Fighting for Justice: A Lifetime of Political and Social Activism is a gripping account of the life of Jay Naidoo, a tireless anti-apartheid campaigner and the first General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South Africa’s largest union federation and a backbone of ...
In Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing, Moeletsi Mbeki analyses the plight of Africa and concludes that the fault lies not with the mass of its people but with its rulers – the political elites who contrive to keep their fellow citizens poor while enriching themselves. ...
An insider's account of how the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) exposed the falsehood of quacks like Dr Matthias Rath and Zeblon Gwala that lay claim to the lives of many living with HIV; the story of how TAC member, Andile Madondile almost died because of the erroneous remedies that he took having ...
Examines at the mass forces that swept Jacob Zuma to power in 2009 and put an end to the élite politics of the Thabo Mbeki era. Trenchant and provocative as always, Xolela Mangcu looks at the new configuration of power in South Africa, and in the process illuminates such topics as the new black él ...
This is just one account of the many atrocities that took place between 1980 and 1988 in Matabeleland and the Midlands, where an estimated 20 000 people died under the terror of Robert Mugabe and his army ...
Reconciliation is an open and urgent question. We do not agree about what reconciliation means. We do not agree about how it works. We certainly do not agree about what it has done or the ways in which it can be brought to bear on the problems that confront South Africa today. In short, reconciliati ...
This title is inspired by the courage of a young woman, known variously as "Khwezi" and "the complainant", who took a principled decision to lay a charge of rape against Jacob Zuma, a man who was to her a father-figure, a family friend, a comrade, and the Deputy President of South Africa. ...
