Book Reviews
20 Battles: Searching for a South African Way of War, 1913-2013
Evert Kleynhans and David Brock Katz, 20 Battles: Searching for a South African Way of War, 1913‒2013 (Johannesburg: Delta…
Back to the Front: A Memoir
Leon Levy, Back to the Front: A Memoir (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2023) BOOK ENDING a life seems an appropriate approach…
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…
