Author Interviews
The Longest March – Fred Khumalo
8th October 2019 A hundred and twenty years ago, seven thousand Zulu mineworkers walked from the gold mines in Johannesburg to Natal, covering a distance of five... →
Huis van gruwels: My 16 jaar in die Springs-hel – Susan Cilliers
7th October 2019 “I kneel on the foot piece next to the bed and lower my head. A piercing, burning pain engulfs my entire face. Dad has kicked me. Blood is gushing... →
Death, Detention and Disappearance – David Smuts
4th October 2019 In Namibia, the 1980s were a dark decade of human rights abuses by South African security forces. Justice David Smuts, then a young Windhoek... →
Shots from the Edge – Greg Marinovich
1st October 2019 Award-winning photojournalist Greg Marinovich has covered war and conflict throughout Africa and the world. In Shots from the Edge he recounts his... →
Yellow and Confused – Ming-Cheau Lin
30th September 2019 ‘Strangers pulling their eyes slant at me when they walked by. They’d pretend to be Chinese and make fake nasal-pitched noises that they thought... →
Parcel Of Death: The Biography Of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro – Gaongalelwe Tiro 
20th September 2019 Parcel of Death recounts the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid regime pursued... →
Angolsh: Scenes from an army camp – Greg Latter
18th September 2019 In early 1976 while working underground as a blaster on ERPM gold mine in Boksburg, Greg Latter was called up for a three-month army camp in... →
Betting on a Darkie: Lifting the Corporate Game – Mteto Nyati
16th September 2019 'If you want to take the system down, provide a better alternative at least. At heart I’m an engineer. I want to encourage people to fix things,... →
Coconut Kelz's Guide to Surviving this Shithole – Lesego Tlhabi
13th September 2019 When she was last spotted on the crossroads of Swart and Gevaar Roads, Coconut Kelz was drinking Woolies water and spreading her ‘truth bombs’... →
Get Me to 21: The Jenna Lowe Story – Gabi Lowe
11th September 2019 Get Me to 21: The Jenna Lowe Story is the riveting memoir by Gabi Lowe, the mother of Lead SA activist Jenna Lowe, the brilliant teenager who was... →
I Choose to Live: Life After Losing Gugu – Letshego Zulu
27th August 2019 When Letshego Zulu set off with her husband, South African racing champion Gugulethu Zulu, to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro in July 2016, she had no... →
