EXCERPT | Why is South Africa so violent? And what can be done about this and other burning issues?

South Africa’s economy is not growing, unemployment is horribly high, crime is rampant … These are among the serious issues the nation...

04 May

EXCERPT | What Does Rain Smell Like? 100 Fascinating Questions on the Wild Ways of the Weather

Cumulus clouds look all light and fluffy but did you know they weigh the equivalent of about 100 elephants?

29 Apr

EXCERPT | ‘A very dangerous man’ – Jan Smuts’s view of Alfred Milner

Sent to Southern Africa to bring Transvaal President Paul Kruger’s obstreperous Boers to heel, Alfred Milner was primarily, though not...

27 Apr

EXCERPT | ‘Why are you going to kill me?’ – Witnessing a killing in Kigali

Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase was 14 when genocide swept through Rwanda. He later escaped from the country and made his way to South...

22 Apr

EXCERPT | ‘No time like the present to learn’ – MTN’s Dineo Molefe is one of the Masters of Money

The chief financial officer (CFO) of a company is critical to its success. In Masters of Money, KC Rottok Chesaina interviewed 31 CFOs of...

19 Apr

EXCERPT | South Africans share their secrets in Khaya Dlanga's It's The Answers For Me

It's amazing what people are willing to reveal on social media. When writer Khaya Dlanga asked his followers to answer an array of deeply...

14 Apr

EXCERPT | Karyn Maughan and Kirsten Pearson's 'Nuclear: Inside South Africa's secret deal'

In 'Nuclear: Inside South Africa's secret deal', award-winning investigative journalist Karyn Maughan and former National Treasury...

05 Apr

EXCERPT | Zikhona Valela's 'Now You Know How Mapetla Died'

Historian and author Zikhona Valela in 'Now You Know How Mapetla Died: The story of a Black Consciousness martyr' weaves together the...

06 Apr

EXCERPT | Imagining Mapungubwe – new book goes into the southern African historical archives

Historians who specialise in researching early history have learnt to use a wide range of materials from the past as source materials....

30 Mar

EXCERPT | What happens when we see organisations as organisms?

"Fluid, natural leadership replaces the fixed power hierarchies of the pyramid," writes Peter Laburn of how true leadership can transform...

26 Mar

EXCERPT | The pandemic, global debt and rising inequality

In The End of Money, David Buckham, Robyn Wilkonson and Christiaan Straeuli examine a world in which financial markets have become...

24 Mar

EXCERPT | Love and Above: It was great sex … until my husband passed out

It was Saturday night. We were on an Easter holiday, the kids were away and we were going to get it on! (Please note: This article...

10 Mar

EXCERPT | Corruptible: Who gets power and how it changes us

In the book, Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us, Brian Klaas draws on over 500 interviews with some of the world's...

14 Mar

EXCERPT | Ismail Lagardien: Too white to be coloured, too coloured to be black

In his hybrid of memoir, commentary, first-hand observation and analysis, author Ismail Lagardien forces a conversation between the...

21 Mar

EXCERPT | The Tyranny of Growth by Malcolm Ray

In The Tyranny of Growth, former journalist and academic Malcolm Ray argues that GDP is a bad way to measure a nation’s productivity...

02 Mar

EXCERPT | An erotic romance for Valentine’s Day

Dilia comes from a small town in North West to the big city of Johannesburg, where she is studying nursing. She unexpectedly reconnects...

14 Feb

EXCERPT | Spoilt Ballots: The Elections that Shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril

Since 1994, the future of South Africa has largely been decided not at the national polls, but at the ANC's elective conferences, where a...

14 Feb

EXCERPT | Clinton van der Berg's 'Guns and Needles': The downfall of Luvo Manyonga

Prominent sportswriter Clinton van der Berg in 'Guns and Needles' examines the pitfalls of steroids in many sports people's lives but as...

05 Feb