South Africa category: 561 books
Churchill’s South Africa
Travels during the Anglo-Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
In October 1899, the twenty-four-year-old Winston Churchill sailed for South Africa as war correspondent for the Morning Post to report on the Anglo-Boer War. When he returned the following year, it was as a military celebrity. This book follows Churchill’s footsteps across South Africa and gives...
by Tiffany Fawn Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal...
by Gail Nattrass
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa – a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours’ affairs. On the other hand, post-Apartheid dreams of progress and reform have, in part, collapsed into a morass...
Madiba A to Z
The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. This book, which provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and opinions of South Africa's first...
How Long Will South Africa Survive?
The Looming Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be posed again. "The big question about ANC...
Letters from Wankie
A Place in Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Mid-1950s Colonial Service in Wankie, Rhodesia
Funny, Touching and a Bit of Wacky Wankie History
Letters from Wankie is a unique, true story based on the collection of some 500 air letters the author, British-born Patricia Friedberg, wrote home to England in the mid-1950s, during...
Speeches that Shaped South Africa
From Malan to Malema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Great speeches have the power to bring about political change, and South Africa lays claim to some of the world’s most skilled orators, from Nelson Mandela, whose courageous statement from the dock inspired the liberation struggle, to Desmond Tutu, whose ‘Rainbow People of God’ speech prepared...
by Anthony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence...
A Legacy of Liberation
Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A gripping social history of South Africa's past and future and beautifully narrated by one of Africa's most esteemed journalists, From Struggle to Liberation sheds light on the future of the nation under a new regime. With unprecedented access to Thabo Mbeki and the top brass in the African National...
Fears, Tears, Cheers and Hope
"Out of a violent and bloody past, South Africa's extraordinary relatively peaceful transition to democracy was a minor "miracle"...
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Following on from my Rainbow books on South Africa
A book by craig lock
"How apartheid was finally buried, without requiem; but in
joyous celebration, will remain forever in the hearts and minds
of a nation reborn. When tears came, and there was dampness in
the eyes of even the most stern,...
Visions of Freedom
Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed,...
Whisperings in the Blood
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
An exquisitely compelling story of courage, destiny and the search for home When orphan girl Bertha Frank gets onto a ship in New York in February 1937 to go to South Africa to marry a man she's never met, she doesn't know that she is repeating a journey to escape poverty and the persecution of the...
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara
Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil society. Contributors explore the dramatic changes...
After Freedom
The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.
The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election,...