Road to Glory

Jeremy Daniel

Cheslin roared with happiness as the final whistle blew PUB DATE 20 January 2021 on the field in Japan. They were champions! Later, as PRICE R100 his captain lifted the 2019 Rugby World Cup trophy ISBN 9781868429493 into the air, he had never felt prouder of himself, his e-ISBN 9781868429509 team and his country. EXTENT 144pp Cheslin Kolbe tells the story of a kid from FORMAT PB (198 x 129mm) The Road to Kraaifontein, , whose talent took him to RIGHTS World Rights Glory Series international sports stardom, first to Toulouse France, CATEGORY Young Adult and eventually to getting the call-up that would change his life forever: to play for the Springbok 2019 World Cup XV. It’s a heartwarming story of a small player with a big heart whose signature side-step helped the Springboks win the World Cup trophy for . Cheslin Kolbe is the eighth book in the best_ selling ‘Road to Glory’ series, which covers some of South Africa’s sporting legends as they set out on their journeys to becoming national and international stars.

Jeremy Daniel is an author, screenwriter and musician.

January | 3 ‘This book should be part of every corporate onboarding programme!’ — Celiwe Ross

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Richard Steyn Isn’t Enough A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace Louis Botha was ’n briljante Boeregeneraal wat etlike PUB DATE 20 January 2021 oorwinnings oor die Britse magte in die eerste fase van PRICE R270 Carice Anderson die Anglo-Boereoorlog behaal het. Maar dit was sy ISBN 9781776190287 enigmatiese karakter en vaste oortuiging om te hou by e-ISBN 9781776190294 wat hy geglo het reg was, wat hom as ’n leier van die EXTENT 320pp Intelligence Isn’t Enough will empower Black PUB DATE 8 February 2021 Boerevolk gevestig het. FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) professionals, entering the workforce or already at PRICE R250.00 Richard Steyn beskryf verhelderend hoe Botha RIGHTS World Rights work, teaching them to survive and thrive in the ISBN 9781776190782 saam met sy hegte vriend, Jan Smuts, die vier Suid- CATEGORY History, Biography corporate environment. e-ISBN 9781776190799 Afrikaanse kolonies na Uniewording in 1910 gelei het. Anderson, with vast experience at top EXTENT 260pp Gedurende die Eerste Wêreldoorlog was Botha aan die companies as a professional development manager FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) voorpunt van die Suid-Afrikaanse magte se suksesvolle and coach, shares her knowledge. Insider status has RIGHTS World Rights inval van Duits-Suidwes-Afrika. Hy is egter deur given her access to revelatory industry trends and CATEGORY Business talle Afrikaners verkwalik vir sy steun aan Brittanje insights on the harsh realities of corporates. Often, gedurende die oorlog. Black professionals struggle the most and become Botha se groothartige en vrygewige omgang met demotivated early on in their professional lives as mense – van Vereeniging tot Versailles – het hom bo sy they lack the necessary skills, most of which aren’t tydgenote laat uitstaan. taught at university. This book will help Black professionals About the book strategically perform in their careers. The author uses her own experience as a mentor, teacher and Richard Steyn Louis Botha, the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, was a brilliant researcher, as well as the advice and personal is a bestselling Boer general who won significant victories over the British in the Anglo-Boer War. anecdotes from 30 successful Black leaders to guide author and a retired Botha was big-hearted, generous and globally respected. In 1914, he put the reader. newspaper editor. down an Afrikaner rebellion over the Union’s participation in the Great War, even By mastering the balance between working on Carice Anderson has though many of the rebels were old war comrades. In Versailles 1919, he pleaded versus working in your career you can start making 17 years’ experience as a unsuccessfully for magnanimity towards a defeated Germany and shortly after more strategic decisions critical to your success and professional development died an untimely death. advancement in the workplace. manager and coach.

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The Unicorn Baby Debunking 10 myths of modern parenting

Roxanne Atkinson

If you have read parenting books or searched the PUB DATE 22 February 2021 Internet for parenting tips you have most likely PRICE R250.00 Myth stumbled across the mythical Unicorn Baby. This is the ISBN 9781776190768 Your baby grows and baby who feeds every four hours and sleeps through e-ISBN 9781776190775 develops every day the night, sits at six months, pees pure gold and poops EXTENT 280pp rainbows. FORMAT Demy (210 x 138 mm) Reality Whether this baby exists or not does not matter. RIGHTS World Rights Myth Your baby will grow and What matters is this: you did not get this baby. If CATEGORY Parenting You must teach your baby to develop in leaps and you are looking to answer the question: “Is my baby sleep through the night spurts normal?” then you are in the right place. The author uses her professional experience as Reality an occupational therapist to identify and debunk ten There is no magic formula modern parenting myths that cause all kinds of anxiety that will make your baby for new parents. sleep through the night – no The aim is to help parents understand why their matter what you do baby may not be behaving as they were told they would. Acknowledging that every baby is unique, this book helps new parents navigate the first year and shares some fascinating stories of other real-life babies.

