South Africa category: 561 books

A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies, this concise and forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal justice and a rationalistic approach...

Zimbabwe and Democracy. Find out what is Zimbabwe Political status is all about, Democracy or Dictatorship. A Book on Zimbabwe Political History and Environment. Comparative democracy and electoral studies have shown that countries can achieve democratization through elections, but only when the conditions...

The battle of Rorke's Drift is established in history as one of Britain's most incredible actions where approximately 155 defenders held off a Zulu force of over 4,000 warriors, in a savage, bloody conflict with no quarter given by either side. The battle led to a display of incredible fortitude,...

" Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight...

The Last Boer War is a 1899 non fiction book by H Rider Haggard about the Boer War of 1881. It was originally written in 1882 but not published until years later.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to present an accurate picture of the Boers in war-time. My duties as a newspaper correspondent carried me to the Boer side, and herein I depict all that I saw. Some parts of my narrative may not be pleasing to the British reader; others may offend the sensibilities...

"Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre."--Time

By the end of the nineteenth century the fame of the Zulu was world-wide, and their army was one of the few non-European military organisations to have become the subject of serious historical study. Their very name is still synonymous with bravery, discipline and military skill. This excellent addition...

Based on a true story. (Part 3 of the Langbourne Trilogy.) It is 1894 in the remote settlement of Bulawayo, in what later became Southern Rhodesia. Recent immigrants from Ireland, Morris and David Langbourne, throw body and soul into rebuilding their previously devastated business. Between Morris’...

This is Dapper’s story and the third book in the Heroes with Hooves series. Just as Fleur and Bokkie told their own stories of the events of the Anglo-Boer War, this book is narrated by General Louis Botha’s magnificent Boerperd, Dapper. The series is dedicated to all the unsung horse...

This is the story of Bokkie, the legendary Basotho pony of General Koos de la Rey, told by the horse herself. The series is dedicated to all the unsung horse heroes of the war in which 500 000 of them died. It is historically accurate and perfect for readers from 9 to 99. Step into the hoof tracks...

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War. Both sides are covered, and the campaigns summarised. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.

There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot, interesting things of one's time than the special correspondent of a great paper. He is enabled to see the wheels go round; has the chance of getting his knowledge at first hand. In stirring times the drama of life...

The Crimean War has been called ‘the last great war to be fought without the help of modern resources of science’. It was also the last great war to be fought by the British army in all its splendour of scarlet and gold, using weapons and tactics which would not have astonished the Prince Rupert...