BULLSH!T
Author | : Jonathan Ancer |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2024-03-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781776193127 |
ISBN-13 | : 1776193121 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: An outrageous miscellany of serious and light-hearted lies, myths, untruths, fibs and fabrications that tells the tall tale of South Africa. The fibs come thick and fast, like a burst sewerage pipe: • Why everything we've learnt about Shaka Zulu, 'Africa's Napoleon', is a pack of lies. • Back in the darkest of ages (the 1970s!), citizens were told that there were satanic messages if you played some of The Beatles songs backwards. • National icon Hansie Cronje was a paragon of virtue, and integrity ... until he wasn't. • President Nelson Mandela told us that we, as a nation, were 'special'. Turns out we aren't. Whether a fabulous fib, an artful con, a doctor's spin, or simply a bald-faced lie, there's something for everyone.