Seventeen years later, Mervyn Sloman reflects on The Book Lounge thriving in the digital age and building reading community through Open Book Festival

The quiet power of Moses Seletisa’s Sepedi poetry and Sabata Mokae’s Setswana novels

From banned books to political activism, Marcus de Jong’s life was a testament to the power of ideas and the human spirit

This is an extract from the book 50 People Who F***ed Up South Africa: The Lost Decade by Alexander Parker and Tim Richman, with cartoons by Zapiro