Roxanne Atkinson is an Occupational Therapist with a special interest in paediatrics and neuro- developmental therapy.

February | 7 ‘Anyone who wants to understand South Africa today – a country so beautiful, yet so broken – simply has to read this book.’ – Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford.

Slabbert Future Tense Man on a Mission Reflections on my Troubled Land

Albert Grundlingh Tony Leon

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was a man on a mission, PUB DATE 15 February 2021 Future Tense analyses the squandered and corrupted PUB DATE 3 March 2021 whether as an academic, opposition politician, PRICE R275 years since Leon’s first award-winning biography. PRICE R275 democratic facilitator or businessman. When he ISBN 9781776190379 Leon, with unique access and penetrating ISBN 9781776190744 famously led a delegation of leading Afrikaners to e-ISBN 9781776190386 insight, presents a portrait of today’s South Africa e-ISBN 9781776190751 Dakar in 1987 to meet the exiled ANC, many saw it EXTENT 312pp and prospective future, based on his vast political EXTENT 280pp as a breakthrough moment, while others felt he had FORMAT TPB (233 x 152mm) involvement with key power players. His intimate FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) been taken in. And yet his reputation – for honesty, RIGHTS World Rights view of these presidents and their history-making, RIGHTS World Rights integrity, wit and courage – still towers above many of CATEGORY Biography and Memoir and his many worldly encounters, reflects on a CATEGORY Current Affairs his contemporaries. country and planet in upheaval. An academic turned politician, Slabbert brought Leon also provides an insider view for the unusual intellectual rigour to Parliament, transforming first time of the power struggles within the official the upstart Progressive Federal Party into a force that opposition party, which saw the exit of its first black could challenge the National Party. Disillusioned by leader in 2019. South African society, he resigned in 1986 to explore Written during the coronavirus lockdown, democratic alternatives. Sidelined during the democratic Future Tense also examines the surge of both the transition, he continued to pursue a broad range of Professor Albert disease and the response, which has crashed the initiatives aimed at building democracy, empowering Grundlingh is the author, economy and its future prospects, as well as the rise black South Africans and transforming the economy. co-author and editor of a number of a dangerous Julius Malema-led populism, and Grundlingh offers insights into this most unlikely of books, and has published how this echoes global discontent elsewhere. Tony Leon is a former leader politician, providing new perspectives on a figure who numerous articles in international There is every reason to fear for the future of of the Democratic Alliance, a even today remains an enigma. academic journals. South Africa, but Leon advocates hope. qualified attorney, and an author.

February | 8 March | 9 The Boy Who Never Gave Up A Refugee’s Epic Journey to Triumph Years of Fire and Ash South African Poems of Decolonisation Emmanuel Taban with Andrew Crofts Edited by Wamuwi Mbao

In 1994, sixteen-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked PUB DATE 15 March 2021 In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of PUB DATE 15 March 2021 out of war-torn Sudan with nothing, and nowhere PRICE R265 Decolonisation, fifty years of protest poetry are PRICE R250 to go. In the preceding months, he was abducted ISBN 9781776191260 brought together in a single volume by literary critic ISBN 9780868522517 and then tortured by government forces, who falsely e-ISBN 9781776191277 and lecturer Dr Wamuwi Mbao. The animating EXTENT 256pp accused him of spying for the South Sudanese rebels. EXTENT 224pp impulse behind this collection of old and new voices FORMAT Demy (210 x 138 mm) He managed to flee, hoping to be reunited FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) is ‘decolonisation’, a term which has regained RIGHTS World Rights with his family, but ended up going on a long and RIGHTS World (excl US, prominence over the last few years. It allows us to CATEGORY Poetry arduous journey through many African countries to Germany, Italy, South Sudan, perceive how different South African poets have South Africa. For many months Taban lived mostly Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, placed their work in the world, and how that on the street and faced many dangers, but he refused Rwanda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, work might relate to the struggle for radical social to give up. Burundi, Somalia, Mozambique) transformation. How, then, does decolonization He arrived in South Africa penniless, and with CATEGORY Biography and Memoir look like in the world of South African poetry? This only five years of schooling. Determined to get a anthology is an attempt to answer that question. proper education, Taban first completed school The poems express the thoughts and experiences and then his medical studies. After specialising of poets who experienced Apartheid, but also of those as a pulmonologist in 2018, he recently made a who address current political realities. This collection ground-breaking discovery around the treatment of includes established voices as well as prominent Wamuwi Mbao is a literary hypoxemic COVID-19 patients. Emmanuel Taban is one of contemporary poets. critic, lecturer, and writer. Taban overcame extreme poverty, racism and only ten black pulmonologists xenophobia to become the man he is today. Heart- in South Africa. He has warming and inspiring, his life story is one of survival a practice at Midstream against all odds. Mediclinic in Midrand.

