South Africa category: 561 books
by Albie Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa’s security forces. His right arm was blown off, and he lost sight in one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery...
Memoirs of a Born Free
Reflections on the New South Africa by a Member of the Post-apartheid Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Apartheid isn't over—so Malaika Wa Azania boldly argues in Memoirs of a Born Free, her account of growing up black in modern-day South Africa. Malaika was born in late 1991, as the white minority government was on its way out, making her a "Born Free"—the name given to the generation...
The Unwinding of Apartheid: UK-South African Relations, 1986-1990
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This volume examines diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and South Africa from 1986 to 1990, when deadlock gave way to the first stages in the unwinding of apartheid.
By the middle of 1986, the South African Government had succeeded in containing the township revolt, but its hesitant...
A Manifesto for Social Change
How to Save South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country’s – and the continent’s – development obstacles. Architects of Poverty (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating and promoting...
Into that Heaven of Freedom
The impact of apartheid on an Indian family's diasporic history
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy following the...
by F. C. Selous
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was a British explorer, hunter and conservationist, and is most remembered for his activities in Southeast Africa. Selous explored lesser-known areas, where he recorded ethnographic notes and collected specimens. ‘Big Game Shooting’, published in 1894, is...
My Traitor's Heart
A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in “a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage” (Michael Kerr).
Rian Malan’s classic work of reportage, My Traitor’s Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways...
Kruger, Kommandos & Kak
Debunking the Myths of The Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists...
by Terry Crawford-Browne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In 2007 Terry Crawford-Browne published the explosive Eye On The Money. It was primarily an account of the international banking sanctions campaign against apartheid during the 1980s, but also dealt with the early stages of the now well-documented South African arms deal scandal. Eye On The Diamonds...
Iowa and the World
Memoirs of Senator Dick Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Elected senator from Iowa in 1972, Dick Clark is one of a select few American public servants whose name is associated with the downfall of apartheid in South Africa: his defeat in the senatorial campaign of 1978 resulted in part from the South African government’s secret and illegal monetary contributions...
Gordian Knot
Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched-and more complex-than South Africa. Gordian...
Crossroads: The Choice
A Tale of Two Cities (and Countries): I know how the story began...but don't know how the story will end...
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
Crossroads (The Choice)
by craig lock
Crossroads: A new e-book (er, sorry, “vook/fook” = ebook + videos) of reflections and memories on the strange twists and turns that is the incredible and fascinating journey of life…
Man is made or unmade by himself.
By the right...
by Winston S. Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
A fascinating piece of first-person reporting from the British statesman’s early years as a war correspondent in South Africa.
As a young, ambitious soldier, Winston S. Churchill managed to get himself posted to the 21st Lancers in 1899 as a war correspondent for the Morning Post—and joined...
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
**“In Good Morning, Mr. Mandela, Zelda la Grange recounts her remarkable life at the right hand of the man we both knew and loved. It's a tribute to both of them—to Madiba's eye for talent and his capacity for trust and to Zelda's courage to take on a great challenge and her capacity for growth....