South Africa category: 561 books

Baron Baden-Powell is nowadays remembered best for his work as the founder of the Scouting Movement which has gone on to become a world-wide success; however his initial reputation rested on his military career centred on the Boer War. Colonel Baden-Powell, as he then was, commanded at Mafeking and...

Lesotho Political History, and Governance. A Book on Lesotho, a History Book, on Lesotho, Politics, Economy, and general environment. A motivation for radical political and constitutional reforms. I argued that Lesotho needs deep and radical reforms to avoid emerging lawlessness and violent conflict...

Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history...

Een onvergetelijk portret van Nelson Mandela aan de hand van nooit eerder gepubliceerde brieven uit de gevangenis Toen de 44-jarige advocaat en activist Nelson Mandela in 1962 werd gearresteerd tijdens de intensivering van de meedogenloze campagne tegen politieke tegenstanders van het apartheidsregime...

De presidentiële jaren vertelt het uitzonderlijke verhaal van Mandela’s presidentschap en laat zien welke moeilijkheden hij moest overwinnen om zijn droom voor Zuid-Afrika te verwezenlijken. In 1994 werd Nelson Mandela de eerste president van het democratische Zuid-Afrika. Tijdens zijn regeerperiode...

De 100 meest bijzondere brieven van Mandela gedurende zijn gevangenschap Brieven uit de gevangenis van Nelson Mandela werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 2018, het jaar dat Nelson Mandela 100 jaar zou zijn geworden. Een boek met meer dan 250 brieven die Mandela in 27 jaar gevangenschap schreef. Deze...

When the Soweto uprisings of June 1976 took place, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, the author of this book, was a 14-year-old pupil at Phefeni Junior Secondary School. With his classmates, he was among the active participants in the protest action against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. Contrary...

Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President’s Keepers, he spent years tracking down apartheid death squads. Into the Heart of Darkness, first released in 1997, was the result of this work. Despite official denials...

This work about the military history of Angola is formed by four parts and eight chapters. The first part covers the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The second part covers the twentieth century and, more concretely, the time from 1900 to 1960. The third part covers the period from 1961 to 1974, and the fourth part covers the period from 1975 to 1991.

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety...

Military historical case studies provide insight for military planners. Military planners cannot afford to ignore history when planning in today’s complex environment. This thesis analyzes military doctrinal changes and adaptation during Britain’s Boer War and the French counterinsurgency war...

Swaziland Ruling System, The Monarchy, A History. Swaziland continues to face widespread condemnation for restrictions on freedom of speech, media, trade unions, and political parties. At the start of 2015, the U.S. government stripped the country of its eligibility for trade benefits under the African...

The world has witnessed several battles since the dawn of time. Whether ancient or recent, they all contain a wealth of data useful for life in several circumstances. These battles, which had a significant influence on the life of mankind and defined the course of history, have been the object of...

The brainchild of Admiral Sir John Fisher, battlecruisers combined heavy guns and high speed in the largest hulls of their era. Conceived as ‘super-cruisers’ to hunt down and destroy commerce raiders, their size and gun-power led to their inclusion in the battlefleet as a fast squadron of capital...