If nothing else, Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma unrest that set SA alight serves as a comprehensive recap of the violence that shook SA earlier this year.

While much of what is contained in the book is already known, News24 journalists Qaanitah Hunter, Kaveel Singh and Jeff Wicks, who reported from the front lines of the uprisings in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, have still done a fine job in unpacking the events that brought the country to the brink...