Author Interviews
Land of My Ancestors – Botlhale Tema
5th June 2019 When working on the UNESCO Slave Route project in the early 2000s, Botlhale Tema discovered the extraordinary fact that her highly educated family... →
The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela – Sisonke Msimang
3rd June 2019 The death of Winnie Madikizela Mandela on 2 April this year unleashed a hailstorm of opinion. On one side, her legacy was cast by the media and... →
Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home – Sisonke Msimang
30th May 2019 In her much anticipated memoir, Sisonke Msimang writes about her exile childhood in Zambia and Kenya, young adulthood and college years in North... →
Poverty and Inequality – Diagnosis, Prognosis and Response
27th May 2019 State of the Nation 2018 covers a diversity of perspectives that highlight the interrelationship and intersectionality between structural,... →
But Deliver Us From Evil – Lauri Kubuitsile
24th May 2019 But Deliver Us from Evil tells the story of two young women whose lives converge at a crucial juncture. The story opens in 1870, when Nthebolang’s... →
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World – Simon Sebag Montefiore
23rd May 2019 Written in History celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore... →
Christo Wiese: Risk and Riches – TJ Strydom
14th May 2019 Once the owner of a diamond mine, a wine farm and the most expensive house in Cape Town. Former chairman of South Africa’s largest retailer,... →
Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture – Pieter-Louis Myburgh
26th April 2019 In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk losing everything if corruption and State capture... →
Vuvuzela Dawn – Luke Alfred & Ian Hawkey ![](https://cisp.cachefly.net/template/po2017/images/comment_icon.png)
18th April 2019 In 2019, SA celebrates 25 years of democracy and the freedom that turned the country from a political pariah to one warmly embraced by the world.... →
Lacuna – Fiona Snyckers
18th April 2019 Lucy Lurie is deeply sunk in PTSD following a gang rape at her father's farmhouse in the Western Cape. She becomes obsessed with the author John... →
Traditional Leaders in a Democracy – Resources, Respect and Resistance
18th April 2019 What should African pasts mean in postcolonial presents, as new modes of existence are being worked out? How are the boundaries of contemporary... →