Who Killed Hammarskjöld? Susan Williams has written a shocking exposé of the true story behind the death of the celebrated UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Hammarskjöld’s death. His death and that of his UN team in a p More details

The Blue Book This book provides the first comprehensive and complete history of Western Province cricket and the Cape Cobras in the 121 years from 1890 to 2011. More details

One Law, One Nation In celebration of the 15th anniversary of this momentous occasion, the book One Law, One Nation charts the story of the long fight for constitutional rights in South Africa, and the astonishing obstacles and complexity that lay behind the constitution-mak More details

The Last Sushi South Africans calling for our moral compass to be reactivated need look no further than Zapiro’s latest annual, The Last Sushi. More details

Zimbabwe in Transition Zimbabwe’s transition to democracy in the post-independence era has been a very difficult one. To date, there have been a number of sustained efforts by various local, regional and international actors to move Zimbabwe towards democracy as well as attempt More details

The Pothole at the End of the Rainbow Another satirical winner from this sharp and witty creative team. The motley crew of Madam, Eve, Thandi and Mother Anderson are like old friends to most South Africans and their dysfunctional, chaotic and totally recognisable South African household is an More details

The MadibaMindset Here is a book that asks you to dream for a moment – what could you achieve if you understood and applied the philosophies and practices that equipped Nelson Mandela to grow from rural herd boy to world-famous political prisoner, to internationally admire More details

Kader Asmal (Hardcover) Kader Asmal was one of the most respected senior statesmen in South Africa.He lived a rich and varied life, in all the twists and turns of which he has displayed boundless energy, a sharp mind and deep commitment to human rights and democratic values. More details

Rivonia's Children Rivonia’s Children is the harrowing and inspiring account of a number of white Jewish activists who risked their lives to battle apartheid when South Africa plunged into an era of darkness in the 1960s from which it has only recently emerged. More details

Bush War - The Road to Cuito Cuanavale For almost fifteen years South Africa was involved in a civil war in Angola, the so-called Bush War, on behalf of the UNITA faction. The climax of this portrayed conflict was the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, the largest military engagement on African soil s More details

Future Inheritance Since 1994 the post-apartheid South African state has been under constant pressure to transform the inherited institutional architecture of the apartheid state. Various formations of the state had to be reorganised and restructured at an institutional lev More details

The First President John Dube is a revered and important figure in the history of South Africa. He was a leading member of the educated African elite in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a clergyman and teacher, the founder of Ohlange Institute near Durban. More details

San Rock Art San rock paintings are scattered over the entire area of southern Africa and present us with one of the greatest cultural treasures of humankind. More details

Women: South Africans of Indian Origin Women: South Africans of Indian origin steps into a critical gap in our understanding of our evolution into a society united in its diversity. The changing status of Indian women over the last century and a half has been a remarkable journey of triumph ov More details

The Controversy about Economic Growth This book looks at the present structure of the South African economy and asks what needs to be done to meet the challenges of deep poverty, high unemployment and growing inequality that still mark the country after 15 years of democracy. More details

Development in a Divided Country There is increasing recognition within the ANC that the achievement of political power has not brought with it change in the structure of the economy. More details

Readings in the ANC Tradition: Volume II This book is a companion to the first book in the series, The Historical Roots of the ANC. Like Volume I, it too provides a selection of important documents and extracts which have influenced the thinking of the ANC. More details

Readings in the ANC Tradition: Volume I This book, which is meant as a companion to The Historical Roots of the ANC (book 1 of the series), provides a selection of important documents and extracts that have influenced the political and policy thinking of the ANC during the course of its history More details

A History of Namibia In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule - and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis of th More details

Rock Art Made in Translation From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team comes a handsome volume on rock art copies made by the great German ethnologist, Leo Frobenius. More details

Shaka This biography draws on the last two decades of historical research to reassess the eyewitness accounts and use newly available oral traditions. More details

Umkhonto weSizwe Umkhonto weSizwe was arguably the last of the great liberation movements of the 20th century – but it never got to march triumphant into Pretoria. More details

Steve Biko This biography of Biko shows just how fundamental he was to the transformation of South Africa in the second half of the 20th century – and just how relevant he remains today. More details

When a State Turns on its Citizens Lloyd Sachikonye traces the roots of Zimbabwe's contemporary violence since 2000, which has seen state-sponsored violence erupting in election campaigns and throughout the programme of fast-track land reform. More details

Zimbabwe's Land Reform Myths & Realities Ten years after the Zimbabwean land invasions of 2000, Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Realities by Ian Scoones and colleagues, provides the first full account of the actual consequences of these dramatic events. More details

People of the Dew Employing written, oral and archaeological sources, this book traces the emergence of the Bafokeng, their settlement in the western highveld, and their consolidation under various capable leaders, in particular Kgosi Mokgatle Thethe, during the period of More details

