An updated edition of Pieter du Toit’s book, ‘The Stellenbosch Mafia’, elaborates on the fallout between Johann Rupert and Christo Wiese, who has been badly ...

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What does it take to write a good rugby book? Eddie Jones and Donald McRae show how it’s done

Kate Rogan, owner of Joburg’s beloved Love Books, on what she recommends you should start your reading blitz with

One tollgate recorded 4,500 ox wagons a year travelling from the Cape to the interior

The follow-up to her 2018 fiction debut, Knucklebone, it is another tale that delves into the crimes Reshma Patel and Ian Jack investigate in and around Gauteng

Skilled riflemen turned a train into a mobile fortress, but before the British force in the town was relieved in May 1900 ammunition was getting scarce and ...

The 1950s produced some powerful films, many still seen as classics today