Met sy fyn oog sien Fred Mouton álles raak. Sy vlymskerp spotprente lewer raakvat sosiale kommentaar en is al vir 50 jaar stapelvoedsel vir duisende Afrikaanse koerantlesers. 50 Jaar met Fred bevat meer as 400 van sy beste sketse en etse.
Die boek is as't ware 'n aaneenlopende strokiesprent van Suid- Afrika se wel en wee oor die afgelope vyf dekades - dit dek alles van groot politieke storms en sportdramas tot omstrede figure en huismoles.

In sy sketse wys Fred ook die alledaagse dinge wat mense raak. Die droogtes en die landreën, inflasie wat elke keer net-net voor die verbruiker by die petrolpomp opdaag, die Springbokke wat verloor en dan weer wen. Fred het tussendeur ook vir Landbouweekblad, Huisgenoot, Weg! en dosyne ander publikasies geteken. Sy humor is kurkdroog, sy sketse komies - en soms ontstellend, maar altyd só bekend.

To mark the tenth anniversary of the smash-hit 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, the original 50 People team brings you an all-new sequel: 50 People Who F***ed Up South Africa: The Lost Decade. As witty, enlightening and entertaining as all the franchise books, this Christmas compendium is an eye-watering indictment of our tragicomic “last lost decade”, a time of ruinous and unprecedented national decline. Whereas it took more than 350 years to come up with the list of shame for the first book, they needed just ten more for the next 50 names, from Shaun Abrahams to Zuma, Zuma and Zuma. Shot through with the architects and beneficiaries of state capture – Magashula, Mahlobo, Mahumapelo, and not forgetting the Guptas – it is also features crisp takedowns of the individuals who represent the standout scandals in this time: the like of Nkandla, Marikana, Life Esidimeni, Steinhoff, Bosasa and VBS Mutual Bank. The end result is a readable, accessible overview of the South Africa’s recent political and socioeconomic landscape. Because sometimes humour and a clearly painted picture really is the best coping mechanism…

Add a twist of humour to South African nostalgia with Hagen Engler's latest offering. Black Twitter, Blitz And A Boerie As Long As Your Leg is a light-hearted, humorous read of multiple entries that can be dipped into at will. Optimistic, topical and definitely tongue-in-cheek, this book could easily be that last-minute gift that you pick up at the airport before you head back to the parental home for the holidays. Not too politically edgy - so as not to offend any sensitive elephants in the room - it draws on the great many things that South Africans do have in common, and that will give us all a moment to agree on something, for a change.
Black Twitter, Blitz And A Boerie As Long As Your Leg lists and celebrates the tiny, subtle aspects of South African life that we all experience but don't always notice. Engler looks at icons of our shared South Africanness but drills a little deeper to make them more specific, a bit more ridiculous, a bit funnier, and hopefully to induce an excited exclamation from the reader of, “Yoh! That's so true!” Even if the entry is ostensibly negative, Engler will find a poignant aspect of it that is lovable and help us laugh at ourselves.

Blouwillestories is 'n keur uit Willem Theron se weeklikse rubrieke in Beeld, Die Burger en Volksblad die afgelope agt jaar en is geskryf in 'n humoristiese, tong-in-die-kies-trant. Dit handel hoofsaaklik oor die lewe in die Ou en Nuwe Suid-Afrika. Blouwillem vertel onder andere van sleepwabestuurstegnieke (of 'n tekort daaraan), snorkers in die Wildtuin, sonde met jou bure se honde en met jou honde se bure, bleskoppe en krullebolle, skooltake in die nuwe bedeling en treinry in die ou bedeling.

It's been the year of living dangerously, a year of being acknowledged, and it will be the year of the long-awaited court case. The national conscience has been hard at work in this, his latest collection, But Will It Stand Up In Court?

Zapiro has been tackling the state of the nation, and what a state it's been in!

President Zuma launched a R5 million court case against Zapiro which comes to trial on 25 October 2012. This, combined with the ANC's court action against Brett Murray, informs the title of this year's collection.

The hilarious new collection of stories and observations from Jeremy Clarkson - setting our off-kilter world to rights with thigh-slapping wit once again. Who is that tractor-driving Gentleman Farmer? Has Jeremy turned into a horny-handed son of the soil? These and other perplexing questions may or may not be answered in the latest volume of Clarkson's utterly unbiased musings on life, the universe and everything in between (except cars - this isn't one of his four-wheel drive books). Inside you'll also discover why:
* Bathing in crude oil isn't for everyone
* People who go fishing hate their kids
* Noise-cancelling headphones will never silence James May
* The rambler who stole his marrow is in for it
Full of fact-checked opinions and ideas so good they're no longer following the science but chasing it up a tree, Can You Make This Thing Go Faster? is one hundred per cent guaranteed Clarkson . . .

Democrazy records the extraordinary South African journey over the past two decades since the landmark election of 1994 through the eyes of the nation's best-loved-and by some politicians, most-loathed-cartoonist, Zapiro. A brutally funny record of a momentous and historic time, this collection represents Zapiro's greatest collection of cartoons, capturing the intensity and the absurdity of South African political and social life-from Mandela and Zuma to Amandla and Nkandla and everything in between.