March | 10 March | 11 ‘It will terrify you but it’s a story you must know.’ – Mandy Wiener

Give Us More Guns How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed

Mark Shaw

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March | 12 March | 13 ‘When we moved from the farm, my mother Towards A New Deal was especially A Political Economy of the Times of My Life concerned about my survival. Rob Davies How would her youngest child negotiate the South Africa’s past has been shaped by one of the drama of township oldest political alliances in southern Africa, that life; how would between the African National Congress and the South he transform African Communist Party. from a suspected Davies offers an insider account on the evolution maplazini to an of trade and economic policy in South Africa. accepted urban, Beginning in the early 1970s up to now, Davies gives township boy?’ insight into the inner workings of the government. He concludes with a chapter on the ‘new dawn’ PUB DATE 24 March 2021 focusing primarily on the impacts of COVID-19 PRICE R290.00 and the challenging period that lies ahead. Told ISBN 9781776190935 with intriguing anecdotes and Davies’ personal and e-ISBN 9781776190942 Native Boy humanising history of activism and time spent in EXTENT 280pp Confessions of a exile, this memoir presents a strong case for economic FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) maplazini in the city change and is essential reading to grasp the political RIGHTS World Rights and economic dynamics of the moment. CATEGORY Current Affairs Thabo A. Molefe

Rob Davies is a former Member of Parliament and BELOW: With Nhlanhla Nene, Christine Molefe and his family were impelled into the apartheid- PUB DATE 16 April 2021 served as Minister of Trade and Industry. He holds Lagarde (then IMF Managing Director) era tradition of rural-to-urban transition. Moving PRICE R250.00 a PhD in Political Studies and a Master’s degree in and President Cyril Ramaphosa, New from a farm to a multi-ethnic, vibrant township in ISBN 9781776190249 International Relations. York 2018. Heidelberg is both a challenge and an adventure as e-ISBN 9781776190256 he works to evade the nickname that has followed EXTENT 232pp him as a result – ‘maplazini’, Sotho for a dumb FORMAT Demy (210 x 138 mm) country bumpkin. RIGHTS Southern Africa Native Boy explores Molefe’s complex CATEGORY Biography and Memoir relationship with identity and race through the lens of township life. It is about his journey to escape the socio-economic trap of the apartheid regime to forever limit the black man to a life of hardship. Mixing intelligent critique with candid humour, Thabo Abram Molefe is Molefe’s memoir illuminates the experience of being an independent consultant black in South Africa, both during apartheid and and business improvement after, and the material and psychological legacies of professional with a deep affinity its policies. for South African art and culture.

March | 14 April | 15 ‘It’s a play rich in humanity and experience.’ – LondonTheatre.co.uk

Hitler’s Spies Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa Kunene and Evert Kleynhans the King

John Kani The story of the intelligence war in South Africa PUB DATE 16 April 2021 during the Second World War is one of suspense, PRICE R275 drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, the German ISBN 9781776190201 South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the PUB DATE 22 April 2021 government secretly reached out to the leadership of e-ISBN 9781776190218 first post-apartheid democratic elections, two men PRIC R120.00 the anti-war movement, the Ossewabrandwag. EXTENT 280pp from contrasting walks of life are thrust together to ISBN 9781776191321 The Nazis’ aim was to spread sedition in South FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) reflect on a quarter-century of change. Jack Morris e-ISBN 9781776191338 Africa and to undermine the Allied war effort. The RIGHTS World Rights is a celebrated classical actor who has just been EXTENT TBC critical strategic importance of the sea route around the CATEGORY History given both a career-defining role and a life-changing SIZE PB (198 x 129 mm) Cape of Good Hope meant that the Germans were also diagnosis. Besides his age, Jack has seemingly little RIGHTS World Rights after naval intelligence. Soon U-boat packs were sent to in common with his at-home nurse Lunga Kunene, CATEGORY Play operate in South African waters, to deadly effect. but the two men soon discover their shared passion With the help of the Ossewabrandwag, a network for Shakespeare, which ignites this ‘rich, raw and of spies was established to gather important political shattering head-to-head’ (The Times). and military intelligence and relay it back to the Written by South African actor, activist and Reich. Agents would use a variety of channels to send playwright John Kani, this refreshingly funny and coded messages to Axis diplomats in neighbouring vital new play premiered in the Swan Theatre, Mozambique. Meanwhile, police detectives and MI5 Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019, before transferring to agents hunted in vain for illegal wireless transmitters. Dr Evert Kleynhans is a the Ambassadors Theatre in . A co-production Bonisile John Kani is a South Hitler’s Spies present an unrivalled account of lecturer in military history at with the Fugard Theatre, it was directed by Janice African actor, activist, author, German intelligence networks that operated in wartime the University of Stellenbosch’s Honeyman with moving performances from Antony director and award-winning South Africa. Military Academy in Saldanha. Sher and John Kani. playwright.

