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...

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...

News24’s top journalists who were on the ground give a riveting firsthand account of what went down when South Africa was set alight shortly after ...

This book reads like a war-time thriller. We hear for the first time from internationalists who secretly worked for the ANC’s armed wing, Umkhon...

In South African higher education, the images of dysfunction are everywhere. Student protests. Violence. Police presence. Rubber or real bullets. C...

'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer The world is currently experiencing the lowest levels...

Capture, massive deception and devastating human consequences still felt today… Legal journalist Dianne Hawker delves deep to retell the full Auror...

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, ...

The early 2000s were still a time of optimism and exuberance in newly democratic South Africa. Transformations were afoot, and there was a courageo...