Author Interviews
Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker – Kumi Naidoo
6th December 2022 Growing up in apartheid-era Chatsworth, Kumi Naidoo tells how his mother’s suicide when he was just 15 years old acted as a catalyst for his... →
Blood and Silver: A true story of survival and a son’s search for his family treasure – Jan Glazewski
25th November 2022 Before fleeing the family estate near Lviv, in what is now Ukraine, Jan Glazewski’s father buried what he could salvage of the family silver in the... →
Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma’s Keepers – Jacques Pauw 
24th November 2022 Our Poisoned Land, is the sequel to Jacques Pauw’s super-selling The President’s Keepers. A publishing phenomenon and South Africa’s... →
Worrier State: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa – Nicky Falkof
18th November 2022 Worrier State looks at the pervasive culture of fear in South Africa. It reveals how narratives of fear manifest in contemporary media forms and... →
Coded History: My life of new beginnings – Barry Dwolatzky
10th November 2022 After being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, Barry Dwolatzky left Britain and returned to South Africa in 1989 after living in self-imposed... →
Blazing a Trail: Lessons for African leadership – Lincoln Mali
2nd November 2022 After being jailed as a student activist during the 1980s, Lincoln Mali heeded his father’s advice: the most powerful weapon against the apartheid... →
Lost on the Map: A memoir of colonial illusions – Bryan Rostron
31st October 2022 For 250 years the author’s family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal reckoning... →
Mignonne Breier's 'Bloody Sunday' wins 2022 Sunday Times Literary Award for non-fiction
31st October 2022 Mignonne Breier has won the 2022 Sunday Times Literary Award for non-fiction for 'Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa's... →
André Odendaal - Dear Comrade President
28th October 2022 In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through... →
Farm Killings in South Africa – Nechama Brodie
21st October 2022 Very few farm murders appear to be committed for political reasons. But the response to them is often political. Making up less than half a percent... →
General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa – David Brock Katz
19th October 2022 Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa when the First World War ushered in a final scramble for... →