April | 16 April | 17 Fortunes The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons

Ebbe Dommisse ‘John’s exquisitely The past three decades have seen a remarkable rise of written Afrikaners in business. With Koos Bekker at its helm, media group Naspers began dominating the Stock memoir tells us Exchange and was turned into a global consumer internet about human group. Johann Rupert strongly extended Richemont’s share endurance, internationally in the upper-end market of luxury goods, while Christo Wiese and Whitey Basson at Pepkor and Shoprite survival, became Africa’s largest clothing and food retailers. repair and Fortunes describes how these and other business leaders, transcendence.’ such as Jannie Mouton, Michiel le Roux, Douw Steyn, – Albie Sachs Roelof Botha, Hendrik du Toit and a number of commercial farmers, built their empires. It looks at their life and business philosophies and what makes them such successful PUB DATE 30 April 2021 entrepreneurs. PRICE R310 Recent years have also seen the sensational collapse of ISBN 9781868427543 Steinhoff International, the furniture retailer led by Markus e-ISBN 9781868427550 Jooste that destroyed some of these fortunes. While Jooste EXTENT 360pp When They is the topic of one of the chapters, another looks at the FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) philanthropic projects most of these tycoons are involved in. RIGHTS World Rights Came for Me CATEGORY Business, Current The Hidden Diary of an Ebbe Dommisse is the former editor-in-chief of Die Burger Affairs Apartheid Prisoner and the author of the best-selling Anton Rupert – A Biography. John R. Schlapobersky

In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John PUB DATE April 2021 Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid PRICE R280 Available in Afrikaans and tortured, detained and eventually deported. ISBN 9781776191031 Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote e-ISBN 9781776191048 ’n Ongekende opkoms van Afrikaner-magnate het die Suid-Afrikaanse secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for EXTENT 238pp ekonomie die afgelope drie dekades gekenmerk. Vandag ding talle van hulle survival. In this exquisitely written memoir, the author FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) internasionaal mee. reflects on the singing of the condemned prisoners, RIGHTS Southern Africa Fortuine verduidelik hoe sakeleiers soos Koos Bekker, Christo Wiese, the poetry, songs and texts that saw him through his CATEGORY Biography and Memoir Whitey Basson, Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Michiel le Roux, GT Ferreira, ordeal, and its impact. He transformed his life - guided PUB DATE 30 April 2021 Roelof Botha, Johan van Zyl en ’n aantal megaboere hul sakeryke tot stand by a sense of hope - working as a psychotherapist PRICE R310.00 gebring het. Dit beskryf hul lewens- en sakefilosofieë en wat van hulle sulke with a continuing focus on rehabilitation with others. ISBN 9781868427567 suksesvolle entrepreneurs maak. Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this story to e-ISBN 9781868427574 Daar is ook hoofstukke oor die filantropiese projekte waarby van hierdie make it a vital historical document, one of its time and John R. Schlapobersky is a FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) superrykes betrokke is en die dinge waarop hulle hul miljoene uitgee. one for our own. Consultant Psychotherapist. RIGHTS World Rights CATEGORY Business, Current Ebbe Dommisse is ’n oudredakteur van Die Burger en die Affairs skrywer van die topverkoper Anton Rupert – ’n biografie.

April | 18 April | 19 ‘This is a self-help book. More or less. If my family and friends heard that I was penning a self-help book there may be some guffawing, possibly even a bit of thigh Uncaptured slapping. So, let’s rather go with a “lessons learnt” and Why I Blew the Whistle on Zuma and the Guptas “business” book.’ Themba Maseko

In 2010 government spokesperson Themba Maseko was called to a meeting at the Gupta’s Saxonwold house and asked by Ajay Gupta to divert the government’s entire advertising budget to their media company. When he refused to do so, he was forced to resign from government a few months later. When, in 2016, the ANC NEC called on members with evidence of wrongdoing by the Guptas PUB DATE 3 May 2021 to make an official submission to the party, Maseko PRICE R260.00 was the only person to do so. His statement helped to ISBN 9781776190539 expose state capture at a time when former president e-ISBN 9781776190546 Jacob Zuma vehemently denied it and helped to set EXTENT 224pp in motion the process that culminated in the Zondo FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. RIGHTS World Rights Hustling, Happiness, This deeply personal and revelatory account CATEGORY Current Affairs describes the challenges faced by a civil servant who and a Blow-Up Doll refused to be ‘captured’ and his disillusionment at how Named Percy the principles of the struggle were undermined during the Zuma era, as well as the impact his whistleblowing Dale Hefer had on his personal and professional life.

