Author Interviews
Alexandra: A Backstory – Solam Mkhabela
5th December 2024 Alexandra: A Backstory is a powerful graphic novel that uncovers the hidden history of Alexandra Township, a vibrant and resilient community... →
Comrade and Commander: The Life and Times of Joe Modise – Ronnie Kasrils & Fidelis Hove
29th November 2024 Joe Modise (1929-2001), a Sophiatown bus driver-turned freedom fighter, was a humble man who tended to avoid the limelight. A protege of the... →
I Will Not Be Silenced – Karyn Maughan
26th November 2024 As a young journalist, roped into court reporting to cover Jacob Zuma’s 2006 rape trial, Karyn Maughan could not have known that she would be... →
Witness To Power: A Political Memoir – Mathews Phosa
22nd November 2024 Mathews Phosa has been an eyewitness to the dramatic shifts of political power in South Africa. He was involved in the Black Consciousness... →
Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground – Billy Keniston
19th November 2024 An in-depth study of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon at the hands of apartheid spy Craig Williamson explores how the lives of a... →
Capitec: Stalking Giants – TJ Strydom
15th November 2024 How do you build a new bank from scratch? What does it require to take on the big four – Absa, Standard Bank, FNB, and Nedbank – and to win? In... →
The Human Bridge: Racial Healing in South Africa – Ian Fuhr with Nina De Klerk
14th November 2024 The greatest gift we can give to our children, and the future South Africa, is our own healing. South Africa may have moved beyond apartheid, but... →
Predicaments of Knowledge: Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities – Suren Pillay
8th November 2024 These essays contribute to the debate about what it means to decolonise, deracialise, and transform knowledge after apartheid by problematising and... →
The Dirty Secrets of the Rich and Powerful: Exposing the dark side of capitalism – James-Brent Styan
6th November 2024 From the bestselling author of Steinhoff: Inside SA’s Biggest Corporate Crash, comes a revealing new exposé asking: Are companies and billionaires... →
The Truth About Cape Slavery: The Foundations of Colonial South Africa – Patric Tariq Mellet
1st November 2024 Slavery is at the core of the glaring inequality which persists in South Africa to this day. Yet slavery is but a subscript in our national... →
Life Esidimeni: Portraits of Lives Lost – Harriet Perlman & Mark Lewis
29th October 2024 In late 2015 and 2016, South Africa witnessed a horrific tragedy. 144 people entrusted to the Gauteng public health system died from neglect,... →