Zebra imprint: 1234 books
The Somme Chronicles
South Africans on the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
‘The heavy smell of blood filled the air, and every moment you had this intense fear that the next bullet was meant for you. So remembered William Thorne, a South African volunteer soldier who fought in the muddy trenches along the River Somme in France on Europe’s Western Front. A boy of nineteen...
The Number 10s
South Africa's Finest Flyhalves 1891-21
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Throughout the history of rugby, it has been the flyhalves who have gripped the imagination of rugby supporters the most. Arguably the most crucial position on the rugby field, a flyhalf can almost single-handedly win a game for his team (remember Naas Botha’s 1987 Currie Cup final, and Joel Stransky’s...
South Africa’s Rugby Legends
The Amateur Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
South Africa’s Rugby Legends celebrates those players who have become truly immortal in the eyes of their fans – the greatest South African rugby players of the amateur years. This beautifully illustrated book covers the immense achievements of those players who ran out against the mighty All...
Brothers in Arms
Hollanders in the Anglo-Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899, a large number of Hollanders and Dutch expatriates joined the Boers, their reasons ranging from loyalty to their common ancestry to strong anti-British sentiments and a search for adventure. Brothers in Arms documents the trials and tribulations...
The Historical Overberg
Traces of the Past in South Africa’s Southernmost Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Situated between the Hottentots Holland Mountains and the Breede River, the Overberg is a fertile agricultural region and a popular holiday destination for tourists and nature lovers who delight in the beauty of its mountainous landscape, abundant plant species and long sandy beaches. This area also...
Steeped in Blood
The Life and Times of a Forensic Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Bloody crimes of passion, political assassinations, sinister poisonings, investment fraud and mass mining disasters … Dr David Klatzow has seen it all. During his extraordinary twenty-six-year career as South Africa’s foremost independent forensic scientist, he has investigated countless high-profile...
The Battle of Savate
32 Battalion’s Greatest Operation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
On 21 May 1980, under the codename Operation Tiro-Tiro, 32 Battalion attacked and routed a FAPLA brigade at Savate, a small Angolan town 75 kilometres north of the border with South West Africa. Fifteen members of 32 Battalion were killed in the action and many more wounded. It was the highest South...
Gruesome
The crimes and criminals that shook South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this book, investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter follows the trail of a number of criminals in South Africa’s history. These violent crimes, perpetrated from the late 1980s into the new millennium, vary from fanatical far-rightists who killed their innocent countrymen, to assassins who executed...
From Soldier to Civvy
Reflections on National Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
National Service had a powerful immediate effect on the men who served in the SADF, immersing them in an unfamiliar military world. But its impact reached beyond them - to the families and loved ones at home - and it has left its mark decades after the conscripts re-entered civvy street. From Soldier...
Secrets & Lies
Wouter Basson and South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors. In waging ‘total war’ during the 1970s and 1980s, South African securocrats demanded a ‘total strategy’, including secret...
Red in the Rainbow
The Life and Times of Fred and Sarah Carneson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Red in the Rainbow is a story of humanity in the face of political turmoil. Fred and Sarah Carneson were fiercely committed members of the Communist Party from the 1930s onwards. Dedicated activists in brutal times, theirs is a story of political persecution, prolonged separation and enduring love....
by Ben Freeth
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Since President Mugabe began his violent land-seizure programme in 2000, thousands of white farmers and their families have been forced to abandon all they own and flee Zimbabwe. But Ben Freeth, and his father-in-law, farmer Mike Campbell, who had owned and worked the land of their home for over 30...
by André Roux
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Recession, inflation, interest rates, income tax, exchange rates … We are bombarded with these terms every day - by newspapers, the radio, TV and the internet - but what do they actually mean? And how do they impact on you? In this updated edition of Everyone’s Guide to the South African Economy,...
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...