A basic guide for startups with 15 hot tips to guide you through the process of planning, strategising and launching your new business from a branding perspective. This is for you if you have a great business idea that you’re sure will sell. You want to leave your full-time employment and start up your own business from home but don’t know where to begin. The information here is based on over 25 years of experience as a freelance graphic designer working with startups and helping them laun...

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...

After a harrowing year in Namibia during which time his best-friend and close companion, Heidi Kinder is murdered to get back at him, Adam Geard returns to the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. His hope is to live for some time in a small town to recover his sense of community and purpose, and he chooses the Karoo town of Steytlerville. But dual crimes of family murder and extortion test his sense of justice and he cannot avoid involvement. The extortion is of an attractive and vulner...

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...