Extract: Get out of your Mind
In “Get out of your Mind: Lessons on embracing difference from South Africa and beyond” Luyanda Mpahlwa and Klaus Doppler use their shared experiences....
Loss and food in “Crying in H Mart” and “Brown Baby”
Food and grief have a special relationship. In Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart and Nikesh Shukla’s Brown Baby, the reader gets a beautiful...
A Home on Vorster Street: An Extract
In A Home on Vorster Street, Razina Theba witnesses the ebb and flow of a tight-knit neighbourhood trying to survive the forces of apartheid....
7 poems commemorating the Women of the anti-apartheid struggle
On August 9 1956, thousands of women marched to the Union Buildings. They were marching against the apartheid pass laws. Led by Helen Joseph,...
Extract from Pumla Dineo Gqola’s Female Fear Factory
Female Fear Factory is the much-anticipated follow up to the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award winner Rape: A South African Nightmare. Like the...
EXTRACT: That’s Not What I Meant!
That’s Not What I Meant! is a punchy how-to guide that will help you to be clear about your message, break through communication barriers,...
6 South African cookbooks to add to your kitchen
South Africa is a country with many diverse cuisines. There is something to satisfy all cravings from sweet to savoury to fusion and much...
Qhawe! Mokgadi Caster Semenya is the story of a South African...
Qhawe! Mokgadi Caster Semenya is Dr. Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s sixth book for young readers. The picture book is a celebration of the life of...
The New Apartheid shatters the idea that apartheid ever ended
In Dr. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh’s second book The New Apartheid, he examines how apartheid has reinvented itself. This book follows his first, Democracy and Delusion....
Extract: Flow: The Book About Menstruation
Flow is a new book from Kwela Books. The book, Flow, will inform, educate, empower, and inspire all those who menstruate. Written by a...
Book Review: District Six – memories, thoughts and images
The book, District Six: memories, thoughts and images, compiled and edited by Martin Greshoff, is a compilation of autobiographical stories and poetry written by...
Ziyanda Stuurman asks: “Can we be safe?” and “how” in new...
Safety and policing are major issues for all people living in South Africa but not always equally. Policing, safety and criminality are racially loaded,...
#LGBQTILife: The Pocket Queerpedia is an educational resource for understanding queerness
The Pocket Queerpedia is a resource for activists, educators and the queer community developed by The Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education. The book is...
50 Books UJ’s Professor Tshilidzi Marwala recommends for leaders
We cannot underestimate how critical strong leadership is in all aspects of our lives. In ‘Leadership Lessons From Books I Have Read’, Professor Tshilidzi...
Mbali Sebokedi is using book covers to create makeup looks
What do you get when you combine books and make-up? Well, books as lewks of course - using book covers as inspiration for makeup...
EXTRACT: Andile Gaelesiwe: Remembering
Andile Gaelesiwe is celebrated across South Africa as the adored host of Khumbul’ ekhaya on SABC 1. Yet few know that behind the glamour...
EXTRACT: But He Speaks So Well by Ivan Johnson
Journey with Ivan Johnson in this memoir of an identity crisis as the highspirited boy from a close-knit family on the Cape Flats comes...
Sindiwe Magona’s When The Village Sleeps is a must-read
Sindiwe Magona is a master storyteller and she shows it once more in her latest book. When The Village Sleeps, her latest release, is...
Book Extract: “You Have Struck a Rock”
"You Have Struck a Rock" by writer and commentator, Gugulethu Mhlungu looks at how history has shaped the conditions women face today. The book...
REVIEW: Ashraf Kagee’s new book is the story of childhood trauma
Childhood trauma has a way of changing people for the rest of their lives. But what happens when childhood trauma meets childhood neglect? It...
