South Africa category: 561 books
After Apartheid
Reinventing South Africa?
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model for others to follow. The new order has since survived...
by Ronaleyn Gordon-Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
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The Lion Hunter, in the Days when All of South Africa Was Virgin Hunting Field are reminiscences of a hunter during his days hunting in South Africa.
Commemorating and Forgetting
Challenges for the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The...
by Nicki von der Heyde
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In this companion volume to the highly successful Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa, the pivotal sieges that characterised the Cape Frontier, Anglo-Zulu, Basotho and Anglo-Boer wars are brought together in one volume. Accounts of 17 sieges over the last two centuries explore in detail...
by Zandile Dlamini
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This book is about two of the most prominent leaders of South Africa, leaders whose respective roles shaped and influenced South Africa, both positively and negatively. Those leaders were Dr H. F. Verwoerd, better known historically as an architect of apartheid, and Nelson Mandela, the doctor of the...
by Henriette Gunkel
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state’s politics. This book is a fascinating reflection on the effects of these discourses...
On the Bridge of Goodbye
The Story of South Africa's discarded San Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Set against the southern African canvas of war and upheaval, On the Bridge of Goodbye tells the story of the famous San (Bushman) soldiers who fought first for the Portuguese in Angola, and then for South Africa from bases in northern Namibia. When South Africa withdrew from Namibia, many of these...
Piero Gleijeses' International History of the Cold War in Southern Africa, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Conflicting Missions and Visions of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This Omnibus E-Book brings together Piero Gleijeses's two landmark books for the first time:
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval,...
Sharpeville
An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start...
Inside Apartheid
One Woman’s Struggle in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In Inside Apartheid, South African-born Janet Levine recounts the horrors and struggles she faced against the minority white government’s brutal system of repression from a rare perspective—that of a white woman who worked within the system even as she fought to transform it.
With candor and...
Yours for the Union
Class and Community Struggles in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
*Yours for the Union *stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period of 1930–47, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled...
Umkhonto we Sizwe
The ANC’s Armed Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The armed struggle waged by the ANC’s military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history. This book offers the first full account of the rebellion in its entirety, from its early days in the 1950s to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South African...
Modern South Africa in World History
Beyond Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development...
Africa, Empire and Fleet Street
Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well-known source of news, analysis and comment on the region, especially the (former) British territories. Jonathan Derrick, who worked on the magazine's staff in the 1960s and again in its final years before closure...