“Dis nie die een wat ek wil hê nie! Hierdie is dan die kleinste enetjie – die klein nikswerd in die werpsel! Ons het die beste en die dapperste hondjie nodig – die kampioen!” Jim se glimlag verdwyn en hy kyk fronsend na Fitz. “Moenie na sy grootte kyk nie! Dis hier binne!” sê Jim, hy wys na sy borskas. “Dis sy hart wat saakmaak!” Dis die 1870’s in Suid-Afrika – en goudkoors loop hoog. Van oraloor stroom delwers na dié pragtige, maar harde land, waar fortuine gemaak en verloor kan word en d...

‘This isn’t the one I want! This one is the smallest – the runt of the litter! We need the bravest and best – the champion!’ Jim stopped smiling and frowned at Fitz. ‘Don’t look at his size! It’s what’s in here that counts! And here!’ said Jim, pointing to his head and then his heart. ‘Just look at him!’ It’s the 1870s in South Africa and ‘gold’ is the buzzword. From all over, hopeful diggers are streaming to this beautiful yet hard land, where fortunes can be made and lost and where oppor...

Khwezi idolises Lucas Radebe and keeps photos and news clippings of him in a scrapbook. After her uncle buys her a computer she uses the Internet to search for more information about her favourite soccer star. This is the story of Khwezi's quest to find out more about the life of one of South Africa's greatest ever soccer players.

Mabhuti lives in the Cape and loves watching Bafana Bafana, especially his favourite player, Steven Pienaar. He dreams of one day also playing for the national team so he starts a training diary to help him reach his goal. Along the way he learns more about the life of his hero and all the hard work that goes into being a professional soccer player.

A young princess of the River People and her lion cub are seized to be part of a terrible ceremony, in a futuristic environmental story.

Our planet is always in a state of change. Some of these changes - climactic and geological - have led directly and indirectly to the way we are today, providing triggers for adaptation. We as humans may have had more influence on that change as our population increased relentlessly, but it is always with us. Cut to the future … The first two centuries of the second millennium were disastrous. Africa, as the most climatically vulnerable continent, suffe...