The book selects some past events and experiences, national and international, and wonders what lessons were missed, learnt, or are yet to be learnt from them. Tragedies happen again and again because we fail to learn from the past. The past is rich with valuable lessons – rich pickings.

Content

• The present book is a series of distinctive and intricately connected episodes of the author’s enthralling life story. The judiciously crafted memoir straddles the nightmare of the apartheid era of the 20th century and the promise of the democratic dispensation of the new millennium. 
• Ngoepe’s photograph and portrait in these galleries capture seminal moments in his life.
• It is also dedicated to Diabetes Association of South Africa, to whom royalties are donated for the first three years from the date of the publication of this book, for their untiring and noble effort.