Violence against women and the future of the past

Jacqueline Rose’s new book shows how insecure, fraudulent and counterfeit masculinity is and, along with work by other scholars,...

28 Feb

10-year-old pens book about dangerous culture of bullying

Siyavuya Mabece has penned a book about the dangerous culture of bullying. The young writer tells Phumlani S Langa all about it.

20 Feb

Book Extract | The rise and fall of a Glamour Boy

This extract from Ghetto Ninja, a book about his life and times by Nikolaos Michael Kirkinis, describes Khanye making his début in the...

27 Feb

White Malice: How the CIA strangled African independence at birth

Williams’ new book seems like the third in a trilogy. Its title, White Malice, captures the racist arrogance of power, unscrupulously...

10 Feb

Book Extract | Mr Dirty Tricks

In this extract from his book, Confessions of a Stratcom Hitman, self-confessed apartheid killer and member of the police’s secretive...

19 Dec 2021

Book Extract | Scatterling of Africa

It is 1967 and a 14-year-old white boy meets a24-year-old black man who is about to change his life. In this extract from Scatterling of...

10 Oct 2021

Book Extract I Rise by Siya Kolisi

Rise by Siya Kolisi is published by Harper Collins Publishers and retails for R320

08 Oct 2021

Book Extract | Angelo Agrizzi: Why they tried to kill me

In this edited extract from his book – Surviving the Beast: The ugly truths about state capture and why they tried to kill me – former...

03 Oct 2021

Book Extract | Building a place of safety in the workplace requires courage

Brilliant customer service can be achieved when conflicting paradigms, opposing views, culture clashes, prejudice, bias, discrimination,...

30 Sep 2021

Book Extract | ‘Kill her or I’ll shoot you!’

The Krugersdorp Cult Killings by Jana Marx, from which the following edited extract is taken, has since been made into a TV documentary...

26 Sep 2021

Book Extract | Stormy path to SA’s democracy

Written by two ANC veterans, Mac Maharaj and Pallo Jordan, who were close to these events, Breakthrough sheds new light on the process...

19 Sep 2021

Heritage Month | History of the Nkuna Tribe

Today’s extract is taken from the work titled History of the Nkuna Tribe. Written in Xitsonga by P Shilubana in 1939, it explains a small...

12 Sep 2021

Book Extract | Black to the future

In 1968, two young medical students, Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele, fell in love while dreaming of a life free from oppression and...

09 Sep 2021

This is my real name, my clan name

Read the words of our grandparents’ grandparents in their own languages and dialects, and dive into an oral tradition of medicine,...

05 Sep 2021

Book Extract | Get out of your mind

Globalisation is driven by the growing interdependence and integration of the world’s national economies and this is affecting global and...

12 Aug 2021

Book Extract | Safety through our relations

In a country like ours, where many have no faith in the SA Police Service’s ability to fulfil its most basic mandate to protect, Ziyanda...

18 Jul 2021

Apartheid is alive and well in the suburbs

Many domestic workers take what they can get, even working whilesick and injured.

11 Jul 2021

Book Extract | ‘You have to break a child's spirit'

A mission school run more like a reformatory traumatised several pupils – including Erika Bornman.

08 Aug 2021