12/10/2026
๐โจ A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FIRST BOOK! ๐๐
Today, we celebrate a very special achievement! ๐ฅณ
We are incredibly proud to congratulate De-Wet Botha on publishing his very first book! ๐ What an amazing milestone and a wonderful reflection of dedication, passion, and hard work.
Writing a book is no small feat, and seeing an idea grow into something that can inspire, educate, and make a lasting impact is truly worth celebrating.
From balancing numbers to putting words on paper, youโve proven that your talent extends far beyond the office.
De-Wet Botha has called the City of Roses home for the past seven years, building his career in accounting while turning a long-standing interest in technology, systems and personal growth into his first published book, Too Much of the Same Thing Is Bad. Raised in Welkom and educated at Goudveld Hoรซrskool, Botha moved to Bloemfontein, where he obtained his BAcc degree before pursuing his career in accounting through SAICA articles at CORE.
Bothaโs interest in finding better ways of doing things has followed him from university into his professional career, where he developed Assist Pro (www.assist-pro.co.za), a software solution designed to improve accounting and audit-related processes. What started as a personal project has since grown through a joint venture with a local accounting firm, allowing the software to develop further and reach a wider audience. โI began thinking about how often we confuse experience with improvement,โ he says. โJust because weโve been doing something for a long time doesnโt necessarily mean weโre getting better at it.โ
University, work and the demands of completing his SAICA articles in Bloemfontein has made Botha increasingly aware of how easily routine can become mistaken for progress, particularly when familiar habits are repeated without questioning whether they are still useful. โIf someone has been doing something for ten years, we automatically assume they have ten years of experience. But they might actually have one year of experience repeated ten times,โ he says. โReal experience should change you."
"The challenge with this book was taking one of those ideas and actually staying with it long enough to turn it into something complete,โ he points out, "..the book eventually reached Amazon, giving him the satisfaction of taking an idea through to a finished publication.
Completing his accounting articles has also given Botha a practical view of learning shaped by new systems, unfamiliar situations, different people and problems that do not always come with clear textbook answers. โYou can learn a lot at university, but once you enter the working world, you realise that learning doesnโt stop when you graduate,โ he explains. โYouโre constantly dealing with new situations, new systems, different people and problems that donโt always have a textbook answer.โ
Botha is already working on another book, aimed at Grade 10 to 12 learners and first- and second-year students who are beginning to earn, spend, borrow and make their own financial decisions. He also hopes his first book leaves readers questioning the routines they follow simply because they are familiar - โIf they finish it and start asking themselves, โIs this actually helping me grow?โ, then I think the book has done something valuable,โ he says. โThe question isnโt whether the world will change. The question is whether weโll change with it.โ
