Irma Mulder is 'n erkende oorlogjoernalis. Sy verhuis terug na Suid Afrika na 'n bomaanval wat die lewe van een van haar kameramanne geëis het. Nou woonagtig in 'n klein toeristedorp, Nelspruit, skryf sy vir die plaaslike koerant.

As joernalis word sy eensklaps by ʼn moord ingesleep. Die moordenaar betrek haar by elke daaropvolgende moord en speel 'n gevaarlike speletjie met haar en die polisie. Hoewel Irma alles in haar vermoë doen om die moordenaar te keer, is sy telkens te laat en raak dinge om haar vinnig donker.

Terwyl die polisie haar onder beskerming sit, weet sy dat hulle haar wil blameer vir die moorde. Ten einde haar eie onskuld te bewys, moet Irma nie net die polisie ontglip nie, maar ook die moordenaar wat haar fyn dophou. Hierdie keer weet sy dat sy nie net die sleutel tot alles is nie, maar ook dat sy die volgende slagoffer moet wees Hoe lank sal dit neem voor sy besef wie die moordenaar is? Gaan sy suksesvol wees om die volgende moord te stop? Sal die polisie daarin slaag om die reeksmoordenaar vas te trek voordat dit te laat is?

Waarheen vlug jy as huis nie meer huis is nie?

Na jare se afpersing, agterdogtigheid en alkoholmisbruik, slaan Emma se man, Gert, haar byna in die hospitaal in. By hom kan sy nie verder bly nie, dit sal haar lewe kos. Sy vlug vanuit hulle klein myndorpie in Mpumalanga met nie veel meer as die klere aan haar rug nie. Maar waarheen en wat gemaak sonder geld, 'n werk, of familie wat haar kan ondersteun? So kies Emma koers Kaap toe, en bid vir die beste.

Die tog suid is angstig en eensaam, en uiteindelik gee haar motor die gees naby Stilbaai. Nes dit lyk of haar gebede op dowe ore val, kom 'n plaaslike boer, Dewald, tot haar redding. Noodgedwonge nooi hy haar om by hom op die plaas te bly terwyl sy wag vir die kar se herstel. Maar iets skort op Dewald se werf; die plaas boer agteruit, die olyfboorde is oorgroei, en die foto's van hom as gelukkige jonggetroude staan nog die huis vol. Dewald is te jonk om 'n wewenaar te wees, maar dis sy lot in die lewe.

Vir hom bring Emma se aankoms nuwe lig, vir haar kan hy die heenkome wees wat sy nog altyd gesoek het. Maar as hulle die liefde wat tussen hulle ontstaan wil kans gee, gaan albei eers moet vrede maak met die verlede. Want Gert het nog nie vir Emma laat gaan nie, en oudvriendin Julia wil vir Dewald hê, en sal doen wat sy moet om hierdie onverwagse inkommer uit die weg te ruim.

Vlug van gister is 'n hartroerende verhaal van tweede kanse en oorbegin wat lesers weer sal laat glo in ware liefde.

In die somer van 1838 vertrek die Voortrekkerleier Piet Retief en sowat 100 man na die Zoeloekoning Dingaan om oor grond vir die trekkers te onderhandel. In die laer by Doornkop wag sy vrou Magdalena op hulle terugkeer. Die afloop van hierdie sending na Dingaan is wyd opgeteken as die Slag van Bloedrivier.

Byna 180 jaar later is Hanna op soek na wat ook al Magdalena nagelaat het. Vroeg in hierdie soektog loop Hanna haar vas in ’n plaasmoord waarvoor sy nie antwoorde het nie. Bitter min is bekend oor Magdalena en haar lewe ná 1838, buiten haar brief in 1841 aan haar skoonfamilie. In Pietermaritzburg staan haar huisie vandag nog, nou ’n klerewinkel.

Kort voor haar dood in 1854 besoek ’n handelaar haar in Potchefstroom en staan in sy boek ’n paragraaf aan haar af.

Al wat ons het, is vandag en elke mens vertel ’n storie anders. Van ver af is niks soos dit vir ons lyk nie.

