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...

A collection of then President Thabo Mbeki's weekly ANC Today Letters, in which he expressed his opinions on current South African political and so...

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

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...

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...

Dare to Believe is a poignant narrative of resilience, courage, and hope in the face of adversity. Mmusi Maimane invites readers on a journey throu...

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...

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

There has been a continuous outcry about the government failing to deliver services to its citizens. The author draws attention to how the governme...

André Lincoln’s journey from anti-apartheid intelligence operative to a key figure in South Africa’s police force reveals the intricate ties betwee...

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...

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

Dominating Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian policy for centuries - now, we are witnessing a genocide. The Russian invas...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why ...

'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...

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...

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...

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Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look ...

The thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South Africa's past - most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...