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Book Reviews

The Wealth Money Can’t Buy
By Robin Sharma
‘This book is about a completely new of wealth to include not just financial
philosophy and methodology of success success, but seven other essential forms
and wealth that we are not schooled, of wealth:
trained or even encouraged to consider. But
one that will bring us sustained happiness, Growth, Wellness, Family, Craft, Community,
personal freedom and lasting internal Adventure, Service.
peace.’ – Robin Sharma
Filled with powerful life lessons and
In a world fixated on the conventional practical tools, The Wealth Money Can’t
notion of success – marked by relentless Buy will help you to stop chasing the
hustle, sacrificing wellbeing and missing wrong kinds of riches and set you on a
out on cherished moments with loved transformative path towards a truly rich
ones in the pursuit of fame and material and abundant life filled with joy, peace and
possessions – Robin Sharma introduces a freedom.
paradigm shift. In The Wealth Money Can’t
Buy, Robin Sharma rewires our perception Price: R405.00

My Favourite Anton Rupert
Mistake By Ebbe Dommisse
By Marian Keyes The extraordinary
Anna has just lost her life of tycoon and
taste for the Big Apple… philanthropist Dr Anton
Anna has a life to envy. Rupert is told in full in
An apartment in New this updated version of
York. A well-meaning (too the top selling biography.
well-meaning?) partner.
And a high-flying job in This is the story of
beauty PR. Who wouldn’t a Karoo boy who
want all that? Anna – it grew up during the
turns out. Depression, struggled
to find money to study
Turning a minor mid-life science, and then made
crisis into a major life good as a businessman,
event she bins the lot, heads back to Ireland, and gets a spectacularly so, reaching the Forbes list of the 500
PR job for a super-high-end coastal retreat. Tougher than wealthiest people worldwide.
it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate it. So much so, there
have been threats – and violence. Unlike Harry Oppenheimer, Rupert was no heir, neither did
he make his millions from mining. His Rembrandt Group of
Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There’s no manufacturers became known across the globe, owning
ugliness she hasn’t seen. No wrinkle she can’t smooth over. brands like Cartier, Dunhill, Rothmans and Montblanc.
Anna’s got this. Until she discovers that leaving New York Within a few decades, a family dynasty was built, making
doesn’t mean escaping her mistakes. the Ruperts, next to the Oppenheimers, the richest family
in Africa.
Once upon a time she’d had a best friend. Once upon a
time she’d loved a man. Now she has neither. And now she This compelling book, based on extensive research,
has to face them. We all make mistakes. But when do we does justice to a South African icon whose life contains
stop making the same one over and over again? invaluable business lessons. Anton Rupert’s insights into
job and wealth creation are today more relevant than ever.
Price: R385.00
Price: R405.00

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