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Bookcirclecapital Jozi’s independent bookstore focusing on African Literature.
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It’s book week every week with us! Did you know that 7 - 12 September is National Book Week an initiatives aimed at driv...
07/09/2026

It’s book week every week with us! Did you know that 7 - 12 September is National Book Week an initiatives aimed at driving a culture of reading especially among children! Let’s read to the kids! Let the kids see us lost in books ❤️📚

03/09/2026

On Monday we closed out with a pop up shop at the Hector Petersen Museum at a “DIALOGUE ON ACCOUNTABILITY FOR APARTHEID & SHAPING THE UN CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY”.

Ending the August on a poetic note with the work of Vangile Gantsho impepho press “I am a woman in a landOf lie-filled m...
31/08/2026

Ending the August on a poetic note with the work of Vangile Gantsho impepho press

“I am a woman in a land
Of lie-filled men with broken hearts
Of struggling brothers in unwelcoming homes
Of fathers begging confused mothers” ❤️📚

NEW BOOK ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Dancing Words by Dr Athambile published by Pan Macmillan SA Kids Pan Macmillan South Africa illustrat...
26/08/2026

NEW BOOK ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Dancing Words by Dr Athambile published by Pan Macmillan SA Kids Pan Macmillan South Africa illustrated by Katleho Keogale

“Everywhere Vuyo goes she learns new words. At home she learns about nature and food. Tata takes her to the library so that she can choose books. At school she and her friends make up songs from words their teacher taught them. She learns the words of hymns at Sunday school. And then one night she has a dream about words dancing … so she writes a beautiful poem about them” ❤️📚

24/08/2026

Last week we had the pleasure of popping up shop UJ FADA for a packed out discussion of From Script to Screen: Women in Literature and Film hosted by JIAS with Prof Siphiwo Mahala Sue Nyathi Nozizwe Duduzile Cynthia Jele Angela Makholwa Moabelo convo facilitated by Samela Tyelbooi ❤️📚

NEW BOOK ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Lulama and the Women Who Marched by Nonikiwe Mashologu published by Jacana Media Join Lulama on an un...
20/08/2026

NEW BOOK ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Lulama and the Women Who Marched by Nonikiwe Mashologu published by Jacana Media

Join Lulama on an unforgettable journey to the historic Women’s March of 1956.

As she travels with her mother and Auntie Lindiwe to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, Lulama begins to understand the unfair pass laws that made life difficult for Black families, especially Black women. But she also discovers something even more powerful: when brave people stand together, they can change history. Inspired by the true story of the 20 000 women who marched peacefully for justice on 9 August 1956, this beautifully told story celebrates courage, hope and the strength of unity.

Today, in South Africa, a public holiday is celebrated honouring this march and streets are named after its four remarkable leaders. At the Union Buildings, the Imbokodo Monument stands as a lasting tribute.

Mam Zodwa Zwane was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s personal assistant, confidante, and spiritual anchor for many years. In...
18/08/2026

Mam Zodwa Zwane was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s personal assistant, confidante, and spiritual anchor for many years. In this book, My Boss, Mrs Mandela she shares stories lonly she can tell. For more than a decade, Zodwa walked beside one of South Africa’s most formidableicons – through scandals, heartbreaks, the traumas of banishment, and Winnie’s eventual spiritual redemption – holding her boss’s hand right up until Winnie Mandela’s death in April 2018.

From the private rooms of Soweto to the corridors of power, Zodwa was there as witness and gatekeeper, becoming part of Winnie’s trusted inner circle. This intimate memoir offers a rare, behind-the-scenes portrait of Mrs Mandela as a strong, complex, wounded, and fiercely loving woman, navigating power, politics and pain. Zodwa’s humour and nononsense voice cuts through myth to reveal the loyalty, conflict, and deep affection that defined their bond.

As Winnie’s right hand, Mam Zodwa also stood at the crossroads of the ANC’s inner workings and the Mandela family’s private tensions. She managed not only her boss’s diary, but deeply held secrets – her loyalty tested daily.

Part political history, part personal reflection, My Boss, Mrs Winnie Mandela is both a revelation and a tribute to sisterhood, faith, resilience, and the quiet strength of a woman who stood in the shadow of greatness and found her own meaning and light there Melinda Ferguson Books

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