Season of Rains Season of the Rains explains how one billion Africans are changing their continent and changing the world. Stephen Ellis dissects how the postcolonial legacy has been overcome, how Africans are seizing the commercial and political initiative, and why thi More details

Grappling with Governance Born out of the optimism at the new millennium that Africa’s time had come, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a tool designed to promote good governance on the continent, is built on the belief that the continent does not lack ideas to advance its More details

The Vuvuzela Revolution The Vuvuzela Revolution is the definitive account of Africa’s First World Cup … definitive because it captures not only the big questions about South Africa’s handling of the global mega-event, offering serious and insightful answers about the legacy of 2 More details

Midnight on the Mavi Mamara Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 4.30am: Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of More details

The Historical Roots of the ANC This book looks at the principles and processes that led to the founding of the ANC in 1912. It examines how they have influenced policy and practice in the ANC for the century since then. More details

The ANC and the Turn to Armed Struggle 1950–1970 This book was first published in the late 1960s at a time when the ANC was forced by events to confront major ideological and policy issues. Many of these debates are still not resolved and many have great relevance for the present. More details

Paying for Politics Paying for Politics explores the challenges of party funding reform in South Africa today. It first investigates experiences elsewhere in the South in chapters by leading international specialists. Key controversies in South African party finance reform – More details

Troublemakers The 2009 Taco Kuiper Awards saw an unprecedented number of high-quality entries all vying for the top spot at this prestigious investigative journalism award. Troublemakers is a collection of the best of these entries. More details

What is Left Unsaid Reporting the South African HIV Epidemic - Selected Journalism, Research and Analysis, 2003-2010. More details

The Law and the Prophets ‘No nation can win a battle without faith,’ Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved to be a potent force. More details

Truth is a Strange Fruit Truth is a Strange Fruit makes extraordinary disclosures about the involvement of a Zionist terrorist organisation in the Park Street bombing. This points to the possibility that the 1964 bomb involved Israeli intelligence. More details

Climate Change and Trade The long-awaited Copenhagen summit on climate change gave to the world a broad political agreement, but without any teeth. Climate Change and Trade straddles several distinctive bodies of knowledge, notably trade policy and diplomacy, and environment poli More details

This Time We Went Too Far For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the December 2008 Israeli invasion was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: in the 22-day-long action, 1400 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. More than 6000 h More details

In The Balance: South Africans Debate Reconciliation Reconciliation is an open and urgent question. We do not agree about what reconciliation means. A source of strength that sits at the very heart of South Africa’s remarkable transition to democracy, reconciliation is also a frustrating fault line. More details

Trick or Treat Black economic empowerment is the most far-reaching effort by the ANC government to transform the economy of South Africa. This book focuses on one facet of this policy: the promotion of black share ownership in the corporate sector. More details

Unspoken Alliance Sasha Polakow-Suransky tells the full story of how Israel's booming arms industry and South Africa's isolation led to a hidden military alliance that grew deeper after the Likud Party came to power in 1977 and continued even after Israel passed sancti More details

Debunking Delusions One of the great, iconic struggles for social justice in the 21st century has been the campaign of the TAC against state-supported Aids denialism in South Africa. More details

The Democratic Moment The Democratic Moment is, among other things, a look at the mass forces that swept Jacob Zuma to power in 2009 and put an end to the elite politics of the Thabo Mbeki era. More details

Inside Quatro Inside Quatro uncovers some of the exile history of the ANC and SWAPO that both organisations would prefer not to remember. Here is a first-hand account of the ANC's Quatro prison camp and of the mutiny in Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Angola in 1984. More details

The Maputo Connection: ANC Life in the World of Frelimo The Maputo Connection is an intimate history of the relationship between the ANC and the peoples of Mozambique, a reflection on the personal sacrifices that accompanied their support of South African freedom fighters and a profound gesture of respect. More details

Native Nostalgia In this, his first book, Jacob Dlamini writes about growing up in Katlehong in Gauteng. Using fragments from his own childhood, he examines the nostalgia that many black people feel for the past – their lives under apartheid. More details

Africa's Peacemaker? South Africa has done much in the 15 years since the fall of apartheid to establish its leadership on the continent. It has been a constant architect of Africa's new peace and security architecture and an advocate of new diplomatic norms. More details

The Poverty of Ideas This book offers differing but critical evaluations of the responsibility of the progressive intellectual in a new democracy. During the struggle against apartheid intellectuals have spoken out and more often then not influenced the trajectory of events. More details

Zunami! The 2009 South African Election The South African general elections of April 2009 were the most momentous and important since the 'miracle' elections for a democratic Parliament in 1994. More details