South Africa category: 561 books
Rethinking the South African Crisis
Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside “wageless life,” proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official...
Bushman Rock Art
An Interpretive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The prehistoric record of southern Africa extends back some 2 million years. The oldest cultural artefacts are stone tools such as handaxes, cleavers and choppers. In more recent centuries, archaeologists have found an extensive repertoire of artefacts including not only stone tools, but tools of...
Apartheid
Racial Segregation in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of apartheid in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of apartheid in South Africa. For over 40 years, South Africa maintained a white supremacist regime which denied black citizens the...
by Richard J. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Throughout his career, the distinguished South African jurist Richard J. Goldstone has been deeply committed to promoting human rights in his own country and abroad. A justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since 1994, he has also served as chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding...
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
"If there is a more urgent and indispensible playwright in world theatre than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."—Jack Kroll, NewsweekOne of the true contemporary masters of the stage, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written one of his most stunning works. Sorrows...
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
And Other Stories of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times).
The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and...
The South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary...
by Georg McCall Theal
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Kaffir (Xhosa) Folk Tales
by Georg McCall Theal
"[A collection of folklore from the Kaffir people of South Africa.]
By the 15th century, the word kafir/kuffir was used by Muslims in Africa to refer to the non-Muslim African natives. (Kafir translated means infidel / disbeliever.)...
The Unspoken Alliance
Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies.
Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left: socialist idealists like...
by Iris Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch...
Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for human rights -- is the only real foundation for peace....
When South Africa Called, We Answered
How the Media and International Solidarity Helped Topple Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There were two battles against apartheid—a political campaign and a media war. The political story has been told, and now you can read about the media effort. As South Africa marks in 2014 its 20th anniversary as a democracy, its transformation is still hailed as a "miracle." Most of the credit for...
by John Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Take a Walk on the Wild Side...
Join travel adventurer John Dwyer on his epic journey from vibrant Cape Town to wild Kruger Park. Aided by his vivid descriptions and colorful commentary, you will come face to face with Great White sharks, get off the beaten track on the Wild Coast, soak up the raw...
Winnie Mandela Quotes And Believes
A tribute to Winnie Mandela a life dedicated to freedom for all
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Winnie Mandela, also know as South Africa's "Mother of the Nation," dedicated decades of her life to activism an to the struggle against Apartheid.
The ex-wife of Nelson Mandela was a inspirational figure against racial injustice in South Africa, encouraging activists to stand up...