Tafelberg: 581 books

In the murky world of espionage few rules apply. Everything is permitted in the name of state security - even talking to the country's Enemy No. 1. This is exactly what Niël Barnard, then head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), did in the late 1980s. On instruction of PW Botha, he started...

The full story of behind-the-scenes encounters between ANC leaders and a select few Afrikaners in the turbulent eighties, told for the first time by someone who was there himself: Stellenbosch philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. These highly confidential talks, held behind closed doors in England,...

With "Flagwatching", top-selling author Clem Sunter breaks new ground. Building on the more abstract discipline of scenario planning for which he is internationally known, this book offers an innovative, highly practical method for decoding the future. Flagwatching is something we do every...

In reaction to popular demand, the topselling Stiletto is now available in English too. Karin Eloff was a good Afrikaans girl  from a conservative religious background with an honours degree in psychology. Stiletto is the true story of how this model schoolgirl became Zoë - initially a stripper,...

Writer, journalist and occasional comedian Marianne Thamm recounts her unconventional life story with great honesty and humour. Born to a German father and a Portuguese mother who had immigrated to South Africa at the height of white rule, Marianne grew up tough amid Afrikaans neighbours in Pretoria's...

"Until Julius Comes" is a boisterous, unprecedented journey through the wilds of South African politics in an election year. With his sharp wit and perceptive observations, Richard Poplak exposes the tricks of the political trade and the skulduggery that comes with it. Writing under the...

Award-winning journalist Sylvia Vollenhoven tells the story of her life and how it's been turned upside down by an Ancestor: //Kabbo, a Bushman storyteller and revolutionary. She writes of being "too black" for her coloured school mates, working as one of the early female journalists in...

Respected analyst Daniel Silke provides a glimpse into global trends that will influence South African business and politics in the coming decade, such as the decline of the USA, the rise of emerging markets and the changing workplace. This book is for every South African person and business preparing for the changing world.

Dit is die Eerste Wêreldoorlog. In ’n Britse militêre hospitaal staan Susan Nell voor die deur van een van die private sale. Op die deur is ’n enkele naam aangebring. Sy ken daardie naam. Sestien jaar tevore, in een van die Anglo-Boereoorlog se konsentrasiekampe, het daardie naam soos ’n liddietbom...

Sy het haarself Stom Anna genoem. Omdat sy aan iemand kon vertel van dit wat tussen haar en haar stiefpa plaasgevind het nie. Nie aan haar ma nie, nie aan haar beste vriendin nie, en selfs nie aan haar eie pa nie. Dit is ’n verhaal wat sy nou eers, jare later, kan uitskryf. Nou eers kan sy die swye...

Bekroon met die derde prys in NB-Uitgewers se Groot Romanwedstryd. Esther van Emmenes het nie die bakkie hoor stilhou nie. Sy loop heeltemal ingedagte tussen die ou grafstene in die Fouriesburgse begraafplaas rond. Soekend. Sy is dikwels in die begraafplaas. Dit is waarom sy op dié Vrystaatse dorpie...

Dis waar dit geëindig het, toe die trekker se wiel Klara se pa papgedruk het. Toe hulle ná haar pa se dood van Boplaas moes weg en in die Witlokasie moes gaan woon, toe was alles verby. Boplaas het hulle afgeskud. Of so het Klara gedink. Maar die waarheid is dat Boplaas nie klaar was met haar nie....

Hulle is almal in die land. Die Italianers met hulle Mafia-verbintenisse, die Chinese triades, die Nigeriërs, die Russe, Koreane, Indiërs, die hele lot, en dan natuurlik nog die plaaslike ouens ook. Niemand is hier vir die land en die Kaap se natuurskoon nie. Hulle het nie sentiment oor ’n politieke...

Toe Kristina een aand nie huis toe kom nadat sy gaan draf het nie, bel haar twee huismaats die polisie. Hulle kry haar in die vroeë oggendure onder ’n bos teen die berg. Sy is by haar bewussyn, maar kan glad nie onthou wat met haar gebeur het nie. Daar is ook geen logiese verklaring vir die drastiese...