This book is a step-by-step guide for women to navigating the legal paperwork, childcare planning and financial security issues one will face during...
Product detailsA timeous book, with Zimbabwe’s elections taking place this same month, These Bones Will Rise Again responds to the November 2017 ousting of Robert...
Product detailsIn this timely biography intended for a general audience, Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut explain Mugabe’s formative experiences as a child and young...
Product detailsThe book highlights the long record of accountability journalism in countries such as South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and the recent surge of...
Product detailsWith adorable illustrations and four heart-warming easy-to-read stories, Niki Daly has created a second book about Thoko – who is sure to become one...
Product detailsThis book tells how, for a quarter of a century, a South African researcher searched for Levaillant’s travel notebooks and the fate of his collection...
Product detailsThis extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid...
Product detailsTold by Liza Smit, daughter of Robert and Jean, who was 13 years old at the time of the murders, this is a book of two stories, the story of the...
Product detailsThe Story of One Tells the Struggle of All: Metalworkers under Apartheid is the third volume in the Hidden Voices Series. It is comprised of two...
Product detailsWe Are No Longer at Ease is a collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the...
Product detailsThis story of a boy’s quest contains an urgent ecological message: a plea to break down the boundaries that humans impose on the world and to...
Product detailsAn edited volume with contributions from Hon Kgalema Motlanthe, Prof Thuli Madonsela, Prof Ben Turok, Dr Neva Makgetla, Prof Murray Leibbrandt, Prof...
Product detailsAfter a sell-out two-print run, Dr Ela Manga has decided to re-launch her book The Energy Code with a brand-new title: BREATHE: Strategising Energy...
Product detailsNow in its nineteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize and is awarded to a short story by an African...
Product detailsMeet Colleen, the third-born child of parents who share a chaotic relationship. Set against the backdrop of Cape Town in the 1940s – a time of...
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Product detailsAfter 25 years Madam & Eve is still going strong. The duo is back with more hilarious cartoons reflecting on another year of the crazy rollercoaster...
Product detailsThis book reveals the extent of the cover-up by South Africa’s authorities and the desperate lengths they went to conceal the existence of...
Product detailsThis extraordinary cookbook, beautifully photographed by the legendary Claire Gunn, follows the success of Bertus’s first cookbook Homegrown, now...
Product detailsSoweto-born chef Lesego Semenya, well known as LesDaChef, shares his journey from the corporate world to being a chef, and offers township cuisine...
Product detailsMoira Forjaz has captured the life stories of the inhabitants of Ilha de Moçambique by not only photographing them but through a series of interviews...
Product detailsIn April 1981, Landa Mabenge enters this world, trapped in a girl’s body. From an early age, Landa is aware that he does not relate to his female...
Product detailsA blistering novel about the toxic combination of colonialism and capitalism by one of Zimbabwe’s greatest authors
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Product detailsWTF is renowned cartoonist Zapiro’s account of the Zuma years in 400 brilliant cartoons and the stories behind them.
Product detailsNow in its 8th year, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award has been the launching pad for upcoming poets.
Product detailsMost personal histories of apartheid in Southern Africa tell the story of the armed struggle. This book is about opposition to apartheid within the...
Product detailsApril 2020 I tell this story now in the knowledge – sound, I’m sure – that the telling is too late. Too late to go back. Too late to tell it again,...
Product detailsThe Game Ranger, the Knife, the Lion and the Sheep offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and...
Product detailsCelebrate an inspiring woman during Women’s Month with We Don’t Talk About It. Ever., the brilliant debut memoir by ex-heroin addict and ex-hooker,...
Product detailsLeave it to the president, government and “big business” and we will die.
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Product detailsGoldilocks and the three Rhinos is a classic tale brought to life through magical illustrations by Joan Rankin. It is retold with an African flair,...
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Product detailsWritten by award-winning author Wendy Hartmann, The Singing Stone is a magical tale about family love and encourages children to believe in...
Product detailsThe Johannesburg Gas Works (now Egoli Gas) is a familiar and spectacular industrial landmark in the city. Its dramatic holding towers and red-brick...
Product detailsWhile living in Johannesburg, British photographer Jason Larkin was struck by the ever-present reality of people waiting. He was drawn to those who...
Product detailsHotel Yeoville was a participatory public art project, conceptualised and directed by artist Terry Kurgan, and based online and in the public library...
Product detailsUP UP: Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises presents a selection of buildings in the inner city of Johannesburg.
Product detailsLisa King made photographs in the ZSE from 2011 till its migration to digital technology in 2014. Her project is a reflection on the physical and...
Product detailsForeword by Zoë Wicomb, with essays by Rick Rohde, Virginia MacKenny, Timm Hoffman, Ben Cousins and Siona O’Connell
Product detailsIn the east end of the inner city of Johannesburg, a former textiles factory undergoes a dramatic transformation to become, over the next several...
