Greetings!

The 23rd of April is World Book Day, and www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za is joining in the global activities to play our part in promoting the importance of literacy and the joy of reading during this month.

Twenty years ago, World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading to encourage everyone, particularly young people, to discover the joy of reading.

In South Africa, poverty excludes many people, especially children, from the enrichment that reading brings. Being able to read, and having access to books, plays a critical part in the unlocking of potential in a human being. A brighter, better future for all South Africans becomes more likely if we are busy now raising generations of thoughtful, independent life-long learners – and reading is the key to that!

www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za is highlighting the work of four important NPOs who work tirelessly to improve literacy education and access to books for South African children and communities.

And you can celebrate World Book Day by participating in our Donate-A-Book campaign during April. By donating a www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za book voucher you will be making a meaningful contribution to Biblionef SA - a book donation agency providing the neediest children with books; READ – an educational trust that helps to improve literacy education and reading; and, The South African Children's Book Forum – an NPO promoting and supporting quality books for young readers.

Various Donate-A-Book vouchers are available:

  • A R50 voucher buys a book for a pre-schooler
  • An R80 voucher buys a book for a high school student
  • A R300 voucher buys a set of 2 children's reference books
  • A R5000 voucher buys a starter library for a poor school

  • Donate-A-Book to a blind child

  • A R100 voucher buys a book for a blind child.

  • The beneficiary of the R100 Donate-A-Book vouchers is Athlone School for the Blind Association's Braille Production programme. They are dedicated to meeting the educational, training and therapeutic needs of blind and visually handicapped learners. Athlone School for Blind aims to create an environment where every child can develop to their fullest potential, irrespective of their disability.

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We hope that you will be able to make a contribution, and please also tell your friends, families and colleagues about www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za’s Donate-A-Book Voucher Campaign.

If you would like more information about World Book Day activities and celebrations in South Africa, visit www.centreforthebook.org.za.

Thank you from the KiDS Foundation:

The KiDS Foundation is absolutely delighted to have received support through the GreaterGood SA website. We are enormously grateful for every donation as it means that we are able to enrich our scholar’s lives further by providing not only their tuition fees, but also the other smaller things which mean so much to them. Items of stationery, textbooks, school bags, sports equipment, school shoes, blazers and uniforms are so useful and often outside of their means.

The funding we have received through www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za has been used to provide one of our Grade 8 Scholars at Springdale Senior Primary School with a new school bag and a stationery pack with ALL that she needs for the year including a Maths set, brand new Colleen pencil crayons (much to her delight!), notebooks, files and writing materials. A big THANK YOU making a gift like this possible. For more information, visit The KiDS Foundation’s information pages on www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za.

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In celebration of World Book Day we're delighted to offer you a fantastic promotion on 5 TOP READS from local publisher, DOUBLE STOREY. Big thanks to DOUBLE STOREY who have enabled you to donate 20% of your purchase price of these books to your favourite cause!


1. SOUL TALKS – Only R130!
Rod Suskin

"We need a hard-nosed approach to modern-age spirituality." With these challenging words, Rod Suskin – astrologer, sangoma and sought-after spiritual teacher- sets out to reconcile strands of wisdom from the ancient traditions with the startling insights of contemporary science.

This book is a compilation of five of Rod's popular and stimulating lectures that engage audiences in deep thought, lively debate and great realisation of their own. It is aimed at a general readership of adults ranging from the late teenage years to mature age, and will be particularly rewarding for those interested in exploring metaphysical ideas and to those seeking spiritual paths. Here in one powerful volume, Suskin shares his remarkable personal journey and tackles the profound questions we all ask ourselves.
2. LAUGH THE BELOVED COUNTRY – Only R175!
Harvey Tyson & James Clarke

Archbishop Tutu commented ‘ I could not stop laughing from the very first moment I started reading this manuscript’. This is an eclectic collection of the most entertaining writers of English-language humour in South Africa in the last 200 years. South Africa – boiling pot if ever there was one – has produced an unusual number and a cultural variety of humour, from bitter satire to wild farce; from sharp wit to gentle good humour all found in this very funny book.
3. THE HEALER INSIDE YOU – Only R160!
David Patient and Neil Orr

