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book, Getting Dirty, Sex is Great, but lets be honest. Christa joins us
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their Pretoria home, 16 year-old Kon, along with his brother and father make
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who Fell from the Sky</i>, it outlines his adventurous life including the loss
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Sometimes life is stranger than fiction and Mawson has certainly gone out of
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Born in England, Mawson and his parents crash-landed in southern Africa during
the 1940s. It was a few years later, at the age of eleven, that Mawson lost his
right leg in a farm accident. <br />
A few years after that Mawson experienced another life-altering trauma when a
100 mile per hour boat accident left his other leg badly injured. With an
amputated right leg and the left badly damaged the young Mawson’s outlook was
bleak, but he continued to live with tenacity and did not allow his disability
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This book outlines how the author managed to defy the odds and break the
boundaries of the norm to live not only a normal life but a life of largesse.
He was enticed into a world of speed and competition on water and ultimately on
the race tracks of southern Africa and Europe, competing against and defeating
his fellow drivers on a level playing field. <br />
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As I read the memoir and the story unravelled, I was reeled in by Mawson’s
charm, his lust for life and his love of women. I finished the book feeling
inspired. Here is a man, who against many odds, made a success of himself and
of his life. He was never a victim, but a survivor and not just a survivor but
someone who was willing, and still is, to not only chew on the meat and bones
of life, but suck the marrow. <br />
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Mawson’s story is not without struggle; often he tries to ignore his
disabilities in order to simply get on with it. He also finds inspiration in
Douglas Bader – a World War Two pilot who lost both his legs in a plane crash,
but taught himself to fly with artificial legs and went on to become a RAF
squadron leader. <br />
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There are instances, in fact whole chapters, when the book offers a bit too
much information and I had to ask myself “when it comes to saving our children
from HIV and AIDS how much is too much information?”<br />
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The voice inside my head would answer: “surely all of us need to be as informed
as we possibly can be.” <br />
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In this respect (and in many others too numerous to list) I take my hat off to
Biyela who has completely opened up to her reader, exposed wounds, scars and
horrifying memories to ensure that our children will not need to endure what
she has endured.<br />
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Biyela herself is living with HIV and is proof that you can still live life to
the fullest. Through her book she outlines how the spread of HIV can be
prevented and this starts with the education of our children.<br />
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<i>Getting Dirty</i> is provocative, candid and tells it like it is. She says
“As adults we need to learn to be open-minded about sex. Let us have an open
discussion about HIV whether we are married, dating, heterosexual or
homosexual. If one is in a relationship let it be based on trust so we also act
in a trustworthy manner thereafter. I believe HIV has come to our lives to
better us, our relationships and motivate us to explore safer ways of making
love. Nowadays having sex without a condom, being uncircumcised and not knowing
one’s HIV status should be despicable.”<br />
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With <i>Getting Dirty</i>, Christa Biyela takes you by the hand and guides you
through her life. At times it is traumatic, at times it is funny and poignant
and at other times it forces you to stop reading for a moment and think. <i>Getting
Dirty</i> is a book that should be read by everyone. In the words of director
and playwright Clinton Marius, <i>Getting Dirty</i> offers “precious words of
wisdom and advice that may save a life; hopefully more than one…”<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br /><b>About the Author:</b><br /><br /> Christa Biyela is a writer and motivational speaker whose career includes being a producer and co-host of <i>Sihlomulelana Ngolwazi</i> previously on <i>Ukhozi FM</i>. She is now the head writer for <i>Kusa Kusa</i>, <i>Ukhozi FM’s</i> first soapy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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laag is, gaan jou kosdrange (<i>cravings</i>) jou oorrompel, sê dr. Hannetjie
van Zyl-Edeling. Volgens haar werk Tim Noakes se hoë-vet-lae-koolhidraateetplan
juis daarom vir baie mense. Proteïene voorsien die aminosure waarvan
brein-oordragstowwe (veral dopamien) gemaak word. En as jy koolhidrate
grootliks uitskakel, kry jy beheer oor jou wisselende bloedsuikervlakke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moegheid en die onvermoë om stres te hanteer. Jy het ’n drang na nikotien,
koffie, soetgoed of ander energie-opkikkers.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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melk, jogurt, kalkoen, wildsvleis, okkerneute.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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en maak jou angstig, geïrriteerd en vol skuldgevoelens. Jy kan ’n binge-eter
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bloedsuiker wipplank ry, vererger angs en is ’n sneller vir kosdrange.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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lensies, sitrus, aartappels, spinasie, heelgraan (verkieslik nie koring
nie).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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angs.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Amidst the tension surrounding the run-up
to the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, one woman discovers her
husband is having an affair, another meets up with a university
sweetheart and a third heads for a nervous breakdown. Who is the man at
the centre of the drama, and does he get to keep his gold?<br />
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<strong>Who the book is for:</strong><br />
Are you toying with the idea of reinventing yourself but haunted by
the thought that your life could end up tasting like a failed casserole
