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How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence
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'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of  The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5  'An invaluable guide to avoiding self deception and fake news'...
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The Rise or Fall of South Africa: Latest Scenarios
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What awaits us in the 2020s and 2030s? Will the country continue down the path of state capture, corrupt leadership and economic downturn? Or can South Africa rise from Jacob Zuma’s lost decade? What awaits us in the 2020s and 2030s? Will the country continue down the path of...
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Nuclear: Inside South Africa's Secret Deal
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Nuclear: Inside South Africa's Secret Deal is a book by Award-winning investigative journalist Karyn Maughan and former National Treasury insider Kirsten Pearson reveal the inside story behind South Africa's controversial nuclear deal. Through insider accounts, audio recordings and confidential...
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Ramaphosa's Turn: Can Cyril save South Africa
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Nearly two decades after he was anointed by Nelson Mandela as his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa has at last taken office as the president of South Africa. But the country Ramaphosa has inherited is very different from the rainbow nation that Mandela led in the 1990s. The South Africa of 2018 is...
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Cyril Ramaphosa: The Path to Power in South Africa
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For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela''s preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid president. Ramaphosa had led South Africa''s huge
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First Man In: Leading from the Front
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NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In  First Man In , he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his...
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The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
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“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George Packer A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in...
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We Have Now Begun Our Descent, How to stop South Africa Losing Its Way
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12 FEBRUARY 2015. The South African secret services block the cellphones of journalists covering Parliament. Opposition party members are violently thrown out of the House. President Jacob Zuma - accused of corruption on a grand scale - laughs uproariously. Where is the country of Nelson Mandela...
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Zumanomics Revisited: The Road from Mangaung to 2030
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In the light of global and domestic developments since his 2009 publication  Zumanomics , Raymond Parsons now reassesses the economic prospects for South Africa post-Mangaung and following the 2014 general election. While the original book was a collective effort with other...
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When Zuma Goes
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When Jacob Zuma retires to Nkandla, what will be left behind? South Africa has been in the grip of the ʻZunamiʼ since May 2009: Scandal, corruption and allegations of state capture have become synonymous with the Zuma era, leaving the country and its people disheartened. But Jacob Zuma’s time is...
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How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future
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NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.” — The  New York Times Book Review  (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...
The Power Of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
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'These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love, to share, to protect others - can triumph in the worst possible circumstances.' Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist Dr Denis Mukwege has dedicated his...
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The Future Of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
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‘A fascinating and crucial insight into how, even as humanity moves upwards into the final frontier, we’ll be influenced by the geographies of space. Marshall has done it again!’  Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of  Being Human Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming...
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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
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George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room.  No room better defines American power and...
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House Of Trump, House Of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
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THE  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER “The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.” —The   Washington Post House of Trump, House...
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Election 2019: Change and Stability in South Africa's Democracy
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Is 2019’s election the most important since the advent of democracy in 1994? The sixth general election since the arrival of democracy occurs at a critical moment in South Africa’s history. Since claiming a fifth electoral victory under the leadership of President Jacob Zuma in 2014, the ANC has...
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Who Will Rule In 2019?
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The ANC received a bloody nose in the 2016 local elections, when it lost three major metros to the opposition. Will the fractured ruling party be able to reunite under Cyril Ramaphosa and gain a majority at the polls in 2019? Or could the DA and EFF overcome their vast ideological divide to oust...
Leading In The 21st Century: The Call for a New Type of African Leade
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'It became apparent to me that, due to the complexity of problems that face humanity today, those who do not know should not lead.' – Professor Tshilidzi Marwala In 2020 the world found itself in a state of flux. A global pandemic disrupted the world order while the digital transformation of the...
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Louis Botha: A Man Apart
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In A Man Apart Richard Steyn once again brings to life a South African icon. Louis Botha was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, a union he did much to create in the decade after the devastation of the Anglo-Boer War. During the war Botha was a brilliant young Boer general who...
Blessed By Bosasa: Inside Gavin Watson's State Capture Cult
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You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.' It's easy to imagine that state capture began with Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. But you'd be wrong. Born out of the ANC Women's League 20 years ago, Bosasa has come to be described as the ANC's 'Heart of Darkness'. At its...
Hijackers On Board: How One Courageous Whistleblower Fought Against the Capture of SAA
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She knew she might lose her job as group treasurer, yet Cynthia Stimpel decided to blow the whistle anyway. She simply could not keep quiet about an irregular deal of R256 million at South African Airways on Dudu Myeni’s watch. It was not an easy decision, but the right one. Although she...
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How To Steal A Gold Mine: The Aurora Story
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"In October 2009, Aurora Empowerment Systems a black-owned, politically connected business, made a bid to rescue the liquidated Pamodzi Gold mines. Former president Jacob Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma, his lawyer Michael Hulley and Nelson Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela, were listed as...
Soweto Uprisings: Counter Memoirs Of June 1976
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When the Soweto uprisings of June 1976 took place, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, the author of this book, was a 14-year-old pupil at Phefeni Junior Secondary School. With his classmates, he was among the active participants in the protest action against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction....
The SABC 8
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Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.’   – Mahatma Gandhi   In 2016, the country watched as eight journalists stood up to the public broadcaster to dissent against the censorship imposed by COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng and the capture of the newsroom....
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The Enemy Within: How the ANC Lost the Battle Against Corruption
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The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the battle against corruption is a book by Mpumelelo Mkhabela, a South African journalist and political analyst. The book is an account of how corruption entrenched itself within South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress and the party's...
