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Tuesday – 11th April 2017
Check out Penguin Random House SA’s book club selection for April
Penguin Random House Book Club If you love to read and belong to a book club then this is where you can …
Thursday – 6th April 2017
Don’t miss the blog tour celebrating Gail Schimmel’s gripping novel The Park
Come along on our blog tour for The Park! Let these brilliant bloggers guide you through the book’s themes. We hope you’ll …
A searing critique of what’s gone wrong in South Africa: Dreams, Betrayal and Hope by Mamphela Ramphele
The impact of Black Consciousness on the struggle for liberation needs to be harnessed to help us find our voice again. – Mamphela Ramphele …
Shakespeare in South African schools: to die, to sleep – or perchance to dream?
William Shakespeare is a sometimes controversial figure in South Africa’s school system. Chris Thurman, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa’s education authorities …
Imbolo Mbue wins 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for debut novel Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue has won the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her debut novel Behold the Dreamers. The $15,000 award honours the best …
Rachel Dolezal is coming to South Africa
Rachel Dolezal, who is currently on a book tour, is coming to South Africa for a dialogue on race. Dolezal, who was …
Tuesday – 4th April 2017
You needed money to study at ‘Robben Island University’ – Ahmed Kathrada recalls prison life in Conversations with a Gentle Soul
During his 26 years in prison, Ahmed Kathrada earned four university degrees: a BA (in History and Criminology); a B Bibliography (in …
Ahmed Kathrada’s open letter to President Jacob Zuma
“You don’t lose hope in the country because of a president, or the style of a presidency.” – Ahmed Kathrada In …
Monday – 3rd April 2017
Check out Penguin Random House SA’s book club selection
Penguin Random House Book Club If you love to read and belong to a book club then this is where you can …
Meet the Black Mambas – South Africa’s all-female anti-poaching unit
In 2013, six young women recruits signed up to become Black Mambas: a pilot anti-poaching project on the Olifants West region of …
Thursday – 30th March 2017
Pan Macmillan to publish Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa’s Dare Not Linger in 2017
I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. …
Read an excerpt from Fred Khumalo’s new book Dancing the Death Drill
‘Be quiet and be calm, my countrymen, for what is taking place is exactly what you came to do … Brothers, we …
Tuesday – 14th March 2017
The many lives of the Nelson Mandela comic
Jeremy Boraine, Publishing Director at Jonathan Ball, on the many lives of the Nelson Mandela Comic: We first published Nelson Mandela: The …