A compelling and often bizarre array of anecdotes and PUB DATE 3 May 2021 ‘When I joined the struggle as Themba Maseko is the former stories that will help you navigate your business and PRICE R260.00 a 13-year-old boy in Soweto CEO of the Government personal lives in this most peculiar of worlds. ISBN 9781776190904 Communication Information What do the knees of a deputy president, a e-ISBN 9781776190911 I would never have imagined Systems (GCIS, 2006-2011) and blow-up doll and a model with big nipples have in EXTENT TBC that one day I would blow the government spokesperson. He common? They all taught the author valuable life FORMAT Demy (210 x 138 mm) currently works as an independent lessons. Drawing on real-life experiences and humorous RIGHTS World Rights whistle on a special kind of consultant. anecdotes, Hefer shows how to make some sense CATEGORY Business corruption that was destroying of this strange world and shares tips about trying to navigate it. The book draws on her experiences the party and the values I had ranging from an award-winning marketing career to been fighting for all my life.’ her ongoing battle with alcohol. In addition to her own conclusions, Hefer draws on the wisdom of her Dale Hefer is in advertising favourite philosophers – the Stoics, business partners, and is an award-winning friends and of course her mum! businesswoman.

May | 20 May | 21 ‘Who am I, and This memoir is how do I live? That SCHALK about family, is something this BURGER love, loss, finding story will hopefully SNR purpose and WITH MICHAEL bring out of me. So, VLISMAS dedicating oneself how do I tell this JUST A to a life of service. MOMENT story? By digging A MEMOIR below the surface of what you think you see.’

Just a Moment A Memoir A Path Unexpected A Memoir Schalk Burger Snr with Michael Vlismas Jane Evans

One for the rugby fans, the life and times of Schalk PUB DATE 24 May 2021 In A Path Unexpected, Evans shares her life, working PUB DATE 10 June 2021 Burger Snr. Now in his early 60s, he looks back at a PRICE R275.00 as a journalist in the big city, then moving to the small PRICE R280 life of hard knocks on and off the field (he received ISBN 9781776190843 town of Viljoenskroon in the northern Free State ISBN 9781776191185 and gave a few), lots of rugby and other stories e-ISBN 9781776190850 with her husband, Anthony Evans, a well-known e-ISBN 9781776191192 about farming and family, fights with officialdom, his EXTENT 256pp and respected businessman and farmer. It is here that EXTENT TBC children (including the famous Schalk Jnr). FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) she created her non-profit organisation to provide FORMAT TPB (233 x 152 mm) In Just a Moment, one of the greats of Spring­ RIGHTS World Rights education and training for the wives and children of RIGHTS World Rights bok rugby reveals the many other layers of his CATEGORY Biography and Memoir farm labourers during the height of apartheid. Her CATEGORY Biography and Memoir colourful life. profound influence on these families labels her as an From rugby legend to businessman, wine farmer, activist for her early childhood development (ECD) cultural custodian, musician, father and grandfather, Schalk Burger Snr was a and adult teaching advocacy in rural communities. Schalk Burger’s memoir is an intensely personal and Springbok rugby player and This memoir is about family, love, loss, finding honest journey of the triumphs and hardships that businessman. He runs Welbedacht purpose and dedicating oneself to a life of service. have shaped the life of a much-loved South African. wine farm in the Cape. Eloquently written and told with great sensitivity and Jane Evans has held positions This is a glimpse into a particular time in South Michael Vlismas is a sports humility, this is a memoir about how one woman’s on a number of ECD government African history, seen through the eyes of one of the journalist and broadcaster who unexpected path led to family-like bonds in the bodies as well as serving as a country’s most recognised figures, and told in the owns his own sports media unlikeliest of places, and a dream so profound that it trustee. She is also the founder stories of the many lives that intersected with his. agency. He is the author of would impact generations of young learners and the and former-CEO of Ntataise several books. women who teach them. Network Support Programme.

May | 22 June | 23 ‘Three months shy of my 21st birthday, and I had committed the one unforgivable act for a coloured girl from the Cape Flats. I sat on the toilet, staring at the pregnancy test, mostly confused by how I had fallen so far and so quickly down the social ladder. The sex I had been having wasn’t even worth the Afrikaner Sondebok? trouble I was in. But the Die lewe van Hans Van Rensburg, two lines that were almost Ossewabrandwag-leier glowing in one of the darkest moments of my Albert Blake life were there, and they weren’t fading.’

