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...

'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about t...

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 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. ...

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

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 and ...

Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being w...

Shows how anti-Semitism has been distorted to serve the Israeli stateGood Jew, Bad Jew is a critique by one of South Africa’s foremost political th...

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...

Stellenbosch staan internasionaal bekend as 'n dorp van weelde en wyn, 'n plek van pragtige natuurskoon en mooi mense. Dit is die tuiste van Suid-A...

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...

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...

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and now believes he is the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he pay...

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

The eminent psychologist and Holocaust survivor guides us through a universal journey of redemption and healing, after her experiences in Auschwitz...

THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD The iconic bestseller Prisoners of Geography, now fully updated with brand new cont...

Zambesia, the hidden heart of Central Africa, was terra incognita for millennia, except for the San, its inhabitants for tens of thousands of years...

After many years of serving the country and doing his part to help rebuild South Africa, Dr Peter Friedland was given an opportunity to serve as a ...

A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is ...

NEW UPDATED EDITION Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits ...

Die leser kry 'n gedetailleerde terugblik op die verre verskiet (prehistories en histories) in die Transvaalse Laeveld en die verhaal ontplooi tot ...

Valskermbataljon-verhale vat jou saam met die Parabats – die elite valskermsoldate wat  deur die lug geval en op die grond geveg het. Dis regte sto...

More scenes and role players in the drama of the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902), one of the greatest conflicts fought on South African soil, are brough...

On the 31st of May, 1902, the war in South Africa came to an end after three adventurous years. Now Reitz would join the war in Europe. Following h...

The War for Africa: Conflict, Crime, Corruption and Foreign Interests’ is a hard-hitting account of the undeclared and invisible conflicts and war...

1929. Deneys Reitz, who is now one of General Smuts's political lieutenants and a warm supporter of the British Commonwealth, fought through the So...

Steve Joubert had always wanted to be a pilot and the only way he could afford to do so, was to join the South African Air Force in the late 1970s....

An explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American political history: Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection despite mounti...

We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it’s easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because  Legends  migh...

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with it...

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one...

As a young Reuters correspondent, Bridgland revealed the secret invasion in 1975 of post-independence Angola by apartheid South Africa’s armed forc...

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

'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific le...

'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across t...

In The Truth About Cape Slavery, Patric Tariq Mellet argues that modern South Africa – its economy and politics – is shaped and established on the ...

From bestselling historian Antony Beevor, comes the dramatic story of Russian's revolution and civil war. Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating stru...