Spoilt Ballots: The Elections That Shaped South Africa, From Shaka To Cyril is a new work of non-fiction co-authored by journalists Nick Dall and UEA alumnus Matthew Blackman. It was published on Kindle by Penguin South Africa in February of this year, and will be published as a Zebra Press paperback this week. Matthew gained a […]
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The Mother of All Elections
An edited excerpt from Chapter 2 of Spoilt Ballots: The Elections that Shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril (Penguin Random House, 2022) by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall Democracy in the Cape Colony became an issue of grave importance to all races when Britain threatened to turn it into a penal colony. In […]
Pringle and a Free Press
An extract from Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall, published by Penguin Random House in March 2021 A library, liberty and Thomas Pringle in the Cape Perhaps one of the most incongruous aspects of Lord Charles Somerset’s governorship of the Cape Colony was his […]
Rogues’ Gallery by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall
Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC is a new work of non-fiction co-authored by journalists Nick Dall and UEA alumnus Matthew Blackman. It has just been published by Penguin South Africa. Matthew is the author of two previous books, the novels In The Same Space […]
