Author Interviews
Heroes: Activate! – Mzwandile Msimang
21st June 2019 ACTIVATE! Change Drivers, a non-profit youth organisation (NPO), has compiled a book, ‘Heroes’, featuring some of the 3,400 youth Activators that... →
Holding the Fort – Toni Strasburg
20th June 2019 ‘I always tried to be cheerful when I saw my mother. I never told her that Frances was sad and weepy and wouldn’t eat, and that Keith was clingy... →
Undercover with Mandela's Spies – Bradley D. Steyn and Mark Fine
11th June 2019 Bradley Steyn’s life is a perfect example of how fact can be stranger than fiction, as Undercover with Mandela’s Spies shows. The memoir charts... →
Finding the Woman Within: How to Thrive in a Male Dominated Society – Nosipho Siwisa-Damasane
6th June 2019 You want to take some simple lessons to transformational leadership by a woman in a men's world but you keep thinking its hard. You will learn a... →
Land of My Ancestors – Botlhale Tema
5th June 2019 When working on the UNESCO Slave Route project in the early 2000s, Botlhale Tema discovered the extraordinary fact that her highly educated family... →
The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela – Sisonke Msimang
3rd June 2019 The death of Winnie Madikizela Mandela on 2 April this year unleashed a hailstorm of opinion. On one side, her legacy was cast by the media and... →
Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home – Sisonke Msimang
30th May 2019 In her much anticipated memoir, Sisonke Msimang writes about her exile childhood in Zambia and Kenya, young adulthood and college years in North... →
Poverty and Inequality – Diagnosis, Prognosis and Response
27th May 2019 State of the Nation 2018 covers a diversity of perspectives that highlight the interrelationship and intersectionality between structural,... →
But Deliver Us From Evil – Lauri Kubuitsile
24th May 2019 But Deliver Us from Evil tells the story of two young women whose lives converge at a crucial juncture. The story opens in 1870, when Nthebolang’s... →
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World – Simon Sebag Montefiore
23rd May 2019 Written in History celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore... →
Christo Wiese: Risk and Riches – TJ Strydom
14th May 2019 Once the owner of a diamond mine, a wine farm and the most expensive house in Cape Town. Former chairman of South Africa’s largest retailer,... →
