Umuzi imprint: 97 books

After his father’s violent death on a hot November day in the drought-stricken Free State, a young man leaves the derelict family farm with no plan, and with no way of knowing that his life will soon be changed for ever by two strangers he encounters on his journey south: a mute little girl who...

It is Ibiza 1997 and rave culture is at its peak. A period of dancing and hedonism forges an unbreakable bond between six friends: an unshakeable tribe is formed. Sharing a deep connection, their dependence on one another will intensify over the years, until one member’s flirtation with death shatters...

We are at a defining moment in thinking about competitiveness. Customer service is no longer an extension of business. It is the core of it. Nor is rendering good service sufficient. The global economy is heaving sea and if you don't attain supremacy in customer service you may find yourself drowning....

Toe luitenant Roelf Bester die Wiskunde-onnie Tron Marais byna kat­swink slaan het hy geweet daar kom moeilikheid … Wat hy nie geweet het nie, is dat dié moeilikheid ’n verhoging en ’n verplasing sou insluit. Skielik is hy nou kaptein Bester, bevelvoerder van die piepklein polisiestasie op...

In Rusland aan die begin van die twintigste eeu vind twee priesters vertroosting in mekaar se arms teen die Siberiese winter en die bloedige opmars van die Rooi Leër. Dekades later, op ’n kontinent duisende kilometers ver, verruil jong Heinrich sy sukkelbestaan in ’n Karoo- dorpie vir die kitsrykdom...

When Afrikaans singer and actress Antoinette Pienaar first stood before renowned Griqua healer Oom Johannes Willemse, he said: ‘So you have arrived here at last, Juffrou!’ For almost forty years Oom Johannes had been dreaming of a woman in a red bakkie to whom he would transfer his knowledge –...

Agent Kevin Durant of the National Intelligence Agency has been keeping close tabs on Ali, a Durban businessman corrupt to his core. Libyan terrorists are buying parts for weapons of mass destruction and Ali is their go-between. Into this shadowy world of hidden cameras and disguises enters beautiful...

Somewhere in her body she retained every story ever told. She knew every life that had been lived and every life yet to be born. There exists a prophesy as old as history itself: in times of darkness a pair of twins will be born, a gift to humankind that will save us from ourselves. Whether in ancient...

Risto Mahuno’s agony is what happens to his sweetheart Néné, to his cousin, and to himself. In the east of the Congo, where the border with Rwanda is also the border between life and death, the boys are abducted and forced to become soldiers, the girls raped. Far too much happens for 15-year-old...

Jake Tromp's wife has left him. But he still has his guns. He makes do, operating as a private eye from a second-floor office, next to a prostitute's parlour. What else is an old South African to do in a new country? Tromp chooses his clients unwisely. Like the man who instructs him to kidnap a shady...

It’s a black karoo night and a young woman covered in blood is running along a deserted dust track. Siena must reach Seekoegat Primary School, the only safe place she knows, but it’s a long way to run, a three-day ride on a donkey cart. As Siena runs, her story, and the story of her two friends,...

Die klein Bram Fischer word gebore uit drome en beelde, met die geloei van Bloemfonteinse osse in die agtergrond. Hy sien die spoke van Paul Kruger en Jopie Fourie, asook dié van Hendrik Biebouw, die eerste Afrikaner. In hierdie roman skryf François Loots ’n kreatiewe, fiktiewe weergawe van Afrikaner-kommunis...

Snags, vanaf die hawe, tuur Jan Hofmeyr oor Tafelbaai uit. Dan duik hy die diepte in, na waar die blou water gitswart verkleur. In die donker wiebeling swem hy saam met glimmende visse, kom hy gestorwe voorsate en mitiese figure teë. Bedags hou hy sy nagtelike eskapades geheim. In die oseaan beur...