or looking like a bleach job gone wrong? You’ll relate well to Jeannie
Parker. Where your relationships have worn tired, you seek ways to
revitalise them. When you’re not scrambling to meet work deadlines,
helping the kids with applications for car licences and college, or
looking after the needs of elderly parents, you’re dreaming big dreams…
Because you firmly believe that, if others have found happiness, so can
you.<br />
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A blessing and the fighter's lace</h1>
By: <a class="content_place_line_author" href="http://mg.co.za/author/jane-rosenthal">Jane Rosenthal</a><br />
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<strong>Coolie, Come Out and Fight
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<em>Mohamed F (Mac) Carim (Porcupine Press)
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This engaging and interesting read is a politically modest
“struggle” memoir, which may have been written primarily to please the
author, and for his family and friends.<br />
It reasserts the notion
cherished by many, including this reviewer, that each individual life is
significant and interesting. From humble beginnings in South Africa he
and his family, including his siblings, parents and his own wife and
children, have achieved remarkable success once they had emigrated.<br />
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Carim’s
parents had a relentless struggle to establish themselves as traders of
one sort or another, always beset by legislation restricting the
business operations of South African Indians, and further complicated by
the mixed-race status of Carim’s mother – a great beauty who raised six
children in conditions of hardship and insecurity.<br />
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His memorable
and often nostalgic account of his boyhood includes a period in
Troyeville, where local white boys liked to call him out of the shop on
to the pavement to fight (hence the title of this book). They also spent
some time in a flat with a balcony overlooking Market Street in
Jajbhai’s Building, in the Johannesburg central business district, and a
stone’s throw from the Library Gardens in which they were not allowed
to play even when the city centre was deserted over the weekends.<br />
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Carim
enjoyed these, but points out the contrast with the extremely larney
school in Pakistan to which he and his two brothers were sent for a
while when the family’s fortunes were in an upswing.<br />
The high
adventure of the journey there by ship, and his experiences at the
school, showed Carim that life could be better than it was for his
family in South Africa.<br />
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On his return to South Africa he found the
Johannesburg Indian High School in Fordsburg such a comedown that he
left before matriculating and started in a variety of jobs – finally
ending up with Pepsi South Africa, which led to work all over the world.<br />
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In
his late teens he and a group of friends led a socially active life
(with a few lapses of judgment and brushes with the law) in which good
clothes, a cool hairstyle and dancing played a big part.<br />
Luckily one of them had a car, a 1949 Chevy. When Carim was just 22 he married Hajoo – the start of a long and happy marriage.<br />
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The
text shows signs of a battle to compress and streamline the narrative
of complicated life events; a more ruthless edit may have produced a
more elegant book, but lost its special savour.<br />
Carim’s storytelling is a lively mix of fact and opinion, and he has an eye for beauty.<br />
I
especially enjoyed his little riff on white lace curtains as a symbol
of Hajoo’s determination to keep things good and tranquil in the family
home.<br />
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Similarly enriching are his meditations on people in his
life from whom he learned something useful – such as the stupidity of
racism from his friendship with Sally van Rensburg, a poor white girl in
Troyeville, and from a Jewish teacher in Pakistan he learned that
confidence and good planning lead to success.<br />
From Johannesburg to Lahore, and later on to Nigeria and Canada, this is a rich and memorable story.<br />
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Some words to live (and eat) by…</h2>
By Gloria Malan<br />
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There are just as many diet books as there are diets and trying to
find a truly helpful, easily absorbed read is like picking out an
award-winning, drop-dead gorgeous outfit for a wedding or party – it
just never seems to materialise. Like so many others, that has been my
general experience to date.<br />
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That is until I discovered The Decarb Diet by Dr Howard Rybko, a diet
and lifestyle read that actually makes sense and is practical in every
sense of the word.<br />
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Part of the problem with many diet books is that they battle to
engage the reader… they fail to establish that all-important connection
and come across – either deliberately or unintentionally – as a
prescription, not a genuine source of help.<br />
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But The Decarb Diet is different, easy to read and understand. There
are attractive and easy to follow guidelines, with additional online
support from the author to keep you motivated. So, if the words could be
digested with ease, there may be hope for the actual diet. I decided to
put it to the test.<br />
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The first thing I noticed is how it made me feel… it really did not
feel like a diet at all. It is easy to follow, is based eating balanced,
nutritious meals and is not rooted in extremities.<br />
So… I felt happy eating and did not experience the usual levels of anxiety normally associated with diets.<br />
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And my happiness turned to elation when I could actually see results
in the first week. Thus far, I have lost 1kg a week and I know my
friends and family have also enjoyed some levels of success with the
programme.<br />
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We all know that diets are sold on the promise of results within a
time-span that sounds too good to be true…because it is. Not so with
this diet. There are no over-zealous promises, no incredible statements,
only basic facts and reference to science and research.<br />
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This is a fantastic read and a diet well worth following.<br />
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