Author Interviews
Faith in our Struggle: A Memoir of Hope – Peter Sadie
19th January 2023 This is the story of a little boy growing up in in a big Lebanese family in Mayfair, in Johannesburg, 60 years ago. It tells of his relationship... →
Whitey: The Rise and Rule of the Shoprite King – Niel Joubert
15th December 2022 James Wellwood Basson, known as ‘Whitey’, is a South African business legend. In 1979, he bought eight small shops in and around Cape Town. Over... →
Patrice Motsepe: An appetite for disruption – Janet Smith
8th December 2022 Known as much for his philanthropy as for his commercial nous, entrepreneurship, and for being a soccer boss and family man, Patrice Motsepe is a... →
Cleaner's Boy: A resistance road to a liberated life – Patric Tariq Mellet
By: Creamer Media Reporter 7th December 2022 Questions of identity were unavoidable in Patric Tariq Mellet’s life. As a small child he watched as his immediate family were mistreated,... →
Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker – Kumi Naidoo
6th December 2022 Growing up in apartheid-era Chatsworth, Kumi Naidoo tells how his mother’s suicide when he was just 15 years old acted as a catalyst for his... →
Blood and Silver: A true story of survival and a son’s search for his family treasure – Jan Glazewski
25th November 2022 Before fleeing the family estate near Lviv, in what is now Ukraine, Jan Glazewski’s father buried what he could salvage of the family silver in the... →
Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma’s Keepers – Jacques Pauw 
24th November 2022 Our Poisoned Land, is the sequel to Jacques Pauw’s super-selling The President’s Keepers. A publishing phenomenon and South Africa’s... →
Worrier State: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa – Nicky Falkof
18th November 2022 Worrier State looks at the pervasive culture of fear in South Africa. It reveals how narratives of fear manifest in contemporary media forms and... →
Coded History: My life of new beginnings – Barry Dwolatzky
10th November 2022 After being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, Barry Dwolatzky left Britain and returned to South Africa in 1989 after living in self-imposed... →
Blazing a Trail: Lessons for African leadership – Lincoln Mali
2nd November 2022 After being jailed as a student activist during the 1980s, Lincoln Mali heeded his father’s advice: the most powerful weapon against the apartheid... →
Lost on the Map: A memoir of colonial illusions – Bryan Rostron
31st October 2022 For 250 years the author’s family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal reckoning... →