“Bloedlelie is ’n merkwaardige en belangrike roman uit die pen van ’n vaardige, gesoute skrywer. Verskriklike en weersinwekkende gebeure sowel as hedendaagse politieke kompleksiteite en strydpunte word met ’n seker hand uitgebeeld. Tegelykertyd is hierdie roman die verhaal van Magdalena Retief, die grootliks onbesonge vrou van Pieter Mauritz Retief.” - Helene de Kock

Vir Hilda is veeartsenykunde 'n ongemaklike roeping, 'n pynlike passie, 'n tweesnydende swaard. Daar’s die hondekosadvertensie-stertswaaidae, waarop sy met algehele sekerheid weet dat sy 'n positiewe verskil maak. Daar’s egter ook die swart hond dae, die dae wanneer die reuk van bloed en mis en modder soos 'n vel aan haar bly kleef en sy katvoet oor haar skouer bly loer vir die dood wat in haar hande skuil. Moes sy nie maar eerder by prentjies teken gebly het en haar diereliefde op 'n spul troeteldiere uitgestort het nie? Wat sou haar oupa – of haar ma! – van sulke ruggraatlose ambisieloosheid se? As sy nie 'n veearts kan wees nie, wie is sy dan? In Ilse van Staden se meesleurende romandebuut word vrae rondom passie en plig; toewyding en perfeksionisme; idealisme en ontgogeling binne die raamwerk van 'n jong veeaarts se opleiding en toetrede tot die praktyk op onvergeetlike wyse ontbloot.

Mteto Nyati knew as a schoolboy in Mthatha, working at his mother’s store, that he wanted to fix and build things. After completing his studies at Natal University, he turned down a Rhodes scholarship and headed for Jo'burg to take up a position at Afrox. He was the only black engineer and the advice he received was ‘don’t mess up’. 

He didn’t and today is one of South Africa’s top CEOs. This is his inspirational story. 

First people communities are the groups of huntergatherers and herders, representing the oldest human lineages in Africa, who migrated from as far as East Africa to settle across southern Africa, in what is now Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. These groups, known today as the Khoisan, are represented by the Bushmen (or San) and the Khoe (plural Khoekhoen).

In First People, archaeologist Andrew Smith examines what we know about southern Africa’s earliest inhabitants, drawing on evidence from excavations, rock art, the observations of colonial-era travellers, linguistics, the study of the human genome and the latest academic research.

Richly illustrated, First People is an invaluable and accessible work that reaches from the Middle and Late Stone Age to recent times, and explores how the Khoisan were pushed to the margins of history and society. Smith, who is an expert on the history and prehistory of the Khoisan, paints a knowledgeable and fascinating portrait of their land occupation, migration, survival strategies and cultural practices.

Soos die verwysing na perspektief in sy digbundeltitel, Brief op veertigduisend voet, aandui, laat Dreyer die leser nuut en in verwondering na objekte en verskynsels kyk.

Lig, wat sig moontlik maak, word metafories ingespan vir die menslike belewening van die verbygaan van tyd. Verlatenheid, ooptes, en ongekarteerde gebiede word metafore vir die onsekerheid en prekêre avontuur van die post-postmoderne mens.

Die bundel sluit natuur- en bewaringsgedigte in, asook reisgedigte, verweef met geskiedenis, wat die mens se interaksie met sy omgewing belig.

Spanning tussen die antieke en moderne word geskep met die insluiting van gedigte oor tegnologiese en wetenskaplike innovasie, asook wetenskapsfiksie – reeds deur die titel gesuggereer. En menslike verhoudinge – deur die “brief” van die titel geaktiveer – word in roerende dog onsentimentele liefdesgedigte verbeeld.

Brief op veertigduisend voet is opwindend en verbeeldingryk, terwyl dit ook die beste aspekte van die poëtiese tradisie bevat.

The perfect match. Or so she thinks. Her warmth and empathy. His charisma and ambition. Yet, Cathy feels safer teaching battle-scarred gangsters in a prison classroom than at home with her own partner.

By day she walks on eggshells. At night she sleeps on the backseat of her car. Her safe place is an all-night roadhouse; her best friend, her journal. The slow boil intensifies until, one day, Cathy finds her grandmother’s armoire smashed to pieces in her bedroom, a hammer on the floor, her life in splinters beside it.

Part memoir, part inspiration, Boiling A Frog Slowly is unflinching in its confrontation of abuse and utterly courageous in its portrayal of redemption.

