Herman Mashaba Livres

"Herman Mashaba rose from humble beginnings to become one of South Africa's wealthiest and best-known entrepreneurs, and mayor of Africa's most important city."--Back cover.

The book should be helpful to anyone who wants to improve their spelling of English in a short time, be they native or foreign learners. Native speakers of English are taught English spelling rules and the spellings of over 3000 common words which disobey them in the course of their compulsory schooling, which generally lasts about 11 years. Yet this and even several more years spent in higher education leaves many of them still making numerous spelling errors, and with little idea of how to improve quickly or effectively. This book can help them because it shows exactly what learning to spell English involves. It lists all English spelling patterns and the words which disobey them. It highlights the spellings which cause the biggest difficulties for all learners and shows why they do so. It also enables individuals to identify what most needs their particular attention. The aim of this book is to help poor spellers to improve as quickly as possible. Anyone looking for a more detailed explanation of why learning to read and spell English is relatively slow and difficult should read Masha Bell's 'Understanding English Spelling', published by Pegasus in 2004.

When Nelson Mandela became South Africa's president in 1994, Herman Mashaba thought his struggle for personal and economic freedom was over, the battle won. Twenty-one years later, he has had to question that assumption as his freedoms are eroded and economic controls tighten. As a successful business person, Mashaba says he can no longer be silent on the state of the South African economy. In Capitalist Crusader he describes the changes in his political affiliations and maps out the route South Africa needs to follow to escape entrenched unemployment, poverty and inequality.

In every English-speaking country, roughly one in six children find it impossible to learn to read and write well enough to cope with secondary schooling or the literacy demands of modern life. This failure tends to be blamed, predominantly, on poor teaching and inadequate parenting. Government ministers put teachers under relentless pressure to improve their methods and raise standards. They also run expensive media campaigns to encourage parents to get more involved in their children's education. Masha Bell believes that the main cause of the relatively high levels of literacy failure in all English-speaking countries are the irregularities of English spelling. She explains how they make learning to read and write exceptionally difficult and time-consuming. She also traces the chief causes of English spelling inconsistencies and makes some suggestions for coping with them and for reducing them.