Author Interviews
I am Liza Smit – Liza Smit and Raquel Lewis
18th June 2018 On 22 November 1977, 40 years ago, Robert Smit and his wife Jeanne were brutally murdered in their Springs home. They were shot and stabbed several... →
Born in Chains: The Diary of an Angry Born Free – Clinton Chauke 
14th June 2018 What is it like to be born dirt-poor in South Africa? Clinton Chauke knows, having been raised alongside his two sisters in a remote village... →
Becoming Iman – Iman Rappetti
13th June 2018 Iman Rappetti is an award-winning journalist who has been involved in print, radio and television. She worked as a young journalist in South Africa... →
My Father Died For This – Lukhanyo & Abigail Calata
12th June 2018 When the Cradock Four’s Fort Calata was murdered by agents of the apartheid state in 1985, his son Lukhanyo was only three years old. Thirty-one... →
Coalition Country – Leon Schreiber
11th June 2018 We are on the cusp of a momentous change. The African National Congress (ANC) has governed South Africa for more than two decades but its iron grip... →
Steal a Few Cents – Rupert Smith
8th June 2018 Mpho Mamela, a young accountant at a coal mine in the Middelburg coalfields of South Africa is killed one night when he gets caught in the rollers... →
Yes, Really! – Kate Turkington
8th June 2018 There are a lot of good things about getting older. When you’re young you want everyone to like you and to make an impression. →
The Perennial Truth: Awakening of the Soul – TLB Kruger
5th June 2018 The Perennial Truth: Awakening of the Soul is part memoir, part knowledge and metaphysical in nature. The book follows TLB’s quest for spiritual... →
I Remember Nelson Mandela – Sahm Venter & Vimla Naidoo
1st June 2018 I Remember Nelson Mandela is the dream-child of Mrs Graça Machel who, some months after Nelson Mandela's passing on 5 December 2013, met with... →
How I Survived Bullying – Lelo Mofokeng
29th May 2018 Eight year old Lelo Mofokeng's book How I Survived Bullying is a tell all about his ordeal of being bullied while in Grade 0 in 2016. The young... →
The Café de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa – Christopher Hope
17th May 2018 In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored what it looked and felt like to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. Now... →
