Author Interviews
Milk The Beloved Country – Sihle Khumalo
28th March 2023 Buckle up for a tour of South Africa – your guide the inimitable Sihle Khumalo. Born in South Africa, and having lived here for almost fifty years,... →
Hani: A Life Too Short – Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp
24th March 2023 Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s greatest political questions: if he had survived, what impact would he have... →
A measure of our ills – and how we might fix them by Pippa Green
17th March 2023 In 2012, shortly before the end of the first term of former South African President Jacob Zuma's administration, with the economy sluggish and... →
Engineering Ethics in Southern Africa: Theories & Cases – Lorrainne Doherty
10th March 2023 The Engineering Ethics in Southern African textbook has been written specifically for engineers in this geographical region. Not only does it... →
My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah – Denis Hirson
9th March 2023 “There were three other people present, or five, depending on whom one chooses to include. Five, let’s say, the men divided from the women... →
The BEE Billionaires – Chris Bishop
3rd March 2023 South Africa is in the eye of a slow-building economic storm: junk status, political upheaval, civil unrest, spiralling unemployment, state capture... →
It’s our land you want – Robin Binckes 
28th February 2023 “It’s Our Land You Want”, is the sequel to the best seller Great Trek Uncut written by Robin Binckes and which is a South African best seller.... →
The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in the Age of Crisis – Richard Calland & Mabel Sithole
17th February 2023 Since 1994, South Africa has had five presidents who have varied greatly in style and character, despite all belonging to the same political party.... →
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... →
