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Daniel Janse van Rensburg with Tracey Pharoah, Black Beach: 491 Days in one of Africa’s Most Brutal Prisons (Cape Town: Penguin, 2022) THE TITLE of this book is explicit enough, but its broader significance lies […]
Shaun Davison, The Price of Mercy: A Fight for the Right to Die with Dignity (Cape Town: Melinda Ferguson Books, 2022) AN OLD woman suffering from terminal cancer in New Zealand in 2010 decides to […]
Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin, Cabin Fever: Trapped on Board a Cruise Ship when the Pandemic Hit: A True Story of Heroism and Survival at Sea (London: Endeavour, 2022) IT’S been said that the perfect […]
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 […]
IT’S exactly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis ‒ known to Russians as the Caribbean crisis. The climax lasted thirteen days and historians judge it to be the closest the world has come to […]
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 […]
FEW people outside Tshwane (Pretoria) will have heard of Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville. But it recently, and surprisingly briefly, hit the headlines when a neo-fascist vigilante outfit calling itself Operation Dudula (force out in Zulu) […]
ONE does not need to be an ardent monarchist, or even a very tepid one, to recognise the significance of the end of the 70-year-long reign of Elizabeth Regina. Its events have framed my life […]