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Self-Publishing Handbook

After Eunice had walked about twenty metres

from my car, she stopped for some minutes and

looked back at the car. After a few moments of

looking at the car for a second time, Eunice had

then started walking back to my car, and – like she

had done, earlier – she had paced around the car,

once again, and she took down more notes. That

was when I had inevitably felt the need to “engage”

with this lady. I had then opened the window and

asked her if I could be of any assistance. Her

answer had surprised me. Totally. Promptly, and

without flinching, she told me that she was an

independent publisher and was wondering if she

could write a story – in a book, of course – about

“the car and its owner”. I had immediately become

very interested, as I had always wanted to write a

book about my “Toilet Life” – which is the best

way to sum up and tag what had been my lifelong

ambition and ongoing campaign, then, to

encourage public schools in South Africa to

prioritise clean toilets and to maintain an overall

cleanliness regime, so as to achieve the most

desirable behavioural patterns and best academic

results among the learners, and to boost the

teachers’ morale. That was the beginning of the

story writing about my work life.

So far, Mrs Eunice Rakhale-Molefe has

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