In Against all Odds, maritime lawyer Andrew Pike, who was part of the legal investigation into the Oceanos’ sinking, recreates the compelling drama and extraordinary heroism of the greatest maritime rescue in South African history.
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80-year old Julia Albu drives from Cape Town to Cairo in her 20-year-old Conquest called Tracy. She has plenty of adventures, meets people from all walks of life, and learns an awful lot about Africa (‘it’s very big!).
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Make Your Money Work for You by investment specialist Anthea Gardner is a user-friendly guide that shows it’s within everyone’s power to create wealth and retire well.
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How to Steal a City is an insider’s account of state capture in the city of Port Elizabeth from an ANC member and former senior government official. Written as a gripping real-life thriller, it takes the reader into the rotten heart of a city.
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It’s 2018 and Cape Town is wracked by its worst drought on record. The prospect of ‘Day Zero’ – when the taps will run dry – is driving citizens into a frenzy. Then the ruling Democratic Alliance removes control of the water issue from Mayor Patricia de Lille. While politicians turn on each other, revealing deep-lying faultlines and new enmities, it raises a critical question: who will lead the Mother City through the crisis?
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Is Dit Jy? by actor and musician Ian Robert offers a highly entertaining glimpse of how actors make the magic happen, whether on a theatre stage or before the TV cameras.
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Nomad Heart by actor and musician Ian Robert offers a highly entertaining glimpse of how actors make the magic happen, whether on a theatre stage or before the TV cameras.
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Murder has always fascinated us, and when women are the masterminds, the intrigue grows exponentially. Not only are female murderers much rarer than male killers, but their crimes usually also involve a more sophisticated type of plotting. In Blood on Her Hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa’s most notorious female murderers.
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Here is the Cape Town underworld laid bare, explored through the characters who control the “protection” industry – the bouncers and security at nightclubs and strip clubs. A book that lays bare the myth that violence and gangsterism in Cape Town is confined to the ganglands of the Cape Flats – wherever you find yourself, you’re only a hair’s breadth away from the enforcers.
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