Author and actor Milton Schorr's second novel, A Man Of The Road, tells the story of Little Mikey, a young boy from the mythical West Coast town of Freeburg, who must one day set out on an epic cross-country hitch-hiking journey to Africa’s greatest city: Goldtown.

On his dangerous way he encounters characters from all sections of South African society, and from each he learns an aspect of what it is to truly be free, to live life as ‘A Man Of The Road.’

Despite two-and-a-half decades of black majority rule after 1994, much of South African higher education in the area of humanities continues to embrace European models and paradigms. This is despite concepts such as Africanisation, indigenisation and decolonisation of the curriculum having become buzzwords, especially after the #MustFall campaigns, student-led protests from 2015.

This book argues that, beyond the use of internally constructed strategies to foster curriculum transformation in South Africa, it is important to draw lessons from the curriculum transformation efforts of other African countries and African-American studies in the United States (US).

The end of colonialism in Africa from the 1950s marked the most important era in curriculum transformation efforts in African higher education, evident in the rise of leading decolonial schools: the Ibadan School of History, the Dar es Salaam School of Political Economy and the Dakar School of Culture. These centres used rigorous research methods such as nationalist historiography and oral sources to challenge Eurocentric epistemologies. African-American studies emerged in the US from the 1920s to debunk notions of white superiority and challenge racist ideas and structures in international relations. The two important schools of this scholarship were the Atlanta School of Sociology and the Howard School of International Affairs.

This collection of short stories explores the breadth of magical realism, speculative fiction and fantasy. Twijnstra portrays women succeeding in the face of brutality. The protagonists – black women – are thrust into magical, terrifying, spellbinding worlds., with stories set in the past, present and future.

Inspired by the haunting allure of Her Body and Other Parties, the raw intensity of Freshwater and the unsettling atmosphere of Intruders, these stories create a bold, darkly imaginative realm where survival is redefined and power is claimed on unexpected terms. Flying Cows and Other Traumas takes readers on a journey through surreal, unsettling worlds where the ordinary is disrupted by strange, malevolent forces.

In this collection, Twijnstra explores themes of family dysfunction, resilience and through a black feminist lens.

Set in black South African townships and imagined African kingdoms, the stories follow each protagonist through different stories where she faces brutality and emerge victorious.

’n Blik op die binnekring van die Krugersdorp-kultus

“Daar was bloedspatsels oor die koffietafel, die banke en die banke se kussings. Peter en Joan was oortrek van steekwonde in hul rûe, nekke en agterkoppe. Nicholas het sy pa en ma gesigte na onder in ’n bloedbad op die mat in die sitkamer gekry. Hulle het hul hek en huis vir hul moordenaars oopgemaak, want hulle het ’n afspraak met hulle gehad.”

Elf wrede moorde oor ’n tydperk van vier jaar ruk die gemeenskap van Krugersdorp en haal landwyd nuusopskrifte. Eindelik word al hierdie moorde verbind met Cecilia Steyn en haar kultusgroep, Electus per Deus (uitverkies deur God). Lede van die groep aanbid die grond waarop Cecilia loop en sal selfs vir haar moord pleeg.

Die moordenaars is slim, gewone mense – ’n onderwyseres, ’n finansiële makelaar, ’n kind wat tussen die moorde deur steeds ses onderskeidings in matriek behaal en boonop keuring kry om medies te gaan studeer. Hul slagoffers het bloot ’n sake- afspraak nagekom, min wetend dat dít ’n afspraak met die dood was.

Wie is Cecilia Steyn? Hoe kan een mens vyf ander manipuleer om moord te pleeg en namens haar in die hof te lieg? Watter rol het Satanisme gespeel? Hoe ontduik onervare misdadigers die polisie vir so lank?

Jana Marx beantwoord dié en ander vrae in ’n waremisdaad-verhaal wat gelei het tot een van die opspraakwekkendste moordsake in die land se geskiedenis.

Met behulp van onderhoude uit diegene in die binnekring, hofgetuienis en polisiedossiere oor ’n tydperk van vier jaar poog Marx om die publiek se vrae te antwoord en ’n blik te gee op die binnewerkinge van só ’n kultus.

