Jonathan imprint: 202 books
A Sprat To Catch A Mackerel
Key Principles To Build Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
When Raymond Ackerman was fired from his job in 1966, he persuaded a group of friends to loan him the money to buy three small Pick 'n Pay stores, which at the time employed a total of 175 people. On his retirement, 44 years later, he had changed the face of southern African retailing, growing his...
Into a Raging Sea
Great South African Rescues
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The waters off South Africa’s coastline are regarded as some of the most dangerous on earth. Sudden changes in weather, rip currents and freak waves all play their part in putting humans in peril, which sometimes ends in tragedy. No matter the danger, however, the brave volunteers of the National...
Robert Sobukwe
How Can Man Die Better
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), led a mass defiance of South Africa's pass laws. He urged blacks to go the nearest police station and demand arrest. When police opened fire on a peaceful crowd in the township of Sharpeville, 68 people were killed....
Thabo Mbeki
The Dream Deferred
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
What happens to a dream deferred? This question, from one of Thabo Mbeki's favourite poems by Langston Hughes, provides the thread for this magisterial biography of the second president of a democratic South Africa. In the long shadow of Nelson Mandela, Mbeki attempted to forge an identity for himself...
Zuma
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
The first edition of Zuma, published in late 2008, concluded with Jacob Zuma's future balancing on a knife's edge. National elections loomed, but so did corruption charges and endless court battles. Since then Zuma's star has spectacularly risen - the corruption charges were dropped, he led the ANC...
Opposite Mandela
Encounters with South Africa's Icon
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Tony Leon has written a book of unique insight into an unexplored aspect of the presidency and leadership of Nelson Mandela. Opposite Mandela relates the untold stories of how South Africa's first democratic president related to his political opponents. Leon served as leader of the Democratic Party...
People's War
New Light on the Struggle for South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Twenty years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political conflict; and the memory of the trauma has faded. Some 20 500 people were nevertheless killed between 1984 and 1994. The conventional wisdom is that they died at the hands of a state-backed Third...
On The Contrary
Leading The Opposition In A Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The memoirs of former Opposition leader Tony Leon provide a unique glimpse into the political life of South Africa in the democratic era. In incisive, finely focused prose, On the Contrary records Leon's thirteen-year leadership of the Democratic Alliance and its predecessor, the Democratic Party,...
by Kate Sidley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
How do you retell the well-worn life story of a national icon? One way is this: a palimpsest of a hundred memories of the great man, revolutionary, world leader, and family figure, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Kate Sidley offers renewed and touching insight into Mandela by retelling...
Between Two Fires
Holding the Liberal Centre in South African Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
John Kane-Berman is uniquely qualified to look back over the enormous political and social changes that have taken place in his lifetime in this fractious country. In his career as student leader, Rhodes Scholar, newspaperman, independent columnist, commentator, and Chief Executive, for thirty years,...
The Inner Circle
Reflections On The Last Days Of White Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
In The Inner Circle, Jan Heunis reflects on the twilight years of white rule in South Africa through incisive portraits of key individuals, such as Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, PW Botha, Hernus Kriel, Kobie Coetsee, Dennis Worrall and Roelf Meyer, as well as accounts of events such as the signing of...
Agent 407
A South African Spy Breaks Her Silence
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
“I owe it to many people, and to myself, to set the record straight. There have been many versions of parts of the story in the press over the years, many lies overlaid with truths and truths overlaid with lies. Much of the truth is just a palimpsest, an echo that changes even in the act of repeating...
by Theo Vorster
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Sakegesprek met Theo Vorster is 'n in 2009 vrygestel en is een van die gewildste programme op Kyknet. Hierdie boek bevat 38 onderhoude wat Theo Vorster oor die laaste drie jaar met top sakelui gevoer het en sluit Koos Bekker, Whitey Basson, Ina Paarman en vele ander bekendes in. Die doel van die boek...
Ina Paarman
Mind Your Business ebook short
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Advice from South Africa's top business leader, Ina Paarman. Part of an ebook short series extracted from Theo Vorster's Mind your Business. The inspiring success story of Ina Paarman, businesswoman and founder of Paarman Foods. Theo Vorster is a co-founder and chief executive of Galileo Capital....