Tafelberg: 581 books

A fearless take on the state of our nation from one of South Africa’s most controversial commentators. This collection of Rhoda Kadalie’s best columns include sections on public figures such as Cyril Ramaphosa, Allan Boesak and Winnie Mandela,  “troubled transformation”, “media meekness”, “foreign fumbles” and more.

Mark Heywood plays a pivotal role in South African public life and the movement for social justice. He has spearheaded momentous victories for poor people, establishing the right to antiretroviral treatment and to textbooks in schools among others. Executive Director of SECTION27 and a key figure...

From initiation ceremonies in the Eastern Cape to Helen Zille's Twitter account, South Africa is a land ripe with contradiction. It is a place where first world aspirations often clash with third world realities. Acclaimed commentator Gareth van Onselen takes a fresh and fearless look at some of these...

What can you say about the seventies – except to wish you hadn’t been there? The sixties produced hippies and sex, the eighties yuppies and money. But the seventies? Disposable fashion, disposable music. And disposable lives in the warm country where I grew up . . . This is how thirty-three year...

This informative guide inspires everyone, whether fit or unfit, elderly or very young, to get out there and do it! "Easy Walks in the Cape Peninsula" introduces an undemanding walk - in and around Cape Town - for every weekend of the year. These walks have been carefully chosen because of...

When Lesley Smailes set off from Port Elizabeth for a gap year, her mother joked: "Whatever you do, don't get married. And don't join a cult." But within months, Lesley was part of a notorious American sect, married to a man she hardly knew and allowed only minimal contact with her family....

‘Let me say to Mr Botha: apartheid is doomed! It has been condemned in the Councils of God, rejected by every nation on the planet and is no longer believed in by the people who gave it birth. Apartheid is the god that has failed … let not one more sacred life be offered on its blood-stained altar...

For the past five years, Daily Maverick has been making sense of the madness that is South African reality. Every day, its team of respected journalists dissects politics and society with a healthy dose of scepticism and a natural loathing of spin-doctoring. Brain Porn offers the best of their astute,...

Mandla is a young Swazi boy training to be a sangoma. After completing the quest for his muti bag, he is initiated into the mysteries of Nkosatana, the Princess of Heaven, and becomes a heaven-herd by catching a bird of lightning. But this is only the start of his path toward maturity: he participates...

Following the trauma of miscarriage, the death of her baby and the collapse of her marriage, Griet contemplates suicide, but a strategically placed cockroach brings her attempt to an abrupt end. Holding on to her sense of humour and supported by her family, her friends and her therapist, Griet starts...

Oliver Strange’s life in London is all very normal until his father disappears in the wilds of the Okavango Swamps while collecting frog data. When Oliver goes in search of his dad, he is captured and things go from bad to worse. He soon discovers his knowledge of reading maps and his Swiss Army...

Die Tweede Wêreldoorlog verdeel nie net die wêreld nie, maar ook gesinne. In die Fourie-huishouding staan Pa by Hertzog wat neutraal wil bly, Oupa by Smuts wat tot die oorlog toetree en die seuns by Malan wat die oorlog teëstaan. Binne hierdie milieu maak ons kennis met De Wet en Klara, Gerbrand...

In hierdie boek word ’n baie gewilde skrywer se lekkerlees-kortverhale vir die eerste keer byeengebring. Hier is ’n ryke verskeidenheid stories, onder meer oor geleenthede soos Kersfees, Vadersdag, ensovoorts, en liefde – in sy vele fasette uitgebeeld – is die gemene deler. In al die verhale...

Signed, Hopelessly in Love hits all the core notes for a great read: it is set in high school, with entertaining main characters and incidents, there is the great love story of Amo and John, and the interfering parent in Granma, not to mention school bitchiness in the attack on Amo’s best friend,...