From an early age Mmule Setati was aware of her 'tribe' - her parents, grandparents and siblings. And as time passed, her tribe grew to include friends and extended family - those she loved and wanted to nurture. Inspired and guided by her maternal grandmother, Mmule developed a passion for food and used it to demonstrate the love she felt for her tribe, leading her on a journey of endless adventure. Now as a wife, mother and rising social media tour de force, her tribe is impressive, and she still expresses her love through the meals she makes.

Are you looking for something simple but healthy and nutritious on a weeknight? A child-friendly version of a popular dish? Perhaps something to spoil your significant other on a date night, without having to spend half the date in the kitchen? Or maybe you'd like to wow your guests and in-laws with your modern take on a traditional favourite? Look no further.

In Feed My Tribe, Mmule has you covered; with her tips and advice, she will make you feel like an experienced chef in your own kitchen.

Dis die Branderjaers se matriekjaar en Ben wou sy kop laag hou. Maar dinge loop van die begin skeef.

‘n Ou bendeleier is terug in Breekwater en Ben en sy suster Kalla word gekonfronteer met ’n legacy waarvoor hulle nooit gevra het nie; met oorlog. Die nag wat Kalla in die niemandsland aangeval is het alles verander.

Nou het sy dalk 'n kans om dinge reg te stel. Om seker te maak daar is nie nog ’n slagoffer nie. Al moet sy alles om haar afbrand.

An incisive interrogation of statecraft and governance in the Global South.

Drawing on theory, policy experience and case studies, particularly from South Africa and China, Busani Ngcaweni explores how capable, ethical leadership is central to transforming national and global development trajectories. From the failures of neoliberalism to the promise of pluriversality and South-South solidarity, this book critiques dominant Western models and offers grounded, context-specific pathways for structural change.

With chapters on BRICS, China-Africa relations, local government and bureaucratic renewal, this book is both diagnostic and visionary. It challenges scholars, policymakers and development practitioners to reimagine governance, reclaim agency and build inclusive futures rooted in ethical, effective statecraft.

A vital contribution to the literature on political economy and global development.

Sebastian Salt is an undecided atheist – four times married, four times divorced, four times widowed, four times prostituted, and four times arrested. Love is his biographical voyage.

Blending crime, romance, and speculative fiction, this novel scrutinises the beautiful and often malignant dimensions of love. Love plumbs the murkiest depths of the human soul to ask whether salvation lies at the altar of the divine, in overcoming the weaknesses of our lesser selves or in our brief moments of romantic ecstasy.

This new speculative novel is Nthikeng Mohlele’s most exploratory and conceptually rich work yet.

You wouldn’t know it was there, the unnumbered house behind the iron-grille gate, just below the craggy rocks of Northcliff ridge. To the untrained eye the rambling property might seem neglected, with its tangle of trees and untamed indigenous bush. But there is purpose here, and a peaceful, subterranean, focus on all that withers and dies.

Five strangers – a model, a former nun, a couple in crisis, and an offender newly released from prison – have come here, to this place, to discover an end to life as they’ve known it. Placing their trust in their hosts, the Mortician and Mustafa, the five open their minds and bodies to an alternative experience. Not all of them will survive – or at least not in the way they imagined – but all of them will be shown the limits of their living.

The Institute for Creative Dying is vivid and visceral, unique in its bold and imaginative exploration of mortality and the interconnectedness of all forms of being.

Holding My Breath is a candid, heart-breaking and very funny memoir of life in one of Johannesburg’s busiest emergency rooms. Biccard’s warmth and humanity shine through the often harrowing tale, creating an unputdownable, uplifting and inspiring book.

The first customer today reports that, the previous night, his right nipple had moved away from its usual location. He noticed its absence when he looked in the mirror and later found it in his armpit.

‘Wow,’ I say with a slight frown. I have never heard of a migrating nipple before. ‘Let’s have a look.’ I slide the door shut and motion to him to pull his T-shirt off.

‘Oh, it has moved back now,’ he says.

Milan, Andante en Nova gaan na ’n musiekfees om die beroemde popster, Tyrion, te sien optree, maar daar wag ’n groter avontuur . . .

Milan beland op die verhoog saam met die Kaalbas Kitare en uit die bloute ontvang hulle ’n uitnodiging om ’n slypskool by te woon by ’n eksklusiewe superster-akademie.

