South Africa category: 561 books
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
"For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this."-Athol Fugard
"A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it."-Sunday Independent
The...
In the Middle of Nowhere
J.M. Coetzee in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee's formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life and writing career began in South Africa. Drawing on Coetzee's "South African" writings...
History after Apartheid
Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2003
The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and the beginning of a new struggle to define the nation’s past. History after Apartheid analyzes how, in the midst of the momentous shift to an inclusive democracy, South Africa’s visual...
Mandela's Kinsmen
Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei,...
Dr Philip’s Empire
One Man’s Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten or misremembered. From the time he arrived in South Africa as superintendent of the London Missionary Society...
The History of South Africa, 2nd Edition
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
South Africa's history stretches back to the beginnings of human existence. This book provides an overview to South Africa's multiple millennia of history, covering its long and often troubled past to its current status in the 21st century.
• Provides an easily accessible and highly readable...
Footprints in the African Sand
My Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
As the nations of Africa shook off the shackles of colonialism and embraced their newfound independence in the 1960s, a singular figure burst into prominence in the tumultuous and expectant atmosphere gripping the continent. A son of apartheid South Africa, Michael Cassidy appeared an unlikely candidate...
Africa's World Cup
Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Spacefocuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive...
Spy
Uncovering Craig Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The apartheid agent and killer who got away with it all ...It was in 1972 when the seemingly ordinary Craig Williamson registered at Wits University and joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Williamson was elected NUSAS's vice president and in January 1977, when his career in...
Bring Me My Machine Gun
The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the country's reputation. South Africa is now perched on a precipice,...
by Frederick Selous.
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London. The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download. This edition includes illustrations. Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for...
A Life for Freedom
The Mission to End Racial Injustice in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning...
by John C. Eby, Fred Morton
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is facing tremendous social anxiety and violence. The object of the talks, and of the game, is to reach consensus for a constitution that will guide a post-apartheid...
by Seth Asiedu Asante
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1987
This book was first published in 1987 when South African Apartheid policy generated much public discussion all over the world. This book, “Apartheid in South Africa: Origins and Impact", is a book which can serve the dual purpose of informing the general reader, of the historical background to Apartheid;...