Book Reviews
The Thabo Bester Story: The Facebook Rapist, the Celebrity Doctor and the Escape from Cell 35
Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn, The Thabo Bester Story: The Facebook Rapist, the Celebrity Doctor and the Escape…
Statues and Storms: Leading through Change
Max Price, Statues and Storms: Leading Through Change (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2023) THERE’S a song in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates…
Blood has a Voice: Stories from the Autopsy Table
Hestelle van Staden, Blood has a Voice: Stories from the Autopsy Table (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2023) SHE describes herself…
Rhoda: A Biography
Joel B. Pollak, Rhoda: A Biography: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!’ (Johannesburg: UJ Press, 2023) CONTRARIAN is…
Eskom: Power, Politics and the (Post) Apartheid State
Faeeza Ballim, Eskom: Power, Politics and the (Post) Apartheid State (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2023) FOR many years a joke has…
Takka Takka Bom Bom: A South African War Correspondent’s Story
Al J. Venter, Takka Takka Bom Bom: A South African War Correspondent’s Story (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) THE TITLE…
Whitey: The Rise and Rule of the Shoprite King
Niel Joubert, Whitey: The Rise and Rule of the Shoprite King (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2022) WE have three supermarkets…
Zondo at your Fingertips
Paul Holden, Zondo at your Fingertips (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2023) STATE capture amounted to treason: not only did it involve…
Standing up for Science: A Voice of Reason
Salim S. Abdool Karim, Standing up for Science: A Voice of Reason: South Africa’s Chief Covid-19 Adviser at…
In the Name of the People: How Populism is Rewiring the World
Tendai Biti et al. In the Name of the People: How Populism is Rewiring the World (Johannesburg: Picador Africa,…