Gender-based violence takes many different forms – emotional, financial, physical, sexual and structural. It can be meted out by strangers, intimate partners or a family member. In When Secrets Become Stories women from all walks of life, across racial lines, age and income demographics, boldly speak out.
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A highly readable, dramatic story of a colourful South African journey in politics lasting over 50 years, from anti-apartheid protester to Right Honourable Lord, from Pretoria childhood to senior British Cabinet Minister.
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Journalist Arlene Prinsloo sifts fact from fiction in this revealing unauthorised biography of Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene. Prinsloo traces her life from humble beginnings in Zimbabwe, Johannesburg and Durban to the Olympic Games, her jet-set romance with the bachelor prince, a ‘fairy tale’ wedding and becoming a mother to twins.
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In The ANC Billionaires top-selling author Pieter du Toit investigates whether secret deals were struck between capital and the liberation movement to ensure the status quo remains in terms of economic policy. He also shows how the ANC was completely unprepared to navigate the intersection between business and politics.
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Business tycoon Patrice Motsepe is never shy to shake up the status quo. He has always followed his instincts to stay ahead of the curve. In this unauthorised biography, best-selling author and journalist Janet Smith mines public archives, academic papers and international media to find what lies behind this hugely successful, intensely private man, and what may lie ahead.
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An extremely sharp, well-written female revenge thriller that looks at trauma and the complicated ways in which it manifests. In a work that is, in turn, introspective and brutal, The Eye of the Beholder interweaves the lives of Cora, her daughter Freya and Angel – three women struggling to gain control of their present even as they unravel the painful truths of a cruel past.
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Jan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. David Brock Katz makes use of multiple archival sources and many of the official accounts of the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during the First World War.
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A gripping portrayal of human frailty and courage in the face of mortal danger, A Russian on Commando highlights both the strange attraction and the absurdities of war.
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This book, written by Xhosa ambassador and agriculturalist Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka, aims to capture the essence of Xhosa heritage and culture and explores the many unique characteristics of village life.
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