If the Mandelas were the generals
in the fight for black liberation, the
Mashininis were the foot soldiers
This is their remarkable story.
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Nobody captures the zeitgeist
with humour and bite like
the award-winning Zapiro.
The last year in South Africa
and the world has offered
rich pickings from his sharp
eye and wicked pen.
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Pothole tours, never-ending
commissions and poor
politicians forced to take
showers in hotels.
This year's Madam & Eve
has it all.
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As civic space shrinks and old certainties
about fighting for justice are
challenged across the continent, a
leading South African social justice
voice is urging activists to pause and
rethink their craft.
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'The sheer audicity of fintech's
march through the wallets of
South Africa's poor masses
can only be documented
properly by those fighting it.'
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— Patrick Bond, Professor of Sociology
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'We should have been a normal family
in a tiny house with an orange door.
We could have been known for brewing
buckets of sorghum beer and cooking
delicious goat stews for local funerals.
Instead, we were the reason those
funerals were happening.'
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This is non-fiction with
all the pace and tragicomic
detail of a historical thriller.
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'I can't make the
meeting - I am dying.'
A riveting heart
transplant journey.
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Bristow at his best: safari
silliness, wondrous deep
dives on animals great
and small and fossil
hunts aplenty.
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'A powerful and intimate
portrait of the misunderstood
predators of the African night.'
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— Gus Mills
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A magnificent novel
that hits you like a
punch in the gut,
taking your breath
away with how much
it hurts.
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'For anyone who suspects
that how we are born and
how we birth shapes the
world we are capable of
imagining, this book offers
the necessary medicine.'
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— Kai Njeri, birth worker and regenerative
systems designer
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'Ausi told me that long
before our footsteps touched
this land, the first people
knew how to listen to the
secrets of nature. Ausi told
me she comes from those
people - her voice soft as the
wind in the fynbos.'
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A funny, heartwarming
retelling of a well-known
folktale about family,
patience and a very
wise woman.
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Ausi told me: the secrets of nature
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Children's Books
Jacana Media has a diverse range of children's books
Remarkable stories, beautifully illustrated and published in multiple South African languages (Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, Siswati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga) our children’s catalogue has something for every young reader.
Girls Don’t Do That
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Golden Girl
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Hector: A Boy, a Protest and the Photograph that Changed Apartheid
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I am Shudu: Finding my Voice, Knowing my Strength
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One Step at a Time
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Shudu Finds Her Magic
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The Joy Dancer
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Wanda
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Wanda the Brave
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