Collected Biographies

This six-volume Voices of Liberation series book set is a celebration of lives and writings of South African and African liberation activists and heroes. Each book provides human, social and literary contexts of the subject, with critical resonance to where we come from, who we are, as a nation, and how we can choose to shape our destiny.

When an elderly person dies, a library vanishes, says a Mozambican proverb. Nowhere is this more poignant than in Ilha de Mozambique. There are centuries of history among the island’s coral stone town and macuti (palm leaf) huts, with stories that need to be told.

This is How It Is is a collection of real life experiences: stories that tell of a man who is anxious about a blood test result, a child who sets out to find the truth behind the gossip, a girl who is saved by the enemy in a war zone.

Well-known television anchor and media personality Ruda Landman talks to a wide variety of South Africans about their life choices and how change has affected them. A colourful mosaic of diverse experiences emerges as people share life stories and lessons.

After more than twenty years of democracy in South Africa, the history of the liberation struggle is losing relevance in the national consciousness as the country grapples with the pressing challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment.

A compilation of writings about South African beat poet Sinclair Beiles, who collaborated with William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin on Minutes to Go.