9 Top biography books like The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw

Cover of The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw

The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

By: Jacques Pauw

4.28

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compr…

"I want to write a book again,"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"I'm not a journalist any longer,"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"The campaign against the SARS “rogue unit"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"We have become world leaders in income inequality, racial tension, rape and illicit financial outflows."

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

If you liked the biography plot in The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins

1. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

By: Caroline Elkins

4.04

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Only a few years after Britain's participation in the victory over fascism came the Mau Mau uprisin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Cry of the Kalahari

By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens

4.33

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied u… read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

"I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

"The entire Blue Pride, nine in all, surrounded us, nearly all of them asleep. We were quite literally in bed with a pride of wild Kalahari lions."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

"Especially after our Makgadikgadi experiences, we were very aware that the two absolute essentials for survival in the Kalahari were water and the truck."

-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

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3. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962)

By: Nelson Mandela

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation … read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction

5. Spud: The Madness Continues

By: John van de Ruit

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

It's 1991, and John "Spud" Milton's journey to manhood is still creeping along at a snail's pace. N… read more

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6. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

By: Brad Stone

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its d… read more

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7. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

By: Simon Sinek

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Why do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential,… read more

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8. Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an imm… read more

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Cover of Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1) by Jeremy Clarkson

9. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

By: André de Ruyter

4.56

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

André de Ruyter’s explosive account of his three years as CEO of Eskom, where he dealt with corrupt… read more

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  • africa
  • biography
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  • south africa
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey

11. Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End

By: Darrel Bristow-Bovey

4.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of Endurance briefly swept the anxiety and rancor of 2022 from the headlines of the w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Rise: The Brand New Autobiography by Siya Kolisi

12. Rise: The Brand New Autobiography

By: Siya Kolisi

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

‘Siya's rise from humble beginnings to lifting that World Cup trophy is the stuff of fairytales.’ M… read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • south africa
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13. Critical But Stable

By: Angela Makholwa

3.49

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling story of wealth, power and the true cost of ‘having it all’. Because sometimes the pric… read more

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Cover of The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation by Justice Malala

14. The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation

By: Justice Malala

4.20

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of … read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • history
  • south africa
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Stellenbosch Mafia: Inside the Billionaire’s Club by Pieter Du Toit

15. The Stellenbosch Mafia: Inside the Billionaire’s Club

By: Pieter Du Toit

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards … read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • south africa
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The ANC Billionaires: Big Capital's Gambit and the Rise of the Few by Pieter Du Toit

16. The ANC Billionaires: Big Capital's Gambit and the Rise of the Few

By: Pieter Du Toit

3.98

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

In September 1985 a group of white South African business leaders travelled to a game lodge in Zamb… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Steinheist: Markus Jooste, Steinhoff & SA's biggest corporate fraud by Rob Rose

17. Steinheist: Markus Jooste, Steinhoff & SA's biggest corporate fraud

By: Rob Rose

4.31

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

The Steinhoff crash wiped more than R200bn off the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, erased more than ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • south africa
Cover of Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh

18. Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture

By: Pieter-Louis Myburgh

4.13

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk l… read more

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  • history
  • south africa
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw

19. The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

By: Jacques Pauw

4.28

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compr… read more

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  • biography
  • history
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"I want to write a book again,"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"I'm not a journalist any longer,"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"The campaign against the SARS “rogue unit"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"We have become world leaders in income inequality, racial tension, rape and illicit financial outflows."

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

Cover of People's War: New light on the struggle for South Africa by Anthea Jeffery

20. People's War: New light on the struggle for South Africa

By: Anthea Jeffery

4.36

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

More than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in… read more

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  • south africa
Cover of Spoilt Ballots: The Elections that Shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril by Matthew Blackman

21. Spoilt Ballots: The Elections that Shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril

By: Matthew Blackman

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

If you paid even a moment’s attention during high-school history class, you probably know that 1910… read more

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