Exclusive Books The Homebru Podcasts 2021

The Homebru Podcasts 2021

The Homebru Podcasts are back!

As part of our Homebru celebration we are excited to announce that we will once again be recording a series of Homebru author discussion podcasts with Jonathan Ancer, Lerato Sibanda and Dan Dewes.

Exclusive Books’ Homebru is a celebration of the diversity that is local writing, covering fresh perspectives on history, sharing never-told-before personal stories, challenging established views, and excavating the trough of political policy.
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11 Episodes

Episode 11 - Shana Fife

'There's an entire generation of South African women who ought to read this book.' - Sara-Jayne King, author of Killing Karoline 'Ougat is masterfully written - raw, unpretentious, unsettling. Shana Fife captures all the darkness from her body, psyche and life with fearless honesty and transparency.' - Frazer Barry, award-winning…
25 Nov 2021 19 min

Episode 10 - Thembi Kgatlana

It is not easy. Having a dream, having talent and being faced with a world that wants you to have neither - it is not easy. This is not an easy story. This is a book about difficult odds, about cruelty, about broken families and addiction. This is also a…
11 Nov 2021 19 min

Episode 9 - Kojo Baffoe

Kojo Baffoe embodies what it is to be a contemporary African man. Of Ghanaian and German heritage, he was raised in Lesotho and moved to South Africa at the age of 27. Forever curious, Kojo has the enviable ability to simultaneously experience moments intimately and engage people (and their views)…
28 Oct 2021 21 min

Episode 8 - Dale Hefer

A compelling, diverse, and often bizarre array of anecdotes that will help you navigate your business and personal lives in this most peculiar of worlds. What do the knees of a deputy president, a blow-up doll and a model with big nipples have in common? They all taught the author…
14 Oct 2021 19 min

Episode 7 - Mosilo Mothepu

When Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory, a subsidiary of Gupta-linked Trillian Capital Partners, in March 2016, the prospect of being at the helm of a black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women. Three months later, suffering…
30 Sep 2021 23 min

Episode 6 - Andile Gaelesiwe

Andile Gaelesiwe is the adored Khumbul' ekhaya host. She was raped by her father at the age of 11. The second rape was by a taxi driver who beat her up. Andile entered the music scene with the big hit of the late 90s, Abuti Yo. She started Open Disclosure…
16 Sep 2021 18 min

Episode 5 - Thabo Abram Molefe

When we moved from the farm, my mother was especially concerned about my survival. How would her youngest child negotiate the drama of township life; how would he transform from a suspected maplazini to an accepted urban, township boy? As a child, Thabo Abram Molefe, along with his family, is…
2 Sep 2021 16 min

Episode 4 - Marita van der Vyver

A long letter to my daughter is the youth memoir of Marita van der Vyver, one of the most loved Afrikaans authors. It is the heart-warming letter from an Afrikaans mom to her French-speaking daughter about growing up in apartheid South Africa in the 1960's and 1970's. But it is…
19 Aug 2021 19 min

Episode 3 - Robert Hamblin

Robert Hamblin's much awaited memoir Robert A Queer & Crooked Memoir for the not so Straight & Narrow is a tale of a human who refuses to live in a box, confronting and healing from gender confines and racism. It's about excavating the truth in violent Apartheid South Africa where…
5 Aug 2021 21 min

Episode 2 - Elizabeth Nyamayaro

When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life’s purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her…
22 Jul 2021 16 min

Episode 1 - Ivan Johnson

Join Ivan Johnson in this memoir of an identity crisis as a high-spirited boy from a close-knit family on the Cape Flats becomes a man amid the turmoil of 'The Struggle'. Joining the lily-white advertising industry, he ghosts from group to group, fitting in everywhere but belonging nowhere. Told with…
8 Jul 2021 22 min