Hector: an ordinary boy Antoinette: his older sister Sam: a photojournalist Three perspectives on June 16, 1976— the day a peaceful student protes...

When the Soweto uprisings of June 1976 took place, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, the author of this book, was a 14-year-old pupil at Phefeni Junior Second...

The 1976 Soweto uprising represented a real turning point in South Africa's history. Even to contemporaries it seemed to mark the beginning of the ...

These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are 'essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and cha...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is ...

‘This is Antjie Samuel reporting from Ladybrand …’  For more than two years, Antjie Krog worked in acute engagement with the many voices that arose...

Adapted for younger readers from Born a Crime: And Other Stories- the #1 South African and New York Times bestseller ‘If my mother had one goal,...

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Leonard Thompson, a leading scholar...

The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid. Yet Thabo Mbeki rose to become president of South Africa in 1999. A decade later, Mbeki was...

The book that inspired the major new motion picture "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experie...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experie...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experi...

2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently ...

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela is the amazing story of a true hero of our times; his famous biography has been specially adapted for childr...

Coloured as an ethnicity and racial demographic is intertwined in the creation of the South Africa we have today. Yet often, Coloured communities a...

Gregory isn’t keen on soccer, but he loves to dance and jive and feel the energy and rhythm in the music that is all around him. Dancing brings him...

Mr Hare meets Mr Mandela is one of the last stories Chris van Wyk wrote before he died and it originally appeared in Sunday Times Storytime: 10 Sou...

Discover the gripping tale of Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid, that explores South Africa’s struggle against one of history’s most...

I Write What I Like features the writing of the famous activist and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko. Before his untimely death in detention ...

‘A terrific book … His comedy is so universal that it has the power to transcend borders.’ – BILL GATES ‘… this is a moving, intimate story of grow...

Nelson Mandela is still widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Here, after a lifetime of putting pen to p...

If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story...

A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By th...

Mac Maharaj played a pivotal role in the liberation movement for nearly four decades, suffering brutal tortures and twelve years’ imprisonment on R...

A Brief History of South Africa is an introduction to South African history from the earliest times to the Mandela Presidency. Using both a narrati...

The prize was great -- not just land, but the riches it held, in the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South Africa was, unti...

Drawing on Nelson Mandela's own unfinished memoir, Dare Not Linger is the remarkable story of his presidency told in his own words and those of dis...

The 20th Century has been one of enduring, rapid and fundamental social and political change. In Southern Africa, innumerable wars, rebellions, upr...

In A Short History of South Africa, Gail Nattrass, historian and educator, presents the reader with a brief, general account of South Africa’s hist...

‘Narrative history at its best. With prodigious detail and eloquent prose Simpson places Black South Africans at the centre of the country’s histor...

Morris Isaacson High School (MIHS) in Jabavu is widely known as the epicentre of the 1976 Soweto uprising. However, its legacy extends far beyond t...

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 ...

Facing internal rebellion and the threat posed by German troops on South Africa’s borders, Prime Minister Louis Botha and his deputy, Jan Smuts, le...