South Africa category: 561 books
The Impossible Machine
A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding...
117 Days
An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
An unforgettable account of defiance against political terror by one of South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid activists
An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system, 117 Days presents the harrowing chronicle of journalist Ruth First's isolation and abuse at the hands...
Craig’s Letters to Newspapers
A collection of my letters to the editor and various others: First ("Baby") Steps on The Writing Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Craig’s Letters to Newspapers
My various letters to newspapers and others ...mainly in South Africa
First Steps on the writing journey:
A collection of my letters (from my album) that started me out on “the writing journey”
A collection of my letters to the editor and various...
Apartheid's Festival
Contesting South Africa's National Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2003
Apartheid’s Festival highlights the conflicts and debates that surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South Africa. Taking place at the height of the apartheid era, the festival was viewed by many as an opportunity...
by Peter Clements
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)
Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access...
Burning the Grass
At the Heart of Change in South Africa, 1990-2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In the great modern narrative nonfiction tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Burning the Grass is a literary masterpiece of true crime based on the April 2010 murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche, firebrand leader of the far-right AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging--the Afrikaner Resistance Movement), who...
by Shanthee Manjoo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
From the opening Sanskrit mantra to the final act of voting in South Africa's first democratic elections, this lyrical memoir provides a unique perspective on South Africa's modern history. The account shows how a young Hindu woman of Indian ancestry, living in South Africa in the 1940s, defied convention,...
Markets on the Margins
Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them, the NUM set up a job creation programme, starting with worker co-operatives before shifting to wider enterprise development strategies....
The Farmerfield Mission
A Christian Community in South Africa, 1838-2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The Farmerfield Mission explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans in 1838 by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an exclusive area for white occupation, and returned to the descendants of the community under South Africa's land reform program in 1999.
The South African Mosaic II
A Sociological Analysis of Post-Apartheid Conflict, Two Decades Later
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The book revisits a study conducted in 1994 on subjects defined as historically disadvantaged by the apartheid regime. However, despite the ravages of that regime, these individuals had succeeded and gotten extraordinary opportunities to pursue higher education in colleges and universities in the...
Learning Zulu
A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property,...
The Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain
1820 Settler
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up view of four decades during a period when the British Empire was expanding in southern Africa, with the...
Building a New South Africa
One Conversation at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Once a thriving, multiracial community, the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg was home to many famous artists, musicians, and poets. It was also a place where residential apartheid was first put into practice with forced removals, buildings bulldozed, and the construction of new, cheap housing for...
Evolving Public Space in South Africa
Towards Regenerative Space in the Post-Apartheid City
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Evolving Public Space in South Africa discusses the transformation of public space highlighted in the country. Drawing on examples from major cities, the author demonstrates that these spaces are not only becoming wasted space, but are also adapting and evolving to accommodate new users and uses...