Welcome to Clarkson's farm. It's always had a nice ring to it. Jeremy just never thought that one day his actual job would be 'a farmer'. And, sadly, it doesn't mean he's any good at it. From buying the wrong tractor (Lamborghini, since you ask . . .) to formation combine harvesting, getting tied-up in knots of red tape to chasing viciously athletic cows, our hero soon learns that enthusiasm alone might not be enough. Jeremy may never succeed in becoming master of his land, but, as he's discovering, the fun lies in the trying . . .

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seemed obvious that the actual, you know, farming was much better left to someone else. Then one day he decided he would do the farming himself. After all, how hard could it be? Well . . . Faced with suffocating red tape, biblical weather, local objections, a global pandemic and his own frankly staggering ignorance of how to 'do farming', Jeremy soon realises that turning the farm around is going to take more than splashing out on a massive tractor. Fortunately, there's help at hand from a large and (mostly) willing team, including girlfriend Lisa, Kaleb the Tractor Driver, Cheerful Charlie, Ellen the Shepherd and Gerald, his Head of Security and Dry Stone Waller. Between them they enthusiastically cultivate crops, rear livestock and hens, keep bees, bottle spring water and open a farm shop. But profits remain elusive. And yet while the farm may be called Diddly Squat for good reason, Jeremy soon begins to understand that it's worth a whole lot more to him than pounds, shillings and pence . . .

Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year in the tractor's driving seat, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit of just GBP144. So, while he's the first to admit that he's still only a 'trainee farmer'*, there is clearly still work to be done. Because while he's mastered the art of moaning about nearly everything, some of the other attributes required of a successful farmer prove more of a challenge. Who knew, for instance, that loading a grain trailer was more demanding than flying an Apache gunship? That cows were more dangerous than motor-racing? Or that it would have been easier to get planning permission build a nuclear power station than to turn an old barn into a farm restaurant? But if the council planning department and the local red trouser brigade seem determine to frustrate his schemes at every turn, at least he's got Lisa, Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald, his dry-stone-walling Head of Security to see him through. And cold beer brewed with spring barley harvested from Diddly Squat's own fields. Life on Clarkson's Farm may not always go according to plan. There may not always be one. But there's not a day goes by when Jeremy can't say 'I've done a thing' and mean it ... * generous, in Kaleb's view

Die laanie Bernie Fabing by Vannie Kaap wil wiet: Is alles oraait byrie hys?
Dis 'n bundel van hul mees popular memes en sluit oek nuwe eksklusiewe content in, wat nooit aanlyn sal verskyn nie. Vannie Kaap is 'n plaaslike brand wat gewild geraak het toe hul inhoud op Facebook viral gaan. Vannie Kaap, gestig in 2015, se doel is om Kaapse kultuur te eer, maar dit het oek 'n movement geword om ander kulture oor die Cape Coloured se herkoms en taal te leer. Die deure vannie eerste Vannie Kaap-winkel het in 2017 oepgemaak en daar's tans winkels innie V&A Waterfront, Cape Gate en Canal Walk.
“Is alles oraait byrie hys?” is die tagline wat gepaard gaan met die Vannie Kaap brand - aanlyn en op merchandise. En as jy nog nie van hulle gehoor het nie . . . raak wys!

No little thorn in the flesh or irritating fly in the ointment, Zapiro just cannot be ignored.
It's been another helluva year, and who better to make sense of it than Zapiro, political analyst, cartoonist and agent provocateur. He has the ability to knock the air out of us, to rock us back in our seats, to force us to bolt upright with a 1000-watt jolt of electrifying shock. He makes us angry, he makes us laugh and he makes us think. He shines a light on the elephant in the room, presents the emperor in all his naked glory.

Impossible to brush off, he is determined to provoke a response. When all around is crumbling, when fake news and zipped lips conceal the truth, Zapiro comes to the rescue. With the dissecting eye of a surgeon, the rapier-like point of his pen exposes flimflam and reveals with a line what lies behind the action.

'n Versameling stuitige strokies deur Philip de Vos en Piet Grobler wat die wildste, stoutste verwagtinge oortref. Dit het oorspronklik telkens op De Kat se agterblad verskyn.

OOR DIE OUTEUR
Philip de Vos is 'n bekroonde skrywer, fotograaf en versiemaker van formaat en is in 2015 beloon met 'n KykNET Fiësta Lewensbydrae vir Musiek, Woord- en Visuele kuns in Suid-Afrika. As kind wou hy dolgraag sirkusnar word - en vandag laat hy met die humor in sy werk 'n ieder en 'n elk glimlag. Hy is baie lief vir diere en goggas, en het nog nooit eens 'n mier met opset doodgetrap nie.

South Africans calling for our moral compass to be reactivated need look no further than Zapiro's latest annual, The Last Sushi.

'Zapiro's willingness to step into controversy and call out the deficiencies in South Africa's new democracy make him possibly the most important cartoonist in the world' - Kevin KAL Kallaugher, Economist award-winning cartoonist