Pan Macmillan Sa: 42 books

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The Way I See It

A Memoir

by Jϋrgen Schadeberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Many of the photographs are as familiar as they are iconic: Nelson Mandela gazing through the bars of his prison cell on Robben Island; a young Miriam Makeba smiling and dancing; Hugh Masekela as a schoolboy receiving the gift of a trumpet from Louis Armstrong; Henry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo; the Women’s...
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Bantu Holomisa

The Game Changer

by Eric Naki
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

Bantu Holomisa is one of South Africa’s most respected and popular political figures. Born in the Transkei in 1955, he attended an elite school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. While other men his age were joining Umkhonto weSizwe, Holomisa enrolled in the Transkeian Defence Force and rose rapidly...
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by Craig Higginson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

It is winter in London in 1947. When Arthur Bailey, an elderly painter who lives alone, catches sight of a young woman, Felicity, about to move into the neighbouring bed-sit, he is stirred to recall in haunting detail a long-suppressed narrative. The Landscape Painter is a double tale of obsession,...
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How South Africa Works

And Must Do Better

by Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

The fundamental claim of How South Africa Works is that the overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment. The current unemployment statistics are appalling and fall especially on young African youths who were promised a better future in 1994. If...
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by Prince Mashele, Mzukisi Qobo
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

Political governance in South Africa has collapsed. Scandals of corruption, evidence of nepotism, rampant maladministration in provinces, incompetence in public offices and a general decline in the quality of leadership are there for all to see. In the authors’ view, this state of affairs has its origins...
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The Dream House

A Novel

by Craig Higginson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Winner of the 2015 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English Shortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Jenny Crwys-Williams Fiction Book of the Year 2015 ‘It’s here at last – the South African novel that throws off all the...
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Michael K

A Novel

by Nthikeng Mohlele
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

How is it that a character from literary fiction can so alter the landscapes he touches, even as he – in his self-imposed isolation – seeks to avoid them? How is it that Michael K, bewildered and bewildering, can remain so fragile yet so present, so imposing without attempting to be so? In...
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Bare Ground

A Novel

by Peter Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

A gripping narrative set against the complex tapestry of Johannesburg As the head of Wits Mining, the last major mining company to do an empowerment deal, Max Sinclair has a mandate from the board and a clear directive: to sell a share of the company to a black consortium. Born and bred in...
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Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation

The Politics Behind #MustFall Movements

by Rekgotsofetse Chikane
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely better known as the #FeesMustFall. Chikane outlines the nature of student politics in the country before, during and after the emergence of #MustFall politics,...
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The Yearning

A Novel

by Mohale Mashigo
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017

How long does it take for scars to heal? How long does it take for a scarred memory to fester and rise to the surface? For Marubini, the question is whether scars ever heal when you forget they are there to begin with. Marubini is a young woman who has an enviable life in Cape Town, working...
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491 Days

Prisoner Number 1323/69

by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on 12 May 1969, security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela and detained her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged eight and ten. Rounded up in a group of other anti-apartheid activists under Section 6 of...
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by Nthikeng Mohlele
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Bantubonke is an accomplished and revered jazztrumpeter, composer and band leader in decline – an absent present and inadequate spouse. He lives for art at the expense of all else, an imbalance that derails his life and propels him to the brink of madness and despair. A story of direct and implied...
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Last Summer

A Novel

by Craig Higginson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

It is summer in Stratford-upon-Avon. Thomas is a young theatre director at the Royal Shakespeare Company who is desperately in love with Lucy, the leading actress in a production of The Tempest. Their experiences are woven into the life of a theatre presided over by Harry, an ageing South African...
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Intruders

Short Stories

by Mohale Mashigo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018

Orphan sisters chase monsters of urban legend in Bloemfontein. At a busy taxi rank, a woman kills a man with her shoe. A genomicist is accused of playing God when she creates a fatherless child. Intruders is a collection that explores how it feels not to belong. These are stories of unremarkable people...
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