Jonathan imprint: 202 books
Verwoerd
Architect of Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
On 6 September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated in Parliament by a deranged parliamentary messenger. The architect of apartheid was dead, sending shockwaves throughout South Africa and the world.
Today, half a century later, the effects of Verwoerd’s grand ambition linger...
The Ranter's Guide To South Africa
A Handbook For Hotheads, Windbags And Demagogues.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Ever wondered what waffle like 'accountability', 'site of contestation' or 'The National Democratic Revolution' really means? Here, in an irreverent nutshell, is your answer. The Ranter's Guide to South Africa pinpoints and defines some of the most overused and abused words, acronyms, piffle and jargon...
Clever Blacks, Jesus and Nkandla
The real Jacob Zuma in his own words
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Jacob Zuma is a man who walks in two worlds. As president of South Africa, he is tasked with upholding the principles that define the Constitution and embodying the values they are designed to engender. But, as an individual, a set of private impulses - ranging from his religious beliefs, to his traditional...
Heart of a Game Ranger
Stories from a Wild Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
MARIO CESARE, after decades as warden of Olifants River Game Reserve, has his feet firmly planted in this magnificent slice of Big Five country to the west of the Kruger Park. Cesare recounts some of the hair-raising, heartbreaking and heartwarming moments: a buffalo calf reunited with its pining...
Jan Smuts
Unafraid of Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness is a re-examination of the life and thoughts of Jan Smuts. It is intended to remind a contemporary readership of the remarkable achievements of this impressive soldier-statesman. The author, a former editor of The Star, argues that Smut's role in the creation of modern...
The Hidden Thread
Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The Hidden Thread is a journey of revelation about the relationship between Soviet Russia and South Africa, hidden for most of its length. The story is told with insight and depth by Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson, who have had a decades long association researching and writing on Russian and...
A Perfect Storm
Antisemitism in South Africa 1930 - 1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The interwar years were a tumultuous time in South Africa. The effects of the worldwide economic slump gave rise to a huge number of ‘poor whites’ and fed the growth of a militant and aggressive Afrikaner nationalism that often took its lead from Nazi Germany. For a great number of whites, both...
Enemy of the People
How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Enemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zuma’s catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees – and how a people fought back. When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC one muggy Polokwane evening...
The White Africans
From Colonisation To Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The negotiated transfer of power in apartheid South Africa was the last act in the dismantling of white supremacy on the African continent. While opening a new era for the whites in Africa, it closed an earlier one that contains some of the most colourful episodes in world history. In The White Africans,...
by Daniel Browde
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
I sat there divided. Though my grandfather was visibly shaken by the force of this memory, I felt a bubbly thrill because this was such good stuff, and I remember turning my eyes away from his distressed face to make sure the wheels of the dictaphone were still turning.
When Daniel is tasked...
Heartbreaker
Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
In this new biography of Chris Barnard we not only learn about the life of South Africa’s most famous surgeon, from his Beaufort West childhood through his studies locally and abroad to his prominent marriages – and divorces – but James Styan also examines the impact of the historic heart transplant...
Fischer's Choice
The Life of Bram Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Martin Meredith documents the remarkable life of Bram Fischer in his biography Fischer’s Choice. Fischer was born into an aristocratic Afrikaans family but became one of South Africa's leading revolutionaries. Regarded in his youth as having a brilliant career ahead of him, he rebelled not only...
by Patricia Cavendish O'Neil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From the international best-selling author of A Lion in the Bedroom, Pat Cavendish O'Neill, comes another glimpse into her extravagant and adventurous life ... In 1968, Pat Cavendish O'Neill reluctantly left her magical years in Kenya behind to join her mother in Somerset West, South Africa. She left...
by Elsa Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
At a prayer meeting on a cold Rotterdam night, the young clerk Aart Anthonij van der Lingen - a pale, sickly, hunchbacked 'fish from the North' - is held in the charismatic Reverend Johannes Kicherer's thrall. Lured by Kicherer's passion, he leaves his grey and loveless life to land at the Cape of...