South African Current Affairs
Wednesday – 31st October 2018
Bank Robber: My Time with Andre Stander by Allan Heyl – the last surviving member of the Stander Gang
The last surviving member of the so-called Stander Gang tells the true story behind South Africa’s most notorious bank robbers.
Bank Robber – My Time with André Stander by Allan Heyl is now available: http://bit.ly/2y21qAY
‘If we don’t write about Fees Must Fall ourselves, someone else will’ – Rekgotsofetse Chikane chats about Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation
‘There was a professor at UCT who […] wrote the first Feel Must Fall book. It was a horrible depiction of the movement, completely misled, had no insight on what was happening inside the movement.’
2018 City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award finalists announced
The five finalists for the prestigious City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award have been revealed! The biennial prize is awarded to a new …
Tuesday – 30th October 2018
Redi Tlhabi joins chorus of furious voices over quotes on the cover of new Winnie Madikizela-Mandela book, Truth, Lies and Alibis
‘I AM APPALLED! HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU TAFELBERG!!!’ – Journalist and author Redi Tlhabi has hit out at Tafelberg Publishers for ‘underhand, dishonest’ conduct, after the publisher printed a quotation from her on the cover of Fred Bridgland’s new book on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Truth, Lies and Alibis.
Monday – 29th October 2018
Join John Dugard and Rehana Rossouw for a book discussion of Confronting Apartheid at The Troyeville Hotel
Jacana Media and The Troyeville Hotel invite you to the discussion of John Dugard’s Confronting Apartheid: A Personal History of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine.
‘There is a stigma when you are dark skinned in this country’ – Clinton Chauke discusses his book Born in Chains: The Diary of an Angry ‘Born-Free’
‘With skin colour and complexion and skin tone, they judge your beauty, they judge your humanness, with the legacy of apartheid. I struggled with that, I got mocked. So that is also one of the “chains” from the title Born in Chains.’
Friday – 26th October 2018
Don’t miss the launch of John Dugard’s memoir Confronting Apartheid at The Book Lounge
Jacana Media and The Book Lounge invite you to the discussion of John Dugard’s Confronting Apartheid: A Personal History of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine.
Monday – 22nd October 2018
Don’t miss the launch of Richard Steyn’s new book Louis Botha: A Man Apart at Love Books
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Love Books are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Louis Botha: A Man Apart by Richard Steyn.
Friday – 12th October 2018
Don’t miss the launch of John Dugard’s memoir Confronting Apartheid with Edwin Cameron at Wits University
Jacana Media and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies invite you to the discussion of John Dugard’s Confronting Apartheid: A Personal History of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine.
Tuesday – 9th October 2018
Don’t miss the launch of Richard Steyn’s new book Louis Botha: A Man Apart in Cape Town
Exclusive Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Louis Botha: A Man Apart by Richard Steyn.
Monday – 8th October 2018
Don’t miss the launch of Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Jacana Media, in partnership with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, invite you to the launch of Sylvia Neame’s memoir, The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid.
A voyage around Mzansi – rants and raves included! Sihle Khumalo’s new book Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse
Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse, the new book from Sihle Khumalo, is out now from Umuzi!
Friday – 5th October 2018
Can coconuts be trusted with the revolution? First look at Rekgotsofetse Chikane’s debut book Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation
Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is an account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, better known as #FeesMustFall.
Thursday – 4th October 2018
Cover reveal! Sisonke Msimang’s new book The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela
Sisonke Msimang has revealed the cover for her new book The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela!
Wednesday – 3rd October 2018
Join Ton Vosloo for the launch of Across Boundaries in Pretoria
Exclusive Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers invite you to the launch of Across Boundaries/Oor Grense by Ton Vosloo.
Monday – 1st October 2018
Out now from the Picador Africa Heritage Series: Call Me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo
Picador Africa celebrates five important books in the Heritage Series. 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Conversations with Myself by Nelson …
Thursday – 20th September 2018
Imprisoned – Sylvia Neame’s extraordinary personal account of incarceration under apartheid
Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid by Sylvia Neame is coming soon from Jacana Media.
Tuesday – 18th September 2018
Louis Botha: A Man Apart – the new book from bestselling author Richard Steyn
Louis Botha’s life illuminated in full, from Richard Steyn, the bestselling author of Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness and Churchill and Smuts: The Friendship.
Friday – 14th September 2018
Join Stephan Hofstatter for the launch of Licence to Loot with Mzukisi Qobo at Love Books
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of Licence to Loot: How the Plunder of Eskom and Other Parastatals Almost Sank South Africa.
Out now! Across Boundaries by Ton Vosloo, one of South Africa’s most widely admired newspapermen
Across Boundaries: A Life in the Media at a Time of Change by Ton Vosloo is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.