Maar daar skuil ’n donker geheim op Die Swart Roos en die drie van hulle moet vinnig plan maak – net soos toe hulle eens die bekende Sproetebessie-bende was.

Ná die verbrokkeling van sy verhouding vestig die kunstenaar Niek Steyn hom in Kaapstad. Wanneer een van Marthinus Scheepers se varke in Niek se tuin beland, raak hulle bevriend.

Charelle Koopman, Niek se loseerder, verdwyn eendag, en 'n welaf kunstenaar maak 'n verdagte aanbod op Niek se huis. Op Stellenbosch skryf 'n vrou met 'n haaslip 'n monografie oor die kuns van die Olivier-broers, en word op 'n dag ooggetuie van 'n moord.

Kort hierna nader 'n holwangkêrel haar met 'n vreemde voorstel.

Soekenjin is ’n bundel oor begeerte, 'n versameling verse oor die lewe in die tyd van die Internet van Dinge. Dit is gedigte oor die soeke na alles: liefde, die self, betekenis en die regte woord, en oor die sublieme en banale dinge wat ons as soekers vind.

Die bundel ondersoek ook die vreemde afdraaipaadjies waarlangs ons nuuskierigheid, behoeftes en verslawings ons lei.

This completely revised field guide to one of Africa’s finest birding spots, the Kruger National Park and adjacent Lowveld, is packed with new information on all of the more than 550 species that have been recorded to date.

This includes updated text and distribution maps based on data from the Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2, hundreds of new illustrations, new sections with bird tracks and bird habitats and the latest rarity information.

Incorporating information from literally hundreds of observers and contributors, this field guide sets a new standard for the region’s varied avifauna.

Chris Coltrane is a successful businessman, and an alcoholic whose life has collided – sometimes disastrously – with many people. A failed intervention by his company’s board led Chris to storm off and find solace in Dimitri T’s, a neat but struggling little cocktail bar in the Cape Town suburb of Oaksworth.

Julie Ross, the owner of Dimitri T’s, is doing her damnedest to crawl out from under her father’s problematic legacy. She gambles her last hope on a Christmas lunch special and happy hour trying to rake in some money before the rent becomes due in a week, and she is left without a business.

Through the soundtrack of songs played on the jukebox, the intertwined backstories of Julie and six of her broken bar room heroes are revealed before the night ends unexpectedly, changing their lives forever.

A new scholarly volume reflecting on the enduring ethical legacy of the Prophet Muhammad, marking 1500 years since the Prophet’s birth by exploring the continued relevance of his message in our contemporary world.

Bringing together scholars, educators, religious leaders and public intellectuals, the book examines how the Prophetic tradition speaks to the moral, social and planetary challenges of our time. Rather than offering simple historical reflection, the chapters engage the Prophet’s legacy as a living ethical inheritance that continues to guide reflection on justice, mercy, dignity, leadership, education and social responsibility.

The contributors move beyond devotional narration to explore what may be described as a Prophetic ethical grammar – the ways in which the life and teachings of the Prophet provide resources for ethical renewal and thoughtful engagement with contemporary crises. The volume addresses issues such as inequality, violence, technological disruption and ecological vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. Rooted in South Africa yet continentally and globally oriented, the book places Muslim intellectual reflection within broader debates about ethics and public life.

The volume is edited by Professor Aslam Fataar, a South African scholar known for his work on education, ethics and social transformation.

''When we said [in 2014] the ANC was falling, many people in the ANC thought we were suffering from the worst form of madness. But today those who said so then secretly approach us to ask: “How did you foresee all this?” By “this” they mean all the internal political mess the ANC has brought to itself since we wrote the first edition of this book. Indeed, a lot of “this” has taken place over the past three years. That is why the title of this second edition is The Fall of the ANC Continues." Political governance in South Africa continues to collapse. Scandals of corruption, evidence of nepotism, rampant maladministration in provinces, incompetence in public offices and a general decline in the quality of leadership are there for all to see. In the view of Prince Mashele and Mzukisi Qobo, this state of affairs has its origins in the messiness and collapse of the African National Congress. As helplessness deepens in our society, concerned citizens ask: "What will happen to South Africa?" The Fall of the ANC Continues seeks to answer this question of the fate that awaits the country.