SAFARI - the Progressive Business Forum website

FOCUSTHE BOOK LISTBe sure to include these fascinating books to your ‘must-read’ list this festive season.Kindly brought to you by Penguin Books and Pan Macmillan.Business in Africa – Corporate InsightsDianna GamesHigh-growth, high-return Africa, with much improved trading conditions, is the most-soughtafter frontier destination for global investment today. However, there are 54 countries onthe continent, and even rigorous business plans can run aground on the unique and complexset of circumstances found in each of them. Business in Africa: Corporate Insights takes thereader to the coalface of doing business on the continent. Business information on Africamight be increasing, but there is no substitute for operational experience. That is what thisbook offers in articles by, and interviews with, people at the forefront of developments. Theyoffer unique insights into the challenges and peculiarities of operating in Africa, and pointout trends and likely future opportunities.Publisher: Penguin Books SA | ISBN: 9780143528821 | Price: R260Enter now and win! One lucky Progressive Women in Business reader will win a copy of the book Business in Africa,sponsored by Penguin Books. To enter, simply e-mail pwb@vdsdesign.co.za with Business in Africa in the subject line andyour name, contact number, postal address and e-mail in the body of the message. Entries close 31 January 2013.Terms & conditions: The winner will be selected randomly, and the prize cannot be exchanged for cash, nor is it transferable. Winners will be notified telephonically.No Time Like the PresentNadine GordimerIn No Time Like the Present, Gordimer trains her keen eye on post-apartheid South Africa. At the heartof her story is an interracial couple, living in a newly – tentatively – free South Africa: he a universitylecturer, she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story, and the stories oftheir friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nationstruggling to define itself.Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781770102590 | Price: R260.00Survival Trainingfor LonelyHeartsElana BreginPart wry romance,part socialcommentary,Survival Training forLonely Hearts tracksthe complexities ofmodern living in South Africa, caughtbetween the collateral damage of theold and the emerging configurations ofthe new, across divides both personaland political. Through the experiencesof Kate, the online dating milieu andkaleidoscopic interchanges of the bookpublishing world become an explorationof the broader issues we all face.Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781770102347e-ISBN: 9781770102354Price: R195.00The LastRhinosLawrenceAnthony &Graeme SpenceAnotherextraordinarystory fromthe authors ofThe ElephantWhisperer. Peopled withunforgettable characters, fromthe local witch doctor to eccentricconservationist Brendan andthe elephants who have such anextraordinary bond with Lawrence,The Last Rhinos is a sometimesfunny, sometimes moving, alwaysgripping read.Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9780283071621Price: R195.00The HungrySeasonLeonie JoubertThe HungrySeason usesaccessiblenarrative andcompellingphotographs to look at the crisis ofhunger and malnutrition surroundingus in the city, hidden behind layersof affluence and comfort. It tacklesthe fundamental question: Why is itthat, in Southern Africa, we produceenough calories and nutrients tokeep the region full, satisfied andwell nourished, and yet we stillhave such high levels of hunger andmalnutrition?Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781770102293 | e-ISBN:9781770102309Price: R250.00 ✥68 I S S U E 1