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  • Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?

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  • Breaking a rainbow, building a nation: The politics behind #MustFall movements

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    Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation covers the university protests that took place in 2015-2016, better known as the #FeesMustFall protests. Rekg...

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  • A Native Life In South Africa

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  • A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

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    'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs TonightWINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Aw...

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  • Chasing the Scream: The inspiration for the feature film The United States vs Billie Holiday

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY 'Superb...

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  • Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights

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    **'Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, and profoundly moving, this book is a must-read for women and men alike' HI...

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  • Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

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    "It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha...

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  • Confronting apartheid: A personal history of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine

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    Most personal histories of apartheid in Southern Africa tell the story of the armed struggle. This book is about opposition to apartheid within the...

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  • Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis

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  • Crossing the line: When cops become criminals

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    Arguing that police corruption is an issue that directly affects the citizenry, this in-depth examination of police malfeasance and crime in South ...

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  • DANCING IN THE MOSQUE TPB

    QADERI, HOMEIRA
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    An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afg...

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  • DAY OF THE ASSASSINS TPB

    Michael Burleigh
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    The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has...

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  • Dealing in death: Ellen Pakkies and a community's struggle with tik

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  • Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action (paperback)

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    The world's most populous nation and soon-to-be largest economy is rapidly turning into the planet's most efficient assassin. Unscrupulous Chinese ...

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  • Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know

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    "Nina Schick is alerting us to a danger from the future that is already here." - Adam Boulton, Editor at Large, Sky News"Deep Fakes and the Infocal...

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  • Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising

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  • Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

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    From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars, this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan fr...

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    Dirty Tobacco: Spies, Lies and Mega-Profits (Paperback)

    Telita Snyckers
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    What is more profitable than cocaine, heroin, marijuana or guns? Illegally trafficked cigarettes . . . Reputable tobacco companies have – for decad...

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    Encountering Apartheid's Ghosts: From Krugersdorp To Constitution Hill (Paperback)

    Leon Wessels
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    This book is a chronicle of the political and moral evolution of an Afrikaner within the context of the political evolution of South Africa and how...

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  • For the Love of the Land: Being a Farmer in South Africa Today (Paperback)

    Ivor Price, Kobus Louwrens
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    For the Love of the Land introduces South Africans to the heroes of agriculture. A diverse crop of farmers from across the country share complex, l...

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  • From Beirut To Jerusalem

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    A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman's stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award. 'If you're only going to read...

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  • From the Freedom Charter to Polokwane: The Evolution of the ANC Ecomominc Policy

    Ben Turok
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    Future Tense: Reflections On My Troubled Land (Paperback)

    Tony Leon
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    Future Tense analyses the squandered and corrupted years since Leon’s first award-winning biography. Leon, with unique access and penetrating in...

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    Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web Of Capture (Paperback)

    Pieter-Louis Myburgh
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    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...

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  • Gangs, Rituals And Rites Of Passage

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  • Give Us More Guns (Paperback)

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    It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences devastating. Thousands of people died between 2011 –...

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  • Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

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    'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and ho...

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  • God, spies and lies: Finding South Africa's future through its past (Paperback)

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  • Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

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    'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any othe...

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  • HIDDEN HAND PB

    HAMILTON, CLIVE & OH
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    'Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times 'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian The Chinese Comm...

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  • House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

    Craig Unger
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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A bombshell.' Daily Mail'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator'The story Unger weaves with his original re...

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  • How To Be an Antiracist

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    **SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Could hardly be more relevant ... it feels like a light switch being flicked on' OWEN JONESNot being racist is not enou...

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  • How to Make a Difference: The Definitive Guide from the World's Most Effective Activists

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    "An exceptionally relevant book for this age of activism." Bob GeldofWith a foreword by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN (1997-2006)....

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  • How to steal a country: State capture and hopes for the future in South Africa

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    How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences...

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  • I Am Not Your Negro

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    The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarke...

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  • I'm Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin's War on Russia's Opposition

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    In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between de...

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  • Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Untold Top Secret Story

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    This is a true story of a force of licensed to kill" secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian ...

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  • In the Jaws of the Crocodile: Emmerson Mnangagwa's Rise to Power in Zimbabwe

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  • In the Heart of the Whore: The Story of Apartheid's Death Squads (Trade Paperback)

    Jacques Pauw
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    The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African governme...

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    Indentured: Behind the scenes at Gupta TV (Paperback)

    Rajesh Sundaram
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    “Why Zuma?” asked Atul Gupta. “We have close relations with everyone in the ANC. If Zuma is ever ousted, I can tell you for sure that the next one ...

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  • Invisible Women (Paperback)

    Caroline Criado Perez
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    *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of resea...

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  • ISIS: The State of Terror

    Jessica Stern
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    The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014. Drawing on their unusual...

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  • It's Our Turn to Eat (Trade Paperback)

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    A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Mi...

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  • Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist

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    It was a defining moment, the first time 'Jihadi John' appeared. Suddenly Islamic State had a face and the whole world knew the extent of their sav...

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  • Land Matters: South Africa's Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead

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  • Lawfare: Judging Politics In South Africa (Paperback)

    Michelle Le Roux, Dennis Davis
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    Throughout the past 50 years, the courts have been a battleground for contesting political forces as more and more conflicts that were once fought ...

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  • Licence to Loot: How the plunder of Eskom and other parastatals almost sank South Africa

    Wordsworth Books
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  • Lift As You Rise: Speeches And Thoughts On Leadership (Paperback)

    Bonang Mohale
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    Bonang Mohale is a highly respected South African businessman, who is known as much for his patriotism and his active role in seeking to advance hi...

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