I dont have anyone else, Jane Nungari said to me in 2006 when I visited her school and sought to speak with her and the other orphans who were in class eight. Janes saying this to me, as she plaintively looked up into my eyes, has stuck with me. She became the symbol which drove me to start up Child Aid Africaso that those academically gifted children who can not continue their education without a sponsor can find a special someone. Just as I did when I didn't have anyone else. From my own...

This is the story of Sipho and what happened in four days trying to kill himself before he turned 41. It includes poems written in hospital and friends stories I met in hospital. In the US they experience 11,000 self-inflicted deaths per year and the UK: 7,000. Anxiety disorders affect more than 17 million Americans, with 19 million suffering from depressive illnesses. Chronic pain affects more that 40 million Americans. As a result of these disorders billions of dollars each year are lost...

The inspiring memoir of a Zulu nurse and healthcare activist who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to lead a life of selfless serviceGrowing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, Sister Abegail Ntleko earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in need. As Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu writes in the forward of her memoir, her inspiring story demonst...

‘One of the mysteries of Christianity is why Christians rarely admit that so much of it is a mystery.’God, people, faith, the universe, the whole of creation … Award-winning comedian Milton Jones considers the biggest questions using the smallest number of words. With short, sharp, surreal one-liners and an eye for what really matters, he may bring you closer to the answers than some of the longer sermons you’ve heard in church.Includes Milton’s own cartoons!

In an attempt to protect the identities of those close to me, I left names out.I really wanted to write this book because there just doesn't seem to be much reading material about suicide or books written by people who have survived suicide .I wanted to write this book to help those who are in the same place I was, thinking that suicide is the only option.I wanted to write this book to tell those people its not the only option and I hope my story will convince them ...

Three years ago the world plunged into an economic recession. Unemployment soared, countries struggled to pay their bills and businesses went broke.But not in one country. Australia didn't have a recession, unemployment remained low and business sailed along smoothly.Why?How did they emerge with the highest minimum wages in the western world.

An extraordinary story of cultural confusion and the long way home to a black girl’s emotional roots. David Robbins The Rosie Motene story is about a young girl born to the Bafokeng nation during the apartheid era in South Africa. At the time, Rosie’s mother worked for a white Jewish family in Johannesburg who offered to raise the child as one of their own. This generous gesture by the family created many opportunities for Rosie but also a trail of sacrifices for her parents. As she grew, ...

"John David's satirical style and clever sense of humor succinctly put in to words, how many of us feel about the electoral process.""This writer is spot on . . . making him one of the biggest dreamers in America at the present time. His writing is eloquent and concise."". . . every American not currently in the 1% should read this book and think hard about the ideas."The Essays for the 99% are the voice of the speechless,...

For anyone with microseconds and micro-breaks, this is the perfect book to pick up, put down and read in between. Perfect for people in doctors' waiting rooms (to hit coughing patients with), coffee tables (under a broken leg) and for the car to amuse when stuck in traffic.Try it, you'll like it ... no, you'll love it and wonder why you hadn't bought it before as it will make you the perfect party-joker and you'll never be lonely any more.

While working as a sub-editor and writer for the international charity, Council for World Mission in 2009, I telephoned Lucky, (who had been involved in CWM's work through her own church in Zimbabwe); to get some firsthand information on how the political unrest was affecting people there.The previous year had been particularly hard following the March 2008 elections when Robert Mugabe was controversially re-elected. Famine had gripped the nation and families were starving.Af...

For most of us, we see the president's wife as just a member of the President's family. However, when we look deeper, these women who stand beside their husbands can be the making or the unmaking of our nations. A way-ward man can be tamed by a woman who he knows is his wife. Some policies are generated in the president's bedrooms and end up in cabinet rooms to become national policies! Perhaps the most valued question a first lady should have is what her services would have done to societ...

Having grown up in one of the poorest village in Zimbabwe Stabiso learnt from a very young age how life can be brutal after an incident that shattered her innocence and a beginning of many situations were she was abused by the very people who were supposed to protect her. She grew up to rebel against everything her family believed in, a life which later led her to the streets into prostitution, drug and alcohol abuse. A life that was surely leading to destruction and early death. But one n...