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• FINDING HERSELF: Kim Sonntag - in the desert

  The Namib is said to be one of the oldest and most hostile deserts in the world. And with temperatures rising over 50o, it seems like the last place on earth you'd want to be, never mind run. But for Kim Sonntag, the Beyond the Ultimate Desert Ultramarathon was 'a challenge' - listen to how she found it, and conquered it.

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• ARTSCAPE CONVERSATIONS: Can Faith and Spirituality work to counter GBV?

  Just prior to the start of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender based Violence, Woman Zone joined forces with the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative and Artscape to host a discussion asking How Faith and Spirituality Can Work against GBV. Here we get just a a taste of a very big conversation.

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• FINDING HERSELF: Karyn Maughan

  I Will Not Be Silenced (Tafelberg), the defiant title of legal journalist Karyn Maughan's new book, speaks volumes. About the damaging motivation behind the private prosecution brought against her by former president Jacob Zuma, and about the woman herself.

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• MEET THE AUTHOR: Caryn Dolley

  Daily Maverick journalist Caryn Dolley is not only an award-winner, but, with four published non-fiction books to her name, she’s also extremely prolific. With the release of her latest title: Man Alone: Mandela’s Top Cop – Exposing South Africa’s Ceaseless Sabotage, she was the Woman Zone Book Club guest author of the month. She spoke to, and was introduced by fellow journalist Theresa Smith.

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• MEET THE AUTHOR: Gaireyah Fredericks

  Afrikaaps has been evolving as a language in the Western Cape for centuries. But it is so much more than just a means of communication, as Paarl writer Gaireyah Fredericks shows in her Afrikaaps book - Een Voet innie Kabr (One foot in the Grave). A collection of twenty one short stories, it features some very colourful characters - as Gaireyah explained to WZ Board chair Celeste Matthews Wannenburgh at the October meeting of the WZ Book Club

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