Jonathan Ball Publishers: 173 books
by Kate Sidley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
How do you retell the well-worn life story of a national icon? One way is this: a palimpsest of a hundred memories of the great man, revolutionary, world leader, and family figure, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Kate Sidley offers renewed and touching insight into Mandela by retelling...
Between Two Fires
Holding the Liberal Centre in South African Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
John Kane-Berman is uniquely qualified to look back over the enormous political and social changes that have taken place in his lifetime in this fractious country. In his career as student leader, Rhodes Scholar, newspaperman, independent columnist, commentator, and Chief Executive, for thirty years,...
The Inner Circle
Reflections On The Last Days Of White Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
In The Inner Circle, Jan Heunis reflects on the twilight years of white rule in South Africa through incisive portraits of key individuals, such as Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, PW Botha, Hernus Kriel, Kobie Coetsee, Dennis Worrall and Roelf Meyer, as well as accounts of events such as the signing of...
Agent 407
A South African Spy Breaks Her Silence
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
“I owe it to many people, and to myself, to set the record straight. There have been many versions of parts of the story in the press over the years, many lies overlaid with truths and truths overlaid with lies. Much of the truth is just a palimpsest, an echo that changes even in the act of repeating...
by Theo Vorster
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Sakegesprek met Theo Vorster is 'n in 2009 vrygestel en is een van die gewildste programme op Kyknet. Hierdie boek bevat 38 onderhoude wat Theo Vorster oor die laaste drie jaar met top sakelui gevoer het en sluit Koos Bekker, Whitey Basson, Ina Paarman en vele ander bekendes in. Die doel van die boek...
Ina Paarman
Mind Your Business ebook short
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Advice from South Africa's top business leader, Ina Paarman. Part of an ebook short series extracted from Theo Vorster's Mind your Business. The inspiring success story of Ina Paarman, businesswoman and founder of Paarman Foods. Theo Vorster is a co-founder and chief executive of Galileo Capital....
Braam van Huyssteen
Mind Your Business ebook short
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Advice from South Africa's top business leader, Braam van Huyssteen. Part of an ebook short series extracted from Theo Vorster's Mind your Business. The inspiring success story of Braam van Huyssteen, founder and chief executive of Tekkie Town. Theo Vorster is a co-founder and chief executive of Galileo...
Koos Bekker
Mind Your Business ebook short
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Advice from South Africa's top business leader, Koos Bekker. Part of an ebook short series extracted from Theo Vorster's Mind your Business. The inspiring success story of Koos Bekker, founder of M-Net and chief executive of Naspers. Theo Vorster is a co-founder and chief executive of Galileo Capital....
Van Skoolbank tot bordeelbed
Gebasseer op 'n ware verhaal van geloof en oorwinning
Language: Afrikaans
Release Date: February 20, 2015
As 16-jarigevlug Engela na Bloemfontein, want die leier van die Sataniese Groep 13 wil haar doodmaak. Haar paaie kruis met dié van Pieter, vriend van haar broer, wat haar aan bordeel-eienaar uitlewer as betaling vir die geld wat hy hom skuld.
Na haglike en armoedige kinderlewe raak Engela...
View from City Hall
Reflections on governing Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The 21st century belongs to cities, especially those of a rapidly urbanising Africa. South Africa experienced a historic change in city government in 2016, when three major metros changed political leadership. The realities that city governments must confront range from dynamic population growth to...
Rogue
The Inside Story of SARS's Elite Crime-busting Unit
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The story of a ‘rogue unit’ operating within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports published by the Sunday Times in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, had carried out a series of illegal spook operations: they...
by Riaan Manser
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa. It took him two years, two months and fifteen days. He rode 36 500 kilometres through 34 different countries. In Around Africa on my Bicycle, Manser tells the story of this epic journey. It is a...
Hani
A Life Too Short
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Chris Hani's assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa's great imponderables: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on politics and government in South Africa? More pointedly, could this charismatic leader have risen to become president of the country? Hani was a hero of South...
Notes From A Fractured Country
Selected Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
In this selection of his Business Day columns, Jonny Steinberg walks through Pollsmoor Prison on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and believes he sees in the jail's corridors why the US's impending war in the Middle East will fail. He meets a poverty-stricken old man who spends most of his state pension...