Polity Author Articles

Africa is the world’s fastest-growing region, yet it still grapples with extreme poverty. How can African countries leapfrog traditional development phases and generate sufficient employment for their rapidly expanding labour force?

Defying Barriers is a gripping story of leadership, innovation, tenacity and loyalty. It will appeal to young entrepreneurs and anyone interested in the immediate history of Southern Africa.

Five decades after the 1976 Soweto uprising that changed South Africa forever, little is known about its most iconic leader, the charismatic Tsietsi Mashinini.

Blending sharp analysis with vivid storytelling, Predatory Welfare offers a bold rethinking of welfare, development and racial inequality.

Tara Roos cuts through the political noise with this analysis of South African politics that argues that we have entered the age of uncertainty as populism is on the rise.

Through exclusive interviews with zama zamas, syndicate insiders, intelligence operatives, and law enforcement officials, Zama Zama sheds light on the hidden mechanics of this shadow economy.

Part political history, part personal reflection, My Boss, Mrs Winnie Mandela cuts through the myth of Winnie Mandela to show her not only as a political icon, but as a strong, complex, sometimes wounded, but always fiercely loving woman.

A raw, darkly humorous memoir that follows one conscript’s chaotic journey through South Africa’s military machine during the border war.

Apartheid’s Granddaughter is not a story of guilt or absolution, but of courage and repair. It’s an invitation – to white South Africans to face their inheritance with honesty and courage.

Drawing on unsealed government documents, interviews and her own personal journey to revisit her family history and home, Diseko offers a moving memoir of resistance, secrets and the lasting cost of freedom.