BULLSH!T
eBook - ePub

BULLSH!T

50 Fibs That Made South Africa

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

BULLSH!T

50 Fibs That Made South Africa

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Praise for Bullsh!t
  3. Dedication
  4. Billsh!t
  5. Truth be told
  6. 1. 1994: an agreed fiction
  7. 2. The decuplets debacle
  8. 3. Sex, lies and apartheid
  9. 4. The Gupta spin cycle
  10. 5. King of the con men
  11. 6. Read my load-shedding lips
  12. 7. Watch out, Comrades
  13. 8. 16 days of crocodile tears
  14. 9. Let us prey
  15. 10. Mandela was a terrorist
  16. 11. Mandela was a sellout
  17. 12. Mandela was a saint
  18. 13. Opfokking the Boks
  19. 14. A bald lie
  20. 15. The Rubicon con
  21. 16. Peddling a porkie
  22. 17. Sign of the times
  23. 18. The good old days
  24. 19. Intellectual emptiness
  25. 20. 15 years at death’s door
  26. 21. The deadliest lie
  27. 22. Impostor sindrome
  28. 23. Putting lipstick on a pig
  29. 24. I want my day in court
  30. 25. Satan made me do it
  31. 26. Sofa, so dud
  32. 27. A bridge too far
  33. 28. Jani and the Nazi
  34. 29. The ineffable flip-flopper
  35. 30. Little white lies
  36. 31. Rainbow nation simulation
  37. 32. A ‘doctor’ in the House
  38. 33. Satanic panic
  39. 34. The fantasy firepool
  40. 35. Mandela’s special ones
  41. 36. Escape from Mangaung
  42. 37. The CONstitution
  43. 38. The unreal Mandela
  44. 39. Fuelling the ‘genocide’ fire
  45. 40. Sweet little lies
  46. 41. Short walk to freedom
  47. 42. The Shaka delusion
  48. 43. Setting the bar low
  49. 44. Citizen stain
  50. 45. Back at The Ranch
  51. 46. Prince of darkness
  52. 47. A pandemic of madness
  53. 48. DA’s Putin snotklap
  54. 49. Hall of shame
  55. 50. It’s all bullsh!t
  56. Acknowledgements
  57. Sources
  58. About the Book
  59. About the Author
  60. Imprint page