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The indignity of pit toilets and the importance of Thuli Madonsela’s lesser-known reports

Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela by Thandeka Gqubule. Gqubule has …

Karina M Szczurek chats about her life with Andre Brink and her new memoir The Fifth Mrs Brink

Ingrid Winterbach spoke to Karina M Szczurek at the Woordfees literary festival recently about her life with one of South Africa’s most …

Philip Lymbery, author of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat, announces South Africa tour

Philip Lymbery, author of Farmageddon and Dead Zone, will be in South Africa in July. Lymbery will visit Johannesburg and Cape Town …

Read an excerpt from Deon Meyer’s new novel, Fever

Hodder & Stoughton has released an excerpt from Fever, the latest novel by bestselling author Deon Meyer. If you needed any more …

Read an excerpt from Rotten Row by Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, …

Domina, the follow-up to the worldwide #1 bestseller Maestra – out now!

Everything you thought you knew about Maestra … you don’t. Judith Rashleigh returns in Domina, the stunning new thriller from the author …

Read over 6 million times – don’t miss Burning Moon by Jo Watson

Jo Watson’s Burning Moon, the runaway Wattpad sensation, brings you laughter, adventure and a love story to give you the warm-and-fuzzies. Perfect …

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 …

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 …