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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
RRP: $35.08$23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684848280Author Mark MathabaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 331g -
Trekking On by Deneys Reitz 9780956774538
RRP: $25.33$21.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956774538Author Deneys ReitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint The House of EmsliePublisher The House of EmslieWeight(grams) 500g -
How to Steal a Country: State Capture and Hopes for the Future in South Africa by Robin Renwick 9781785903618
RRP: $37.03$26.33The vertiginous decline in political leadership from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma has engulfed South Africa in a serious crisis over the past `lost decade'. Based on his personal experience of the key protagonists, former British ambassador to South... -
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd South Africa'a Greatest Prime Minister by Stephen Mitford Goodson 9781717041425
RRP: $53.29$41.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717041425Author Stephen Mitford GoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver 9780262546874
RRP: $87.75$60.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546874Author Jonathan SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm -
Bram Fischer: Afrikaner revolutionary by Stephen Clingman
RRP: $31.10$26.17Meticulous and finely crafted, this biography of Abram Fischer follows the South African lawyer's journey of conscience and personal transformation. Born into one of the most prominent Afrikaner nationalist families, Fischer nevertheless made his name as... -
Survival Course: Rhodesian Denouement and the War of Self by Chris Cocks 9781720796633
$26.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720796633Author Chris CockFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Kindle Direct PublishingPublisher Kindle Direct Publishing -
An Illustrated Tour of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Battlefields by Adrian Greaves 9781399040686
RRP: $48.75$34.36In 1878 southern Africa’s two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of British Natal. In an astonishing act of over-confidence and without... -
The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and amaXhosa in the Cape Colony by John Laband
RRP: $28.28$18.54Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution... -
Africa, Another Side of the Coin: Northern Rhodesia's Final Years and Zambia's Nationhood by Andrew Sardanis
$54.33'Africa is a lost cause.' This is a cynical view held widely in the West, in much of the world and even in Africa. Many people in the old European colonial powers - and not only the dwindling band of 'old Africa hands' who served in the colonies - are in... -
The Life of Mark Akenside: The Breakthrough to Modernity by Dr Barbara C. Morden 9780857162373
RRP: $29.23$21.35THE LIFE OF MARK AKENSIDE has an inter-disciplinary nature, linking literature with medicine and the visual arts. It is not only for students of history, literary history, art history, poetry, modernity, gender relevance and education, it is also for... -
Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies by Ernesto Sirolli 9780865713970
RRP: $48.75$25.21Not your average (boring!) book on economic development, this is an inspired account of a revolutionary approach to revitalizing urban and rural economies, one person at a time. Through "Enterprise Facilitation," depressed communities can build lasting... -
Cambridge Student Pranks: A History of Mischief & Mayhem by Jamie Collinson 9780752453958
RRP: $25.33$18.27Cambridge University is famed for the resourcefulness and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on the... -
They're Burning the Churches by Patrick Noonan 9781919931463
RRP: $31.10$25.39Father Patrick Noonan's book is a meticulously written and moving account of the events in and around the Vaal Triangle, leading up to the downfall of apartheid. Noonan's clear and unbiased historical record clarifies many misconceptions regarding these... -
South Africa by Alicia Klepeis 9781644872581
RRP: $25.33$21.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644872581Author Alicia KlepeisFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media -
Sid's Big Fib by Roo Parkin 9781848867611
RRP: $15.58$10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848867611Author Roo ParkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Maverick Arts PublishingPublisher Maverick Arts PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm)... -
Truth And Lies: Stories From The Truth And Reconcilliation Commission In South Africa by Jillian Edelstein 9781862074460
RRP: $48.75$33.13The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate more than thirty years of human rights violations under apartheid. Jillian Edelstein returned to her native South Africa to photograph the work of this committee and was present at... -
South Africa: The rise and fall of apartheid by Nancy L. Clark
RRP: $64.33$56.86This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segregation, the introduction of the oppressive policy of apartheid, the eventual collapse of White supremacy, and... -
Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis by Derek Wall 9780850367645
RRP: $19.50$16.95Climate change is a product of the entire social and economic system within which we exist, in a word, capitalism. Challenging capitalism is essential to challenging climate change. We have difficult issues to consider: * How can we promote political... -
Dear Comrade President: Oliver Tambo and the Foundations of South Africa’s Constitution by André Odendaal 9781776096688
RRP: $35.08$23.67In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through armed action and militant struggle. But unknown to the world, on that very day, the quiet-spoken mathematics... -
The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in the Age of Crisis by Richard Calland 9781776095940
RRP: $31.18$21.31Since 1994, South Africa has had five presidents who have varied greatly in style and character, despite all coming from the same political party. How do they compare? How did they handle the crises they faced? What effect did they have on the country? ... -
Longman History Project South Africa 1948-1994 Paper by Josh Brooman
$52.40Longman History Project provides excellent source and review material for both the Modern World History and the Schools History Project specifications. This highly illustrated and motivating series is suitable for each awarding body and is targeted at... -
Rogues' Gallery by Matthew Blackman
RRP: $29.23$26.62If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it's time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues' Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have been a... -
A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo by Nancy Rose Hunt
RRP: $50.68$42.98In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical... -
South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Nation from European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era by Charles River Editors 9781092506151
RRP: $36.11$31.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781092506151Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
South Africa's Border War 1966-89 by Willem Steenkamp
RRP: $68.25$55.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113009Author Willem SteenkampFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt Carbineers by Edward Witton 9781774641873
RRP: $15.50$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641873Author Edward WittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Temples of the African Gods: Revealing the Ancient Hidden Ruins of Southern Africa by Michael Tellinger 9781920153083
RRP: $46.80$31.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920153083Author Michael TellingerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Zulu Planet PublishersPublisher Zulu Planet PublishersWeight(grams) 978g -
The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial that Changed South Africa by Joel Joffe 9781780745800
RRP: $21.43$15.64The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia near... -
Native Life in South Africa by Solomon T. Plaatje
RRP: $37.03$25.21Native Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress, the work shows the influence of American activist and socialist historian W. E. B... -
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson 9781780769059
$96.76On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola - led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. These dreadful reprisals are little talked of in Angola today - and virtually unknown... -
Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa by Steven Press
RRP: $60.35$47.44Diamonds have long been bloody. A new history shows how Germany's ruthless African empire brought diamond rings to retail display cases in America-at the cost of African lives.Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds"... -
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog
RRP: $37.05$29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812931297Author Antjie KrogFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing: Living Better, Living Longer by Cassandra Szoeke 9780522877236
RRP: $56.45$45.55Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Over the past thirty years a team of international investigators has compiled a... -
The Genocide of the Boers by Stephen Mitford Goodson
RRP: $17.80$14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717042286Author Stephen Mitford GoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Wepener: Account and Medal Roll by David & Alexander Biggins
RRP: $87.75$77.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908828606Author David & Alexander BigginsFormat HardbackImprint Token Publishing LtdPublisher Token Publishing Ltd -
To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope by Malcolm Jack
RRP: $42.88$36.64Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an... -
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin 9780316051873
RRP: $48.73$36.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316051873Author Peter GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa by Julie Livingston 9781478006398
RRP: $42.88$36.64Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of... -
Village of the Rain Wind by Bessie Head
RRP: $23.19$19.64In Serowe:Village of the Rain Wind, Bessie Head blends her skills as a novelist with the actual words of nearly one hundred inhabitants of a Botswanan village called Serowe to present a clear picture of the village community and its history. Serowe is...