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Video: Vanessa Goosen Talks to Carte Blanche About Her 16 Years in a Thai Prison 27 Aug 2013 | 12:44 pm
Vanessa Goosen, former South African beauty queen, recently told her story in the book, Drug Muled: Sixteen years in a Thai Prison by Joanne Joseph and Larissa Focke. Goosen was interviewed by Devi S...
David Smith Tweets Christa Kuljian’s Troyeville Book Club Discussion on Sanctuary 26 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
David Smith, Africa correspondent of The Guardian, tweeted from the Troyeville Hotel where Christa Kuljian discussed her book, Sanctuary: How an Inner-city Church Spilled onto a Sidewalk, which focuse...
Ilan Godfrey’s Legacy of the Mine Launched at the Irma Stern Museum with Max Price 26 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
Ilan Godfrey’s arresting photograph of a gaunt miner reclining on his bed, sickened with silicosis, dominates the entrance to UCT’s Irma Stern Museum. On entering the gallery, the intimacy and power o...
Excerpt from Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam by Zukiswa Wanner 23 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
“South African ‘old money’s’ ideas of social gatherings are charity balls and fundraising teas,” writes Zukiswa Wanner in Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave your Madam, her humorous exploration of the relat...
Zukiswa Wanner Presents Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam 22 Aug 2013 | 02:29 pm
New from Jacana, Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam by Zukiswa Wanner: It’s a scene most South Africans are familiar with; something that adds that oomph to your social status as a South African...
Raymond Parsons Reassesses South Africa’s Economic Prospects in Zumanomics Revisited 22 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
New from Jacana, Raymond Parsons returns with Zumanomics Revisited: In the light of global and domestic developments since 2009, Raymond Parsons now reassesses the economic prospects for SA post-Mang...
James Siddall Discusses the Nature of Addiction and Telling His Story in Dystopia 21 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
“I long ago stopped worrying about people’s opinions of me…What you read in the book is much less embarrassing than what actually happened — people seeing me bundled into the back of a police van or l...
Podcast: Liza Grobler Discusses the Response to Her Writing on Police Corruption 20 Aug 2013 | 12:45 pm
Liza Grobler joined Jenny Crwys-Williams in studio at Talk Radio 702 to discuss her book, Crossing the Line: When cops become criminals. The book started out as Grobler’s PhD thesis, which was awarde...
Jacana Authors at Open Book Festival 2013 (7-11 September) 19 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
The 2013 Open Book Festival is being held in Cape Town from Saturday 7 to Wednesday 11 September. Jacana authors to look out for at the festival include Mongane Wally Serote, Zapiro, Liesl Jobson, Pum...
James Siddall’s Dystopia Launched in Durban 19 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
Sibongiseni Dladla from KZN Literary Tourism attended the launch of James Siddall’s Dystopia at Exclusive Books Westville Pavilion in Durban. Dladla writes for KZN Literary Tourism that Siddall said ...
