September Local Non-fiction

The Unlikely Candidate is the astonishing story of a boy from Kuruman, a boy no one expected anything great from whose life became evidence that God writes the most beautiful stories with the most least expected beginnings. The rejected boy became a builderof people. The one who struggled to speak became a communicator. The insecure child became a leader of leaders. The boy without a father became a father to many. The broken became a healer. Today, Koketso travels the world speaking hope, truth, and courage, reminding thousands that God does not choose the qualified, He qualifies the chosen. This book is not just a memoir, it is a testimony that reminds you that your failures do not disqualify you. Your wounds can become weapons in God’s hands. It is a story of pain and redemption, insecurity and calling and a story of how God takes the unlikely and turns them into instruments of impact.

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Things I Wish I Knew is a candid account of building and growing businesses, told through the author’s own experiences on the entrepreneurial journey. Drawing on real decisions, real consequences and real outcomes, the book shares lessons earned through success, failure and everything in between.Rather than offering formulas or theory, it explores what actually happens in the world of entrepreneurship - from funding negotiations and leadership choices to governance, cash flow pressure and the personal cost of entrepreneurship. Short stories and case studies bring these lessons to life, revealing how early decisions compound over time.This book is written for those who want to start businesses, as well as those already building them, and are looking for a perspective grounded in experience. It is a deliberate act of sharing and offering hard-won insight so others can approach entrepreneurship with greater clarity, resilience and intention.

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Jonathan Jansen goes back to school: to the Cape Flats high school next door to where he grew up. After learning that the school got the worst matric results in the Western Cape in 2023, Jansen signed up to help out. He spent two years in the principal’s office, teaching Grade 10 Physical Science and getting to the bottom of extreme pressures bearing down on teachers and pupils, for whom it was impossible to leave the trauma of broken families and violent crime at the school gate. With his characteristic warmth and insight, Jansen takes readers inside chaotic classrooms as he works alongside teachers to reverse years of decline. He exposes the complex web of low expectations, dysfunctional organisational culture and bureaucratic interference that keeps underperforming schools trapped in failure while setting in motion practical shifts that spark real change. Part memoir, part case study and part call to action, this is essential reading for parents, educators, policy makers and anyone who cares about the future of South Africa’s children. Clear-eyed and hopeful, Worth the Fight is about what it takes to turn a working-class school — and the South African education system — around.

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Dr Chris van der Merwe rose from humble beginnings to become the founding CEO of Curro and Stadio. The son of a single mother from a working-class family who never owned a car, he trained as a teacher before a daring idea turned him into a self-made millionaire. With his inspirational book, Chris shares his message that every child, no matter how poor or fatherless, can make it in the world. Curro provides life and money advice. It is a business blueprint for innovative success in South Africa.

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Indoda must is a common refrain often lobbed at men who are questioning the expectations placed on them by peers, colleagues, or partners. But how do the men manage these expectations? From the church to the academy and into busy homes with big families, Sue Nyathi has drawn men out and asked them to share what’s on their hearts and minds. This collection will encourage open and honest conversation on what it means to be a man in the face of ever-changing social norms.

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Uit die Beek bied al generasies lank geestelike leiding en inspirasie vir gelowiges. Hierdie jaar is ons tweede jaar in die reis van vier jaar wat ons deur die Bybel lees. In hierdie uitgawe lees ons uit verskeie boeke uit die Ou en Nuwe Testament. Soos gewoonlik word die belangrikste seisoene van die kerkjaar in ag geneem. Mag jy, liewe leser, vanjaar opnuut hoor dat jy aan Jesus Christus behoort, dat die Here by jou is, dat sy genade vir jou genoeg is en dat Hy jou dra.

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The Work of Women: A Pan-African History of Women Who Remade the World is a sweeping work of public history that brings the lives of Black and Pan-African women thinkers, organisers, workers, and freedom fighters out of the margins and into the centre of how we understand the modern world. From Sojourner Truth, Njinga Mbande, and Saartjie Baartman, to Assata Shakur, Kesaveloo Goonam, Ruth First, and bell hooks, this powerful work traces a Pan-African tradition of resistance forged through slavery, colonialism, labour, survival, and collective struggle. These women were not isolated heroines. They were part of powerful movements that transformed communities, challenged systems of oppression, and shaped political thought across generations. Their courage, strategy, and vision continue to speak directly to the crises of the present. At once urgent, accessible, and deeply researched, The Work of Women asks what becomes possible when we place women’s labour, leadership, and intellectual traditions at the heart of history itself.

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