[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL ‘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...
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Verwoerd: My Journey Through Family Betrayals by Wilhelm Verwoerd, published by Tafelberg, is available now. This excerpt is published by permission. I was well prepared for my first foray on foreign...
By BRUCE DENNILL Kate Turkington has already written a couple of books with major autobiographical elements – There’s More To Life Than Surface, about the connectedness of different cultures; and Doing It With Doris, a collection of travel stories...
By ROB HOFMEYR The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw (Tafelberg) When Jacob Zuma was elevated to president-in-waiting, a columnist consoled readers by opining that Zuma’s “minders” would keep him under control. What we have instead is a president who...
