Towards a New Deal

Towards a New Deal offers an insider account on the evolution of trade and economic policy in South Africa over the last 25 years from one of government’s most articulate and former senior members.

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Native Boy

Native Boy explores a young man’s complex relationship with identity and race, seen through the lens of township life. Mixing intelligent critique with candid humour, Molefe’s memoir shines light on the experience of being black in South Africa, both during apartheid and after, and the material and psychological legacies of its policies.

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For My Country

Why I Blew the Whistle on Zuma and the Guptas

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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When They Came For Me

In 1969, while a student at Wits University, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for survival. In this exquisitely written memoir, written half a century after the event, the author reflects on the singing of the condemned prisoners, the poetry, songs and texts that saw him through his ordeal, and its impact.

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I Am a Girl from Africa

This memoir vividly brings to life one extraordinary woman’s story of persevering through incredible odds and finding her true calling – while delivering an important message of hope and empowerment in a time when we need it most.

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Secrets from the Cockpit

Robert Schapiro is disarmingly frank about life as an international pilot. He divulges near misses, emergency landings, navigation errors, passenger shenanigans, how pilots control rowdy travellers and absorbing detail about the technique of flying different aircraft types.

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A Path Unexpected

A Path Unexpected is a memoir about family, love, loss, finding purpose and dedicating oneself to a life of service. Eloquently written and told with great sensitivity and humility, this is a memoir about how one woman’s unexpected path led to family like bonds in the unlikeliest of places, and a dream so profound that it would impact generations of young learners and the women who teach them.

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Ougat

Unsettlingly honest and brutally blunt, Ougat is Shana Fife’s story of survival: of surviving the social conditioning of her Cape Flats community, of surviving sexual violence and depression, and of ultimately escaping a cycle of abuse.

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Almost French

A Life of Fanfare and Faux Pas

Almost French is the highly entertaining account of Louis Jansen van Vuuren’s induction over the past 21 years into all things French: snooty waiters, high-brow countesses, numerous faux pas with the French language and of course, several encounters with the infamous French bureaucracy.

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