Product detailsIn the ninth book of the acclaimed series Wake Up, This is Joburg, photographer Mark Lewis and writer Tanya Zack follow professional shoppers who...
Product detailsScholars agree that a direct correlation can be made between poor governance and the emergence of extremist movements.
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Product detailsThe definitive guide to the Garden Route, REVISED AND UPDATED. Finally, some good news for the Garden Route.
Product detailsChildren’s writer and science educator Lucy Hawking is visiting South Africa to highlight the importance of getting young people excited about...
Product detailsThe life and times of Jabu Ndlovu, a strong woman – wife, mother, worker, union activist – who fought for the rights of her fellow workers and...
Product detailsWritten by prominent economist, Raymond Parsons, together with Ali Parry, the book offers a balanced and absorbing analysis of what various...
Product details‘Nothing is more important than to be loved by your colleagues.’ – Nelson Mandela, 5 August 2008, addressing the staff of the Nelson Mandela...
Product detailsIt takes a historian who was invested many years in research to write a biography as detailed as this one. Willan relates Plaatje’s story with such...
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Product detailsThings even González can’t Fix is the shockingly brilliant debut memoir of a 24-year-old Greek South African girl, Christy Chilimigras. It is nothing...
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Product detailsIt is 2018 and we find ourselves in a world where it is possible and seemingly not uncommon to become a self-made millionaire at a very early age.
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Product detailsWhen the grand old ‘lion man of Africa’, George Adamson, passed away, the last of his lion cub orphans faced an uncertain future.
Product detailsWritten from the points of view of four young people living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto – Zanele, a black female student...
Product details‘Strange, how humans desire to see themselves in a mirror image: staring back from the glass, their parts reversed, but their colours reflected.’
Product detailsBased on Renwick’s personal experiences of the main protagonists, it describes the extraordinary influence achieved by the Gupta family for those...
Product detailsJack Simons was much more than a romantic revolutionary and public intellectual. He was interested in art, literature and religion. He was a walker...
Product detailsThis Jacana Pocket Biography analyses the sources of Tambo’s strength as a leader, emphasising his integrity, his commitment to non-racial democracy,...
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Product detailsFrom Protest to Challenge Volume 4: Political Profiles, 1882–1990, in Jacana’s second edition of the six volumes of From Protest to Challenge,...
Product detailsThe rhino does not belong to us. It belongs to no one. All that we own is the responsibility of ensuring that it persists and that future books on...
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Product detailsBeat about the Bush is a series of remarkable books for outdoor and nature lovers. This comprehensive guide has been expanded to include not only...
Product detailsThis funny, heart-warming retelling from Naomi Howarth, alongside beautiful illustrations, teaches children that wit and wisdom are more important...
Product detailsNigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa’s economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last...
Product detailsThe issue of land rights is an ongoing and complex topic of debate for South Africans. Rights to Land comes at a time when land redistribution by...
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Product detailsFor too long now the world of South African football and the world of books have been kept apart. As soon as a local sports book hits the shelves, we...
Product detailsThis book is a narrative and pictorial celebration of the Ankole, the most magnificent breed of cattle in the world.
Product detailsIn the 1990s, Rod Suskin predicted the 9/11 Trade Tower attacks that shocked the world. In South Africa, he predicted the exact date for the 1994...
Product detailsThere is a current revival of Black Consciousness in South Africa, as political and student movements – as well as academics and campaigners working...
Product detailsFrom the acclaimed and award-winning author of What Will People Say? Rehana Rossouw takes us into a world seemingly filled with promise yet...
Product detailsA gripping page-turner that courageously exposes the intrigues underway and threats to our young democracy.
Product details“A marvellous multi-layered story about people, horses and wildlife in an African wilderness called Tuli.” – Gareth Patterson, best-selling author of...
Product detailsThe Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English. The prize was launched...
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Product detailsThis book critically investigates the expanding involvement of a leading emerging power, Brazil, in one of Africa’s fastest growing economies,...
Product detailsInvertebrates of Southern Africa and their Tracks & Signs covers a never-before-explored aspect of Southern African nature and is an essential new...
Product detailsZ Pallo Jordan is the quintessential man of political letters on the one hand, and an astute literary historian in his own inimitable way, penning...
Product detailsPaola Dante is a driven project manager employed by a large multinational information technology corporation who reads war strategy books for...
Product detailsHooray! Thoko by award-winning author, Niki Daly, is the first in the Thoko series. It has four wonderful stories that all follow a girl named Thoko...
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Product detailsAs a photojournalist, Feni spends a lot of time photographing service delivery strikes and protest in the townships. Often the images that make it...
Product detailsBorn Karoline King in 1980 in Johannesburg South Africa, Sara-Jayne (as she will later be called by her adoptive parents) is the result of an affair,...
Product detailsReflecting Rogue is the much anticipated and brilliant collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African...
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