Author Interviews
One Virus, Two Countries: What COVID-19 Tells Us About South Africa – Steven Friedman
24th February 2022 Has South Africa ‘done well’ at limiting illness and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic? Academic and political commentator, Steven Friedman,... →
Poli Poli – Barbara Masekela
14th February 2022 ‘Poli Poli by Barbara Masekela is an adorable book full of childhood thrills and teeming with vignettes of memory retold in brilliant prose. It... →
Expensive Poverty: Why aid fails and how it can work – Greg Mills
31st January 2022 Africa has received $1.2-trillion in development assistance since 1990. Even though donors have spent more than $1 000 per person over these 30... →
We Can Fix Ourselves: Building a better South Africa through Black Consciousness – Mosibudi Mangena
27th January 2022 South Africa is not a poor country … It boasts one of the most sophisticated economies on the African continent. And yet we find ourselves in... →
Children of Sugarcane – Joanne Joseph
10th December 2021 Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and... →
History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present – Thula Simpson
9th December 2021 ‘Narrative history at its best. With prodigious detail and eloquent prose Simpson places Black South Africans at the centre of the country’s... →
Becoming a Doctor: Learnings and unlearnings about life and the politics of medicine – Hloni Bookholane
8th December 2021 Join Hloni Bookholane on his journey of becoming a doctor: from student to intern at the world-famous Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to the... →
In Black and White – Anant Singh
6th December 2021 Anant Singh’s journey with film began with Charlie Chaplin, flickering in black and white on a makeshift screen in the family’s modest home in... →
Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma unrest that set South Africa alight – Jeff Wicks
1st December 2021 In July 2021, with the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, dramatic and violent scenes of unrest and looting unfolded in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. More... →
Zwelethu: Our Land – Jaki Seroke
23rd November 2021 In the 1970s, Jaki Seroke criss-crossed South Africa as an underground courier between Pan Africanist Congress exiles and those on the home front.... →
Out of Quatro: From exile to exoneration – Luthando Dyasop
19th November 2021 The memoir starts with a vivid account of a young life as a black artist in apartheid South Africa. From the Wild Coast, at times idyllic despite... →
