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  • Between the Mountain and the Ocean

    Between the Mountain and the Ocean is a collection of twelve short fictional stories set in the heartland of KwaZulu-Natal, spanning time, place, and subject. Each seeks to capture the beauty, allure, humour and menace of this extraordinary maritime province of South Africa. This collection of tales aims to intrigue, amuse and prompt reflection on what it means to live in such a vibrant yet ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Em Smiling

    I Em Smiling is the personal and family autobiography of journalist and author Brian Pottinger. A former Editor and Publisher of the Sunday Times, he was present at all the major moments of the "peaceful revolution" which brought democracy to South Africa.The author traces his family roots back to Revolutionary France and Edwardian England to understand what brought his two grandfathers to these ... Read more

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  • States of Panic: Covid 19 and the New Medieval

    The world shut down in 2020 for the first time in 700 years due to a plague. A novel virus out of China was threatening mass fatalities among the human population. The closure had immeasurable economic, political and social consequences.In States of Panic: COVID-19 and the New Medieval, journalist and author Brian Pottinger examines the reasons for this extraordinary act of self-immolation and ... Read more

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  • The Mbeki Legacy

    In September 2008, Thabo Mbeki was ‘recalled’ as president of South Africa, seven months before his term was due to end. This book takes stock of Mbeki’s presidency, by focusing on a simple question: how has South Africa prospered or weakened under his stewardship? The Mbeki Legacy considers how Mbeki consolidated power and why he was defeated at the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane conference. It weighs up ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Zuma Exposed

    This is the book President Jacob Zuma does not want you to read. From Shaik to 'The Spear', award-winning investigative journalist Adriaan Basson reveals the truth behind Jacob Zuma's presidency of the ANC and South Africa. From one bad decision to another, this explosive, roller-coaster account traces the unravelling of a likeable but deeply flawed leader who came to power as victim, not ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enemy of the People

    How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back

    Enemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zuma's catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees – and how a people fought back. When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC one muggy Polokwane evening in December 2007, he inherited a country where GDP was growing by more than 6% per annum, a party enjoying ... Read more

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  • Brett Kebble

    The Inside Story

    In September 2005, corporate South Africa was rocked by the violent murder of mining maverick Brett Kebble. In life, he was known as a billionaire patron of the arts, compassionate philanthropist, champion of black economic empowerment, urbane raconteur and generous host. But within six months of his death, Kebble was exposed as the architect of one of the biggest and most convoluted frauds seen ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Politically Incorrect

    The Autobiography

    Throughout his tenure as the first black Springbok coach, Peter de Villiers was in the news, and not always for the right reasons. His battle to be accepted and respected by the rugby fraternity started from the moment his appointment was announced, when his new boss admitted that De Villiers had got the job for reasons ‘other than only rugby’. In his four years as Bok coach, De Villiers ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Conversations with my sons and daughters

    Where did we lose our idealism and why and at what cost?' In these conversations with people of a younger generation Mamphela Ramphele responds to the growing despair among young South Africans about the cracks that are appearing in our system of governance and threatening the idealism of the country that reinvented itself with the dawn of democracy in 1994. She shows incisively how successive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Killing for Profit

    Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade

    A terrifying true story of greed, corruption, depravity and ruthless criminal enterprise … On the black markets of Southeast Asia, rhino horn is worth more than gold, cocaine and heroin. This is the chilling story of a more than two-year-long investigation into a dangerous criminal underworld where merciless syndicates will stop at nothing to attain their prize. It is a tale of greed, folly and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 32 Battalion

    The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit

    by Piet Nortje ...
    Every war has at least one - a unit so different, so daring, that it becomes the stuff of which legends are made and heroes are born. Among the South African forces fighting in Angola from 1975 to 1989, that unit was 32 Battalion. Founded in utmost secrecy from the vanquished remnants of a foreign rebel movement, undefeated in 12 years of front-line battle, feared by enemies that included both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pale Native

    Memories of a Renegade Reporter

    by Max du Preez ...
    Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he’s survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two assassination attempts and was a regular on right-wing hit lists. He was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, witnessed the debauched parties of apartheid cabinet ministers, and stepped over dead bodies in a ... Read more

    $10.09 USD