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About the Book

Take an anatomical journey from head to toe with a man who doesn’t claim to be a doctor or have a qualification in medicine. He gives a simplified description, in isiXhosa, of ailments and his findings through research to bring you shocking revelations about your body. This book unpacks twenty-three chapters of health issues that we encounter in the body. Experience a narrative, light-hearted approach to serious health matters while enriching your knowledge about infirmities you or a loved one may encounter, possible remedies, and things you can do to prevent certain illnesses. Read it and be empowered!

About the Author

I was raised in the picturesque countryside of the Eastern Cape. While the popular image of rural areas would suggest that people that inhabit these areas harbor simple lives and don’t aspire to find information outside of their basic need, it is ironically this same place that encouraged me to wonder about the very things that I uncover in this book. Arriving in the city (Johannesburg) in 1971 for the first time further curbed my appetite for life and the passion to enlighten the people I had left back home. With limited recourses I sought to complete my secondary education and landed up in banking of all things. Not able to afford higher education at the time, I learned about the banking industry for seventeen years and continued within the financial industry until my retirement. Reading this you may wonder how health features in my interests and why this book came about. Old age comes with ailments and challenges, and in my tender age of sixty-three, I sought to educate people about the things I didn’t know when I was younger that would have greatly benefited me in later stages. Furthermore, it is my Xhosa roots that allowed me to identify the need to have such reading material in my own language to empower an audience that would otherwise never access this knowledge with clear understanding.