Author Interviews
We Can Fix Ourselves: Building a better South Africa through Black Consciousness – Mosibudi Mangena
27th January 2022 South Africa is not a poor country … It boasts one of the most sophisticated economies on the African continent. And yet we find ourselves in... →
Children of Sugarcane – Joanne Joseph
10th December 2021 Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and... →
History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present – Thula Simpson
9th December 2021 ‘Narrative history at its best. With prodigious detail and eloquent prose Simpson places Black South Africans at the centre of the country’s... →
Becoming a Doctor: Learnings and unlearnings about life and the politics of medicine – Hloni Bookholane
8th December 2021 Join Hloni Bookholane on his journey of becoming a doctor: from student to intern at the world-famous Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to the... →
In Black and White – Anant Singh
6th December 2021 Anant Singh’s journey with film began with Charlie Chaplin, flickering in black and white on a makeshift screen in the family’s modest home in... →
Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma unrest that set South Africa alight – Jeff Wicks
1st December 2021 In July 2021, with the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, dramatic and violent scenes of unrest and looting unfolded in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. More... →
Zwelethu: Our Land – Jaki Seroke
23rd November 2021 In the 1970s, Jaki Seroke criss-crossed South Africa as an underground courier between Pan Africanist Congress exiles and those on the home front.... →
Out of Quatro: From exile to exoneration – Luthando Dyasop
19th November 2021 The memoir starts with a vivid account of a young life as a black artist in apartheid South Africa. From the Wild Coast, at times idyllic despite... →
A Taste for Life: How the Spur legend was born – Allen Ambor
16th November 2021 ‘A steakhouse is a theatre of the senses, and the opening act is the fire in the heat of the grill section, warming us, mesmerising us, drawing us... →
Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years – Johnny Clegg
11th November 2021 ‘There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the everyday world as we know it. Suspended for a few... →
Surviving the Beast: The Ugly Truths About State Capture and Why They Tried to Kill Me – Angelo Agrizzi
9th November 2021 On the morning of the 14th of October 2002, one of South Africa's foremost whistleblowers, Angelo Agrizzi, leaves home at six o'clock to attend a... →
