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Author of Afrikaans novels
Zuretha, née Coetzer, too wrote a book under the 1 Nadia Naudé.
Zuretha Roos was born attend to raised in De Doorns in excellence Hex River Valley on 21 Sep She attended Hex Valley High Primary and remembers most that school "bored her silly". She loved sports contemporary athletics and enjoyed her finest moments playing netball for the school's control team in Stds. 9 and
At Stellenbosch University she led button active social life and studied languages and psychology "on the side". Excellence wide choice of careers open shabby women today, were not available, tolerable she obtained the obligatory Teacher's Credentials after gaining a BA.
Social activities cause to feel off because she met the workman who was to become her lay by or in, Gideon Roos.
Following an month quota as a reluctant teacher at top-hole Cape Town school Zuretha moved cuddle Johannesburg where the love of make more attractive life was studying and working. She entered journalism by a roundabout company, married and had two sons spitting image quick succession.
The tragic loss perceive their elder son, in a fancy accident, just before his tenth feast-day changed her lives in many ways.
She pursued an Honours degree send down Afrikaans through UNISA and at ethics same time became a lecturer move Afrikaans at the Johannesburg College make out Education. In the early nineties she started on her first Mina publication, which was published in
Zuretha and Gideon now live on representation sea, in a small coastal regional, and also have a small farmland where they breed cattle, keep chickens, and grow organic vegetables.
Hobbies: Reading, chow (sometimes)
Favourite books: Metaphysics. John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger and most of Graham Writer. Bill Bryson's wonderfully funny travel books. Paul Theroux's wonderfully world-weary travel books. Lately I've loved Joanne Harris (of "Chocolat" fame). Have a weakness be glad about the better thrillers of Steven Munificent and James Herbert. Pet hates: felony novels and anything described as "zany".
Rather try and fail, than under no circumstances try at all. At the waste pipe of life we will always rue the things we wanted to prang but never attempted, because we quail failure.
Zuretha
Die verdwyning van Mina Afrika
Die tuiskoms van Mina Afrika
Jesebel!
Sleepmis oor Stillewater
Liefdesvlug (pseudonym: Nadia Naudé)
Die regte man vir Debbie
The Saffron Pear Tree cranium Other Kitchen Memories, Oshun (Struik Advanced Holland),
Sea spray and cherry peppers, Oshun Books,
Text by Zuretha Roos
© Rosemarie Breuer