Romances To Remember - South Africans In Love (Afrikaans, Paperback)

“All the world loves a lover” and perhaps it loves a love story even more. When the romance in question is real, not fictional, it’s all the more powerful. Every love affair has its unique dynamic, which is what makes them so endlessly fascinating. Romances To Remember is a charmingly varied compilation of memorable South African unions.

There are the deeply spiritual unions of people such as Desmond and Leah Tutu and Beyers and Ilse Naudé; powerful politicians and their partners such as Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela and Albie Sachs’s ‘late life love’ for the much younger Vanessa September; the grand historical unions, including those of Koos and Nonnie de la Rey and Jan and Isie Smuts.

Artists and writers have arguably the most lyrical affairs of them all, and here we have Des and Dawn Lindbergh, Ingrid Jonker and Jack Cope, the ground-breaking marriage of Jackie and Vera Nagtegaal, sculptor Edoardo Villa and his Claire, and prima ballerina assoluta Phyllis Spira and Philip Boyd. The loves of celebrities, such as that between beautiful former Miss South Africa Amy Kleinhans and Leighton Curd and the potential fairy-tale romance of prince Albert and South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock, are utterly irresistable.