South Africa category: 561 books
The South Africa Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped...
by Sol. T. Plaatje
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
A work of impassioned political propaganda, exposing the plight of black South Africans under the whites-only government'.
Sol Plaatje’sNative Life in South Africa, originally published in 1916, was first and foremost a response to the landmark Natives’ Land Act of 1913. It arose out of...
The Great Silence
From Mushroom Valley to Delville Wood, South African Forces in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When war struck in 1914, it struck not just in Europe, but everywhere across the globe, including South Africa, whose troops saw action in five theatres. They fought one another on home soil, during a rebellion fuelled by old resentments; they fought the Germans in the deserts of South West Africa and...
The ANC and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Essential writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The history of the ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, is one that has generated a great deal of interest amongst historians in recent years. Gone are the days when the history of African nationalism could be relegated to the margins of the study of the South African...
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol.8 (of 8) (Illustrations)
South Africa and its Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Everyone who has followed the story of the War in South Africa from start to finish will assuredly have acquired a keen and lasting interest in the land which has been won by the expenditure of so much blood and treasure. Earnestly will he discuss in his mind all questions connected with the development...
The War in Southern Africa
An Analysis of South Africa’S Total National Strategy (1948 - 1994)
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
South Africa, a country rich in natural resources, had a singular mission with the arrival of the Cold War: Get the world to embrace apartheid. The strategy was remarkable in the sense that it was seeking to preserve a society that almost everyone condemned. As a result, South Africa found itself...
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
War on the Reef
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while both deserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations...
The Cowboy Capitalist
John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid...
by William Beinart
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2001
An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on...
From Bengal to the Cape
Bengali Slaves in South Africa from 17Th to 19Th Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
In From Bengal to the Cape, Professor Ansu Datta opens up a hitherto little researched topic of transoceanic slave trade between mainly southern Bengal and the Cape in the Republic of South Africa. This migration took place between roughly the 1650s and about the middle of the nineteenth century when...
by Ferial Haffajee
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
In What if there were no whites in South Africa? Ferial Haffajee examines South Africa’s history and present in the light of a provocative question that yields some thought-provoking discussion and analysis. From round-table discussions with influential South Africans, to research, personal thoughts...
The Challenge of Apartheid: UK–South African Relations, 1985-1986
Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This volume examines diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and South Africa during one of the most turbulent periods of the apartheid era.
The crisis of apartheid that began in 1984 provoked international outrage on an unprecedented scale. This volume documents the attempt by the...
by Kyle Harmse, Simon Dunstan
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The Border War saw the biggest armoured battles in Africa since World War II. Starting as a counter-insurgency operation by the South African Defence Force (SADF) against the South West Africa People's Organisation, South Africa became embroiled in the complex Angolan Civil War, where they came up...
Better Than Some, Worse Than Others
The way it was: - Remembering the South African Border War in the 1980’s and 90’s.
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Not yet seventeen, Wayne Webster, along with many young men around South Africa, abruptly leaves a life of relative peace and tranquility to fulfill his obligatory military service duties during the South African Border War. He has no idea what the next two years will hold, and how they will change him...