Adam Geard is only 8-years old when he witnesses a brutal rape and murder by the notorious Red Brigade on his parents’ farm on the Khami River near the Zimbabwean town of Bulawayo. The victims of the ethnic cleansing are their farm foreman, his wife and two young children. For decades Adam has had unexplained behaviour, often extreme, the legacy of the stress disorder condition he suffers. He chooses to work as a geologist in the wilderness of Namibia, believing he might discover the sourc...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The battle of iSandlwana in 1879 was the worst defeat suffered by a British army in the colonies. The names of some of the combatants resound even today in the chronicles of the Victorian era. One of them was Colonel Anthony Durnford, Irish-born Royal Engineer, an enigmatic man both loved and maligned, and seen in some quarters to have contributed to the appalling defeat. Yet others see in him a man ahead of his time, a man of liberal views and steadfast integrity. But who was this man? Wh...

“YET ANOTHER SEMI-FICTI0NAL MASTERPIECE.” Dave Savides – A Family Affair On the Warm Shores of Africa continues the annals of the Allison family, first encountered in A Family Affair. Jake, the lawman turned dark avenger. Abby, whose passion for another child transcends society norms. Kirk, their son, who has to choose between the greed of British colonialism and the insular nationalism of the Boers. The novel is wide ranging in history - from the Ninth Frontier War to the Anglo-Boer War –...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...