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, direct...

Lincoln Mali spent his youth as a student activist fighting the apartheid system. After spending many nights in jail and detention, he reached a tu...

“I believe everyone has a place in this world and I claimed mine – unapologetically.” Jeff van Rooyen was born into poverty in Alexandra townshi...

In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, fifty years of protest poetry are brought together in a single volume by literary ...

Reflecting Rogue is the much anticipated and brilliant collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African cult...

What does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society ...

Harry Oppenheimer, the international gold-and-diamond magnate, presided over the corporate dynasty of Anglo American and De Beers for more than 25 ...

Africa Is Not A Country is a kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa, that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive sto...

In Dobsonville, a few hours before the party of the year, a guy shares a joint with his friend Ari. Ari is always right. Ari is also imaginary. And...

ELON MUSK: Risking it all offers exclusive new insights and first-hand interviews into the childhood that shaped Musk. From humble beginnings as an...

Once an enemy of the apartheid police, Andrew Brown has worked as a police reservist for almost twenty years. In this book he takes the reader on p...

More riveting cases from the files of former police psychologist and bestselling author Gérard Labuschagne … In this second instalment of The Pr...

‘I wanted to write this book before I forgot the finer details. As strange as that may sound, you can forget these things, and it is probably healt...

‘On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen ...

"This book is not an analysis of South Africa’s problems. It is an outline of what we must change to have the South Africa of our dreams. In these ...

This is the true tale of Alice Kirk and Nicko, the baby vervet monkey that was found abandoned on her home farm in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. A...

A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping...

Fully early pandemic “locked down” in an old age home, 70-year-old boomer, Maggie, ditches her bra, browses an old diary and reconnects with her ar...

Winner of the Sunday Times prize for literature in the fiction category on 1 November 2023. A reluctant friendship develops between two people in ...

South Africa is in the eye of a slow-building economic storm: junk status, political upheaval, civil unrest, spiralling unemployment, state capture...

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

Anele Dlamini’s life has been turned upside down.In this Coming-of-Age novel set over the course of one summer in KwaZulu Natal, Anele discovers th...

In a moment of weakness, lawyer Ian Brand sends out a tweet; it changes his life irrevocably. Thuli Khumalo, Fallist leader on a campus that stinks...

Herman Lategan word wyd gerespekteer as joernalis, en is beide berug én beroemd vir sy uitgesprokenheid en kwinkslae oor alles onder die son. In Ho...

Ella Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in South Africa is a lesson in resilience, attitude and joy. From the dy...

One of the most celebrated political leaders of our time, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one cruc...

Willing myself not to look away, I tried to make out her features and realised, with a jolt, that she looked exactly like me. Like me, but differen...

Stellenbosch is world renowned for its wine, gorgeous scenery, and beautiful people. It’s the home of students working towards their future, succes...

A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to der...

In this much anticipated second collection, Thicker than Sorrow, Khadija Heeger focuses on appreciating and honouring her roots and unearthing her ...

A fusion of conversations, observations, and personal reflections on his own experiences, work with men, and scholarship, Why Men Hurt Women and Ot...

Today I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone or cook up or undo some great horrors of my own bec...

“I’m a very level-headed person,” Melanie Verwoerd told the gynaecological oncologist. “However, I feel like my dogs during a thunderstorm. I’m des...

Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global poli...

"In a world where women are relegated to needlepoint and parlor chairs, Aleen sets her sights on barns and veterinary surgery. Her journey to becom...

Witnessing is a harrowing, yet inspiring account of a young Rwandan boy, Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase, who witnessed genocide, had to flee his home...

South Africa has been called the 'rape capital'. Is this label accurate? What do South Africans think they know about rape? South Africa has a comp...

From South Africa to Iceland, rural Belgium and the Alps, the stories in Mad Honey radiate out to encompass the globe. In Johannesburg a couple ...

From the bestselling author of The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World comes On that Wave of Gulls. An audacious novel, the tale is told by thr...

Whitey Basson, remarkable business leader, is often hailed as a ‘genius’ by his peers. Basson became a legend when, in the most famous takeover dea...

It's Not How It Looks is the 27th annual collection from South Africa’s legendary cartoonist Zapiro. And it’s set to be yet another best seller as ...