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Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa.

by Frederick Selous.
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London. The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download. This edition includes illustrations. Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for...

Twentieth-Century South Africa

by William Beinart
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

by Ansu Datta
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...

My Traitor's Heart

A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

by Rian Malan
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012

An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in “a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage” (Michael Kerr). Rian Malan’s classic work of reportage, My Traitor’s Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways...

A Legacy of Liberation

Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

by Mark Gevisser
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...

A Life for Freedom

The Mission to End Racial Injustice in South Africa

by Denis Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning...

Kruger, Kommandos & Kak

Debunking the Myths of The Boer War

by Chris Ash
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists...

Eye on the Diamonds

by Terry Crawford-Browne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012

In 2007 Terry Crawford-Browne published the explosive Eye On The Money. It was primarily an account of the international banking sanctions campaign against apartheid during the 1980s, but also dealt with the early stages of the now well-documented South African arms deal scandal. Eye On The Diamonds...

The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993

by John C. Eby, Fred Morton
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017

This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is facing tremendous social anxiety and violence. The object of the talks, and of the game, is to reach consensus for a constitution that will guide a post-apartheid...

South African Special Forces

by Robert Pitta
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

This book provides a highly detailed account of the history, organisation, uniforms and insignia of South African Special Forces from their origins up to the early 90s – units such as the 44 Parachute Brigade, the Hunter Group and the infamous SWA Police COIN Unit 'Koevoet'. These elite units of...

Apartheid In South Africa - Origins And Impact

by Seth Asiedu Asante
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1987

This book was first published in 1987 when South African Apartheid policy generated much public discussion all over the world. This book, “Apartheid in South Africa: Origins and Impact", is a book which can serve the dual purpose of informing the general reader, of the historical background to Apartheid;...

Notes of a naturalist in South America

by John Ball
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016

A tour round the South American continent, which was completed in so short a time as five months, may not appear to deserve any special record; yet I am led to hope that this little book may serve to induce others to visit a region so abounding in sources of enjoyment and interest. There is no part of...

Umkhonto we Sizwe

The ANC’s Armed Struggle

by Thula Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

The armed struggle waged by the ANC’s military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history. This book offers the first full account of the rebellion in its entirety, from its early days in the 1950s to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South African...

Checkerboards and Shatterbelts

The Geopolitics of South America

by Philip Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010

Geography has always played a major role in world politics. In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North America and Eurasia and often forbidding internal terrain have given rise to a fascinating and unique...