South African Current Affairs
Thursday – 24th January 2019
South Africans versus Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II by David Brock Katz
Relying on deep research in South African and British archives, David Brock Katz recounts a side of the Desert War that has never received the attention it deserves in South Africans versus Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II.
Wednesday – 23rd January 2019
‘Tsafendas was a perfectly sane man who considered Verwoerd the brains behind apartheid’ – Harris Dousemetzis on his book The Man Who Killed Apartheid
Harris Dousemetzis was on CNBC Africa to discuss his book The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas.
Monday – 21st January 2019
Don’t miss the launch of Charles Abrahams’s new book Class Action: In Search of a Larger Life at The Book Lounge (13 Feb)
‘A beautifully told, heartfelt story about hunger, sex, identity and legal idealism and creativity. When it ended I wanted more.’ – Albie Sachs
Thursday – 17th January 2019
Class Action: In Search of a Larger Life – Charles Abrahams’s remarkable journey of resistance and healing
Class Action depicts a remarkable journey of resistance and healing in reaction to institutionalised greed and racism and the harm it has done to our identities, our relationships and the people of our country.
Monday – 7th January 2019
‘The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is very similar to that of apartheid South Africa’ – John Dugard discusses his book Confronting Apartheid
John Dugard discusses his book Confronting Apartheid: A Personal History of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine with Polity SA.
Friday – 21st December 2018
Read ‘Christmas 1965’, an excerpt from Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid by Sylvia Neame.
Tuesday – 18th December 2018
South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world – Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis
Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis, edited by Michael Nassen Smith, is out now from Jacana Media.
Monday – 10th December 2018
Madam and Eve: The Guptas Ate My Homework is now available at leading bookstores!
Madam & Eve: The Guptas Ate My Homework is out now from Jacana Media.
Friday – 23rd November 2018
Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of Southern African Muckraking, edited by Anton Harber (26 Nov)
Jacana Media and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Southern African Muckraking: 150 Years Of Investigative Journalism Which Has Shaped The Region, edited by Anton Harber.
Does Winnie Mandela have ‘blood on her hands’? ‘Yes and no.’ – Sisonke Msimang discusses her new book, The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela
‘To ask that question of Winnie Mandela as though she were the only person engaged in the Struggle is to somehow exceptionalise her in ways that seem misogynistic, and that are self-serving and revisionist in their essence.’
Thursday – 22nd November 2018
‘Probably one of the most important books published this year’ – Eusebius McKaiser on The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas
Eusebius McKaiser chatted to Richard Pithouse about The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas calling it ‘probably one of the most important books published this year in our country’.
‘I stopped hating on the Rainbow Nation narrative’ – Rekgotsofetse Chikane explains why it’s the perfect metaphor for South Africa
Rekgotsofetse Chikane chatted to David O’Sullivan on Kaya FM about his new book Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation.
This book does not condemn Winnie Mandela, nor does it seek to exonerate her: Sisonke Msimang on why she wrote The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela
Sisonke Msimang has shared a video in which she talks about why she decided to write her new book, The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela.
Monday – 19th November 2018
Scent of Fear by Tony Park – a novel from the front lines of the war on poaching
Tony Park’s new novel Scent of Fear releases in South Africa in December and draws on the real life war on poaching for inspiration.
Thursday – 15th November 2018
Join The Cheeky Natives for a discussion of Sisonke Msimang’s new book The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela at Bridge Books
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Bridge Books invite you to the launch of The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke Msimang.
Celebrating the rich and untold history of investigative journalism – Southern African Muckraking, edited by Anton Harber
Southern African Muckraking: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism which has Shaped the Region celebrates the rich and untold history of investigative journalism in southern Africa and the crucial role it has played in holding power to account over the last 150 years.
Wednesday – 7th November 2018
The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke Msimang – a razor-sharp examination of the legacy of one of our most controversial figures
Sisonke Msimang’s new book The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela is out in November from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Get your copy of Zapiro’s new book Let the Sunshine In signed in Joburg and Midrand!
When all around is crumbling, when fake news and zipped lips conceal the truth, Zapiro comes to the rescue. With the dissecting eye of a surgeon, the rapier-like point of his pen exposes flimflam and reveals with a single line what lies behind the action.
Monday – 5th November 2018
The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas by Harris Dousemetzis – a complete about turn on one of the apartheid government’s greatest cover-ups
The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas by Harris Dousemetzis is out now from Jacana Media.
Friday – 2nd November 2018
It’s been one helluva year – again – who better to make sense of it than Zapiro? Presenting Let the Sunshine In!
Jacana Media presents Zapiro’s 2018 annual: Let the Sunshine In!