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...

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

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

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

A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping...

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

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...

The National Democratic Revolution (NDR) is the policy blueprint of the governing ANC/SACP alliance, who have been implementing it in different sph...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

​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...

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...

Die feite spreek vanself: Die Afrikaner is in 'n volskaalse bestaanskrisis. Die redes hiervoor is al dikwels in die verlede ondersoek, maar nog noo...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

2024 - thirty years since democracy and a year of a critical election. Jacana Media has two indispensable books for this momentous year, and Tippin...

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

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Why do so many South Africans prefer taking the law into their own hands to relying on the police? Why are those who do so often cheered or sympath...

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

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...

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 ...

Joe Modise (1929-2001), a Sophiatown bus driver-turned freedom fighter, was a humble man who tended to avoid the limelight. A protege of the Mandel...

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...