222 mm x 146 mm, 176 pages RRP: R150, ISBN 978-1-4152-0067-4 Publication date: March 2009, Category: Memoir Description Forty great South Africans celebrate their mothers and grandmothers. Leaders from the worlds of politics, business, music, sport, education and literature pay homage to the women who have influenced and inspired them to lead exceptional lives. Desmond Tutu writes that he hopes he can resemble his mother spiritually and emulate her generosity and kindness, while Pam Golding shares her mom’s good advice: ‘Keep dancing and you’ll stay out of trouble!’ Who was it that raised the likes of Sibongile Khumalo or Antjie Krog to extraordinary achievement? Or Nelson Mandela, Lukas Radebe, JM Coetzee, Helen Suzman, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Miriam Makeba, Elana Meyer, Trevor Manual and many more? Much of the answer lies in these heart-warming tributes. uMama was compiled and edited by Marion Keim. From Mac Maharaj’s contribution to uMama, page 90 Her tiny frame exuded energy and purpose. Her small strides had the quickness of knowing where she was going and the urgency of knowing why she was going there.       The sharpness in her features and firmness in her jawline were softened by the olive skin that bore not even the faintest traces of age. Her hands told a different story. The fingers were prematurely gnarled, the back of her hands wrinkled like a ripe granadilla skin, her palms scoured with lines.       She was always the first to rise and the last to rest. The larger routine of her day followed a narrow path that ran between the backyard, defined by a heap of coal and wood, a garden patch, a chicken run, through the kitchen, whose centrepiece was a coal-fired stove, to the general dealer’s shop at the front of the house. To read on Visit Marion Keim’s blog to write about your own mother and grandmother Read a review of uMama by Diane Awerbuck in the Sunday Times. Read a review by Jacques Swart in Die Burger.. Read a review by Murray La Vita in Rapport. Read an article about Mac Maharaj’s contribution here. Read a review in The Weekender. Read a review in the City Press. Read a review by Namhla Tshisela for the Sowetan here. To buy this book www.exclusivebooks.com www.kalahari.net home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za