For years, Tony Leon was the ruling party’s (ahem) bête noire. Then he went to Argentina and discovered that things were actually going quite well in the good old RS of A. Now he’s written a book about his experience as an ambassador.

What if everything you thought you knew about the land invasions in Zimbabwe was wrong?

Joseph Hanlon, a fellow at the LSE, Jeannette Manjengwa, of the Univeristy of Zimbabwe, and Teresa Smart, of the University of London, have written a book that concludes that "“In the biggest land reform in Africa, 6,000 white farmers have been replaced by 245,000 Zimbabwean farmers.

Fred de Vries is a the South African correspondent for a number of Dutch newspapers and a widely read commentator on the country’s politics and culture. Last year he published Rigtingbedonnerd, his book about how Afrikaners are coping with life after apartheid. To write the book, he travelled the country (and the world!), speaking to Afrikaners famous, infamous and not-at-all-famous.

Mamphele Ramphele is launching a 'political party platform' this week. Next week, her son, Hlumelo Biko, will be talking at the Troyeville Hotel about his book, The Great African Society: A plan for a nation gone astray. As its title suggests his book is an analysis of the state of the nation and a (platform) plan for how to get back on track.