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Money nerd Sam Beckbessinger tells it to you straight: how to Sam Beckbessinger, bestselling author of Manage Your Money ‘Anton Harber’s new book is an excoriating examination of the This revealing account of former SARS executive Johann van get your sh*t together and take control of your money, in order like a F*cking Grown-up, brings you a new “mouth washed out manipulation and collapse of the integrity of the Sunday Times Loggerenberg’s life as a deep-cover police agent in the early to take control of your life. She has a plan for you, whatever your with soap” edition for teens. Don’t you wish you’d started saving newspaper during the later Jacob Zuma years… Harber has written 1990s offers a behind-the-scenes view on organized crime and financial situation – because, as she says, money is simple, but and investing when you were younger? Well, this is the book that a gripping and important book. It is an essential read for anyone the activities of drug lords, bank robbers and corrupt cops. finance dudes want you to think it’s hard. aims to get kids thinking about the basics of money and lay the who wants to understand the often shocking ways in which a ‘A powerful book that shows what spying for the public good solid foundation in financial education that most of us never had. corrupt and authoritarian political class effectively manipulated the might look like.’ – Jacob Dlamini public sphere.’ – Imraan Buccus

Autopsy The Stellenbosch Mafia Black Tax Life in the Trenches with a The Pink Line Inside the Billionaire’s Club Burden or Ubuntu? Forensic Pathologist in Africa Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers

Pieter du Toit Niq Mhlongo (Editor) Ryan Blumenthal Mark Gevisser

REVISED EDITION WITH NEW AFTERWORD

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A runaway bestseller, The Stellenbosch Mafia investigates if this A secret torment for some, a proud responsibility for others, As a medical detective of the modern world, leading forensic ‘Mark Gevisser’s account of the global fight over LGBT rights is a ‘club’ of billionaires officially exists, and also whether the town has so-called black tax is a daily reality for thousands of black South pathologist Ryan Blumenthal’s chief goal is to bring perpetrators to hugely ambitious and exceptional work of long-form journalism. an outsized influence on South African business and society. Africans. In this thought-provoking and moving anthology, a justice. In Autopsy he describes some of the most unusual cases he Eight years in the making, with stories from Malawi, South ‘Comrade president, Stellenbosch is a big problem. We know your provocative range of voices share their deeply personal stories. has encountered, shares a few trade secrets and takes the readers Africa, Egypt, Russia, India, Mexico, Israel and the Palestinian proximity to Stellenbosch…we have not elected Stellenbosch here… behind the scenes at the mortuary. territories, this is a landmark study of unprecedented frontiers in we have not elected the Ruperts here.’ – Julius Malema the battle for civil rights.’ – The Washington Post

Backlist Highlights | 26 Backlist Highlights | 27 Almost French A Wilder Life Miracle Men A Life of Fanfare and Faux Pas Journey of an Adventuring Doctor How Rassie’s Springboks won the World Cup Against All Odds

Louis Jansen Van Vuuren Joan Louwrens Lloyd Burnard Jeremy Daniel

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A highly entertaining account of artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren’s Dr Joan Louwrens was always drawn to wild places. When her Follow the thrilling journey of a team that went from no-hopers to This is the unauthorised biography of the Springbok captain who induction into all things French as he turned a dilapidated château husband died, leaving her alone with two small daughters to world champions. Miracle Men is filled with marvellous anecdotes lead his team to victory against all odds. Kolisi’s remarkable into a boutique hotel. Louis interweaves the stories about his life in raise, she threw herself wholeheartedly into ‘adventure medicine’, and sharp insights. It is also an inspiring testimony to what can story is unique and deserves to be heard. ‘Siya Kolisi arrived at France with bits of history and fascinating information about French seeking out the world’s most remote corners – on land and at sea – be achieved when a group of South Africans from all backgrounds the Rugby World Cup in Japan as a captain. He returned home culture and traditions. *Also available in Afrikaans to practise her healing, both her own and others’. come together as a team. a leader. The Springbok triumph in November 2019 was the culmination of a journey against incredible odds.’

