Jonathan Ball Publishers: 173 books
by Adriaan Basson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This is the book President Jacob Zuma does not want you to read. From Shaik to 'The Spear', award-winning investigative journalist Adriaan Basson reveals the truth behind Jacob Zuma's presidency of the ANC and South Africa. From one bad decision to another, this explosive, roller-coaster account traces...
by Bruce Bryden
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Bruce Bryden's true stories about the life of a bushveld conservationist draws on 27 years in the service of the Kruger National Park. It makes for a gripping read, abounding with encounters with elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard and rhino, whether darting for research, managing culling operations...
At The Front
A General's Account Of South Africa's Border War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
General Jannie Geldenhuys is widely regarded as one of the leading military commanders South Africa has produced. As Chief of the South African Defence Force from 1985 to 1990, he brought his experience to bear on the Border War in Namibia, and was part of the negotiating team that brought an end...
Who Rules South Africa?
Pulling the strings in the battle for power
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In this timely work, WHO RULES SOUTH AFRICA?, highly regarded authors Paul Holden and Martin Plaut analyse the political elites that battle daily for power in South Africa. They argue that power does not reside in traditional institutions such as Parliament or even the Cabinet. Rather, power lies...
Fate of the Nation
3 Scenarios for South Africa's Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
WHAT DOES OUR FUTURE HOLD? In these uncertain times, this is the question on many South Africans' lips. Will we become more prosperous and less divided as a nation or remain hugely unequal and generally poor? Will the ANC split or eventually be forced into an alliance with the EFF after 2019? Could...
Ragged Glory
The Rainbow Nation in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
As a leading political journalist and newspaper editor, Hartley had the best seat in the house for the unfolding drama of the new South Africa, as well as privileged access to many key players, including Nelson Mandela himself. Admirably concise but rich in detail, drawing on a wide spectrum of interviews,...
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,...