Tafelberg imprint: 257 books

’n Houtkapper met ’n rustelose siel. ’n Legendariese olifantbul wat losbreek van sy trop … In die groen skemerwêreld van die Outeniekwa loop hulle kringpaaie. Saul Barnard, deur sy mense verwerp en deur gewetenlose houtkopers tot kneg verneder; Oupoot, eindeloos agtervolg deur jagters. ’n...

Italiaanse sywurmboere word ingevoer om ’n sybedryf te kom vestig in Gouna se boswêreld, maar moerbeibome verseg om in potklei te groei. In die strawwe boswinter word die verwarde immigrante geteister deur reën, koorssiekte en onbegrip, en raak hulle al meer verbitter teen die goewerment wat hulle...

From top cop to corrupt crook in six years – Jackie Selebi’s fall from grace came quick. After returning from exile, Selebi was one of the ANC’s acclaimed civil servants. In 1999 his friend Thabo Mbeki appointed him chief of police. And in 2004 Selebi became the world’s top cop when he was...

"If ever there is a place that makes it easy to enjoy the moment, it is the Kruger Park. Sometimes you simply want to sit next to a watering hole and do nothing. Just listen to the guinea fowl in the scrub, smell the dry veld, feel the heat on your skin…" This guide tells you everything...

Huberta the hippopotamus is one of the most famous animals in South African history. In November 1928 Huberta left her waterhole in the St. Lucia Estuary in Kwa-Zulu Natal province and set off on the 1600 km journey to the Eastern Cape, a journey which would take her three years. In that time Huberta...

Xolela Mangcu has earned a reputation as one of the most vibrant and engaging public voices in South Africa. This selection of his best columns, published locally and internationally over the past two decades, is vivid, polemical and poignant. It records the initial excitement - and growing disillusionment...

In 1948 the Dutch Reformed minister D.F. Malan led the National Party to victory and set up the policy of apartheid. Today grimfaced photographs of NP leaders like Malan and his successors have come to symbolise a system of racial oppression. Yet, when Malan was asked on his deathbed what he considered...

Acclaimed historian Hermann Giliomee explains the dramatic ascent - and possible demise - of a small minority group that dominated 20th-century South Africa. The Afrikaners are unique in the world in that they successfully mobilised ethnic entrepreneurship without state assistance, controlled the...

A fearless take on the state of our nation from one of South Africa’s most controversial commentators. This collection of Rhoda Kadalie’s best columns include sections on public figures such as Cyril Ramaphosa, Allan Boesak and Winnie Mandela,  “troubled transformation”, “media meekness”, “foreign fumbles” and more.

Mark Heywood plays a pivotal role in South African public life and the movement for social justice. He has spearheaded momentous victories for poor people, establishing the right to antiretroviral treatment and to textbooks in schools among others. Executive Director of SECTION27 and a key figure...

From initiation ceremonies in the Eastern Cape to Helen Zille's Twitter account, South Africa is a land ripe with contradiction. It is a place where first world aspirations often clash with third world realities. Acclaimed commentator Gareth van Onselen takes a fresh and fearless look at some of these...

What can you say about the seventies – except to wish you hadn’t been there? The sixties produced hippies and sex, the eighties yuppies and money. But the seventies? Disposable fashion, disposable music. And disposable lives in the warm country where I grew up . . . This is how thirty-three year...

This informative guide inspires everyone, whether fit or unfit, elderly or very young, to get out there and do it! "Easy Walks in the Cape Peninsula" introduces an undemanding walk - in and around Cape Town - for every weekend of the year. These walks have been carefully chosen because of...

When Lesley Smailes set off from Port Elizabeth for a gap year, her mother joked: "Whatever you do, don't get married. And don't join a cult." But within months, Lesley was part of a notorious American sect, married to a man she hardly knew and allowed only minimal contact with her family....