How do some people with cancer manage to send it into remission? How do a few people with AIDS manage to survive with it for decades, whereas most of its victims die? Why do survivors of chronic illnesses tend to be rebels? Authors Neil Orr and David Patient believe your health has much to do with your mental attitude, and have developed a healing programme based on psychoneuroimmunolgy, or PNI, which will enable you to strengthen your immune system and send illness packing or at least keep it cowering in a corner. The Healer Inside You clearly details the connection between the mind and the body. By means of self-assessment quizzes and assignments it assists you to recognise the sources of stress and anger, and the fears, that inhibit your well-being, and helps you work through them. PNI is not a cure in itself, the authors believe, but together with a healthy lifestyle and a healthy attitude it undoubtedly boosts immunity. If you suffer from a chronic illness or take care of someone who does, or even if you simply want to ward it off, you will find The Healer Inside You an illuminating and rewarding aid to health.
4. A DECADE OF DEMOCRACY – Only R265!
Emma Bedford

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first democratic elections, the South African National Gallery, the country’s premier art institution, mounted a comprehensive exhibition featuring works of art made and acquired between 1994 and 2004. This book presents in visual and literary form an astonishing record of the hopes and aspirations, fears and concerns, of South Africans in this extraordinary decade through the eyes of the country’s artists. Illustrated throughout in full colour, this beautifully designed work consists of eleven essays by distinguished commentators on the major acquisitions of the Gallery together with 150 or so reproductions. It provides a fitting way of reflecting on the changes of the last decade and assessing the extent to which transformation has had an impact on South Africa.
5. AFRICAN TREES – Only R295!
Charles Bryant and Brita Lomba

African Trees is primarily an art book containing breathtaking images of some of the most extraordinary and beautiful indigenous trees in Southern and East Africa. Through photographs and text it conveys the magic of African tress and their vital interrelationship with the continent’s people, soil, animals, birds and insects. The book takes the reader on a journey to a range of habitats – from the savannah of the Serengeti and the bushveld of Mpumalanga to riverine forests, woodlands and other fragile ecosystems in the game reserves and national parks of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Kenya. This celebration of our rich natural tree heritage encourages readers to look beyond the game and the birds, and appreciate the intrinsic beauty of the trees that sustain the wildlife and often ensure its very survival.


Due South Craft Travel Guide R125

The Due South Craft Route Travel Guide Project identifies and showcases the diversity of skills and products offered by the craftspeople of South Africa. This book provides you, the traveller, with a detailed craft route map for each province and a comprehensive list of craft sites in each map including a description, photograph, directions, contact details and road condition. The user-friendly guide also features places to stay and to see on each page relevant to the route.

By raising awareness and increasing engagement through this full-colour, beautifully designed guide, the project helps to support disadvantaged people's own efforts to improve their quality of life.
Kuyasa Journals from R35 to R135

Reading encourages wonderful introspection and we have the perfect place to record your thoughts and ideas. Kuyasa Handmade Journals come in three sizes - A6 @ R35, A5 @ R75 and A4 @R135. Each journal comprises 50 handsewn pages in a beautifully decorated ochre and gold cover.

Kuyasa Handmade Paper & Products are made from 100% recycled paper and Port Jackson fibres. The project helps in the clearing of the invasive, thirsty Port Jackson. The Kuyasa initiative helps unemployed women to develop skills and establish their own sustainable business.

www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za's courier service works all-year round, delivering purchases to your door, or directly to the person you want to treat. This includes an international delivery service, so you can send unique South African gifts to relatives or friends overseas. There is also a gift-wrapping and personalised card service.
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To honour World Book Day, all book purchases come with a free Iziko Lo Lwazi desktop calendar, while stocks last.
New in The Good Shop this month, you can make a contribution to a good cause by buying your subscriptions to two popular newspapers through www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za.

THE STAR - In October 2007 The Star turns 120! And they are starting to celebrate now by investing in their reader communities. The Star Newspapers in Charity campaign is selecting 120 charities between now and 2007. Each charity has the opportunity to fundraise with The Star subscriptions - The Star will return to each participating charity 30% of the value of all the subscriptions they sell! Choose a “Star Newspapers in Charity” Subscription and secure these benefits:
THE RIPPLE EFFECT, SA's popular monthly tabloid offering a wide range of wellness information is now available through www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za - and you get to donate 10% of your subscription costs to a charity or cause of your choice! Buying your own or your company's subscription to The Ripple Effect through The Good Shop is another way for you to benefit a worthy cause as you shop.

