Dan Corder and Jaxx Amahle bust the myths and miseducation of South Africa

Jaxx Amahle and Dan Corder asks the question: What if much of what we think we know is incomplete or deliberately distorted?

A Fearless Reckoning with South Africa’s Myths, History and Identity.

Why do South Africans keep telling the same stories about race, power and history even when those stories don’t hold up? In this sharp, witty, and deeply researched book, Dan Corder takes on the myths, half-truths and inherited narratives that shape how South Africans see their past, their politics and themselves.

From braai-table debates to heated social media threads, Corder interrogates the conventional wisdom around race, economics, power and identity, asking a simple but uncomfortable question: what if much of what we think we know is incomplete or deliberately distorted?

This book dismantles the lazy binaries and viral misinformation that fuel polarisation in South Africa today. Corder digs into the country’s history, near and far, to unpack big questions like:

• Why British colonial rule set South Africa up to fail long before apartheid
• Why Nelson Mandela didn’t “sell out” the country in 1994
• Why white South Africans need to rethink their complaints about BEE

Fearless, funny and refreshingly direct, this is a book for anyone tired of shallow social media takes and hungry for a more honest conversation about South African history, race relations, and where the country goes from here.

Ideal for readers of: South African history, politics, race and identity, post-apartheid society, and current affairs.