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Media personality Joanne Joseph has released a new work of fiction, Children of Sugarcane.Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching picture of indenture told from a woman’s perspective.Shanti, a bright teenager stifled by life in rural India and facing an arranged marriage, dreams that South Africa is an opportunity to start afresh. The Colony of Natal is where Shanti believes she can escape the poverty, caste, and troubling fate of young girls in her village. Months later, after a harrowing sea voyage, she arrives in Natal only to discover the profound hardship and slave labour that await her.Spanning four decades and two continents, Children of Sugarcane demonstrates the lifegiving power of love, heartache, and the indestructible bonds between family and friends. …

Christian Grey is expecting you on Valentines Day. Get ready for the final chapter of Fifty Shades FREED.

The desire, motivation & tragedy of Grey that makes Christian that....well let us just say very unholy & very hard.

Isabel Hofmeyr’s new book, Gandhi’s Printing Press, Experiments in Slow Reading, join the launch 28 May at Wits University.

Heroine of the SA liberation struggle. Barely 15, she was martyred. This is the story of Valliamma Munuswami Mudliar. The book, The Agony of Valliamma by Aziz Hassim.

Women - South Africans of Indian Origin, is written by award-winning academic and columnist Devi Moodley Rajab with veteran photojournalist, Ranjith Kally was launched in Gauteng on the 28th March 2011. Publishing House: Jacana Media