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‘If Steve Biko were alive today, we would have a country that gladly embraces African culture as the dominant driving force for how society is organised ...’
In 1968, two young medical students, Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele, fell in love while dreaming of a life free from oppression and racial discrimination. Their love story is also the story of the founding of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) by a group of 15 principled and ambitious students at the University of Natal in Durban in the early 1970s.
In this deeply personal book, Hlumelo Biko, who was born of Steve and Mamphela’s union, movingly recounts his parents’ love story and how the BCM’s message of black self-love and self-reliance helped to change the course of South African history.
Based on interviews with some of the BCM’s founding members, Black Consciousness describes the early years of the movement in vivid detail and sets out its guiding principles around a positive black identity, black theology and the practice of Ubuntu through community-based programmes.
In spiritual conversation with his father, Hlumelo re-examines what it takes to live a Black Consciousness life in today’s South Africa. He also explains why he believes his father – who was brutally murdered by the apartheid police in 1977 – would have supported true radical economic transformation if he were alive today.

Did you know SA Cricketer, AB de Villiers and widely loved author - Jeffrey Archer, are good friends?
Pagecast's Nicola Bruns and Ingrid Kluckow chat with de Villiers and Archer regarding how they met, their aspirations and Archer's new book Over My Dead Body.
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels include the Clifton Chronicles, the William Warwick novels and Kane and Abel, has topped bestseller lists worldwide, with sales of over 275 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a #1 bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). A member of the House of Lords for over a quarter of a century, the author is married to Dame Mary Archer, and they have two sons, two granddaughters and two grandsons.

Did you know SA Cricketer, AB de Villiers and widely loved author - Jeffrey Archer, are good friends?
Pagecast's Nicola Bruns and Ingrid Kluckow chat with de Villiers and Archer regarding how they met, their aspirations and Archer's new book Over My Dead Body.
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels include the Clifton Chronicles, the William Warwick novels and Kane and Abel, has topped bestseller lists worldwide, with sales of over 275 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a #1 bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). A member of the House of Lords for over a quarter of a century, the author is married to Dame Mary Archer, and they have two sons, two granddaughters and two grandsons.

Did you know SA Cricketer, AB de Villiers and widely loved author - Jeffrey Archer, are good friends?
Pagecast's Nicola Bruns and Ingrid Kluckow chat with de Villiers and Archer regarding how they met, their aspirations and Archer's new book Over My Dead Body.
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels include the Clifton Chronicles, the William Warwick novels and Kane and Abel, has topped bestseller lists worldwide, with sales of over 275 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a #1 bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). A member of the House of Lords for over a quarter of a century, the author is married to Dame Mary Archer, and they have two sons, two granddaughters and two grandsons.

Investigative journalist Devi Sankaree Govender is talking with crime writer Deon Meyer regarding his latest novel Dark Flood.
'The undisputed champion of South African crime' - Wilbur Smith
One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing person report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, alarming turn.
One last chance. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but one man has ruined its economy. When estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale, Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call from Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now.
For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher.
For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.
Taut with intrigue, murder and suspense, exploding with action and excitement, The Dark Flood is a masterpiece from the author of Trackers and The Last Hunt.
'One of the best crime writers on the planet' - Daily Mail. www.jonathanball.co.za

Investigative journalist Devi Sankaree Govender is talking with crime writer Deon Meyer regarding his latest novel Dark Flood.
'The undisputed champion of South African crime' - Wilbur Smith
One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing person report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, alarming turn.
One last chance. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but one man has ruined its economy. When estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale, Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call from Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now.
For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher.
For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.
Taut with intrigue, murder and suspense, exploding with action and excitement, The Dark Flood is a masterpiece from the author of Trackers and The Last Hunt.
'One of the best crime writers on the planet' - Daily Mail. www.jonathanball.co.za

Investigative journalist Devi Sankaree Govender is talking with crime writer Deon Meyer regarding his latest novel Dark Flood.
'The undisputed champion of South African crime' - Wilbur Smith
One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing person report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, alarming turn.
One last chance. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but one man has ruined its economy. When estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale, Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call from Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now.
For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher.
For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.
Taut with intrigue, murder and suspense, exploding with action and excitement, The Dark Flood is a masterpiece from the author of Trackers and The Last Hunt.
'One of the best crime writers on the planet' - Daily Mail. www.jonathanball.co.za

Released every Monday at 7 am, Pagecast Season 1 offers you insider interviews with recently published authors and their latest books. We look into the process of writing these books, explore the narratives within and provide you with the story behind the story.

Released every Monday at 7 am, Pagecast Season 1 offers you insider interviews with recently published authors and their latest books. We look into the process of writing these books, explore the narratives within and provide you with the story behind the story.

Released every Monday at 7 am, Pagecast Season 1 offers you insider interviews with recently published authors and their latest books. We look into the process of writing these books, explore the narratives within and provide you with the story behind the story.