Umuzi imprint: 97 books

Former Brigadier Piet Byleveld is recognised worldwide as one of the best detectives of our time. If you commit murder and Piet Byl is called in, your place in jail is booked. If you harmed children anf he's on your case, you’ve sealed your own fate. And if you’re a serial killer on the loose,...

65 Years of Friendship tells the heartrending story of a remarkable friendship between two remarkable men: world-renowned human-rights lawyer George Bizos, and Nelson Mandela. George and Madiba met as students at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1940s. They would later become legal colleagues,...

From the beginniong Fine Lines from the Box traces a journey of the mind and an ongoing exercise of reading and writing by one of South Africa's most incisive commentators. Taken with Njabulo Ndebele's earlier Rediscovery of the Ordinary, this collection challenges, entreats, cajoles and prods one...

Pat Fahrenfort knows about hard work. Her background meant factory floors from age fifteen in a country where jobs were still advertised for “Fair-Skinned Coloureds”. But young Pat had other plans. Whether she was in overalls gluing spines to books in an assembly line, or in high heels dancing...

New Zealand was supposed to be where Pierre de Villiers would escape his past. A misadventure in Angola had cost him his faith in the military, and almost his life and sanity. Another event cost him his family. But no. After a bizarre attempt on the NZ Prime Minister’s life De Villiers recognises...

ghost. ape. living dead. Young Chipo has been called many names, but to her mother – Zimbabwe’s most loyal Manchester United supporter – she had always just been Chipo, meaning gift. On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town hoping for a better life and to share in...

From a carcass competition in the Karoo to a shambolic murder trial in Cape Town, William Dicey’s essays freewheel across an open terrain of interests. Dicey is curious and inventive, weaving strands of essay, journalism, fiction and self-reportage into something uniquely his own. Mongrel investigates...

Godforsaken Crocodile Flats is the last place on earth where you'd expect any marvel, so when Sweetness Moloi believes she saw the Virgin Mary there - all nice and brown like real people - who's going to believe her? But lo, the good news spreads like wildfire, and soon all hell breaks loose. Every...

After exploring more than twenty other African nations using only public transport, Sihle Khumalo this time roams within the borders of his own country. The familiarity of his own car is a luxury, but what he finds on his journey through South Africa ranges from the puzzling to the downright bizarre....

‘Be quiet and be calm, my countrymen, for what is taking place is exactly what you came to do … Brothers, we are drilling the death drill.’ – Reverend Isaac Wauchope Dyobha Paris, 1958. A skirmish in a world-famous restaurant leaves two men dead and the restaurant staff baffled. Why did the...

Sakereus Stephen Winter staan op die kruin van sukses. Hy woon in ? herehuis van R50 miljoen saam met sy beeldskone jonger vrou, en hy's ? transaksie met die regering aan't onderhandel wat uiteindelik sy verterende ambisie sal volbring - ? persoonlike netto waarde van een biljoen rand. Maar dalk is...

Sy misdade was vir die nasie, het hy by die verhoor betoog. Maar daardie volk stel nie meer belang nie. Paul du Toit word weggeruk uit sy leefruimtes van huwelik en werk om voor die Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie te verskyn. Hy kom anderkant uit in ’n land wat nie meer vir hom plek het nie....

As ’n reël sien Krista Bishop se sekuriteitsagentskap net na vroue om. Behalwe toe regering­sluipers haar ’n aanbod maak wat sy nie van die hand kan wys nie: verseker die veiligheid van twee besoekende Chinese grootkoppe. Wat hulle haar nie sê nie is dat die Chinese agter die onwettige perlemoenbesighede...

Op ’n klein plekkie in die Bo-Karoo is lewe en dood soos die paaie wat in en uit die dorp loop, albei deel van die orde. Maar in die jare sewentig kry die dood ’n flambojante teëhanger in die jong man Jopie wat wil klere ontwerp; met Annelien Kriel as sy leidende ster wil uitbreek na die verre...