Jacana: 156 books

Daring in both form and content, this novel of belief and betrayal shuttles between two connected moments in history and two countries linked by their colonial past and globalized present. The friends of a young student who has gone missing try to reconstruct his life as they search for him, and...

Welcome to Picketberg Prison and to the historic moment in time when the gang-lord keepers of the code, for their own reasons, decide to publish the entire Pure White Book. Two prisoners, neither of them gangsters, find themselves drawn into this project as ghostwriters. They are Sipho Madini—a...

In the light of global and domestic developments since his 2009 publication Zumanomics, Raymond Parsons now reassesses the economic prospects for South Africa post-Mangaung and following the 2014 general election. While the original book was a collective effort with other contributors, this is an...

The Universal Life Cycle (ULC)-the process whereby leaders can identify levels of consciousness and help find harmony and balance, both as individuals and within a corporate or societal setting-is explained in this book. Taking a psychological view, William de Liefde's theory accounts for different...

The idea to gather the memories of those who served Madibainto a book came from an understanding that most people inSouth Africa, and those around the world, knew him as an icon;as a public figure. It was important to me that the stories ofthose close to him be published so that fifty years from now,even...

Born Karoline King in 1980 in Johannesburg South Africa, Sara-Jayne (as she will later be called by her adoptive parents) is the result of an affair, illegal under apartheid's Immorality Act, between a white British woman and a black South African man. Her story reveals the shocking lie created to...

Legendary music icon writes tell-all book‘Show business as we know it is very unpredictable. For a few years I was the talk of the town. It was getting hard to even go shopping without being mobbed by fans.’– Marah LouwWith a career spanning over 40 years, Marah Louw is counted among South Africa’s...

A lively travelogue, this book follows the author's psycho-spiritual odyssey in search of ayahuasca-a dark, psychedelic brew known as “the vine of the dead."  Trekking through the rain forests of Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador in search of enclaves where ayahuasca is taken in...

When 14-year-old John Peter made the tragic decision to end his life by hanging himself, he left behind a devastated family who grappled not only with coping with the overwhelming loss of a beloved son and brother, but also coming to terms with the incomprehensible choice he made that afternoon. An...

Period Pain captures the heartache and confusion of so many South Africans who feel defeated by the litany of headline horrors; xenophobia, corrective rape, corruption and crime and for many the death sentence that is the public health nightmare. Where are we going, what have we become? Period Pain...

Direct and sometimes heated, these essays from prominent South African leaders consider the success of justice and reconciliation in the years since the end of apartheid. Presenting both the good and bad news, the contributors move beyond current thinking to discuss both practical and visionary ways to confront...

Crime writing steeped in the African bush will keep you guessing and laughing in turns.When a skinned body is discovered on the side of the railway line deep in the Matabele bush, Detective Inspector Jabulani Sibanda, along with his sidekicks, Sergeant Ncube and the troublesome Land Rover, Miss Daisy,...

Told from the perspective of South African girls and women who have been the victims of abuse, these contest-winning poems, short stories, and personal essays come from established writers as well as fresh new talents. Based on the idea that creative writing aids the healing process, these selections...

This is POWA's 7th anthology of poems, short stories and personal essays. The anthology embodies the meaning of sisterhood, of relationships in which girls and women give and receive friendship, love, and support. This safe, secure environment, increased by their bond, is neither threatening nor...