Warnings for Nations That Print Money - Talk

Cape Town Book Launch

When Money Destroys Nations

“The simplicity, clarity, and great use of metaphors in this book make When Money Destroys Nations a warning for the rest of the world. It makes me ask: ‘Will the U.S. be next?’” 

Robert Kiyosaki

Educator, Entrepreneur, Investor and Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad

In their book, When Money Destroys Nations, authors Philip Haslam and Russell Lamberti tell the fascinating story of Zimbabwe’s economic turmoil and how ordinary people survived. In late 2008 the Zimbabwe dollar collapsed after eleven years of unrestrained money printing. Hyperinflation had blazed out of control, turning lives upside down as soaring prices destroyed the once prosperous economy. This book reveals the ominous parallels between Zimbabwe and countries around the world that are printing money to fund their debts.

Date:                Thursday 26 February

Time:               12 noon for 12h30

Venue:             The Pavilion, Kelvin Grove Club

Speaker:           Philip Haslam

 On a recent trip to Johannesburg,  people were talking about this book and saying how accessible it was to the non-financial person and also fascinating. I contacted the authors and publishers and to our good fortune author Philip Haslam is visiting Cape Town and has agreed to give a talk as well as answer some of our financial questions.  He will also briefly discuss the Macro aspects of the Budget.

Philip Haslam is a qualified chartered accountant and economic advisor, writer and speaker. As a speaker, he regularly presents to a variety of audiences on money, banking and the international financial system. Philip has lived in both Europe and America, and currently resides in his hometown of Johannesburg. He runs a business with other economists providing macro-strategy consulting advice to companies to inform their strategies. He says “As the global economy changes significantly with massive money printing schemes, the effects will impact us all. And therein lies the risk and the opportunity.”  

Could other nations be following in Zimbabwe’s footsteps? Read this book to find out.

The menu is a starter and a main course with coffee to follow. There will be a limited cash bar on the day; the Kelvin House Wine is reasonable and highly recommended.  As always a Vegetarian option is available, please let me know when making your booking.  The cost is R200 per person.

Book by email to sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone me on 021 685 8016.

Praise for When Money Destroys Nations 

“To understand the future you must first understand the past. Haslam and Lamberti have done a great job at documenting the Zimbabwean hyperinflation in an easily readable manner. Even if you haven’t studied economics or central banking, you’ll be able to understand what happens when countries print money and why hyperinflation is coming to countries across the world, including the US dollar.”

Jeff Berwick

CEO and founder of The Dollar Vigilante

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Meet Author Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver
"The power is in the balance: we are our injuries as much as we are our successes."

Date:               Thursday 12 February 2015

Time:               12 Noon for 12h30

Venue:             The Pavilion at Kelvin Grove Club, Cape Town

Speaker:          Barbara Kingsolver

Cost:                R200

Barbara Kingsolver and her husband are visiting South Africa and we have the pleasure of hosting her.  It is also our first get together this year and we would like to take this opportunity of wishing all a happy and successful 2015.

Kingsolver was named one of the most important writers of the 20^th Century by Writers Digest.  In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal, America’s highest honour for service through the arts. Critical acclaim for her books includes multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, among many others.

The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the national book award of South Africa before being named an Oprah Book Club selection. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle won numerous prizes including the James Beard Award. The Lacuna won Britain’s prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. In 2011, Kingsolver was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work.

Kingsolver has been honoured by her peers and embraced by readers as one of the most popular literary novelists of modern times. The Dallas Morning News called her latest novel,  Flight Behaviour" as close to a truly perfect book as I have ever read."

Exclusive Books Cavendish will have a selection of her books on sale for those who would like to buy any of them.

The menu is a starter and a main course with coffee to follow. There will be a limited cash bar on the day; the Kelvin House Wine is reasonable and highly recommended.  As always a Vegetarian option is available, please let us know any dietary preferences when making your booking.

If you cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice we will try to fill your place, but if not successful, you will be liable to pay.

Information or book by email sandybailey@telkomsa.net  or telephone on 021 685 8016.

Another Kingsolver quote from her book Animal Dreams

 “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.” 

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BEHIND THE DOOR - MANDY WIENER AND BARRY BATEMAN

                                                                                                    

Cape Town Launch

The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story

MANDY WIENER AND BARRY BATEMAN

Exclusive content, including interviews, phone messages, photographs and affidavits

‘Behind the Door is definitive, engrossing, fascinating, brilliant and utterly unputdownable.

