Penguin Random House South Africa: 694 books
Sorry, Not Sorry
Experiences of a brown woman in a white South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Why don’t white people understand that Converse tekkies are not just cool but a political statement to people of colour? Why is it that South Africans of colour don’t really ‘write what we like’? What’s the deal with people pretending to be ‘woke’? Is Islam really as antifeminist as...
The Fires Beneath
The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The life of Monica Wilson is a story of groundbreaking scholarship, passionate creativity and personal tragedy during South Africa’s bitter and divided twentieth century. As a young anthropologist in the 1930s, Monica immersed herself in the lives, work and beliefs of African communities in southern...
When the Lions Came to Town
The 1974 rugby tour to South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The early 1970s in South Africa were a time of economic boom, political repression, growing isolation and an unshakeable confidence that the Springboks were the best rugby team in the world - until the infamous 1974 British Lions tour. It was a tour in which a group of talented and long-haired rugby...
by Piet van Rooyen
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
South Africa has over 2500km of spectacular coastline washed by the icy rollers of the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the temperate waters of the Indian Ocean along the eastern seaboard, providing the country with a vast undersea wilderness and a staggering array of marine species that attract divers...
by Willie Olivier
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Brought fully up to date, with new trails included and all booking information revised, this fourth edition of Hiking Trails of South Africa is the essential guide for every hiker. Written by well-known author Willie Olivier, this comprehensive guide describes more than 500 trails, offering something...
by Nicki von der Heyde
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In this companion volume to the highly successful Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa, the pivotal sieges that characterised the Cape Frontier, Anglo-Zulu, Basotho and Anglo-Boer wars are brought together in one volume. Accounts of 17 sieges over the last two centuries explore in detail...
by Rodney Hartman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Ali Bacher has commanded a place at the coalface of sport in South Africa during its most turbulent and historic period. His exceptional contribution is reflected in this biography with pace and passion, an important chronicle of momentous events in the contemporary history of the new South Africa....
by David O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
David O'Sullivan and Kevin McCallum are passionate about sport. They are fascinated by its vivid characters, heart-stopping moments and its endless drama. Over years of watching, reading and reporting on great sporting events, they have amassed a wealth of knowledge. After much deliberation, debate...
by Michael Vlismas
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
The Extraordinary Book of South African Golf is a must-read for any golf fanatic. Drawing from years of experience as a sports and golf journalist, Michael Vlismas has put together a fascinating collection of trivia, quotes, amazing scores, hilarious anecdotes and behind-the-scenes tales from South...
Total Onslaught
Apartheid’s dirty tricks exposed
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
For much of its time in power, the National Party government was shored up by the direct involvement of its security forces. Ordinary citizens had no idea that their taxes were being used to fund unorthodox and even illegal operations, ranging from international propaganda campaigns to local death...
The Zuma Years
South Africa’s Changing Face of Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The face of power in South Africa is rapidly changing – for better and for worse. The years since Thabo Mbeki was swept aside by Jacob Zuma’s ‘coalition of the wounded’ have been especially tumultuous, with the rise and fall of populist politicians such as Julius Malema, the terrible events...
Heist!
South Africa’s cash-in-transit epidemic uncovered
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
‘The last twenty-four hours before a heist take forever. You are ready. You can’t wait. You are already thinking about the money. It’s a kind of high that programs your mind. You are excited. You just want to get it done. That moment when there is no turning back, when it is about to go down...
by Stienie Dikderm
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Researched and written by two historians well respected in concentric circles, this hilarious take on our collective past reveals stunning new discoveries and fascinating new figures, from Koos van Doosch, the cheese pimp who settled the Cape a year before Van Riebeeck, to Shaka’s lesser-known brother,...
Woman in the Wings
Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the Race for the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
As a longstanding cabinet minister, chairperson of the African Union Commission and ANC presidential hopeful, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has always been in the public eye, but to many people this media-averse politician remains an enigma. Praised by some and criticised by others, and variously described...