Architect Sir Herbert Baker left an indelible mark on South Africa and much of the British Empire in the first half of the 20th century. This is th...

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilotMARITIME MEDIA AWARDS BEST ...

Noni Jabavu was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black So...

Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by western narrative...

Infused with colour, scenes from the Anglo-Boer War suddenly come to life in this striking collection of colourised photos from one of the biggest ...

This delightful collection of photographs covers the first sixty years of Johannesburg's history. Like any pictorial urban history, most of the pho...

'n Geheime poging om Kruger se goud te vind, is propvol intrige, misleiding en oneerlikheid. 'n Boeiende verhaal! In Januarie 1903 word John Buc...

The world's oldest and greatest ultra-marathon, the Comrades Marathon is a South African institution that is internationally-recognised for the bod...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize 'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, viv...

The revolutionary new offering from Jordan B. Peterson, renowned psychologist and author of the global bestseller 12 Rules for Life In We Who ...

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and ...

Tonele en rolspelers uit die Anglo-Boereoorlog kry nuwe lewe in hierdie unieke versameling foto’s wat lewensgetrou ingekleur is. Dit bring vars per...

South Africa's Bomb kept the world guessing for years. Six-and-a- half nuclear bombs had been secretly built and destroyed, former South African Pr...

Hans van Rensburg se magnetiese persoonlikheid en sy sterk teenkanting teen Suid-Afrika se deelname aan die Tweede Wêreldoorlog het Afrikaners só a...

In Troep! vertel meer as 'n honderd oud-troepe wat hulle onthou van diensplig: om op skool opgeroep te word, te gaan oorlog maak en twee jaar later...

R.W. Johnson’s articles and essays get endlessly copied and recirculated, not just in Southern Africa but far more widely, and not just because of ...

Die parlement het eienaardige tradisies asook unieke name vir ampsdraers – woorde soos speaker, swepe, ampstaf, ampswag, lesings, afpaar en verdeli...

Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson History PrizeLonglisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-fictionA Times Best History Book of the Year 2024 'Ever...

From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder...

This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Cha...

In mathematics, to ‘show your work’ means to demonstrate how you got to a solution. Showing your work is just as applicable to Bitterkomix Sketchbo...

Behind the façade of South Africa lies a brutal shadow-world ruled by mafias, cartels, and crime syndicates locked in a ruthless war over South Afr...

The extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story.Alfred Nakache, a Jewish child from Constantine,...

This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodes's vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa,...

The Democratic Alliance won control of the uMngeni Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands after the local government elections in 2021. As the ...

​Nearly three decades after the dawn of democracy, South Africa has remained a country of 'two agricultures'. On the one hand we have a subsistence...

Since 1994, South Africa has had five presidents who have varied greatly in style and character, despite all coming from the same political party. ...

‘If Steve Biko were alive today, we would have a country that gladly embraces African culture as the dominant driving force for how society is orga...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR In '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, fri...

'What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, excitin...

The ANC has ruled South Africa for three decades during which time the country has  gone from the promise of the Rainbow Nation to disfunction an...

Good Jew, Bad Jew is a critique by one of South Africa's foremost political theorists of mainstream understandings of Jewishness. Steven Friedman o...

Critical whiteness studies is an offshoot of critical race theory that Thandiwe Ntshinga believes is desperately needed in South Africa.She pokes h...

When the first missiles rattled Kyiv in February 2021, Kobus Olivier was ready for it. Or so the South African thought. Four years earlier he moved...

South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing s...

Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, ...

The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African governme...

For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics...

In this riveting memoir Sparg traces not only her experience in MK – often as the only woman in training camps in Angola – and her friendship with ...

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to sav...

Ella Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in South Africa is a lesson in resilience, attitude and joy. From the dy...

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emerge...

The battle of Blood River, or Ncome, on 16 December 1838 has long been regarded as a critical moment in the history of South Africa. It is the culm...

It has been said that the best-known South Africans outside South Africa is Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts. Smuts is regarded as the most prominent A...

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emerge...