Wiener has no equal when it comes to true crime, and Bateman’s first-journalist-on-the-crime-scene insight gives it a huge boost.’

– DEON MEYER, author of Cobra and other bestselling crime novels

WHEN            Wednesday 5 November at 12 for 12h30WHERE:        Buitenverwachting Restaurant 

 The news of successful model Reeva Steenkamp’s fatal shooting by her boyfriend and global sporting star Oscar Pistorius stunned the world. Over the ensuing weeks, as Pistorius appeared in court and applied for bail, every detail that emerged was analysed, debated, justified and digested. South Africa and the world in general were haunted by the events as they were repeated and discussed at length. Public perception vacillated from version to version and from hour to hour.

Behind the Door is a compelling narrative that unpacks the true facts of the story, as revealed in the courtroom and beyond during the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius and as told to the authors in several exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes briefings. It looks at the characters involved, relates the courtroom interactions and dramas, the construction of each side’s argument, the analysis of forensic and circumstantial evidence and exchanges between the personalities, as well as a broader look at violence and criminal justice in South Africa.

Vivid and gripping, insightful and authoritative, Behind the Door is the book to read on the Reeva and Oscar story.

Meet the authors:

MANDY WIENER (@MandyWiener) is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the true-crime bestseller Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed and the acclaimed memoir My Second Initiation (co-written with Advocate Vusi Pikoli). Wiener has been reporting on crime, the courts and politics in South Africa for the past decade.

BARRY BATEMAN (@barrybateman) has been reporting in Pretoria, the hometown of Oscar Pistorius, for more than ten years, for the last four of these as the Pretoria Correspondent for Eyewitness News, for which he has won several awards. Bateman was the first journalist on the scene of the shooting and has been covering every development since.

GOURMET LUNCHEON INCLUDING WINE

Price is R270 per person fully inclusive

To book or for more information - Email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone Sandy 021 685 8016

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RONNIE MUHL AT BUITENVERWACHTING

Join us for lunch with Ronnie Muhl, athlete, adventurer, author and thoroughly inspiring person.

Date                Thursday 13 November 2014

Time                12 noon for 12h30

Venue              Buitenverwachting Restaurant

Speaker           Ronnie Muhl

Ronnie has summited Everest more times than I have ventured up Table Mountain.  As an adventurer, he is on a quest to climb the Seven Summits and in 2007 became the 7th South African to summit Mt Everest via the North-east Ridge. 

Recently I had the good fortune to hear him at a networking breakfast I attend regularly and knew that as the year draws to a close you would thoroughly enjoy meeting him. 

As an author, he has written Inspiration, a treasury of wisdom and the second book in his Inspiration series will be available soon. Ronnie has also written of the adventures leading up to his summit of Mt Everest in Everest Surviving the Death Zone.

In the last two years he has spent four months on the North Face of Mt Everest and what he endured there has changed his life forever. What he has to share might very well change yours. So, make sure your harness is buckled and your rope is tight, as Ronnie Muhl will no doubt take you right to the edge and when he finally brings you back, you will have glimpsed your very own Everest, with all its tears and triumphs.

Edgar will be creating his magic in the Buiten kitchens the menu is available on request.

The price per person is R270 fully inclusive.

Please join me in welcoming Ronnie to the Thursday Club.  By email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone 021 685 8016 to book or for information.

Regards

Sandy

Lunch with Cathy Marston - Love Your Wine

Up to the minute, informative and enjoyable.

A journey in the appreciation of wine and an introduction to

 the mystery and science of wine in a friendly and unpretentious way.

Where              Buitenverwachting Restaurant

When               Thursday 16 October 2014

Time                12 noon for 12h30

Speaker           Cathy Marston

Cathy Marston is a recognised wine expert, a Platter Wine Guide taster, the wine writer for food24.com, the Cape Times and Wine Spectator – she also runs certified wine courses all over the country.

Cathy hails from Yorkshire, UK and after completing her degree in English at Cambridge University, she joined Adnams Wine Merchants, passing all the Wine & Spirit Education Trust exams, culminating in Diploma. She came to SA in 2001 and opened and ran The Nose Restaurant & Wine Bar, selling it after seven successful years. Cathy now concentrates on tasting, writing for local and international publications and educating people about wine. She is an associate of the Institute of Wines & Spirits and is currently the only Approved Programme Provider in Africa for the internationally-recognised Wine & Spirit Education Trust.

Love Your Wine is her first book.

