Jonathan Ball imprint: 146 books
A Piece of the Pie
The Battle over Nationalisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Nationalisation: Swear word for some, cure-all for others both within and outside the ruling party.
Tim Cohen, a senior journalist with many years experience in both political and business reporting, traces the emergence of calls for nationalisation in South African politics. It is a subject...
The Chapter we Wrote
The City Press Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In The Chapter We Wrote, Len Kalane, former editor of the newspaper, tells not only the story of City Press, but also a tale of the stories and events that shaped contemporary South Africa. Kalane traces the birth of City Press in the 1950s and the early days of the newspaper, along with its iconic...
Digging Deep
A History of Mining in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of...
Mind your business
Advice from South Africa's top business leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Mind your Business is a compilation of the success stories of prominent South African businesspeople, from entrepreneurs to chief executives of multinational business giants.
This book is the outgrowth of South African channel kykNet’s popular TV series Sakegesprek met Theo Vorster. After...
Across Boundaries
A life in the media in a time of change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Ton Vosloo’s remarkable career in the media spanned nearly 60 years in South Africa’s history. During this turbulent time, South Africa went through the transition from Afrikaner Nationalist rule to an ANC government. At the helm of the leading press group founded in 1913 to support nascent Afrikaner...
by Rex Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
This is the story of 25 tumultuous years in the life of the South African mining company of Gold Fields, one of the greatest in the world. If it is true that ‘Big Business’ is the last adventure frontier, then mining for gold has to be the most adventurous, dangerous and unpredictable business...
The Sword and the Pen
Six decades on the political frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Allister Sparks joined his first newspaper at age 17 and was pitched headlong into the vortex of South Africa's stormy politi. His autobiography, The Sword and the Pen: Six decades on the political frontier, is the story of how as a journalist he watched and chronicled and participated in his country’s...
Siya Kolisi
Road to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
This is a moving story of the rise to fame from humble beginnings of one of South Africa’s most popular rugby stars, written specifically for young readers.
Early on in his life, Siya discovered that rugby could be his route out of the grinding poverty in which he had grown up in the Eastern...
Bouch
Through my eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
When Mark Boucher played one of his first games of cricket for South Africa, a senior player took him aside and bluntly told him he was the worst wicketkeeper ever to play in the national side. Over a decade later, when Bouch finally retired with a plethora of records under his belt and to huge acclaim...
Capitalist Nigger
The Road To Success – A Spider Web Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Capitalist Nigger is an explosive and jarring indictment of the black race. The book asserts that the Negroid race, as naturally endowed as any other, is culpably a non-productive race, a consumer race that depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its feeding and its clothing. Despite...
Cliffhanger
Confessions of a Shock Jock
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
From campus radio to host of South Africa’s biggest youth breakfast show to pioneering his own online hub, Gareth Cliff has always claimed the headlines with his brand of strong opinion and whiplash wit. He has been suspended from the airwaves or crucified by his critics more times than he can remember...
At the Fireside - Volume 1
True South African Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
At the Fireside was born out of the need to preserve, retell and rekindle some of the stories of events and lives that have shaped and coloured South Africa. This book recalls our history and enables the reader to relive the stories of our sometimes forgotten past. These are tales of bravery and honour,...
Afrikaner Odyssey
The Life and Times of the Reitz Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The odyssey of the Reitz family passes like a thread through the tapestry of South African history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Originally Dutch-Afrikaner gentry from the Cape, the family moved to the frontier settlement of Bloemfontein and played a key role in the building of...
At the Fireside
True South African Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled with magnificent stories from southern African. Now, more than ten years later, Roger Webster is back with another, all new volume of fireside...