Dan Corder takes aim at the myths, half-truths and inherited narratives that shape how South Africans understand our past, our politics and ourselves.

With clarity and wit, Corder interrogates the stories we repeat at braais and on social media – about race, power, history, economics and identity – and asks a deceptively simple question: what if much of what we think we know is incomplete or deliberately distorted?

This book dismantles the lazy binaries and wild ideas amplified by social media that fuel polarisation among South Africans. Corder delves into our recent history and further back to explain why, for example, the Brits messed up the country before the Afrikaners, Mandela didn’t sell out the country and why white South Africans should stop whining about BEE.

Fearless and entertaining, this is a book for South Africans hungry for a more honest conversation about who we are, how we got to this point and where we go from here.