An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for gi...

On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeane...

Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its peacemaking and peacekeeping initiatives ov...

'Exhilarating' Financial Times 'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must keep its fait...

After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nati...

South Africa’s general election of 2024 saw the African National Congress losing its majority at the national level for the first time since the ar...

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in t...

Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'And Then What? is breathless and conversational - and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is...

After state capture, South Africa is f*cked and not in a good place. The system is down so how do we reboot? We aren’t the first country to find it...

Liberation Diaries is a powerful and spirited collection of essays from some of South Africa’s most distinctive thinkers on the country’s 30 years ...

A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understa...

LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an ...

The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs ...

Contesting one’s place remains central to confronting the lingering impact of colonisation and apartheid, emerging as it does out of the intermingl...

‘By the early evening, the irresolute and weakened Ramaphosa slate left no one unscathed – not Mabuyane, not Lamola, not the Mkhize camp. The Ramap...

Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got ...

Dr Essop Gollum Pahad was born in Schwietzer-Reneke in 1939. He became a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress in 1958, was banned in 1964, and w...

Tipping Point raises critical questions about South Africa’s political and socioeconomic landscape today and whether the 2024 elections are likely ...

Rumors have abounded since the early days of South African democracy of a list given to Nelson Mandela by apartheid securocrats of their agents inf...

Krish Naidoo practised as a human rights lawyer in Johannesburg in the 1980s.This book records his life, the political trials he was involved in &a...

This book is Professor Makgoba’s reflection of transformation experience in South Africa for over 29 years since his return. It was motivated by th...

This book of essays written over the last three post-apartheid decades uniquely provides profiles of 104 pan-African figures, mostly from the 1.4 b...

Leon and his twin Norman were born in August 1929, the youngest of four children born to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. His father ...

Why do some states thrive, grow their economies and uplift their people while others, facing similar challenges, slide into low growth, social dysf...

A powerhouse of South African and international scholars and activists reflect on the writings and theories of the late Jabulani Nobleman “Mzala” N...

The metaphor of 'state capture' has dominated South Africa's political discourse in the post-Zuma presidency era. What is state capture and how doe...

For several decades Chinese ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of soft power. The stories of their reach ar...

Liberalism - the comparatively mild-mannered sibling to the more ardent camps of nationalism and socialism - has never been so divisive as today. F...

Popular protest has become a regular feature of post-1994 South Africa. As a young democracy born out of resistance, we may understand the contempo...

In the third volume of Milton Shain’s history of antisemitism in South Africa, he traces and unpacks hostile attitudes towards Jews and irrational ...

With corruption and fraud endemic in democratic South Africa, whistleblowers have provided an invaluable service to society through disclosures abo...

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

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica is suffering from PTSD. The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps begin the healing process.For four y...