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Love Books Independent bookstore for book enthusiasts located in Melville, JHB Love Books is an out-of-the-way escape for book lovers.
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Filled with a varied range of titles, for adults and children, its edited collection makes finding the right book easier. It’s a place to spend time browsing or curl up in a chair with coffee and a pile of books. At Love Books we do book launches, host book clubs and offer story time every Saturday at 10am for children. You can also select from a limited range of beautiful journals, handmade cards

, international magazines and Joostenberg's delicious wines from the old family farm in Stellenbosch. When you visit don’t forget to use your Love Books Literary Punch Card – 10 punches = 10% discount. You get a punch for every R300 you spend, for being at a launch, for buying the book we’re launching, and for coming to storytime.

25/06/2026

A senior lecturer’s experience of AI and its effect on students.

Julian Brown launched his new book, The Soweto Uprising: A Documentary History, this week at Love Books. The book presents primary sources that tell the story of the Soweto Uprising of 1976 from the contemporaneous perspectives of those involved. In this clip from the launch, he explains why he specifically decided to write a book based on primary resources in today’s era of AI.

Watch the full video on our YouTube channel.

24/06/2026

What about the experience of hostel dwellers during June 16th, 1976?

Last night we had the pleasure of hosting Julian Brown, Senior Lecturer of Political Studies at Wits, for the launch of his new book, The Soweto Uprising: A Documentary History.

The book presents primary sources that tell the story of the Soweto Uprising of 1976 from the contemporaneous perspectives of those involved. It places the raw material of history in the hands of a broad audience, enabling a wide variety of readers to interpret and understand a key moment in South Africa’s anti-apartheid activism from the records of the time itself.

Grab yourself a copy today at Love Books.

Join us on Tuesday 23.06 for the launch of Julian Brown’s ‘Soweto Uprising’ a documentary history of the events of June ...
21/06/2026

Join us on Tuesday 23.06 for the launch of Julian Brown’s ‘Soweto Uprising’ a documentary history of the events of June 16 and their aftermath.

RSVP essential to [email protected] or via our website www.lovebooks.co.za

21/06/2026

Behind every great man…

Could De Klerk’s wife be to thank for changing his mindset about ending Apartheid?

This week we hosted Max du Preez for the launch of The End of Normal, his latest book. Over the last fifty years, Du Preez has had a front-row seat witnessing South Africa’s darkest and brightest moments as a journalist. In the book, he paints a colourful story as a child of apartheid, doing his military service, studying at Stellenbosch University and starting his career at Afrikaans newspapers. But what he experienced and had to report on, eventually led him to rebel and become a traitor to his volk and a media terrorist exposing apartheid’s darkest secrets.

Get The End of Normal - in English or Afrikaans - today at Love Books.

20/06/2026

How is the GNU performing?

During the launch of his new book, The End of Normal, Max du Preez and Pieter du Toit discuss the state of South Africa’s governing coalition, the GNU.

In The End of Normal, Max du Preez reflects on fifty years of South African history through the eyes of a journalist who witnessed both the country’s darkest moments and its democratic turning points. From his upbringing within Afrikaner nationalism to reporting on the Soweto uprising and exposing the brutal realities of apartheid, du Preez traces his journey from insider to outspoken critic. Insightful, vivid and deeply personal, this memoir is a powerful account of political awakening, moral courage and the unravelling of an old South Africa.

Get it now at Love Books.

19/06/2026

Eugene Terre’Blanch vs Max du Preez in a 1990 debate

During the launch of his new book, The End of Normal, Max du Preez reflects on a debate he once had with the AWB founder on M-Net in 1990.

In The End of Normal, Max du Preez reflects on fifty years of South African history through the eyes of a journalist who witnessed both the country’s darkest moments and its democratic turning points. From his upbringing within Afrikaner nationalism to reporting on the Soweto uprising and exposing the brutal realities of apartheid, du Preez traces his journey from insider to outspoken critic. Insightful, vivid and deeply personal, this memoir is a powerful account of political awakening, moral courage and the unravelling of an old South Africa.

Get it now at Love Books.

Two great journalists from two generations who’ve reported on vastly different eras in SA politics, chat about how other...
15/06/2026

Two great journalists from two generations who’ve reported on vastly different eras in SA politics, chat about how otherwise decent people came to implement the evil system of apartheid, the long-term impact of 16 June 1976, the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and so much more.

RSVP essential to [email protected] or via our website www.lovebooks.co.za

13/06/2026

The class of 1976 had to form their own politics

The 1976 Soweto Uprising represents a decisive turning point in South Africa’s history. Even to contemporaries it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid.

The Soweto Uprising: A Jacana Pocket History, authored by head of the History Workshop at Wits University, Noor Nieftagodien, examines both the underlying causes and the immediate factors that led to this watershed event. It explores the crucial role of Black Consciousness ideology and emerging school-based organisations in shaping the character and form of the revolt.

Get your copy for just R195 from Love Books.

12/06/2026

Prescient writing about Xenophobia from 2010 that still resonates today.

Sisonke Mavuso reads a passage from her father’s new book, Between Hope & Vigilance, that he had written back in 2010 about racism and xenophobia. Chillingly, it still resonates today.

This book is a collection of fifty-four of Mavuso Msimang’s essays that chart the ANC’s journey from liberation movement to political party. While many readers will have followed Msimang’s writing in the Daily Maverick, City Press, the Independent, Business Day and other major publications, this is the first time Msimang’s occasional writings have been presented in a single body of work.

Get it today at Love Books.

12/06/2026

The class of 1976: Young, gifted and black

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, we hosted Noor Nieftagodien, head of the History Workshop at Wits University, for the launch of an updated version of The Soweto Uprising: A Jacan Pocket History.

This special fiftieth-anniversary edition invites readers to revisit the uprising not only as a defining historical moment, but as an enduring symbol of youth courage, political awakening and the ongoing struggle for educational justice and freedom.

Get the pocket-sized book today at Love Books for just R195.

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