Don Mattera sets his boyhood experiences against the background of Sophiatown, and offers a compelling account of how a multicultural and cosmopolitan society was transformed and destroyed by apartheid. Sophiatown was at the heart of black South African culture in the 1950s. A “Greenwich Village” of music, politics, and crime, it was run by warring gangs, but it also developed a thriving cultural life, attracting writers and musicians of international fame. ...MORE

“People who love poetry which cries out from the depth of the heart and soul, complaining of man’s inhumanity to man; of the pain of the orphan … of the phantom dreams of chained people, of Africa and its sons and daughters … will find a spirtuality rich mixture in this book of poetry..

The greatness of these poems lies in the power of the poet’s tongue. He speaks with the mystic’s spellbinding language which never fails to move the strings of the heart.” The Horizon ...MORE

Andrew K. Miller's Hintsa's Ghost is an audacious offering, treading very precarious waters that very few South Africans, let alone a white South African, of British ancestry, would dare to tread. This slim offering, over sixty pages, weaves Miller's narrative exposition of who he is, who we, collectively are, how we engage ourselves, each other and the world around us. ...MORE

Everyone’s heard of Nelson Mandela, but how many people know the real story of who saved South Africa from itself in the final turbulent decades of the last century.South Africa’s democratic dawn was a glorious achievement unparalleled in the history of the world. Never before had the ruling elite willingly given up power… and never before had a single bold individual achieved it ...MORE

Despite the hard-won independence, the climate in the African country of Kuzania is still one of corruption, greed and sexual scandal. When Shaka, born in the slums, falls in love with a top politician’s daughter, he finds himself under threat. Guided by wise old Agu, the village elder, Shaka follows the footsteps of his courageous father to save the country from the brink of collapse, and learns that reputation, honesty and popularity are not reliable credentials in the struggle for power in Kuzania ...MORE