Jacana: 156 books
Zunami!
The 2009 South African Elections
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Analyzing the South African general elections of April 2009, the voting trends and results, this investigation also ponders the future prospects for South Africa. Those elections were the most momentous and important for a democratic Parliament since the miracle” elections in 1994. Not only the...
Paying for Politics
Party Funding and Political Change in South Africa and the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Examining the corruptive effects that money can have on politics, this book explores the challenges of party funding reform in South Africa. With input from leading analysts, academics, and journalists, key controversies in party finance reform-including one-party dominance, party-controlled businesses,...
Rights to Land
A guide to tenure upgrading and restitution in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The issue of land rights is an ongoing and complex topic of debate for South Africans. Rights to Land comes at a time when land redistribution by government is underway. This book seeks to understand the issues around land rights and distribution of land in South Africa and proposes that new policies...
Indentured
Behind the Scenes at Gupta TV
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
“Why Zuma?” asked Atul Gupta. “We have close relations with everyone in the ANC. If Zuma is ever ousted, I can tell you for sure that the next one in line from the ANC would be close to us as well. We are ‘Banias', and we know how to keep our business interests protected,” Gupta added.A...
The Coming Revolution
Julius Malema and the Fight for Economic Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What do the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) stand for? How do they propose to nationalize mines, banks, and land? Is Julius Malema, the founder of the EFF, equipped to legislate or to lead? These tough questions are asked in The Coming Revolution: Julius Malema and the Fight for Economic Freedom....
by Peter Vundla
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
1948 was the year South Africa’s National Party came into power on 26 May under D. F. Malan and the abominable system of apartheid was born and institutionalized. It also marked the year that Bunguza Peter Vundla was born: a boy from humble beginnings who made it against all odds. Peter Vundla is...
To Catch a Cop
The Paul O'Sullivan Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This book is an account of forensic consultant Paul O’Sullivan’s role in helping nail South Africa’s most powerful policeman: Jackie Selebi, former police chief and head of Interpol. Based on thousands of pages of e-mails, statements, affidavits, letters, press reports, court records, and transcripts...
by Malebo Sephodi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Upon encountering historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's quote, ‘well-behaved women seldom make history', Malebo Sephodi knew that she was tired of everyone else having a say on who and what she should be. Appropriating this quote, Malebo boldly renounces societal expectations placed on her as a black...
(Un)covering Men
Rewriting Masculinity and Health in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Between 2009 and 2011, journalism fellows of the HIV & AIDS Media Project undertook in-depth research looking to write about men, masculinity, and HIV in a new way, and the result is this compendium of articles, blogs, and photo essays. It showcases a diversity of men, each facing a unique context...
The Rhino Keepers
Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The conservation of the rhinos in southern Africa is described in this account of these fascinating animals, the reasons behind their historical decline, the myths that surround them, and the resurrection of the rhinoceros horn trade. Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined...
Cancer
A love story
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
When Lauren Segal, successful historian and curator, wife andmother, receives a call from her husband one wintry morningin 2014, the furthest thing from mind is her biopsy results. Fortwo years she's been living a cancer-free existence after a doublemastectomy that has put her in the clear. The call...
The Last Right
Craig Schonegevel's Struggle to Live and Die with Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
"The Last Right" is the true story of Craig Schonegevel who suffered from the extremely variable condition known as Neurofibromatosis Type 1. In Craig’s case his life was mostly one of operations, pain and suffering and his brave attempts to slay the NF 1 dragon that kept on gnawing at...
Eyebags & Dimples
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In this beautifully written work, searing and unflinchingly honest, Bonnie makes a remarkable transition from actress to author with ease and flair. This shockingly naked account recounts how her depression almost robbed her of her shine and how she continues to fight this darkness. After Bonnie...
by Neil Sonnekus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Len and his father, Son, couldn't be more different. If Len is a recently divorced man of 42 who just wants sex, then his old man is a World War Two veteran in his late 80s, who is impossible. Len is a decadent subeditor at a South African newspaper, the old man is an old-school puritan. They have...