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Book review:Something On My Mind: Kate Jowell - A battle With Alzheimer's
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February 4, 2010
Something On My Mind: Kate Jowell - A battle With Alzheimer's
By Sharon Sorour-Morris
Oshun Books, R210
Kate Jowell had it all before she descended into the fog of Alzheimer's: an eventful life of great personal achievement, the love and appreciation of some extraordinary people... It counted for little when this little-understood affliction hit her and those close to her.
A successful editor of Fair Lady magazine, later a labour specialist intimately involved in the union battles of the waning years of apartheid, and finally director of UCT's Graduate School of Business, she was recalled by one ex-student as having been "beautiful, sharp-witted and occasionally sharp-tongued with any dumb, sexist MBA student. I think we were all partly in love with her - and partly terrified of her too." An ex-lover, Albie Sachs, contributes one of the three forewords.
This is intensely educational, heart-rending without being mawkish. - James Mitchell
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