Jonathan Ball imprint: 146 books
Mmusi Maimane
Prophet or Puppet?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
‘Mr Maimane, good evening to you and, with the greatest of respect, who are you?’
This is how journalist Jeremy Maggs began his television interview with Mmusi Maimane in 2011 when he was unveiled as the Democratic Alliance’s mayoral candidate for Johannesburg. Since then, the charismatic...
Always Anastacia
A Transgender Life in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
I stand in front of the mirror as I remind myself that I no longer have to wear the ‘uniform’. I can grow my nails, and paint them. I am free, finally, to have my ears pierced. I can use the voice that I’ve spent so many hours meticulously cultivating with my speech therapist. I no longer have...
The Other Side of History
An anecdotal reflection on political transition in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
One thing the 'old' and 'new' South Africa have in common is a passion for inventing history. History is not seen as a dispassionate inquiry into what happened, but rather as part of political mobilisation promoting some form of collective self-interest. Not for one second do I pretend to know the...
by Anine Kreigler, Mark Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
South Africans care a lot about crime. We think and worry about it, plan and insure against it, develop and share theories about it, read about it, and talk about it… a lot.
But how much do we really know? Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press....
The Stellenbosch Mafia
Inside the Billionaire’s Club
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa’s wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans – and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste...
Die Staat vs. Oscar
9 uur, 4 skote, 1 raaiseldood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Oscar klop aan die deur en Reeva kom maak vir hom oop. Die man wat oor die drumpel trap, wat vir die laaste keer by hierdie huis instap, is Oscar Pistorius, skatryk, alomgeliefde wêreldberoemde Olimpiese held. Die man wat oor minder as 24 uur by dieselfde deur sal uit steier, sal 'n ánder Oscar...
by RW Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
RW Johnson’s bestselling book How Long Will South Africa Survive? was described by Alec Hogg as ‘a masterpiece in unblemished reality’. Published at the height of the Zuma presidency it offered a chilling warning: the ANC appeared determined to drive South Africa into the abyss.
Since...
A Country At War With Itself
South Africa's Crisis Of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Crime is tearing South Africa apart. Whether it is hijacking or rape, a home robbery or a husband's explosion of rage, violence is so common that few lives have been left untouched by it. The result is a society deformed by its fears. Closeted behind locked doors and high walls, panic buttons at the...
On the Bridge of Goodbye
The Story of South Africa's discarded San Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Set against the southern African canvas of war and upheaval, On the Bridge of Goodbye tells the story of the famous San (Bushman) soldiers who fought first for the Portuguese in Angola, and then for South Africa from bases in northern Namibia. When South Africa withdrew from Namibia, many of these...
The Man With The Black Dog
A True Modern-Day Jock Of The Bushveld
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
'They say a man has only dog in his lifetime, only one dog with which he will share that special bond ...' Mario Cesare was twenty-five years old and managing a game reserve in the rugged Tuli Block in Botswana when he first took possession of a shy black pup that he named Shilo. The pup attached...
Louis Botha
A Man Apart
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
In A Man Apart Richard Steyn once again brings to life a South African icon. Louis Botha was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, a union he did much to create in the decade after the devastation of the Anglo-Boer War. During the war Botha was a brilliant young Boer general who through...
Switched at Birth
What would you do if faced with an impossible choice?
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
‘Well … I got the test results back and he’s not the father. But it’s more complicated than that …’
He was holding a sheet of paper in his hand, but seemed unable to articulate what was on it.
Megs reached out for it: ‘Let me read it then.’
‘And that’s how...
by Chris Wadman
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Teddington is a man on the make and, after inadvertently delivering a busload of opposition politicians to Harare’s chief psychiatric facility, he is rewarded with a farm by top war veteran Hitler Jesus. Not far away at The William Westward Children’s Home, the director and his ginger-haired sidekick...
After the Dance
Travels in a democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In April 1994, amid international acclaim, South Africa stepped back from the slough of endemic political violence and danced its first bold dance with constitutional democracy. After the Dance sets out to capture some of the flavour of what has happened since. David Robbins ranges widely across the...