South Africa category: 561 books
by Peter Clements
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
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by Francis Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
An asteroid the size of Table Mountain crashed into what was to become South Africa over 2 billion years ago, marking the spot. The country’s history since then has always been robust and full of energy. This book takes you in record time from that moment, when the earth’s richest gold reefs were...
The Zulus at War
The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership...
LIFE Nelson Mandela
A Life of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
From his youth as the leader of rebels to his years as president and elder statesman of South Africa, Nelson Mandela changed the world through his messages of peace and reconciliation. Rediscover the amazing journey of this inspiring leader in LIFE Nelson Mandela—a photographic biography and Special...
The Wrong Race
In Apartheid-Racist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The persistent trauma of extreme, institutionalized racism can be expected to take its toll on anyone. But resilience, instead, is the main theme of Azra Daniel Francis’s latest book, a raw and deeply personal memoir that details his experience growing up in South Africa. Through vignettes of people,...
The Truth about Crime
Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from...
Going to the Mountain
Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela's life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.
To the rest of the world, Nelson Mandela was a giant:...
by W.J.D. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The most pleasant memories of my boyhood are clustered around the old family fireplace, in our home in Brighton, England, when my father, gathering us all around him, with occasionally a few intimate friends, recounted such tales of war as often made me desire I was a man at once, in order that I...
by Peter Trew
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
In the Boer War (1899-1902) the professionals of the British Army fought the gifted amateurs who led the Boer commandos. For the Boers it was a struggle for independence,; for Britain an attempt, once and for all, to achieve political supremacy in South Africa. While sheer weight of numbers and ruthless...
by Susan Ziehl
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In 1858 over two thousand German peasants left Prussia (mainly Pomerania and Uckermark)to settle in South Africa.They were brought out in response to the failed German Military Settler Scheme of 1857. This book deals with the conditions which led them to want to emigrate and the challenges they faced...
The End of The Line
A true story of "the bad old days", but with the fresh hope of the new.
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2019
This is my second book and first novel (from 1993)
''The End Of The Line' could be described as “faction” - fiction with a serious
factual grounding. It is simple, and therefore moving. It gives yet another highly
individual portrait of that troubled land, and it does so through a believable...
by Ronnie Kasrils
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Winner of South Africa’s top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman’s struggle against the apartheid system. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. One August 19th, the dreaded Security...
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Volume 5
From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit Lord Robert's Entry into Pretoria
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Volume five of six of Creswicke's classic military history of the Boer War. This volume covers the period from the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Robert's Entry into Pretoria.
by Jennifer McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
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