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  Written by Keli H  Award-winning author of The Four Hundred Club and CEO of the award-nominated publishing house, KREST Publishers Our founder's story has always been innately tied into the magic of the KREST brand. We as a house have a mission to spread through the world the most inspiring stories we can find. And we can do this because we believe we are currently living out, ourselves, one of the most inspiring stories that will ever be told about a business in the future.  I was invited to share this story with matriculants at Durban North College (Durban-Noord Kollege), an esteemed high school in the northern suburbs. The occasion had a shade of happy nostalgia for me because I schooled in this area from 2007-2011 and was familiar with DNC. The reason I had been invited was because the school had compiled an anthology of short stories written by their matric learners. In a world where you can now be anything for a living, career advice from a publisher was in order,...

  Written by Mervin M. Francis (author of poetry anthologies Book of Dreams and Dreams of Life) An educator Miss Connie Francis came across my Poetry on Facebook and reached out to me to give a talk to their Grade 6 and 7 students at Spearman Primary School on the subject of poetry writing. I was overwhelmed by her request and without hesitation I accepted her invite to visit the school. Together we colaborated on the agenda for my visit which was to address both grades individually so as not to upset their class time tables. On the 4th of August 2023 I made my way to Spearman Primary School where I was warmly received and I was introduced to some of the Educators. I was then led to the assembly point where I was introduced to the grade 6 learners first.The topic of discussion was in relation to poetry. Miss Connie introduced me to the learners as a South African Author who specialised in poetry. She then handed the mic over to me to share my journey as a published author, and what...