Ragged Glory: The Rainbow Nation In Black And White
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As a leading political journalist and newspaper editor, Hartley had the best seat in the house for the unfolding drama of the new South Africa, as well as privileged access to many key players, including Nelson Mandela himself. Admirably concise but rich in detail, drawing on a wide spectrum of...
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Women in Solitary: Inside The Female Resistance to Apartheid
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‘The freezing loneliness made one wish for death,’ journalist Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin said of solitary confinement. With seven other women, including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, she was held for more than a year. This is the story of these heroic women, their refusal to testify in the ‘Trial...
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Trump: Think Like A Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life
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It’s not good enough to want it. You’ve got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind-set–how to think about money, career skills, and life. Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the...
Trump: The Art Of The Deal
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work--a firsthand account of the rise of America's foremost businessman. "Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet."--...
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Black Consciousness: A Love Story
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‘If Steve Biko were alive today, we would have a country that gladly embraces African culture as the dominant driving force for how society is organised ...’ In 1968, two young medical students, Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele, fell in love while dreaming of a life free from oppression and...
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Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race
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‘Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can’t afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak.  The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race,  Why I'm No...
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Unforgiven - Face to Face with my Father's Killer
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Liz McGregor has always been a great journalist but only South Africa could have wrung out of her this single-minded account of the murder of her beloved father. The book is an indescribable duty, exquisitely done. " - Peter Bruce "An enthralling account of the journey by a daughter to meet...
A Pretoria Boy: The Story of South Africa’s Public Enemy Number One
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'A stalwart anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigner.' Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence 'From fighting for Nelson Mandela's freedom to exposing his betrayal under Jacob Zuma, a 50 year story of constant campaigning.' Sir Trevor McDonald, broadcaster The powerful and timely story of Peter...
How To Steal A City: The battle for Nelson Mandela Bay: An inside account
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How to Steal a City is an insider account of this intervention, which lays bare how the administration was entirely captured and bled dry by a criminal syndicate, how factional politics within the ruling party abetted that corruption, and how a comprehensive clean-up was eventually conducted. It...
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Capture In The Court: In Defense of Judges and the Constitution
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Since populist factions claim to be the people, judges confronting them do not just decide against the people; they are against the people. The judiciary faces a barrage of attacks not just from the ruling ANC but from other political parties clamouring for power. There comes...
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Death And Taxes: How SARS Made Hitmen, Drug Dealers and TAX Dodgers Pay their Dues
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Nothing in life is certain, except death and taxes – or so the expression goes. And over the past two decades South African criminals and tax dodgers have come to realise this truth the hard way. Tax sleuth Johann van Loggerenberg was at the centre of many of SARS' high-profile cases during...
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Soul Of A Nation: A Quest for the Rebirth of South Africa's True
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"With prose like Jazz - thrilling, mysterious, playful - former exile, business leader and political commentator Oyama Mabandla excavates the values that created a steady flow of pioneering South Africans under impossible conditions. These values bolstered a liberation ethic and championed a...
The President's Keepers: Those keeping Zuma in power and out of prison
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Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised government: a cancerous cabal that eliminates the president’s enemies and purges the law-enforcement agencies of good men and women. As Zuma fights for his political life following the 2017...
Election 2024 South Africa: Countdown to Coalition
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South Africa’s general election of 2024 saw the African National Congress losing its majority at the national level for the first time since the arrival of democracy in 1994. To maintain its rule, President Cyril Ramaphosa led his party into a Government of National Unity (GNU) centered around a...
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Freedom To Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
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Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - from who we date to how we vote. But this is just the latest front in an...
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The Accidental Mayor: Herman Mashaba and the Battle for Johannesburg
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In August 2016, well-known South African businessman Herman Mashaba became mayor of Johannesburg, heading a razor-thin DA-led coalition in the city. Three years later, in October 2019, he resigned from the party and from his position as mayor. At the time, Mashaba’s approval rating stood at...
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The ANC Billionaires: Big Capital’s Gambit and the Rise of the Few
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In September 1985 a group of white South African business leaders travelled to a game lodge in Zambia to meet with the exiled ANC leadership under Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. The group wanted to establish for themselves who and what the ANC was, and they were led by Gavin Relly, executive...
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The Outsider: The Unauthorised Biography of Herman Mashaba
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Across the world, outsiders have been infiltrating the theatre of mainstream politics: Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine , Donald Trump in the US, Emmanuel Macron in France, Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia – and, in South Africa, Herman Mashaba, who went from being a business tycoon to Johannesburg’s...
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Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma’s Keepers
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Our Poisoned Land is Jacques Pauwʼs sequel to the bestselling The Presidentʼs Keepers. A publishing phenomenon, The Presidentʼs Keepers fearlessly exposed former president Jacob Zumaʼs darkest secrets. Our Poisoned Land is as riveting and explosive as its...
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The Plot To Save South Africa
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Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leader’s popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging...
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The President's Keepers: Those keeping Zuma in power and out of prison
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Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised government: a cancerous cabal that eliminates the president’s enemies and purges the law-enforcement agencies of good men and women. As Zuma fights for his political life following the 2017...
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A Paradox Of Victory: COSATU and the democratic transformation in South Africa
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) emerged from the anti-apartheid struggle as the largest and most powerful union federation in South Africa. Its member unions were spectacularly successful in organisation building, and their power and influence was felt in the workplace as...
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Visions Of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time
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An essential work from scholar and rhetorician Richard Weaver, a leading figure in the rise of the modern conservative intellectual movement. "In these valuable essays Weaver shows how the decline of the West is traceable to the loss of its ordering vision, and analyzes the forces that have...
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