In this clear and engaging basic guide to managing your finances, Sam Beckbessinger covers topics from compound interest and inflation to “Your bra...

‘There are only two great certainties in a game ranger’s career.  The first is that you will never be well off.  The second – and the best by far –...

Showcasing the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, this major international collection celebrates their contributions to litera...

A revised and updated edition of this much-loved poetry anthology which was first published in 2002. This new edition of The New Century of South A...

A bold and innovative social history, The Seed is Mine concerns disenfranchised black people who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. ...

VELD Birds of Southern Africa: The complete photographic guide incorporates the latest photographs of, and research and atlas information on, all s...

About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here...

This revised and updated edition of On Route In South Africa has a new, contemporary look, but contains all the features that have made it such a c...

First published in 1980, this is pre-eminent playwright Athol Fugard’s only novel. Tsotsi is a powerful and turbulent story set in the 1950s about ...

The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid. Yet Thabo Mbeki rose to become president of South Africa in 1999. A decade later, Mbeki was...

For years the rumours persisted: the apartheid state was responsible for the continual disappearance and assassination of anti-apartheid activists....

Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyri...

A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to der...

In this book, award-winning author Niq Mhlongo has brought together deeply personal stories that tease apart a multitude of thought-provoking perce...

 Feeling an exile in the country of his birth, the talented journalist and leading black intellectual Bloke Modisane left South Africa in 1959. It...

In A Short History of South Africa, Gail Nattrass, historian and educator, presents the reader with a brief, general account of South Africa’s hist...

Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, forced into hiding, captured, threatened with the death penalty and eventually thrown into jail for twenty-s...

On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of South Africa's pass laws. He urged blacks to go to the nearest police station and...

Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s greatest political questions: if he had survived, what impact would he have h...

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD In the spring of 1999, in the beautiful and seemingly tranquil hills of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, a y...

Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela remains largely untold. Dur...

Jan Christiaan Smuts was world famous as a soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africa’s greatest leaders. Yet little is said or writt...

The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond. Out of print for ove...

In 1994, 16-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked out of war-torn Sudan with nothing and nowhere to go after he had been tortured at the hands of governme...

On his way into Parliament on 2 February 1990 FW de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: 'South Africa wi...