South Africa category: 561 books

Cover of Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
by William Basil Worsfold
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

In sending this book to press I have only two remarks to make by way of preface.
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Judas Goat

Betrayel for the sake of survival

by Wynand du Toit
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016

During May 1985, a South African Special Forces Team consisting out of nine operators, (miskien is die woord “saboteurs” beter om te gebruik) landed on a beach in the oil-rich province of Cabinda in Angola. Their target was the six massive oil-storage tanks. The subsequent firefight led to the...
Cover of Understanding Africa Book 1
by Brian Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012

Anyone about to work in Africa will find this book instructive. It looks at the troubled history of the African continent south of the Sahara Desert. Readers learn of the early slave trade across the Sahara to destinations in the Middle East. This volume shows Portuguese explorers edging around the...
Cover of Valley of Grace
by Val Nowlan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015

This book records a little known portion of South African history in the period 1737 to 1840. It tells the story of a revival in the Moravian Church at Genadendal in the Cape province in South Africa. At the time of the publication of the first printed edition of this book in 2007 the late Dr Martin...
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Surviving the Ride

A Pictorial History of South African-Manufactured Armoured Vehicles

by Steve Camp, Helmoed-Römer Heitman
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

Mine-protected and mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles are today standard in the US, most major western armed forces and many other armies as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The South African Army was already routinely using mine-protected armored personnel carriers and...
Cover of Inside Apartheid's Prison
by Raymond Suttner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York and Melbourne and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg in 2001, the book was short-listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 2002.In the public...
Cover of Langbourne
by Alan P Landau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

Fleeing persecution in Poland in 1879, a young Jewish family settled in England where two brothers begin work in a cigarette factory. After falling upon hard times they migrate to Ireland where the eldest brother is briefly accused of murder. Enduring poverty and scant support from their father after...
Cover of Southern Africa's Responses to International HIV/AIDS Norms (1990-2005)
by Marco Antonio Vieira
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013

The southern African region has the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. In some countries, HIV infection affects nearly 40% of the adult population. This work shows that, despite the formal commitment of the governments of the region to follow international guidelines to combat the epidemic and...
Cover of The Ghosts of Great Zimbabwe: An imagined journey
by John Tilston
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017

Great Zimbabwe is an enigma. We know so little about central and southern Africa before 1500. Archaeologists have had to pore over scraps of old pots, glass beads, iron tools and carbon date old bits of wood. Some have searched for hints in rock paintings. Anthropologists have sought a window into...
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Burdened By Race

Coloured Identities in Southern Africa

by Mohamed Adhikari
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

Examines diverse manifestations of coloredness in southern Africa, with case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, to present analyses that challenge and overturn the conventional wisdom around colored identity.
Cover of Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa:

Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa:

Long Histories and Contemporary Debates

by Shadreck Chirikure, Collet Dandara, Fatima Ferraz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

This book traces the history of innovations from precolonial times and examines precolonial settlements in southern Africa such as Mapungubwe in LImpopo Province, Bokoni in Mpumalanga Province, and Msuluzi in KwaZulu-Natal Province from the perspective of their indigenous technological efforts to...
Cover of A Living Man from Africa

A Living Man from Africa

Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa

by Roger S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010

Cover of A U.S. Air Force Strategy for Africa: Airpower, Geography, Current Activities and Guidance, What Can Airmen Expect in Africa, How Should Airmen Think About Africa?
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military study examines flight operations in Africa for the U.S. Air Force. With the creation of United States Africa Command and the resurrection of Seventeenth Air Force, some Airmen responded with trepidation. The...
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Churchill

Wanted Dead or Alive

by Celia Sandys
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

The Extraordinary Story of a Young Winston Churchill in the Boer War, as Told by His Granddaughter In this lively biography of a dashing, brash twenty-five-year-old Churchill, Celia Sandys chronicles her celebrated grandfather’s adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the...
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