Author Interviews
Bush Brothers: Life and Death Across the Border – Steve De Witt
5th December 2023 Bush Brothers is not about special forces or heroic, secret missions. Instead, it is an intimate look at the daily life of ordinary soldiers – and... →
The Thabo Bester Story: The Facebook Rapist, the Celebrity Doctor and the Escape from Cell 35 – Marecia Damons & Daniel Steyn
24th November 2023 It is the quintessential crime story: murder, rape, cons, an improbable love affair, a prison break, a burnt body, a coffin filled with meat, a... →
Domestic Terror: Intimate partner violence in South Africa – Nechama Brodie
16th November 2023 Every day more than three women in South Africa, on average, are murdered by their male intimate partners. This book looks at the stories of South... →
Place: South African Literary Journeys – Justin Fox
15th November 2023 “Let us, then, set off together on a series of journeys around South Africa with an old kitbag full of books instead of maps to guide us. Let us... →
Soul Mandate: The extraordinary life of a property maverick – Lew Geffen
9th November 2023 Born in the same year as Prince Charles and the state of Israel, Lew Geffen was always destined to have an eventful and controversial life. Driven... →
Good Jew, Bad Jew: Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Assault on Meaning – Steven Friedman
8th November 2023 'Good Jew, Bad Jew' is a critique by one of South Africa’s foremost political theorists of mainstream understandings of Jewishness. Steven Friedman... →
These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The contested future of land, home and death in South Africa – Mbuso Nkosi
6th November 2023 These Potatoes Look Like Humans critiques the narrow materialist and legalistic arguments about the land question to recognise that, for most Black... →
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture – Tessa Dooms & Lynsey Ebony Chutel
3rd November 2023 Coloured as an ethnicity and racial demographic is intertwined in the creation of the South Africa we have today. Yet often, Coloured communities... →
Capture in the Court: In Defence of Judges and the Constitution – Dan Mafora
31st October 2023 Since populist factions claim to be the people, judges confronting them do not just decide against the people; they are against the people. The... →
Rich State, Poor State: Why Some Countries Succeed and Others Fail – Greg Mills
24th October 2023 Why do some states thrive, grow their economies and uplift their people while others, facing similar challenges, slide into low growth, social... →
Statues and Storms: Leading through change – Max Price
20th October 2023 Statues and Storms offers a gripping insider’s account of Max Price’s tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town during a... →
