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Rogues' Gallery by Matthew Blackman
RRP: $31.48$27.36If 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... -
Lozikeyi Dlodlo. Queen of the Ndebele by Marieke Clarke 9780797442665
RRP: $108.57$94.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797442665Author Marieke ClarkeFormat PaperbackImprint Amagugu PublishersPublisher Amagugu PublishersWeight(grams) 445g -
Lost on the Map: A Memoir of Colonial Illusions by Bryan Rostron
RRP: $39.80$29.65For 250 years the author's family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal reckoning with that dubious legacy, echoing down to the present in South Africa. It begins with the 'discovery' of... -
The Diary of Edwin Clarke: A police officer in Rhodesia, 1906 by Edwin Clarke 9780957083738
$24.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957083738Author Edwin ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Jeppestown PressPublisher Jeppestown PressWeight(grams) 172g -
The Autobiography of Eugen Mansfeld: A German Settler's Life in Colonial Namibia by Eugen Mansfeld 9780957083745
$28.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957083745Author Eugen MansfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Jeppestown PressPublisher Jeppestown PressWeight(grams) 295g -
The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey by Adam Hochschild 9780618758258
RRP: $41.98$29.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618758258Author Adam HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
A Cradle of the Revolution: Voices from Inyathi School: Matabeleland, Zimbabwe 1914-1980 by Pathisa Nyathi 9780797492509
RRP: $69.30$61.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797492509Author Pathisa NyathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Amagugu PublishersPublisher Amagugu PublishersWeight(grams) 286g -
Class, Work and Whiteness: Race and Settler Colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79 by Nicola Ginsburgh 9781526167095
RRP: $52.50$46.26This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and... -
An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival by Jamie Miller 9780190055547
RRP: $74.53$56.07The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Looking at these events from the other side, An African Volk explores how the apartheid state strove to maintain... -
Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa Yusuf M. Juwayeyi (Customer) 9781847013507
RRP: $54.58$52.14First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society. The Chewa are the largest ethnic group in Malawi, representing a... -
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle by Emily Bridger 9781847013620
RRP: $41.98$40.72Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle. WINNER OF THE RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE 2022 ... -
Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902 by Stephen M. Miller 9780806138640
$64.39When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain was confident that victory would come quickly and decisively. Instead, the war lasted for three grueling years. To achieve final victory, the British government was forced to depend... -
Ten Minutes Weather Away by Leonie Charton 9781788640749
RRP: $10.48$7.88The sense of place and of senses porous to land and sea bring to life this stand-out sequence of poems. The voice, at once conversational and distinctive, is enraging and personal. There's an ache at the core of the beauty here, not of self-pity or of... -
Zimbabwe Kristine Spanier 9781641286718
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641286718Author Kristine SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 193mm * 8mm -
Looted Gold: Debunking the Myth of the Missing Kruger Millions by Mike Dwight 9780620959575
RRP: $37.78$27.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620959575Author Mike DwightFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Quickfox PublishingPublisher Quickfox PublishingWeight(grams) 308g -
Native Life in South Africa by Solomon T. Plaatje
RRP: $39.88$27.15Native 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... -
Robert Hart: The First English-Speaking Settler in South Africa by David Hilton-Barber 9780620784696
RRP: $31.50$25.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620784696Author David Hilton-BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint ImprintPublisher ImprintWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Voices of Sharpeville: The Long History of Racial Injustice by Nancy L. Clark 9781032191300
RRP: $79.78$70.10This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a "crime against humanity."Voices of... -
50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa by Alexander Parker
RRP: $35.60$29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987043726Author Alexander ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MercuryPublisher Burnet Media -
The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa by Michael R. Mahoney 9780822353096
RRP: $48.28$42.02In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighboring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, enabling the British to claim victory and, ultimately, to annex the Zulu kingdom. Less than thirty years... -
The ANC's War against Apartheid: Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa by Stephen R. Davis 9780253032294
RRP: $58.78$50.69For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the... -
