A new book examines how a charismatic church is brainwashing poor and gullible South Africans with the idea that God can be bought
Religion has been left to bridge the inequality divide created by corrupt political elites, writes Catholic priest Anthony Egan.
Zake Mda’s many interests are reflected in this mix of integrity, vanity, irony and satire.
David Robbins’s latest is a reminder about the value of writing and how it can be used as a balm against rigid and reactionary ideas.
A journalist with first-hand knowledge spins a tale that would do justice to a Grisham novel.
It is not surprising that crime is a common subject in contemporary South African writing, fact and fiction.
As with a good recipe, the latest contributions to ‘living a good life’ draw on varied ingredients to offer memorable dishes.
Anthony Egan doesn’t believe in ghosts. But once, one night on a remote Philippine island, something strange happened …
At the request of a cross-party group of members of Parliament, the Jesuit Institute of SA has been emailing daily meditations to parliamentarians.
Amid apparent tensions between church and state over a number of moral and political issues, there is sustained and reasoned dialogue.
Could crime fiction be the new direction the "political novel" is taking in contemporary South Africa?
Irish sexual mores are notoriously conservative because of religious constraints, but a new book interrogates a more sordid side of the country’s past
We were not close friends — but his tragic death vividly brought to mind my last memory of him as a fine theologian.
In July 2016 the world is literally sinking.
At 285 pages one cannot really call this a short book, and as that it purports to be a world history, it could be argued that this is all too short.
Andrew Brown is a crime novelist admirably conscious of race and class, and his latest works illustrate this perfectly.
Nick Heller returns in Joseph Finder’s new thriller, <i>Vanished</i>, in which he investigates the disappearance of his brother Roger.
The <i>Guardian</i> was something of a legend in the anti-apartheid struggle. James Zug admirably brings out its complexity in his well-written and highly engaging book <i>The…
Anthony Egan reviews Bill Nasson’s <i>Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918 </i>.
Ordinary people, given the right motivation and circumstances, can easily make the jump to suicide bomber, writes Anthony Egan.
