South Africa category: 561 books
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
In sending this book to press I have only two remarks to make by way of preface.
Judas Goat
Betrayel for the sake of survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
During May 1985, a South African Special Forces Team consisting out of nine operators, (miskien is die woord “saboteurs” beter om te gebruik) landed on a beach in the oil-rich province of Cabinda in Angola. Their target was the six massive oil-storage tanks. The subsequent firefight led to the...
by Brian Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Anyone about to work in Africa will find this book instructive. It looks at the troubled history of the African continent south of the Sahara Desert. Readers learn of the early slave trade across the Sahara to destinations in the Middle East. This volume shows Portuguese explorers edging around the...
by Val Nowlan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
This book records a little known portion of South African history in the period 1737 to 1840. It tells the story of a revival in the Moravian Church at Genadendal in the Cape province in South Africa. At the time of the publication of the first printed edition of this book in 2007 the late Dr Martin...
Surviving the Ride
A Pictorial History of South African-Manufactured Armoured Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Mine-protected and mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles are today standard in the US, most major western armed forces and many other armies as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The South African Army was already routinely using mine-protected armored personnel carriers and...
by Raymond Suttner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York and Melbourne and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg in 2001, the book was short-listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 2002.In the public...
by Alan P Landau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Fleeing persecution in Poland in 1879, a young Jewish family settled in England where two brothers begin work in a cigarette factory. After falling upon hard times they migrate to Ireland where the eldest brother is briefly accused of murder. Enduring poverty and scant support from their father after...
Southern Africa's Responses to International HIV/AIDS Norms (1990-2005)
The Politics os Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
The southern African region has the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. In some countries, HIV infection affects nearly 40% of the adult population. This work shows that, despite the formal commitment of the governments of the region to follow international guidelines to combat the epidemic and...
by John Tilston
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Great Zimbabwe is an enigma. We know so little about central and southern Africa before 1500. Archaeologists have had to pore over scraps of old pots, glass beads, iron tools and carbon date old bits of wood. Some have searched for hints in rock paintings. Anthropologists have sought a window into...
Burdened By Race
Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Examines diverse manifestations of coloredness in southern Africa, with case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, to present analyses that challenge and overturn the conventional wisdom around colored identity.
Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa:
Long Histories and Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book traces the history of innovations from precolonial times and examines precolonial settlements in southern Africa such as Mapungubwe in LImpopo Province, Bokoni in Mpumalanga Province, and Msuluzi in KwaZulu-Natal Province from the perspective of their indigenous technological efforts to...
A Living Man from Africa
Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military study examines flight operations in Africa for the U.S. Air Force. With the creation of United States Africa Command and the resurrection of Seventeenth Air Force, some Airmen responded with trepidation. The...
Churchill
Wanted Dead or Alive
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The Extraordinary Story of a Young Winston Churchill in the Boer War, as Told by His Granddaughter
In this lively biography of a dashing, brash twenty-five-year-old Churchill, Celia Sandys chronicles her celebrated grandfather’s adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the...