BOOK REVIEW: Jazz club’s feverish years recalled

Hennie van Vuuren's new book, Apartheid Guns and Money: A tale of profit, lifts the lid on explosive evidence of political party funding. Here's an extract

Author Jonathan Ancer’s novel digs up bones left by one of apartheid’s most deadly spies, writes Sue Grant-Marshall

Raymond Suttner’s Inside Apartheid’s Prison is a slow uncovering of his torture at the hands of war criminals. Here’s an extract

Author David Lagercrantz waits for the storm after brutalising Larsson’s tattooed hacker in The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

After Piketty is a sympathetic appraisal of what the French economist got right and what he got wrong, writes Peter Coy

African crime genre author Scotty Elliott is not keen on up-close gore, and it's her characters that fascinate, writes Sue Grant-Marshall

Throughout his life Fela relentlessly sought social justice for ordinary Nigerians

Deftly written food essays delve into myth, marriage, maize — and mucilage (it’s not as bad as it sounds)

Autobiography details how Fatima Meer grew up in an unconventional family to become an advocate for justice

The Republic of Gupta book reminds you of maniacal little men who pull you deeper into the dark instead of showing you the way out

Dale McKinley sheds light on the key problem of the ANC’s rule since 1994: its power is exercised in service to capital

Cookbook provides an accessible introduction to dishes amid burgeoning African scene, writes Madeleine Morrow

Essayist Pankaj Mishra presents wrenching confirmation that humankind is irrational and cannot govern self-interest in a manner that overrides primordial ...

Influential Reitz Afrikaner leaders crossed paths with eminent people who shaped events in colonial SA

An honest look at a troubled life by a woman defined by her surname