Shocking findings show that the majority of South African learners hardly have basic literacy and numeracy skills. Education expert Graeme Bloch identifies the dangerous combination of factors that cause our school system to fail. He gets under the skin of the Education Department ...
This collection brings together the annual Steve Biko lectures delivered between 2000 and 2008. The prestigious list of contributors includes Chinua Achebe, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Njabulo Ndebele, Mamphela Ramphele, Thabo Mbeki, Trevor Manuel and Zakes Mda. ...
Everyone said it couldn’t be done. Certainly no-one had done it before, though many had tried: to run the Great Wall of China, end to end, non-stop. In running the main intact section of the Great Wall, a total of 4 500 kilometres, Braam Malherbe and his running partner David Grier set a world fir ...
Chris Hani was a hero of South Africa’s liberation, a Communist Party leader and Umkhonto we Sizwe chief of staff who was both an intellectual and a fighter. This is the only biography of this charismatic leader who was assassinated in 1993. It tells the story of Hani’s life, from his childhood ...
Two remarkable tales woven together - the story of the Kaokoveld, an arid eden in the remote north-west of Namibia, so nearly lost, but regained to become one of Africa's iconic wildlife tourism destinations, and also the story of a young man's search for an African way to do conservation in Africa. ...
On Park Hill Avenue in New York City, almost everyone is Liberian. Most people know one another. And yet neighbours do not ask one another what they did in Liberia, for the question is considered an accusation. Many people here fled Liberia’s brutal civil war, a conflict that claimed the lives of ...
The sequel to the bestselling Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets, this is a collection of more fascinating, colourful - and mostly unknown - historical tales, all meticulously researched and written in a lively and engaging style.There are stories of Khoikhoi who tried - with mixed fortunes - to integ ...
South African history will never be the same again …Shunning the predictable, Max du Preez has put on his investigative journalist’s cap and examined our past from a fresh perspective. The result is a collection of extraordinary and mostly unknown stories, all meticulously researched and written ...
