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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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...