till that fateful day - the 5th of August 1962 -  so ruefully etched in the memory of all his followers, Mandela is apprehended by police on his return from a visit to the Durban underground cadres. Tried and convicted, Mandela is dispatched to Robben Island prison.

            From that moment Dumisa's life falls apart, his self-identity so closely linked to that of his hero, is shattered; hitherto a great success with women, he becomes sexually impotent, and like the underground resistance movement temporarily deprived of their leaders, for 27 years until Mandela's release from prison Dumisa moves around the country like a pariah consulting sex therapists, traditional medicinemen, specialists and quacks of one kind or another in a kind of quest for the holy grail which will provide a cure for his impotence. Finally, triumphantly, against all expectations for Dumisa, for the South African populace and the entire world, as in fairy tale and a modern pastoral, restoration and a cure occur on that miraculous day, 11 February 1990, when Mandela is released from prison.

            At this point it may be just as well to comment on the incongruous title of the novel: Mandela's Ego. The title of the novel is somewhat a misnomer in as much as it does not deal with Mandela's ego but with his iconic presence everywhere in South African political culture as an alter-ego, as much for the starry-eyed Dumisa in the novel as for the people in struggle, that is to say, for the general population of South Africa. Equally, Dumisa's feeling of sexual castration and the initial sense of the people's disorientation following Mandela's arrest, this may be a timely warning against excessive hero-worship of one person.

SPHAYA K MAPAI

Good deeds don’t always bear good fruits. Life has no formula.  Dipuo and her husband Thapelo, welcome in their family, the flamboyant Sphaka  K (Kolobe) Mapai with open hands. They embrace him as one of their own. As his middle name suggests, Kolobe (Pig) he ends up behaving just like that, a pig, by raping Dipuo and causing a huge dent in the once tranquil family.

MMAPHEFO LE MAPHEFO

She is many in one.  She is bipolar and she denies it.  She is both an angel and a demon incarnate. She is an angel when she is Maphefo and she is Tsunami when she is Mmaphefo. On rare occasions she is gray though. She needs help but she alienates those who genuinely want to help her. On the other hand she embraces the unsympathetic 419 Pentecostal scammers who trade her heaven for her tithes and offerings.

Dreams Do Come True is a first in the Love Stories for Believers series.

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Between two world

"Between Two Worlds is an important illustration of apartheid in 1960s South Africa. By telling the story of Muriel, a bookkeeper at an electronics and furniture store in Johannesburg, Tlali comments on the injustice of the Pass Laws, the Land Act, and other discriminatory legislation. The novel also traces the ethical dilemmas of someone employed in a system she loathes.... Tlali elegantly weaves stories around the day to day life of Muriel showing her humour and her humanity in the face of dehumanizing circumstances." "Anyone interested in gender issues, postcolonial theory, or questions of power will welcome this excellent new edition. Between Two Worlds is one of the most powerful, haunting and ultimately liberating accounts written of apartheid South Africa."--

SONTI

“60 years of blood, sweat, tears and joy”

In this book Sonti takes a journey through experiences in her life, which she labels as 60 years of blood, sweat, tears and joy.

Through the various experiences starting from who she is, where she was born, the good and the bad that unfolded in her life, she hopes to inspire women, young and old, to hold on to their dreams, hope and vision in the midst of challenges.

The book maps out the role played by mentors in shaping the future of the young who are looking around for role models. Hers choice of career was greatly influenced by her admiration of the late Mrs Malebo, a social worker.

In the words of Nelson Mandela

“I did not want to be presented in a way that omits the dark spots in my life”