TOP 20 FAT-BUSTERS
Give yourself the edge in the battle of the bulge. It's as easy as changing your taste in chocolate, spicing things up with chillies and taking the correct dose of vitamins. Nutrition advisers Celynn Erasmus and Christine Stent Pinh...
REALLY HEAVY METAL
By Peter Wilhelm
This extraordinary retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), in which 300 Spartans died defending a pass against the massed forces of King Xerxes of Persia, has been described as "like nothing you have ever seen before". This ...
HEAVEN ON EARTH
By Neil Pendock
Anthony Ward is a former motorcycle dispatch rider turned commodity trader, "who had a couple of lucky breaks". With his partner Richard Gower, he runs Armajaro Holdings from London, with offices and agricultural investments all over...
LINES AMONG THE VINES
Jenny Hobbs feels as close to heaven as a human being can be. Ensconced in her new wooden house in the garden of her potter brother David Walters in Franschhoek, she gazes over the fynbos to the misty mountains and sighs wit...
THE WORLD TILTS EASTWARD
By Richard Steyn
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon is said to have warned his countrymen to let China sleep, "for when she wakes, she will shake the world". In this admirably concise and readable survey of modern China, long-serving Financial Times
THE MAKING OF BOTSWANA
By Thandeka Gqubule
The memoirs of the former president of Botswana, Quett Ketumile Masire, are an optimist's guide to building a democracy. The book's title comes from words uttered by British negotiators in the lead-up to independence. They told foundin...
THE NEGLECTED LINK
By Sue Grant-Marshall
We often hear that people die, have a heart attack or are diagnosed with cancer after the loss of a partner, a sibling or someone very close to them. But is there any scientific proof of this? In Why Do People Get Ill? Darian Le...
HOT TYPE
By Richard Steyn
Everything a business primer should be - concise, well-written and wise - W J King's The Unwritten Laws of Business (Profile Books, R174) (revised by James G Skakoon) was first published in 1944 as The Unwritten Laws of Enginee...
A ROUSING EXPERIENCE
By David Furlonger
The TV advertising campaign for the new Mazda5 features a shop-window mannequin transported between fashion stores in the vehicle. When the Mazda5 arrives at its destination and the dummy is lifted out, the front of her dress shows si...
BOTTOM FEEDING
By JUSTICE MALALA
I hate to be an old fart but, really now, if you are going to steal, please don't go for the orphans and widows. I mean, how low can people go? Business scandals are a dime a dozen these days, but what is at least a sop to the...