Cathy takes you on a wine appreciation journey from easy drinking sweets, through the popular sauvignon blancs, bubblies, dessert wines and on to the fuller reds, with the sole aim of giving you confidence in your wine choices. The real secret of wine success is that the more you drink, the more you know. Admittedly, the less you probably remember, but hey – you can’t have everything.

This promises to be a thoroughly enjoyable luncheon.   

The cost per person is R270 fully inclusive.

Phone Sandy on 021 685 8016 or email sandybailey@telkomsa.net 

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Book Launch at Buitenverwachting Restaurant

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Up to the minute, informative and enjoyable

 Tim Butcher's latest book

Where:             Buitenverwachting Restaurant

When:              Thursday 18 September 2014

Time:               12 noon for 12h30

Speaker:          Tim Butcher

Tim Butcher the best-selling British travel writer and broadcaster who is based in Cape Town will be talking about his recently released book The Trigger.   We loved him at Thursday Club when he launched his absorbing first book, Blood River shortly after he and his family had come to  live in South Africa.  We also had the pleasure of launching his second book, Chasing the Devil – The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit - a passionate and exciting adventure story.

Tim is one of the most exciting speakers we have had the good fortune of hosting. Be sure to book early for the rare opportunity of listening to this man of great courage and talent.

The Trigger, his third book was launched in the UK in March.  It has been well received and has had great reviews. 

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented. Tim Butcher will share the results of years of research, including the discovery of Princip papers missed by a century of historians, to fill out as never before the assassin who changed all of our lives.

David Cameron chose it as one of his 5 books to take on holiday in July.

The Trigger, retails in South Africa at R315 but will be available at the lunch for R250. Payment will be by cash on the day of the talk or by EFT/bank transfer subsequently.

Menu

Amuse Bouche

Pan-fried Line Fish set on Quinoa-Tabbouleh Salad

with Avocado, Papaya & Dukkha

Main

Grilled Pork Cutlet with Apple-Cider Sauce,

creamy Savoy Cabbage Timbale, Vanilla-Heirloom Carrots & Fondant Potato

Dessert

Crêpe Suzette with Vanilla Ice Cream

Filter Coffee & Friandise  

Accompanied by Buitenverwachting Wines

The price per person is R270 fully inclusive, payable at the Restaurant on the day, credit cards are accepted.  Please reply by return email or telephone Sandy on 021 685 8016.

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Dr Helen Robinson at Buitenverwachting

Up to the minute, informative and enjoyable.

. Well known Cape Town authoress and local historian

Dr Helen Robinson will be our guest speaker

Where              Buitenverwachting Restaurant

When               Thursday 28 August 2014

Time                12 noon for 12h30

Speaker           Dr Helen Robinson

It is a privilege to host Dr Helen Robinson at the first luncheon after the winter break of the  Buitenverwachting Restaurant team.  .

Dr Helen Robinson began her professional life as a theatre practitioner and a lecturer in drama and communication.  She settled in Wynberg 35 years ago and has pursued her interest in its multicultural heritage since that time. She did post-graduate studies in Social Anthropology and Psychology while lecturing at the University of Cape Town and received her MA in 1985 for a study on forced removals in Greyton in the Overburg. She then proceeded to a PhD in the History Department where she presented her research on Wynberg. Her thesis was published in 1998 with the title – Beyond the City Limits – People and Property at Wynberg.  Since then she has written many books on the Cape.

Her latest book Constantia and its Neighbours was launched earlier in August.  Dr Robinson is an erudite and enjoyable speaker, You will enjoy every minute of her talk. There will be a question time.

The book is the story of the people of Constantia, free men and women, slaves and their descendants, immigrants and exiles all who have contributed to the international reputation of Constantia wines today.  They were neighbours and frequently related by marriage, which created a complex pattern of cooperation and obligation, but also gave rise to competition, as the wine estates developed and newcomers entered the Valley.

The book will be on sale at a special price of R200 at this luncheon.

Menu 

Amuse Bouche

Creamy Kohlrabi Soup topped with Bisque

& Seafood Spring Roll

Starter

Homemade Aubergine Gnocchi

with red Pepper, Rocket & Pesto

Main

Springbok Fillet ‘Three Ways” with Port Wine Sauce,

Crème Fraiche-Almond Potato, Cabbage, creamy Balsamico Vegetable Lentils

Filter Coffee & Friandise

Accompanied by Buitenverwachting’s superb wines 

Telephone Sandy on 021 685 8016 or email sandybailey@telkomsa.net for more information or to book.

Tickets are R270 per person this includes the delicious lunch and elegant wines made by Buitenverwachting’s excellent winemakers.

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