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Don’t miss the launch of Lauren Segal’s Cancer: A Love Story, the memoir of a four-time cancer survivor
MFBooks Joburg and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Cancer: A Love Story by Lauren Segal.
Is there a need for Black Consciousness today? A new book investigates
The Black Consciousness Reader, a new book from Jacana Media, will be out in October.
Join Z Pallo Jordan for the launch of his new book, Letters to my Comrades
Pallo Jordan’s new book, Letters to my Comrades, will be launched at the University of Johannesburg this month.
Podcast: Raymond Suttner discusses his book Inside Apartheid’s Prison
Raymond Suttner is one of a small group of white South Africans who was imprisoned for his efforts to overthrow the apartheid regime.
2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award for all South Africa’s official languages – longlist announced
The Jacana Literary Foundation has announced the 63 poets who have been selected for publication in the 7th annual Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology.
Sara-Jayne King on her tragic and illegal start to life, as told in her new book Killing Karoline
Born Karoline King in 1980 in Johannesburg, she is the result of an illegal affair between a white British woman and black South African man during apartheid.
Letters to my Comrades: Interventions and Excursions – the new book by Z Pallo Jordan
Z Pallo Jordan’s new book, Letters to my Comrades: Interventions and Excursions, is the ultimate collection of his piercing yet embraceable thoughts and inquiries.
‘It’s my most personal book’: Pumla Dineo Gqola chats to Eusebius McKaiser about Reflecting Rogue
Eusebius McKaiser chatted to Pumla Dineo Gqola on 702 about her new book, Reflecting Rogue.
The Black Consciousness Reader: An essential new book coming soon from Jacana Media
There is a current revival of Black Consciousness in South Africa, as political and student movements – as well as academics and campaigners working in decolonisation – reconfigure the continued struggle for socioeconomic revolution with this ideology at the forefront.
The new Lauren Beukes? Find out more about Tammy Baikie’s award-winning debut novel Selling LipService
Daring in scope and exhibiting exhilarating virtuosity, Selling LipService takes South African fiction into a space last seen with Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City.
Claim your free sample of the explosive exposé Apartheid Guns and Money
Shining a light on apartheid’s corruption secrets: Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, by Hennie van Vuuren, is published by Jacana Media.
Don’t miss the launch of Inside Apartheid’s Prison by Raymond Suttner at UCT
Jacana Media and the UCT Law Faculty invite you to the launch of Inside Apartheid’s Prison by Raymond Suttner.
‘Reading set me free’ – Kopano Matlwa chats about writing, success and her new novel Period Pain
Kopano Matlwa has been featured on Face to Face with Success with Nikiwe Bikitsha, a new series of short motivational interviews with interesting South Africans.
‘I wrote it for black women but men are finding value in it’ – Malebo Sephodi chats about her new book Miss Behave
Miss-Behave challenges society’s deep-seated beliefs about what it means to be an obedient woman. In this book, Malebo tracks her journey on a path towards achieving total autonomy and self-determinism. Miss-Behave will challenge, rattle and occasionally cause you to scream ‘yassss, yassss, yassss’ at various intervals.
Don’t miss the launch of Killing Karoline – What happens when the baby they buried comes back?
Born Karoline King in 1980 in Johannesburg South Africa, Sara-Jayne (as she will later be called by her adoptive parents) is the result of an affair, illegal under apartheid’s Immorality Act, between a white British woman and her black South African employee.
An electric debut novel: If I Stay Right Here by Chwayita Ngamlana
This is Chwayita Ngamlana’s debut novel – and it won’t be the last.
Feminism and lobola – can it work? Pumla Dineo Gqola tells her story at the launch of Reflecting Rogue
Pumla Dineo Gqola launched her new book Reflecting Rogue at Love Books in Melville last night.
Don’t miss the launch of Reflecting Rogue, the brilliant collection of essays by Pumla Dineo Gqola
MF Books Joburg, Jacana Media and Love Books invite you to the launch of Reflecting Rogue by Pumla Dineo Gqola!
Reflecting Rogue – the hotly anticipated new book from Pumla Dineo Gqola
Reflecting Rogue is the much anticipated and brilliant collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African culture by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola.
‘People learn us through our language’ – Pearls of wisdom from panel on decolonising South African editing
Yesterday evening, Jacana Media and Wits University hosted a panel discussion on decolonising South African editing.