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Tony Hooper, Win in Washington, 1965‒1978: Letters and Drawings from Rhodesians Stranded in the United States after UDI (Footprint Press, 2022) This book is not simply an historical record, but reflects a genre from a […]
Bill Browder, Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath (London: Simon & Schuster, 2022) VERY wealthy hedge fund operators do not make likely human rights advocates and campaigners, […]
Ebrahim Ebrahim, Beyond Fear: Reflections of a Freedom Fighter (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2022) CONVICTED of sabotage in 1963 and of treason in 1988, Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was sent to Robben Island twice; at the ages of […]
Marion Sparg, The Sting in the Tale: Bulelani Ngcuka (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2022) PREDCTABLY, this book opens with a question: why if there was a prima facie case of corruption against Jacob Zuma as a […]
Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall, Spoilt Ballots: The Elections that Shaped South Africa from Shaka to Cyril (Johannesburg: Penguin, 2022) THERE are numerous points in this book where it feels as if journalists Matthew Blackman […]
Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation (London: William Collins, 2022) ANNE Frank, author of the famous diary about life in hiding in wartime Amsterdam, was arrested on 4 August 1944, […]
Christopher Clark, Clare: The Killing of a Gentle Activist (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) THERE is a myth that still circulates out there, one of legions about South Africa’s history: that the transition from apartheid to […]
Karyn Maughan and Kirsten Pearson, Nuclear: Inside South Africa’s Secret Deal (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) ONE of several wives of the president tries to poison him at the behest of the CIA, but he is […]
Zikhona Valela, Now You Know How Mapetla Died: The Story of a Black Consciousness Martyr (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) IN the 1980s, Black Sash meetings began with a roll-call of those who had died in […]
Ismail Lagardien, Too White to be Coloured, Too Coloured to be Black: On the Search for Home and Meaning (Cape Town: Melinda Ferguson Books, 2022) MOST people tempted to write a memoir ask themselves: is […]