Author Interviews
One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My family’s quest to reclaim our land – Lebogang Seale
12th September 2024 ‘“Do you see that big tree on our right?” asked Isaac, as soon as we had crossed the river. “Wellington used to have lunch and rest there when he... →
Great Johannesburg: What happened? How to save an African economic giant – Nickolaus Bauer
10th September 2024 From Zama zamas running riot, water cuts, blackouts, exploding streets, political instability. The list goes on. Is the City of Gold in a death... →
We Were Always Here: Stories of Black Inventors Across the African Diaspora – Dr Candice Bailey, Lerato Makate, Sizwe Malinga, Les Owen & Therese Owen
28th August 2024 We Were Always Here : Stories of Black Inventors Across the African Diaspora tells the unknown stories of the innovation and ingenuity of Africans... →
Life Lessons: How to fail and win – Alan Knott-Craig
27th August 2024 It is possible to find success by stumbling from one disaster to another. I did. Alan Knott-Craig, bestselling author and serial telecoms and tech... →
ANC Today Letters: The Ideas and Thoughts of President Thabo Mbeki, Volume 1, 2001-2004 – Sifiso Ndlovu
26th August 2024 A collection of then President Thabo Mbeki’s weekly ANC Today Letters, in which he expressed his opinions on current South African political and... →
Killer Stories: Conversations With South African Serial Murderers – Brin Hodgskiss & Nicole Engelbrecht
19th August 2024 ‘If you made me angry, to me, for that anger to go away I have to get hold of you . . . For that anger to go away, I have to do something to you.’... →
Power Struggle: Why Rolling Blackouts Continue – Isaac Malgas
16th August 2024 An engineer and perennial scholar on power sector reforms in developing countries has just published his debut book, which aims to present the most... →
When Love Kills: The tragic tale of AKA & Anele – Melinda Ferguson
1st August 2024 When Love Kills is the tale of hip hop star, AKA. whose life unraveled when he embarked on a relationship with 21 year-old Anele Tembe. When she... →
High Times: The Extraordinary Life of a Joburg Dope Smuggler – Roy Isacowitz and Jeremy Gordin
31st July 2024 High Times is the true story of Michael Medjuck, whose taste for weed, women and the good life led him from late-1960s Johannesburg to notoriety as... →
Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa – Ulandi du Plessis & Catriona Ida Macleod
24th July 2024 South Africa’s progressive Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (No. 92 of 1996), which permits abortion at the request of a pregnant person in... →
Rhodes and his Banker: Empire, Wealth and the Coming of Union – Richard Steyn
18th July 2024 Rhodes and his Banker is an account of the remarkable friendship between a larger-than-life historical figure and a modest, unassuming banker, both... →