This interesting book about the motor industry was first published in 2009. It traces Peter Cleary’s career, starting as a trainee at Ford South Africa where he held positions in personnel, marketing and product planning and did three overseas postings to World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, the Dunton Research Centre of Ford of Europe in Kent, England and to Ford Asia-Pacific in Melbourne, Australia. Cleary’s second automotive employer was Mercedes-Benz of South Africa where he became...

Racked with guilt at his part in the tragic events that occurred at the Black Mountain Mine in the Northern Cape, Jack McCall withdraws from society, hiding himself at a remote lodge near the Brandberg Mountain Massif. For three years he works as their maintenance man, shunning contact with anyone who could identify him with the past Then three events happen in quick succession. The first is an act of nature. Near the lodge where he works there is a large flock of sandgrouse. They regularl...

In the winter of 1981 Luke Calder was taken into custody by the security branch of the South African Police Service as he attempted to enter the pedestrian gate into his residence at Rhodes University. In many ways Luke was an extraordinary young man: top of his law class three years running, a provincial long distance runner and a leader, elected Senior Student of College House and a member of the Students’ Representative Council. It didn’t help him, and in the next week he was kept in so...

Late nineteenth century Britain gave few breaks for those born poor and of low social standing. So it was for Fynn Armstrong the youngest of six children born to croft farmers in the Scottish town of Perth on the River Tay. He elects to change his dismal life options and visits the local recruitment centre for the Black Watch Highland Regiment and signs up for duty in the Second Anglo Boer War. It could result in his death, or it could be his ticket to a life of opportunity and adventure i...

Caleb is a modern African tragedy. It is a tragedy arising from the terrible wars which sweep the continent, and out of the clash of cultures and beliefs. Caleb Jordan is born into a family of pastors. He becomes a servant of God, suffers a devastating failure of a marriage and chooses to start a mission in deep rural Africa. He has much success but lives constantly in the shadow of a dark reality of ancestor worship and witchcraft and the challenge they bring to his faith. The setting is ...

Caleb Jordan follows in his father's footsteps and becomes a pastor in the Baptist Church in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He wants more and his passion to bring the gospel to people in the deep rural communities of Africa drives him to open a mission near the Nuanetzi River in upper Gaza province, Mozambique. It is there that history catches up with him five years later with tragic consequences. A sangoma wronged in the Bush War seeks her revenge and viciously attacks the mission with the aid of he...

Nic Riley had everything going for him: a promising career, a beautiful home, a successful wife, and a loving daughter. But he wanted and needed more, and it drove him to an irrational act that telescoped him into another sphere, one in which there were no absolutes. The new road he took contained great risk, to his life and his soul, a lonely road filled with the pain of separation, of guilt and loss, but one which could lead to self-clemency, perhaps even to be accorded a victory.

Adam Geard is drawn into the area of simmering insurrection in the Palma district of Mozambique in an attempt to rescue an old team mate from Iraq who has been kidnapped. What he finds is the deep secret of more than two decades of a drug trade which routes heroin from those northern ports for transhipment into South Africa and onward to European and Australasian markets. His activities make him a target for those involved in the trade and those who support and sustain it, including the se...

This textbook presents concepts and applications of Management Accounting, one of the main approaches used by management to support future organisational performance. It covers methods and instruments of management and cost accounting, cost management, and management control and is based on the German textbook "Interne Unternehmensrechnung" by Ralf Ewert and Alfred Wagenhofer (Springer).The authors describe the managerial uses of accounting information, both for decision-making and...

He volunteered to join the war to liberate Namibia of its colonial masters. His intentions were never honourable, driven as they were by boredom and a desire for self-gratification, and he found what he wanted in the lust of killing and in sexual domination. They called him Kaptein. Adam Geard returns to Namibia after a two year absence, his desire a peaceful rest in the red dune country of the Kalahari. At the first overnight stop, in the town of Gochas, he hears rumours of young Nama gir...

Chameleon Mountain follows the fortunes of several generations of the Baartman family from the mid-18th century into the 20th century. It is a unique family, formed from the genes of a Khoikhoi woman and a Dutch settler. The characters are as intriguing as the Swartberg Mountains which foster them. Ahad, the courageous shepherdess from whose loins came the first of the Baartman’s. Benji 80-years later, a man of temper and passion who settles in Die Hel, and Dan his son, who leaves the vall...

He was a rising star, credited with the success of a major coup in the market, but there was a deeply hidden flaw – a shameful family secret – and when it surfaced his achievements crumbled, dissolving his fragile self-worth. * * * * * The context of this novel is the fiercely competitive South African light commercial vehicle market and the brilliant challenge being mounted by the usurper, Ford’s Ranger, on the decade-long dominance of the leader, the Toyota Hilux. It is also a human dram...