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        <description><![CDATA[Original in-depth author interviews are hosted on the website. Polity speaks with local and international writers on their latest releases. Books genres range from politics and the economy to human rights and current events as well as autobiographies and biographies.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A raw, darkly humorous memoir that follows one conscript’s chaotic journey through South Africa’s military machine during the border war. Drafted into the Defence Force in 1977 as a carefree seventeen-year-old, Jon Goetzsche’s tranquil schooldays were abruptly replaced by the brutal regimentation of army life. What began as naive indifference soon spiralled into a struggle against authority, misfortune and the absurdities of war. After surviving the gruelling training to become a parabat, Jon ...]]></description>
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            <title>Apartheid's Granddaughter</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lidia Rauch was born at the crossroads of South Africa’s past and present – the granddaughter of one of apartheid’s longest-serving ministers, Fanie Botha, raised in a world built for her comfort, yet called to reckon with its cost. Her story moves between privilege and pain: from a childhood marked by fracture to a career inside the machinery of government, to the long, uneasy road of reckoning with what it means to be white, Afrikaans, and free in a country still carrying the weight of its past. In this fearless and tender memoir, Rauch turns toward the truth – dismantling the myths she was raised with, meeting the discomfort she once avoided, and choosing responsibility over denial. Along the way, she encounters the people and moments that changed her – from the townships of Cape Town to the rooms where power is brokered – and discovers that freedom is not a gift of the system, but a commitment we make to one another.]]></description>
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            <title>The House at 6001: A Memoir of Uprising and Exile</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On 16 June 1976, thousands of Black South African school children took to the streets of Soweto in protest against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction under apartheid education. Met with brutal police force, many never returned home. This pivotal day, now remembered as the start of the Soweto Uprising, also reverberated through the walls of 6001, Lebo Diseko’s family home in Orlando East. In The House at 6001, Diseko traces the intertwined lives of her parents and her aunts and uncles who gathered, organised and resisted within their four-room Soweto house. From banning orders and exile to late-night parties filled with music and defiance, their story captures both the intimacy and the enormity of South Africa’s struggle.]]></description>
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            <title>Loud Explosions, Silenced Cries: Reflections on the War in Gaza </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This compelling anthology is a diverse collection of essays and poetry emerging from South Africa in response to the painful realities and deep suffering caused by the ongoing war in Gaza. It brings together the voices of students, writers, activists and scholars who confront the harsh truths of a genocide. Through different personal stories, historical insights and reﬂections on religion, the contributors examine the intersection of humanity, identity and faith, amid violence, destruction and despair. As South Africans who are deeply familiar with the struggle against apartheid, the writers draw parallels between their past and the current plight of the Palestinian people. Each piece stands as a reminder of the enduring spirit of resistance and the importance of global solidarity. Loud Explosions, Silenced Cries invites readers to engage with the moral questions of conﬂict; it challenges their perspectives and aims to cultivate empathy in a world torn apart by this tragedy.]]></description>
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            <title>Facing the Heat in South Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Southern Africa is heating at twice the global average. With the failure of the UN multi-lateral process to rapidly phase out fossil fuels, the world has lost the opportunity to prevent a 1.5°C overshoot. South Africa and the region have to brace for 3°C of heating. The country is completely unprepared for this post-normal reality. Through ten years of photographic documentation, this exhibition and book brings into focus unfolding climate shocks, injustice and resistance post a 1°C overshoot at the global level. It furnishes powerful insights into the structural drivers and complexity of climate extremes, while foregrounding how the meaning of weather has changed. The deployed photographic optic brings clarity to the notion of climate risk in everyday life. Moreover, this work, as a photographic archive, also provides forensic evidence for how an uncaring and criminalised political leadership, addicted to fossil fuels, is force marching the country into climate disaster.]]></description>
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            <title>From Predator To Prey: Leadership Lessons from the African Wild and Beyond</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For Letlhokwa George Mpedi, a journey through South Africa’s Kruger National Park transformed from merely a game drive to a masterclass in leadership. Observing the intricate dynamics of animal behaviour, Letlhokwa began to trace compelling parallels between the natural order and human systems of power. Through this lens, this book explores how nature’s codes can inform leadership dynamics. Drawing from a distinctly African approach to leadership, which emphasises community and interdependence, From Predator to Prey explores the unwritten rule of law that governs the wild and its applications for humanity. From the silent cooperation of lionesses on a hunt to the matriarchal approach of elephants, and even the territorial instincts of wild dogs, this book offers a vivid and thought-provoking perspective on how nature’s instincts can inform our understanding of leadership dynamics.]]></description>
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            <title>Escaping The Sun: My Life Beyond Sol Kerzner – Peter Venison</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of Venison’s award-winning bestseller SOL: My Friend & Adversary, ESCAPING THE SUN is the blazing, untold story of a man who lived in the orbit of a giant, and finally broke free.   For decades, Peter Venison stood in the shadow of Sol Kerzner, the hotel-world titan whose vision reshaped skylines and redefined luxury. Together they conjured empires: Sun City, The Lost City, Atlantis, The Royal Mirage. But this is more than a backstage pass to the world’s most audacious resorts. It is a story of survival - of ambition and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, and the strange gravity of genius.  ]]></description>
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            <title>Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The left has been unable to inspire a practical challenge to the planetary crisis of capitalism that has upended nature and society. This book maps a new transformative politics arising from worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and have the potential to undermine the capitalist status quo. Capitalism’s crisis is planetary. It is a system upending nature and society, causing many to live and work in despair. So far, the left has been incapable of offering a practical challenge to it. In Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy, Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams map a new transformative politics arising from inspiring worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and that have the potential to undermine the capitalist status quo.]]></description>
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            <title>Under Smuts’s Rule: Jan Smuts and His Impact on Black South Africans – Bongani Ngqulunga</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jan Smuts is revered by some as a national and international statesman, but he is condemned by others as an architect of segregation. In his new book, prize-winning author Bongani Ngqulunga examines Smuts’s political life in terms of how it affected black people.]]></description>
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            <title>The Story of 702 – David Williams, Chris Gibbons, David Saks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Much has been said and written about Radio 702, but until now the full story of how it was founded, the impact it made and the enduring legacy it has left has not been told. In Touch In Tune and Independent: The Story of 702 provides just such a history. Largely based on the reminiscences of those who were part of the saga during the station's formative decades, it will be welcomed and appreciated by the stations many thousands of devoted fans, past and present. “No newspaper or broadcasting ...]]></description>
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            <title>KasiNomics Unleashed: The Evolution of the Informal Economy and the Inspiring Entrepreneurs and ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Meet the inspiring kasipreneurs of the informal economy, from bakers to backroom rental barons, coffee innovators to goat breeders, kasi delivery people to spaza innovators, mattress makers, backroom builders, vetkoek fryers and chicken dust queens, kota franchises and backyard auto mechanics. These kasipreneurs not only sustain their communities but also drive considerable economic growth and social improvement. Each one has a unique story, yet they share a common thread of perseverance, innovative spirit, resilience and ingenuity. While formal statistics paint a bleak picture of widespread unemployment, this book tells a different story – one of ingenuity, resilience and drive. These are the men and women who are creating their own opportunities, building livelihoods, and contributing to the economy in ways that often go unrecognised. Their stories challenge the narrative and shine a light on a vibrant, entrepreneurial spirit thriving in the heart of the informal economy.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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