Polity Author Articles

Checkmate traces the astonishing ascent of Shoprite Checkers since 2017, which marked the end of the Whitey Basson era.

James-Brent Styan unpacks 'Puppet Master: The secrets of Markus Jooste and the Steinhoff crash, which uncovers new details about Jooste’s secret lives, the way he ran his company and the silences that allowed the deception to grow.

In 1985: The Langa Massacre and the Ending of White Rule in South Africa, Mark Swilling brings this critical period back into focus and argues for the importance of understanding the people, organisations, decisions and events that helped change the course of SA history.

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi grew up fatherless. When he excelled in matric, and his father reached out to him, he turned away. Yet, years later, when he stumbles upon his father’s name while studying the 1984 Vaal Uprising for his doctorate, he decides to interview him . . .

Beloved character and brainchild of John van de Ruit, Spud, is back for his sixth and final book in the comedic coming-of-age diaries, which follow John “Spud” Milton from an elite South African boarding school, to his ten-year school reunion and now in his late-twenties.