Author Interviews
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... →
Mignonne Breier's 'Bloody Sunday' wins 2022 Sunday Times Literary Award for non-fiction
31st October 2022 Mignonne Breier has won the 2022 Sunday Times Literary Award for non-fiction for 'Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa's... →
André Odendaal - Dear Comrade President
28th October 2022 In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through... →
Farm Killings in South Africa – Nechama Brodie
21st October 2022 Very few farm murders appear to be committed for political reasons. But the response to them is often political. Making up less than half a percent... →
General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa – David Brock Katz
19th October 2022 Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa when the First World War ushered in a final scramble for... →
Whites and Democracy in South Africa – Roger Southall
By: Creamer Media Reporter 10th October 2022 What is the place and role of whites in South African political life today? Are whites genuinely willing participants in a ‘non-racial democracy’,... →
Wheel Yourself to Your Destiny – Thabo Ndlela
4th October 2022 If I Had to Meet the Gentlemen Who Shot Me If I had to meet the gentlemen who were the cause of me sitting in this wheelchair permanently, I would... →