The Ripple Effect is highly appreciated for providing crucial information to enhance people's lifestyles. The topics covered include health, well-being, longevity, social, legal and workplace issues. Always packed with accessible, useful content, The Ripple Effect, helps to spread the word about hassle-free, healthy living. A subscription to The Ripple Effect is a great gift for friends, loved ones, colleagues and employees. The Ripple Effect Annual Subscription Rates are very reasonable and suit many possibilities. Find out more on www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za or email us at for your special request.


Don’t forget The Good Shop gives you a variety of ways to make Good Life Choices.

Buying your pre-paid airtime through www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za and Virtual Airtime Services (VAS) is a great example where your everyday need to stay in touch can also do good for others as VAS will donate 5% of the sale to your favourite cause.

It's not only a socially conscious and responsible way to buy your airtime, it’s also an excellent method of transaction with a once off registration process and one easy payment via debit order, electronic transfer, stop order or internet banking to buy airtime to you anytime you need it. Parents can purchase the monthly allowance for their children's cellphones; businesses can more easily control their cellphone budgets and buying of airtime for staff by paying for monthly prepaid airtime for each user. Just one monthly payment can deliver airtime directly to any number of cellphones as requested. No pin, no scratch card. With VAS and www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za you can live a good life and keep on giving to the worthy cause of your choice with every purchase of the prepaid airtime you use. Simply complete the registration process, choose your preferred cause and buy your airtime on www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za. We will do the rest. Remember, every time you purchase your airtime with GreaterGood South Africa your preferred cause gets their gift at no extra cost to you.

Click here to purchase prepaid airtime now.

Also, if you haven't yet checked out GADGET GURU on www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za - you're in for a treat. Gadget Guru is a specialist purveyor of a stunning range of cool toys and tech toys, retro and lifestyle gifts, games, collectibles, of course gadgets of every kind and a wide variety of Big-Boys' toys. We are delighted that they have made their excellent products available through the Good Shop and will donate 5% of the value of your Gadget Guru purchases made through www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za to a charity of your choice.
FINE BUSH PEOPLE are another Good Life Choice available on www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za – and they help you develop the beauty of waterwise gardening. The Good Shop has a very fine selection of seeds of indigenous South African fynbos plants. This is a good life choice purchase as you also get to donate 15% of the value of the sale to your favourite cause.

The Fine Bush People offer you easy to grow seeds packaged in ideal starter packs – The Protea Egg-box; The Fynbos Feast Egg-box; The WaterWise Egg-box; The Erica Starter Pack; The Bulb Starter Pack; The Cape Restio Starter Pack and The Healing Herbs starter Pack are all available from the Good Shop now.
  • READ
  • Biblionef SA
  • The Children's Book Forum
  • Animal Welfare Society (Stellenbosch)
  • The MyLife Project
  • Jobs 911 - Choose Life Group
  • Ditoro Craft School
  • Community Environmental Education Programme
  • Greater Nelspruit Rape Intervention Programme (GRIP)
  • Alzheimer’s SA
  • Helderberg Hospice
  • The Star Smile Fund
  • Grandmothers Against Poverty & Aids (GAPA)
  • Sothemba Aids Action Group
  • Free State Residential Care Centre
  • Little Eden
  • Common Collective Vision

  • If you can't find your favourite cause on www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za, then please click here to nominate a cause.
Telling your friends, family and colleagues about www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za and how it makes it so easy support good causes, is one of the most powerful ways that you can contribute to a better South Africa for all.

Please make a point of mentioning us as often as you can to the people in your life. Let them know just how they can make good life choices that can benefit the greater good at no extra cost to them.

You can also join our email campaign, Register a Friend, and to thank you, www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za will give you 5% off your next purchase at The Good Shop.


All you need to do is the register the names and email addresses of the friends you would like to tell about GreaterGood South Africa, edit the e-mail message below to your liking and click "Send". When you "Send", you will receive a 5% discount on your next Good Shop purchases as our thanks. We respect the privacy of the information you give us. We will never sell it to a third party.

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We hope you enjoy celebrating World Book Day – give a book as gift to a loved one; read a story to a child; take a break and read a book yourself.

Until next month, happy reading
Tamzin
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