Dag Hammarskjoeld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa by Henning Melber
RRP: $73.50$65.60In 1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), he used his office to act on the... -
Baker Street Irregular by Craig W. Fisher 9781739780708
$30.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739780708Author Craig W. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Godwinson PressPublisher Godwinson Press -
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society by N Roos 9780253068033
RRP: $67.20$60.08How were whites implicated in and shaped by apartheid culture and society, and how did they contribute to it? In Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society, historian Neil Roos traces the lives of ordinary white people in South Africa during the apartheid... -
Hunger for freedom: The story of food in the life of Nelson Mandela by Anna Trapido
RRP: $37.70$32.05As much a rigorous historical exploration as a culinary reference, this book offers a delicately compiled biography of Nelson Mandela through the recipes that have been the backdrop, and occasionally the primary cause, for momentous personal and... -
Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order by Ryan M. Irwin 9780199855612
RRP: $134.40$105.97Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more... -
The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver 9780262546874
RRP: $94.50$65.65Apologies 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 -
Waterberg Echoes by Richard Wadley 9781485309352
RRP: $105.00$90.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485309352Author Richard WadleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500g -
The Great Pretenders: Race and Class under ANC Rule by Ebrahim Harvey 9781431430567
RRP: $44.00$36.06This is a wide-ranging and trenchant critical account of South Africa since 1994, focusing particularly upon the follies and failures of the ANC government over the past 25 years. It anatomises an acute social, economic and political crisis, and argues... -
Maqoma: The legend of a great Xhosa warrior by Timothy J. Stapleton 9780620683524
RRP: $42.00$32.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620683524Author Timothy J. StapletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Amava Heritage Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Amava Heritage Publishing Pty... -
Histories of Namibia: Living Through the Liberation Struggle by Colin Leys 9780850364996
RRP: $35.68$31.90When Namibia gained its independence in 1990 after 23 years of war, most of the eleven Namibians whose life histories make up this book were in their mid-thirties. To that point their whole adult lives had been lived in the struggle, more than half of... -
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation by Justice Malala 9781982149734
RRP: $60.88$36.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149734Author Justice MalalaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 445g -
South Africa in World History by Iris Berger 9780195337938
RRP: $54.58$41.35South Africa in World History is the first survey of South African history to range from prehistory to the present, the first to fully integrate social history and women's history, and the first to emphasize connections between the United States and... -
Wargamer's Guide to The Anglo-Zulu Wars by Daniel Mersey 9781473848504
RRP: $27.28$25.28Taking one of the most famous campaigns in British military history, Daniel Mersey gives a wargamer's perspective of the dramatic events of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and offers advice on how to recreate these on the gaming table. The author discusses... -
The State and the Social: State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies by Ornulf Gulbrandsen 9780857452979
RRP: $224.70$183.27Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa - as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the "failure" of other states on the... -
A guide to the Helderberg & Hottentots Holland Mountain Rim by Steve Chadwick 9780639746241
$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639746241Author Steve ChadwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Digital on DemandPublisher Digital on DemandWeight(grams) 263g -
After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa Douglas Foster (Northwestern University) 9780871404787
RRP: $58.78$50.95A brutally honest expose, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela's transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South... -
From Protest to Challenge, Volume 6: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990, Challenge and Victory, 1980-1990 by Gail M. Gerhart
RRP: $105.00$55.57From Protest to Challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict,... -
Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa by Duncan Innes 9780853456292
$41.50It is well known that the Anglo American Group of companies is a major force in the economic, political, and social life of South Africa, and that its influence extends deep into the rest of Africa, as well, as Europe, North and South America, Australia,... -
Mugabe: Teacher, Revolutionary, Tyrant by Dr. Andrew Norman 9781862274914
RRP: $20.98$15.86The people of Zimbabwe are brutalised, disenfranchised, starved. This is the only book to tell the full story of the birth of a dictatorship, including the 2008 election travesty. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a former teacher and guerrilla leader, swept to...