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.
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This deeply personal and revelatory account describes the challenges faced by a civil servant who refused to be ‘captured’ and his disillusionment at how the principles of the struggle were undermined during the Zuma era.
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Leon, with unique access and penetrating insight, presents a portrait of today’s South Africa and prospects for its future, based on his political involvement over thirty years with the key power players: Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk.
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In Give us more Guns, author Mark Shaw explores how illegally sold guns got into the hands of South Africa’s crime bosses. The book describes the bloodbath that ensued and uncovers accounts of rampant corruption within the police and in the gun licensing system, probing the government failure that has been instrumental in arming the country’s gangsters.
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Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of hammermen (hitmen), informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen. The book examines a system in which contract killings have become the norm, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to be a hitman – or woman.
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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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A timeless South African classic of fiction, Jock of the Bushveld is the much-loved story based on the true experiences of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and his Staffordshire bull terrier, Jock.
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Seasoned journalists Jonathan Ancer and Chris Whitfield take a magnifying glass to Pravin Gordhan, someone who has been at the centre of South Africa’s most tumultuous period and try to understand the man behind the public image.
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In Killer Stories, Hodgskiss uses interviews, combined with the tenets of narrative psychology, to take the reader into the minds of killers. He lays out how the stories these men tell themselves about their lives contributed to where they ended up – and how they aren’t that different from the stories we all tell ourselves.
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