Jonathan Ball Publishers: 173 books
Into the Heart of the Whore
The Story of Apartheid's Death Squads
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African government flatly denied any involvement. All investigations of the matter were met with stony silence.
The first crack in the wall came with the publication...
Dead Cows for Piranhas
A Perilous Journey Inside the Drug Trade
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
A high-octane journey into the brutal underworld of the South African and transnational drug trade.
Journalist Hazel Friedman was on assignment in Thailand to document the stories of the increasing number of South Africans convicted as drug mules when she made a horrifying discovery. Many of...
Mhudi
An Epic Story About African Life A Century Ago
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
What started as a vision for the Olifants River Game Reserve [in South Africa] has become the story of a game ranger's life. With a naturalist's eye for detail as well as the bigger picture of managing a fragile ecosystem through years of drought and plenty, Mario Cesare brings a storyteller's delight...
by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Jock of the Bushveld is the classic and much-loved story based on the true experiences of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and his Staffordshire bull terrier, Jock. The story begins in the 1880s, at the time of the South African gold rush, when a young Fitzpatrick worked as an ox-wagon transport rider in the...
by Riaan Manser
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
South Africa’s best-known adventurer Riaan Manser takes on his toughest – and coldest - challenge ever, to kayak around Iceland accompanied by Dan Skinstad, who suffers from mild cerebral palsy.
Confronted by icy seas, raging winter storms and logistical nightmares, the two adventurers...
The Number
One Man's Search For Identity In The Cape Underworld And Prison Gangs
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Behind him lay a lifelong career in the 28s, South Africa's oldest and most reviled prison gang, for decades rumoured to have specialised in rape and robbery. In front of him lay the prospect...
Thin Blue
The Unwritten Rules Of Policing South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
A country is policed only to the extent that it consents to be. When that consent is withheld, cops either negotiate or withdraw. Once they do this, however, they are no longer police; their role becomes something far murkier. Several months before they exploded into xenophobic violence, Jonny Steinberg...
Midlands
A Very South African Murder
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
In the spring of 1999, in the beautiful hills of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, a young white farmer is shot dead on the dirt road running from his father's farmhouse to his irrigation fields. The murder is the work of assassins rather than robbers; a single shot behind the ear, nothing but his gun stolen,...
In Our Own Skins
A Political History of the Coloured People
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The Coloured community of South Africa came into being after 1652, when the Dutch and, later, the British seeped into southern Africa's arid west, forming an uneasy alliance with the indigenous people. In the first unions between settlers and indigenous peoples, the Coloured people of the Cape flicker...
by Timothy Couzens
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
South African Battles describes 36 battles spread over five centuries. These are not the well-trodden battlefields of standard histories, but generally lesser-known ones. Some were of critical importance, while some were infinitely curious. Who, for instance, has heard of the battles of Nakob, Middelpos,...
Krejcir
Business As Usual
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A powerful Czech multimillionaire, Radovan Krejcir fled his home country shortly after his arrest in 2005 on charges of fraud. He arrived on South Africa’s shores in 2007, travelling under a fake name with a false passport, and avoiding extradition through pay offs. Krejcir fast began to make a...
Assegais, Drums & Dragoons
A Military And Social History Of The Cape
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
What motivated a small multiracial force of Cape-born soldiers - whites, coloureds and Malays - to put up such stiff resistance at the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806, in spite of odds so overwhelming that even some long-serving professional soldiers broke rank and ran? This was the intriguing question...
The Assassination of King Shaka
Zulu History's Dramatic Moment
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
In this riveting new book, John Laband, pre-eminent historian of the Zulu Kingdom, tackles some of the questions that swirl around the assassination in 1828 of King Shaka, the celebrated founder of the Zulu Kingdom and war leader of legendary brilliance: Why did prominent members of the royal house...
The Team Secret
Accelerate your Business with Special Forces Principles
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The South African Special Forces achieved exceptional results with small groups of elite soldiers instead of larger, conventional teams. The Team Secret shows that the same principle applies in the business world – a small team has a much better chance of completing projects efficiently, on budget...