A Woman Makes a Plan Madness Africa First! Seven Votes Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, And Success Stories of Uncertainty and Hope Igniting A Growth Revolution How WWII Changed South Africa Forever

Maye Musk Sean Baumann Jakkie Cilliers Richard Steyn

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With an indomitable spirit, supermodel and dietitian-nutritionist Maye ‘This book has irrevocably changed my understanding of Esteemed Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios In the end, it was a mere seven votes in the all-white House of Musk overcame several hardships in life with a no-nonsense attitude madness. Through succinct and often poetic accounts Baumann to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a Assembly that took South Africa into World War Two. It was and the firm belief that while one cannot control everything, you can [allows] glimpses of the brave, fearful, lonely and vulnerable growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into to change the course of the country’s history, as Richard Steyn always make a plan. In her compelling memoir, the mother of South humanities of those suffering from psychiatric disorders, employment. ‘A roadmap that could turn Africa’s potential into demonstrates in his brilliant new book. African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk shares frank, practical advice on especially schizophrenia. The text, illuminated by extraordinary prosperity.’ – President Cyril Ramaphosa career, beauty, family, adventure and more. artwork, compels one to believe that beyond all the distress and despair, there is, and always should be, hope.’ – Antjie Krog

Backlist Highlights | 28 Backlist Highlights | 29 Always Another Country No Longer Whispering to Power Khwezi Jan Smuts A Memoir of Exile and Home The Story of Thuli Madonsela The Remarkable Story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo Unafraid of Greatness

Sisonke Msimang Thandeka Gqubule Redi Tlhabi Richard Steyn

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD 2018

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This memoir is at heart a chronicle of a coming-of-age, and while No Longer Whispering to Power is the biography of Thuli In sensitive and considered language, Tlhabi tells the story of Khwezi Jan Christiaan Smuts was world famous as a soldier, statesman well-known South African political figures appear in these pages, it is Madonela with a particular focus on her tenure as Public and draws attention to the sexual abuse that abounded during the and intellectual, one of South Africa’s greatest leaders. Yet little an intimate story, a testament to family bonds and sisterhood. Protector.­ It stands as a record of the crucial work Madonsela struggle years, abuse that continues to plague South African women and is said or written about him today, even though we appear to ‘Brutally and uncompromisingly honest, Sisonke’s beautifully crafted has done, always acting without fear or favour. children today. ‘Khwezi is about restoring to Kuzwayo what was taken live in a leadership vacuum. This book re-examines the life and storytelling enriches the already extraordinary pool of young African from her over a decade ago: her name, her identity, and her life…a thoughts of Smuts. women writers of our time.’ – Graça Machel sobering read from any number of perspectives.’ – Rebecca Davis

Blessed by Bosasa Africa Reimagined Inside Gavin Watson’s State Capture Cult Reclaiming a sense of abundance and prosperity A Short History of South Africa One Day in Bethlehem

Adriaan Basson Hlumelo Biko Gail Nattrass Jonny Steinberg

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The riveting investigation into an extraordinary story of high-level Africa Reimagined is a passionately argued appeal for a This readable and thorough history of South Africa, illustrated with The heart-stopping story of one man’s justice denied during corruption and state capture in the name of religion and BEE. rediscovery of our African identity. Going beyond the problems maps and photographs, is a culmination of a lifetime of researching the birth pains of democratic South Africa. ‘A heartbreaking Adriaan Basson exposes the shady, cult-like underbelly of Gavin of a single country, Hlumelo Biko calls for a reorientation of and teaching, collecting stories, taking students on tours around the epic... impeccably researched and beautifully told by a vintage Watson’s criminal company that funded the ANC and crooked values, on a continental scale, to suit the needs and priorities country, and working with distinguished historians. A must for all Steinberg.’ – Jacques Pauw comrades while sucking the fiscus dry. ‘You will be blessed when of Africans. ‘Your choice of identity is the most important those interested in South Africa, within the country and abroad. you come in and blessed when you go out.’ choice you will ever make.’

Backlist Highlights | 30 Backlist Highlights | 31 Die Brug Cuito Cuanavale Jane’s Delicious A–Z of Herbs Baby Board Books Na die hel en terug in Angola 12 Months of War that Transformed a Continent A Guide to Growing Herbs Organically in South Africa Farm Animals, Baby Faces, Vegetables, Trucks

Deon Lamprecht Fred Bridgland Jane Griffiths Imagnary House

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Die Brug tells the stories, in their own voices, of a small band of This gripping account of the last bloody battles around the southern Jane’s Delicious A-Z of Herbs is a detailed and richly illustrated This series of board books is designed for tiny hands and uses brothers – young national servicemen of 61 Mechanised Infantry Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale in 1988 has become a Border A-Z reference of more than 80 herbs. The book covers planting a combination of vibrant pictures (using South African children, Battalion – who fought in the last, most intense and chaotic battles War classic. Thousands died in the fighting, vividly and dramatically and growing, medicinal and culinary uses, as well as their many foods, animals and cars) as well as simple words to teach and in Angola. Thirty years after the war they come together once more at retold by Fred Bridgland. It is based on in-depth research and healing properties. help build a child’s vocabulary. the place where one of their number fell during their last battle. interviews with both high-level officers of the South African *Only available in Afrikaans Defence Force and ordinary soldiers.

