Tafelberg imprint: 257 books

Shocking findings show that South African learners are consistently underachieving, counting not only amongst the worst in the world, but often amongst the worst in Africa. Education policy expert Graeme Bloch states that 60-80% of our schools are dysfunctional. They produce barely literate and numerate...

What happens when you form a political party six months before a general election? And instantly become the hope of the nation?Mostly chaos! At least that is what 26-year-old Michiel le Roux encountered when he quit his enviable job as a banker at Absa to “make a difference”. He volunteered for...

Clem Sunter and Chantell Ilbury’s seminal scenario planning books – The Mind of a Fox, Games Foxes Play and Socrates & the Fox – are now available for the first time as a single-volume e-book. The Fox Trilogy traces the development of a methodology that is now used around the world by large...

The ANC has governed South Africa for more than two decades but its iron grip is slipping. For the first time since the advent of democracy in 1994 there is no guarantee that it will retain power. If ANC support drops below 50% in the 2019 elections, the political landscape will be transformed dramatically:...

South Africa is undeniably the continent's powerhouse. Local corporates like MTN, Standard Bank and Shoprite are African business giants; South Africa is the only African member of BRICS; and a South African heads the African Union Commission. Yet the country is often perceived by other African states...

Cape Town is two cities. One is beautiful beyond imagining, known since its beginning as the 'fairest cape' in the world. Here tourists come to lounge on beaches, scale misty peaks and dine in fine restaurants. The other is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where police need bullet-proof...

Over 18 000 house robberies are committed in South Africa every year and police attempts to stop it have had little effect.In 2006/7 Rudolph Zinn interviewed a group of convicted house robbers in jail. He found that the average house robber is in his 20s, a young man who is nevertheless a very experienced...

Regile is a zama-zama working illegally in an abandoned mine near Barberton. He has moved up the ranks and is now paid a salary to keep the other child workers in line. Towards the end of a three-month stint underground, a fourteen-year-old boy from Mozambique, Taiba, starts asking questions about...

A single phone call shattered Carol Thompson’s life. Her daughter Tracey’s car had been found abandoned on the side of the road. Days later her body was found… Carol’s family has been destroyed – not only by the murder, which remains unsolved, but also by the callous and incompetent way...

In October 2013, the far-reaching Amended BBBEE Codes of Good Practice became effective. These have had a profound impact on businesses in South Africa. In this update of their popular book "Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment", two of South Africa’s leading consultants explain the...

Anthony Feinstein was thrust into the army’s psychiatric unit with only a few weeks’ training in this field. This is his revealing account of treating soldiers – and their families – who suffered from all manner of war-induced psychoses. This honest account sheds light on the widespread but seldom talked about fall-out from the Border War.

“Daar is ’n dun skilletjie om ons brein wat ons in die hede anker. Maar soos ’n mens oud word, kom daar skeurtjies in die skil, soos ’n ou laken skif. Dan stroom die verlede daardeur, ontydig of nie. Dis hoekom oumense deurmekaar raak, of hulle konsentrasie swak word, of hulle dinge soos sleutels...

Elke plesier het sy prys . . . Tristan Hansen word die engel van plesier genoem – ’n man wat R15 000 per nag vra en soveel genot verskaf aan die land se mees invloedryke en wêreldwyse vroue dat hulle terugkom vir meer. Maar wanneer een van sy kliënte haar eie lewe neem, verander die plesierengel...

Op vyf en twintig is Rebecca Fagan in besit van 'n regsgraad, 'n rugsak, 'n groot mond en baie guts.  Sy het twee jaar lank druiwe gepluk in Frankryk, in Italië op 'n olyfplaas gewerk en in Duitsland was sy 'n kelner.  Maar nou is sy terug in Suid Afrika en sy soek 'n “regte” werk.  Verkieslik...