Author Interviews
Confronting Apartheid – John Dugard
1st November 2018 South Africa achieved notoriety for its apartheid policies and practices both in the country and in Namibia. Today Israel stands accused of... →
Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation – Rekgotsofetse Chikane
31st October 2018 Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely... →
And Then Mama Said... – Tumi Morake
30th October 2018 Tumi Morake modelled her public persona on her mother, a charming and contentious woman who used her big, bold voice to say what others were afraid... →
The Echo of a Noise: Then and Now – Pieter-Dirk Uys
25th October 2018 'This is Pieter-Dirk Uys unpowdered. No props, no false eyelashes, no high heels …' South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7 000... →
Gotcha: A polygraphist lifts the lid on crime in South Africa – Silke Kaiser
16th October 2018 What makes a criminal ...... a criminal? This book is a true account of crime in South Africa by a woman polygraphist. She reveals how and why farm... →
The Lost Boys of Bird Island – Mark Minnie & Chris Steyn
21st September 2018 It is the late 1980s. Serious allegations surface against three prominent National Party cabinet ministers, one of them the second‐most powerful... →
Beaten But Not Broken – Vanessa Govender
20th September 2018 At the height of her journalism career, more than one million households across the country knew her name and her face. Her reportage on human... →
Talion – Beyers de Vos
19th September 2018 Pretoria: Five people with distinct lives, living in different sections of the city, but all tied together in ways they have yet to understand. Ben... →
The Enumerations – Máire Fisher
18th September 2018 Set in the Cape, The Enumerations tells the story of Noah Groome, a seventeen year-old boy who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and his... →
Curse of Gold – Loredana Kaminski
18th September 2018 It is the year 1900. Somewhere in the countryside of the old eastern Transvaal, the burial of gold bullion has been hastily arranged, before the... →
Lessons from a Rainbow Unicorn: A real life story of a father's loss – Fred Platt
14th September 2018 Samuel John Frederick Platt was born two months prematurely and rushed into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It soon became apparent that the... →