Checkmate: How Shoprite Checkers Rewrote the Rules

Checkmate is the extraordinary untold story about how the company confronted crisis after crisis, leaning aggressively into sometimes risky cutting-edge technology, and built what is now a near impenetrable digital and physical retail fortress.

 

Loose Canon

Loose Canon is a collection of the very best of Tim Cohen’s writing. He tackles everything from Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa to BEE and Bitcoin. He questions what happened to the millions the Soccer World Cup song ‘Waka Waka’ made, ponders the Afrikaner ‘refugees’ in the United States, and more. Nothing is off limits.
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The Zuma Effect

Leading political scientists Mcebisi Ndletyana and Mashupye Maserumule recount the full story of how Zuma – through plots, proxies and power plays – transformed the ANC from a party of principle to one of rent-seeking. Drawing on more than 50 interviews with key insiders, this is the definitive account of the Zuma presidency.

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Man-Hood

Thought-provoking and deeply honest.

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Love and Violence

Prominent podcaster and analyst Mbuyiseni Ndlozi examines colonial violence and its impact on Black youths, with violence turning inward in ‘black-on-black’ violence and Black self-hatred. He deals with the subjugation and relegation of Black youths to a state of ‘permanent juniority’ under apartheid, their participation in the struggle, and the possibilities for freedom or emancipation in the current post-apartheid era.
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I Will Not Be Silenced

As a young journalist covering Jacob Zuma’s 2006 rape trial, Karyn Maughan could not have known that she would be reporting on Zuma’s legal woes for two decades – and would herself become his target, the first journalist privately prosecuted by a former president. Disarmingly honest and deeply personal, but also a razor-sharp analysis of abuse.

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Behind Prison Walls: Unlocking a Safer South Africa

“Mass incarceration has not just brought us nowhere. It has taken us backwards.” Edwin Cameron takes an unflinching look at what it will take to fix South Africa’s broken prison system and build a safer society. As inspector of prisons, he has intimate insights into what goes on behind prison walls. And it is shocking.

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