Gunship Over Angola Iron Fist from The Sea Foodies of SA Melusi’s Everyday Zulu The Story of a Maverick Pilot Top Secret Seaborne Recce Operations (1978-1988) The Most Viral Recipes Ever! There is um’Zulu in all of us

Steve Joubert Arnè Söderlund & Douw Steyn Chantal Botha, Hayley Murison & Julie Brown Melusi Tshabalala

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Steve Joubert had barely qualified as a chopper pilot when he was From Cabinda in Angola to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, 4 Local is extra lekker in this cookbook that brings you mouth- Melusi’s Everyday Zulu pokes fun at our differences and makes sent to fly missions in the Border War to supply air cover to troops on Reconnaissance Regiment (4 Recce) conducted numerous watering recipes like Pap in a Pumpkin, Cheesy Braai Bombs, us laugh at ourselves and each other. Melusi asks critical the ground. As an Alouette pilot, he saw some of the worst scenes of clandestine seaborne raids during the Border War. They A-maize-ing Chakalaka Dippers, Croque Meneer and Steri Stumpie questions of everyone from taxi drivers to toddlers. The book the war. In this moving memoir he shares some of these experiences attacked strategic targets such as oil storage facilities, Hot Chocolate. This book has already become a much-consulted, holds up a mirror that shows South African society in all its and describes how it led him eventually to question his role in the transport infrastructure and even ships. This fascinating dog-eared, flour-dusted, timeworn companion to many. flaws and its sheer humanity. war effort. work will enthral anyone with an interest in Special Forces operations. *Also available in Afrikaans

Backlist Highlights | 32 Backlist Highlights | 33 New Daughters of Africa The New Century of An international anthology of writing by Wreed én Mooi is die Dood Robey Leibbrandt South African Poetry women of African descent Verhale oor verlies, hunkering en heling ’n Lewe van fanatisme

Michael Chapman (Editor) Margaret Busby (Editor) Edited by Tobie Wiese Albert Blake

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No single anthology of poetry can encompass the diversity of Custom, tradition, friendships, sisterhood, romance, sexuality, Wreed én mooi is die dood (The Beauty and Cruelty of Death) – is a An epic journey in a small yacht from France to Namaqualand South Africa. The updated New Century, nonetheless, offers a intersectional feminism, the politics of gender, race and compilation of deeply personal, yet uplifting stories by well-known during World War II, acts of sabotage and plans to assassinate comprehensive selection from the oral past to the present day and identity—all and more are explored in this glorious collection Afrikaans authors and personalities that lifts the lid on the grief of Prime Minister Jan Smuts . . . In the early 1940s, the daring acts includes poets who have made or are currently making their mark. of work from over 200 women writers of African descent. losing a loved one, dealing with one’s own mortality, the power of of espionage by the famous Olympic boxer and infamous spy rituals around death, and much more. * Only available in Afrikaans Robey Leibbrandt gripped the South African public’s imagination. * Only available in Afrikaans

The Resurrection of Robert Sobukwe Winnie Mandela How Can Man Die Better (3rd Revised Edition) Die Boek Van Twee Weë Jodi Picoult

Sisonke Msimang Benjamin Pogrund Jodi Picoult Ander Jodi Picoult-boeke in Afrikaans

3 November 2018 15 June 2015 15 October 2020 R160.00 R275.00 R320 9781868429554 (p) 9781868426812 (p) 9781776190805 (p) 9781868429561 (e) 9781868426829 (e) 9781776190812 (e) 176pp 420pp 448pp PB (198 x 129 mm) TPB (233 x 152 mm) TPB (233 x 152 mm) Biography and Memoir Biography and Memoir Fiction Southern Africa Rights World Rights World Rights

This book examines one of South Africa’s most controversial The biography of Robert Sobukwe, the lonely prisoner on Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on Die belydenis Negentien minute political figures, of the rise and fall – and rise, again, – of a Robben Island. ‘I am greatly privileged to have known him a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare R190 R220 woman who not only battled the apartheid regime, but the and to have fallen under his spell. His long imprisonment, for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her 9781868429981 (p) 9781776190003 (p) patriarchal character of the struggle itself. Winnie’s story shows restriction and early death were a major tragedy for our land mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but 9781868429998 (e) 9781776190010 (e) us that activism matters and that the meaning of women’s lives and for the world.’ – Archbishop Desmond Tutu a man she last saw fifteen years ago in Egypt: Wyatt Armstrong. can be reclaimed. * Only available in Afrikaans ‘’n Uitstekende vertaling wat Afrikaanse lesers wat nog nie Picoult se werk ken nie sal lanseer in haar skrywerskap in.’ – Kerneels Breytenbach

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