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The sixth general election since the arrival of democracy occurs at a critical moment in South Africa's history. The immediate question this book poses is will the ANC manage to manufacture a sixth electoral victory despite its disastrous record in government since 2014?

Celebrates the rich and untold history of investigative journalism in southern Africa and the crucial role it has played in holding power to account over the last 300 years. It is the third book in the best-selling series of Muckraking titles.

The second offering in the Gerald Kraak annual anthology, As You Like It, is a collection of the short-listed entries submitted for the Gerald Kraak Award. This anthology offers a window into deeply located visions and voices across Africa. It brings together stories of self-expression, identity, sexuality, and agency.

This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid and racism and by profession a historian has written a highly personal account that casts a particularly sharp light on the unfolding of a police dominated apartheid system in the 1960s.

Now in its 8th year, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award has been the launching pad for upcoming poets. From slam poetry to formal rhyme, the anthology is a celebration of language and cultural diversity. Assembled by a brilliant team of judges, this year's compilation contains the best poems from 500 entries.

Presents renowned cartoonist Zapiro's account of the Zuma years in 400 brilliant cartoons and the stories behind them. This is much more than a collection of cartoons, it's also a definitive personal record from a man uniquely positioned to reflect the serious craziness and the crazy seriousness of this bewildering time in South Africa's history.

David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and very past, including the giant Trekboer Coenraad de Buys - rebel, renegade, a man with a price on his head who married many women and fathered a small nation.

Storm has a beautiful stone that her parents gave to her when she was born. When she holds this stone and sings, everyone in the village stops to listen. But when she is tempted by an old woman to sing songs that can control the wind, waves and the entire ocean, things go wrong.

A collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the student-led protest movement known as #FeesMustFall, which began in 2015. It tells the journey of the youth who participated in a movement that redefined politics in post-apartheid South Africa.

I wrestled with life and lost."" So begins the story of Michael, a lawyer known to his colleagues and associates as Sir Marvin, who picks his way - sometimes delicately, but often in his own blundering way - through the intricacies that make up a life: love and anger, humility and ambition, trust and distrust, selfishness and selflessness.

A collection of remembrances from those who worked with, for and beside Nelson Mandela. More than one hundred individuals, from household staff to bodyguards and presidential advisors, provide warm, poignant, and often humorous insights into what it was like behind the scenes with one of the most beloved political figures the world has seen.

Sometimes melancholy, sometimes brutal, occasionally funny and infuriating, a journalist-comrade-lover caught up in the shade and shadow of politics and social injustice faces treachery and betrayal on every level. Set against the backdrop of a cityscape that taunts and tantalises, this is where love fails and passion wanes.

Trust in how the political system functions and in political parties as cogs in this machine of government is critical. But, across the African continent, there are low levels of confidence and trust in political parties, notwithstanding the monumental changes taking place among citizen attitudes.

As the host, some honour is accorded to you. It is acknowledged that you have gone to some trouble and thought to orchestrate an occasion. This is why, when you begin (or revive) entertaining in your home, you understand that it is something of a rite of passage.

Presents Mpho Dagada, a young, self-made millionaire who in his memoir, Mr Bitcoin, shares his story of triumph and failure. This book is both motivational and practical, examining the errors and pitfalls that Dagada had to go through in his business pursuits.

Written by prominent economist, Raymond Parsons, together with Ali Parry, this book offers a balanced and absorbing analysis of what various institutions and individuals have (and have not) done to eradicate the legacy of apartheid and bring South Africa to where it is today.

This is the third story about the COOL Nguni calf named Gaps. This time, Gaps and his cousin Sugarbean want to grow mealies and beans for the Farmers' Show. Will they win the prize for the best crop?

Sol Plaatje is celebrated as one of South Africa's most accomplished political and literary figures. A pioneer in the history of the black press, editor of several newspapers, he was one of the founders of the African National Congress in 1912 and twice travelled overseas to represent the interests of his people.

If the bird writings of Le Vaillant turned a generation of young European readers into ornithologists, this remarkable collection of birding curiosities written by some of our most intrepid bird observers will convert a new generation of South African readers.

Teko 'the General' Modise is one of the best footballers South Africa has ever produced. But life wasn't always kind. This book tells it all, from poverty to fame, from love to divorce. It is the story of a fatherless father trying to make sense of parenthood and a man who never had money trying to make sense of an abundance of wealth.

This authoritative volume is crammed with information on the awesome variety of new products and services that South Africans, at home and abroad, have invented from precolonial times to the present. Historic photographs, fascinating anecdotes, and illuminating case studies light up the text and make it read like a detective novel.

The seventh volume in this series anthologises the best entries for the 2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. The anthology is a truly democratic as well as creative effort, in keeping with the spirit of the legendary intellectual giant, Sol Plaatje; activist, linguist, translator, novelist, journalist and leader.