Book Reviews

Secrets from the Cockpit: Pilots Behaving Badly and Other Flying Stories

Robert Schapiro, Secrets from the Cockpit: Pilots Behaving Badly and Other Flying Stories (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021) WHEN I…

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Into Dark Water: A Police Memoir

Jeremy Vearey, Into Dark Water: A Police Memoir (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021) THIS is a curate’s egg of a…

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Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa, 1939–1945

Evert Kleynhans, Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa,1939–1945 (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021) MILITARY history…

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Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Elected Black Politician

Martin Plaut, Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Elected Black Politician (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2020) HIS funeral in Cape Town…

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A Lawyer’s Odyssey: Apartheid, Mandela and Beyond

Henry Brown, A Lawyer’s Odyssey: Apartheid, Mandela and Beyond (Pietermaritzburg: Otterley Press, 2020) THE APARTHEID era produced a stream…

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Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre

Mignonne Breier, Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021) THE…

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Jwara!: Induna’s Daughter

Joyce Piliso-Seroke, Jwara!: Induna’s Daughter (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) THE AUTHOR of Jwara!, a clan name, was born in 1933…

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The Unlikely Mr Rogue: A Life with Ivan Pillay

Evelyn Groenink, The Unlikely Mr Rogue: A Life with Ivan Pillay (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2020) TITLE and sub-title are well…

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The Blackridge House: A Memoir

Julia Martin, The Blackridge House: A Memoir (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2019) AN OLD woman of 92 lies…

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The Man Behind the Beard: Deneys Schreiner, a South African Liberal Life

Graham Dominy, The Man Behind the Beard: Deneys Schreiner, a South African Liberal Life (Pietermaritzburg: University of…

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