‘Lost Boys’ co-author Mark Minnie was reportedly found dead on Monday in Port Elizabeth
‘Now there’s a bit of a cultural fudge going on here’
Photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale has documented war and its aftermath around the world but especially in Africa. He spoke to Shaun de Waal
‘So Tom Moyane, the suspended head of the South African Revenue Service (Sars), went into battle early this past week’
While a lot has been written about the Jameson Raid, Charles van Onselen managed to imagine a fresh contribution to the historiography
Hevea brasiliensis, the rubber tree, had thrived in the Far East, where it had been transplanted and organised into rubber plantations
‘It seemed, at the time, to be a very good idea to go and be myself by shopping at a particular place’
‘For a communications company, Vodacom is exceptionally bad at communicating’
There was a rather odd guy in the accounts department who was not tall and who wore strange round glasses on his face
A book long in the making about controversial assassinations challenges official accounts
‘Now that the deal is done, we can reveal some of the negotiating positions taken by the former president during the Zexit process’
‘Please continue holding till your ear falls off because of radiation poisoning’
We’ve all heard about the big Turkey wedding involving a certain Indian family. Our spy sneaks into the chaos.
BBC correspondent Andrew Hosken’s book focuses on training camp for jihadis and internal wars between jihadist factions in Syria and elsewhere.
Ruling elites that behave like private corporations don’t help the continent.
Writing history is often a matter of rewriting earlier histories as present perspectives shift and change.
The current Spy vs Spy farce summons a sense of déjà vu, with a CIA spook lurking in every nook.
Three new books explore the topic of conflict and how it has shaped the world as we know it.
To celebrate 20 years of freedom, the M&G went back to the unfree years and picked 20 absurd apartheid moments.
Shaun de Waal speaks to Jade Davenport about her first book, "Digging Deep", on the history of mining in South Africa.
Wikipedia conveniently offers a summary of Mohsin Hamid’s highly acclaimed 2007 novel, <em> The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em>.
Shaun de Waal reviews Pacific Rim, which is not quite the movie of the week.
360 is rich with human life and the textures of our fractured, disparate worlds
Welcome to the world of furry: a bizarre, sometimes pornographic, rambunctious new form of participatory pop culture.
A new book shows how, in exile, the South African Communist Party was pretty much the dominant influence on the ANC.
An Unexpected Journey feels as though it has been stretched and stretched again to fill up a running time of nearly three hours.
As perhaps the most amenable of the actors who played James Bond, Roger Moore gets the job of writing the text for this commemorative book.
Earlier this year, Bullhead was the Belgian entry in the Oscars category of best movie in a foreign language (meaning non-American-speaking).
A new and comprehensive history and a guide contain everything a scholar needs to know
Zuma Exposed gets to the heart of the paranoia and power play central to the ANC under his leadership
The eyes of the deceased icons in Conrad Botes’s paintings bring them back to life.
There’s much huffing and puffing in The Cold Light of Day, but the plot is decidedly thin and the sketchy script barely manages to join the dots.