On 4 February 1961, the day regarded by the MPLA as the start of its national revolution, the sto...

Set against the stark beauty of contemporary Paris, Invisible Others is a story about loss, intim...

When a young, naively confident Jurgen Schadeberg first arrived at The Star news offices in Johan...

This beautiful book shows poignant images from Breytenbach's collection of District Six during th...

The Karoo fossil record tells us much about the many animals that lived in what is now South Afri...

Also available in Afrikaans under title: Vandag is ek 'n windlawaai.

Oswald Pirow (1890-1959) served as Minister of Defence under the nationalist Hertzog coalition. H...

Timeless tales from the Bushmen recorded before the oral story-telling tradition was threatened b...

In this book, based on published sources, both primary and secondary, the available information o...

In this fascinating and entertaining memoir, the legendary White Bushman, Peter Stark, writes abo...

Operation Savannah entered the annals of South African military tradition four decades ago. Few a...

This text is a valuable source of information about the Magaliesberg, including the history of ma...

The Skeleton Coast of Namibia - an area once feared and shunned because of its treacherous coastl...

Samantha Steadman, and her best friends smart-mouthed Jessie Delaney and politician's daughter No...

In Animal Tales: Volume 4 poor Wolf continues his trials with Jackal. Again we see that poor Wolf...

At the age of 87, Dirk Mudge now publishes his long-awaited autobiography. This remarkable man wa...

For two decades before a railway system linked southern Africa's principal cities in the mid-1890...

Dennis Brutus, Jeremy Cronin, Nuruddin Farah, Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, Tahar Ben Jelloun, D...

Eight-year-old Chris loves spending time with Uncle Sol, the security guard. Uncle Sol teaches hi...

This is the third book in the series by Joanne Macgregor, but can also be read as a stand-alone. ...

The commemoration of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 has brought renewed interest in the fortunes...

The award-winning South African architectural and design practice Mathews & Associates Architects...

This book tells the turbulent story of the Transvaal from 1884 until 1900 - a period which covers...

The Magaliesberg mountains are more than two billion years old - one of the oldest mountain range...

The Golden Republic tells of the adventure that raised the Republic to its peak and the complex i...

The vibrancy and diversity of Joburg frame the stark disparities of income and poverty that chara...

As a land artist Strijdom van der Merwe uses the materials provided by the chosen site. His sculp...

During apartheid, Jurgen Schadeberg worked for the leading 'black' publications of the time. This...

Davidson has eschewed the dry, academic style normally associated with works of history and in hi...

Our Selves is a collection of some of South African philosopher Martin Versfeld's most interestin...

Timeless tales from the Bushmen recorded before the oral story-telling tradition was threatened b...

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family, led a large party of British i...

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family and former lieutenant in the Ro...

Not everybody is aware that the ships that rounded the South African coast over the past five cen...

In Animal Tales 3 we meet new animal characters such as Tiger, Crocodile and Rabbit. Poor Wolf st...

This new anthology of Afrikaans poems accompanied by their English translations is an extended an...

Al Venter regards himself an African - a 'white' African, but as much a part of the fascinating a...

Sea Stories is a collection of stories from around the world - from 'Hans and the hole' in Haarle...

Like the Amish, the Boers of Angola remained caught in a time bubble. Far from their culture, thi...

Just as the Farmers' Security Administration in the United States produced a major photographic e...

At age 60, during the late nineteenth century, William Chapman began writing down his memoirs in ...

Bulpin transports the reader to the mystical country Rhodesia, today known as Zimbabwe. In his re...

Al Venter has been free-diving (without cages) with sharks for 40 years and has had three of his ...

Peter is adventurous and free, but the girl he brings to Neverland with him this time is rather d...

Author Jan Breytenbach, a legend in military circles, and the founder of South African Special Fo...

This biography of John Bailie and his family, based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, a...

Kobus van Rooyen was the Chairman of the Publications Appeal Board from 1980-90. Under his leader...

Venter's choice of military events is eclectic. He has four chapters on Afghanistan, three on Som...