Jonathan Ball Publishers: 173 books
by Anton Harber
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
In a little more than a decade, Diepsloot has transformed from a semi-rural expanse to a dense, seething settlement of about 200 000 people. A post-apartheid creation lying to the north of Johannesburg, Diepsloot is talked about as a place of fear, vigilante justice, xenophobic violence and a haven...
by Paul Holden
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The Arms Deal’s taint of corruption has hovered spectre-like over South African politics since 1999, when Patricia de Lille’s revelations first hit Parliament. In the foreword to The Arms Deal in Your Pocket, former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein describes the Arms Deal as ‘the moment at which the...
by Martin Plaut
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
The communist party in South Africa began as a revolutionary movement. In exile in the 1960s and 1970s it took on significance its numbers never warranted through its relationship with the Soviet Union and the weapons it brought to the armed struggle. Today it worries that it has been absorbed into...
by Jan-Jan Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
THE ANC RECEIVED a bloody nose in the 2016 local elections, when it lost three major metros to the opposition. Will the fractured ruling party be able to reunite under Cyril Ramaphosa and gain a majority at the polls in 2019? Or could the DA and the EFF overcome their vast ideological divide to oust...
Hitmen for Hire
Exposing South Africa's Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of paid hitmen, informers, rogue policemen, criminal taxi bosses, gang leaders, and crooked politicians and businessmen. Criminologist Mark Shaw examines a society in which contract killings have become commonplace, looking...
An Arid Eden
A Personal Account Of Conservation In The Kaokoveld
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
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....
Op 'n stormsee
Ware verhale van Suid-Afrikaanse seereddings
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Die waters om die Suid-Afrikaanse kuslyn word as van die gevaarlikste ter wêreld beskou. Wisselvallige weerstoestande, sleurstrome en fratsgolwe is van die faktore wat mense in lewensgevaar laat beland en soms tot tragedies lei.
Ongeag die gevaar, is die dapper vrywilligers van die Nasionale...
Django
The small dog with a big heart
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
On safari with a small dog with a big heart. Django was named after a fictional hero of the Wild West when as a six-week-old pup he taught the local bully a lesson. After a narrow escape from the life of a pampered lapdog, he found himself free in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Django travelled southern...
Melusi’s Everyday Zulu
There is um’Zulu in all of us
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Duduza. Bopha. Imbiza. Phapha. Asixoliseni. Amapopeye . . . What is the power of a single word?
Six days a week, advertising creative Melusi Tshabalala posts a Zulu word on his Everyday Zulu Facebook page and tells a story about it. His off-beat sense of humour, razor-sharp social observations...
Into the Heart of Darkness
Confessions of Apartheid's Assassins
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President’s Keepers, he spent years tracking down apartheid death squads. Into the Heart of Darkness, first released in 1997, was the result of this work.
Despite official denials...
Load Shedding
Writing on and over the edge of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
South Africa is not an easy place in which to live. Soaring crime levels, xenophobia, rampant corruption and the rise to power of the controversial Jacob Zuma all signal the end of the dream years. A new personal resilience is needed to cope with a new political uncertainty. Load Shedding is a collection...
Showdown at the Red Lion
The Life and Time of Jack McLoughlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Johannesburg, South Africa, was ? and is ? the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African 'Regiment of the Hills' and 'Irish Brigade' bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of...
Die Baan-Brekers
Hoe Suid-Afrikaanse sportleiers kampioene slyp
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Hoe Suid-Afrikaanse Sportleiers Kampioene Slyp. Heyneke Meyer was 34 jaar oud toe hy vir die tweede keer as die hoofafrigter van 'n Superrugby-span afgedank is. Maar toe sy Bulls-span op 19 Mei 2007 die eerste Suid-Afrikaanse span word om die Super-titel te wen, was die donker jare op Loftus Versfeld...
Death and Taxes
How SARS made hitmen, drug dealers and tax dodgers pay their dues
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Nothing in life is certain, except death and taxes – or so the expression goes. And over the past two decades South African criminals and tax dodgers have come to realise this truth the hard way.
Tax sleuth Johann van Loggerenberg was at the centre of many of SARS’ high-profile cases during...