Author Interviews
Hunting The Seven: How the Gugulethu Seven assassins were exposed – Beverley Roos-Muller
26th June 2024 Never have seven people been so hunted. By assassins. By journalists, lawyers and activists in search of the truth and TRC investigators wanting... →
Sizzlers: The hate crime that tore Sea Point apart – Nicole Engelbrecht
10th June 2024 On 20 January 2003, 10 gay men were brutally attacked at Sizzlers, a massage parlour in Sea Point. In a massacre of savage violence, nine of the... →
Gaslight - Femi Kayode
30th May 2024 Revered and idolised Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, pastor of a Nigerian megachurch, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Folasade,... →
Anton Rupert: The Life of a Business Icon – Ebbe Dommisse (Updated)
13th May 2024 Anton Rupert is a legend of the 20th century. Here we have Rupert's story, as complete, I suspect, as we will ever have it. Not only the story of... →
I Am The Vision – Mpho Dagada
10th May 2024 I Am the Vision serves as a manifesto for Mpho Dagada’s political party, Arise South Africa. Arise South Africa strives for a South Africa where... →
Saving South Africa: Lessons from the uMngeni Municipality Success Story – Chris Pappas & Sandile Mnikathi
9th May 2024 The Democratic Alliance won control of the uMngeni Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands after the local government elections in 2021. As the... →
Black X: Liberatory thought in Azania – Tendayi Sithole
7th May 2024 Sithole problematises the signifier X, as a marker of the dehumanization of the black subject. He argues that post-1994 South Africa retains the... →
How To Fix (Unf*ck) A Country – Roy Havemann
3rd May 2024 After state capture, South Africa is not in a good place. The system is down. How do we reboot? We are not the first country to find itself in a... →
Bullsh!t: 50 Fibs That Made South Africa – Jonathan Ancer
24th April 2024 An outrageous miscellany of lies, myths, untruths, fibs and fabrications that tell the woeful history of South Africa. Aimed at offending and... →
Why We Kill: Mob Justice and the New Vigilantism in South Africa – Karl Kemp
23rd April 2024 Why do so many South Africans prefer taking the law into their own hands to relying on the police? Why are those who do so often cheered or... →
Is the Party Over? – Oscar van Heerden
12th April 2024 “By the early evening, the irresolute and weakened Ramaphosa slate left no one unscathed – not Mabuyane, not Lamola, not the Mkhize camp … the... →
