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BESTSELLERS Top selling books in East London
FICTION 1.Drowning People by Richard Mason 2.Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 3.Maps of the World by Jane Hamilton 4.Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams 5.Girl Interrupted by S Gaysen NON-FICTION 1.X-Diet Cookbook by Tabitha...

Spellbinding biography of hero
LINDBERGH by A Scott Berg Pan Macmillan R99 THIS biography is a fascinating insight into the life and tumultuous times of America's most famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh. The reader relives all the euphoria and hype surrounding Lindbergh's e...

Masterful storytelling
FLANDERS byPatricia Anthony Black Swan R80 IN Flanders Patricia Anthony offers a novel with a difference. It consists of a series of letters from Travis Stanhope, a gung-ho American soldier who writes to his brother Bobby in Texas from the World...

Clear and absorbing
AN INTRODUCTION TO SOUTH AFRICA'S GEOLOGICAL AND MINING HERITAGE by M J Viljoen and W U Reimold Mintek R110 IF PARENTS do not wish their children to become geologists, then they should keep this book out of their reach. On the other hand, if the...

Carte Blanche honoured
M-NET's local flagship programme Carte Blanche has once again proved that it can compete successfully in the international media arena -- this time by winning the Fourteenth Annual Brigitte Bardot International Genesis Award for the three segments...

A more worldly Rebecca
CD REVIEW REBECCA Malope is riding the crest of a wave with Siyabonga, her sizzling new album which has already gone platinum. The new CD sold a record 50 000 copies in five days before its official release last Monday. The pint-sized, 1985 Shel...

Harmonious hymns
CD REVIEW FOR 14 years now the Amadodana Ase Wesile have been coming to fruition.Their style is a kind of adapted baroque hymn singing, as sung in Methodist churches. Perfecting the sound and popularising these hymns, the group has enlarged the...

Shooting of documentary on praise singer starts
by Mphumzi Zuzile Shooting has startedat Bolotwa near Idutywa on the life of former president Nelson Mandela's praise singer, Zolani Mkiva. Mkiva told the Daily Dispatch that an American film company is shooting the documentary. The documentary...

Gorgeous greens
GARDENING with Debbie Reynhardt A garden need not be flagrantly flamboyant in a riot of different colours in order to be pleasing. A garden of gorgeous greens can also be genial. It is not only the colour of the leaf of a plant that determine...

Meet the Lodgers
The common mole THE COMMON mole (intuku in Xhosa) is a small, furry, greyish burrowing mammal about 15 cm long. It is seldom seen but many a gardener is alerted to its presence by the conspicuous mole-hills that annoyingly appear on the lawn and ...

Money well spent or a fool's paradise
As South Africa gets to grips with a national lottery and the making of instant millionaires along with various other nations, LEW ELIAS looks at the low-outlay, high return and astronomical odds of instant wealth. A FLUTTER on the horses, a few ...

A driving force - from cars to classrooms
A SCENIC, but rugged journey by a group of businesspeople to an impoverished Eastern Cape village represents a slice of the many wonderful paradoxes that colours the South African experience. Travelling north in a comfortable minibus-like sprinte...

Preserve heritage through maintenance
By Bulelwa Mdinginya PROPERTY, be it residential or commercial, is part of the environment and should be taken care of and preserved as a city's heritage. Central Business District areas are preferred by most people because of their proximity to...