With South Africa having celebrated 30 years of democracy yesterday, we thought it appropriate to review the books that won the Sunday Times Literary Awards Non-fiction Award over the past three decades
The final volume of historian Charles van Onselen’s arresting ‘Three Wise Monkeys’ trilogy explores the Calvinist contortions that saw the South African state’s clumsy attempts to curtail the vices of lotteries, gambling and pinball machines. Raising interesting questions about the differences.
Between 1936 and 1975 a radio station subverted young Jo’burgers all the way from Mozambique. LM Radio’s highly effective ad department came for their money, but it was its DJs that took their souls with the freewheeling “hippy” music that they played. Historian Charles van Onselen explains how that made the apartheid elders at the SABC spitting mad