Lessons in life and business
Nickolaus Bauer’s Great Johannesburg – What Happened? How to save an African economic giant – starts at the beginning – with Joburg’s origins as a cauldron of cultures and a hustler’s haven, through to the Zama Zamas running riot, water cuts and blackouts, political instability and all that effects life in Joburg today, with outlines of possible solutions. Tafelberg
From Dr Candice Bailey, Lerato Makate, Sizwe Malinga, Les Owen and Theresa Owen, We Were Always Here – Stories of Black Inventors Across The African Diaspora is a collection of unknown stories of the innovation and ingenuity of Africans who have found inspiration and answers to issues faced every day. TKO Publishing
Mervyn King is known as the guru of corporate governance and sustainability. A commercial lawyer, an advocate, a judge, a businessman and chair and director of many organisations, The Corporate Revolutionary – Mervyn King’s Life in Law, Business and Governance is his authorised biography, written by South African author, journalist, broadcaster and teacher David Williams. Tafelberg
Artificial intelligence is upending life, work and play as we know it. And it’s only just getting started. It’s going to change everything. Dr Mark Nasila has been watching Ais ascent for more than a decade, and African Artificial Intelligence is his comprehensive and fascinating journey , tracing the rise of AI, telling how African nations need to rework, remix and refine AI so it’s able to meet uniquely African challenges in uniquely African ways. Tracey McDonald Publishers
In Life Lessons – How to Fail and Win, Alan Knott-Craig, bestselling author and serial telecoms and tech entrepreneur who’s founded, funded or run 21 companies, shares what he has learnt, mostly by losing. “It is possible to find success by stumbling from one disaster to another. I did.” Tafelberg
As leader of Bophuthatswana Lucus Mangope was a controversial figure, and his legacy still divides opinion … some considering him a dictator whose rule was part of an immoral system riddled with corruption and repression, others lauding the infrastructural development and public services his administration delivered. Oupa Segalwe, who comes from the same village as Lucus, examines his public and private life in Lucus Mangope – A Life. Tafelberg
