Republic of South Africa

As part of its centenary in 2006, the Sunday Times newspaper created a trail of street memorials across South Africa to celebrate newsmakers and important events of the last 100 years. Great lives: Pivotal moments tells the stories behind these memorials...

Zimbabwe's prospects appeared promising in 1980, as it gained independence after a long liberation war. The country exhibited steady economic growth, enabling the new government to provide free education and widespread access to health care. Challenges...

Was South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) a ""miracle"" that depended on the unique leadership of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu? Or does it provide a working model for other traumatized nations? Addressing these questions, Lyn...

Stephanie J. Urdang's memoir tracking the slow demise of apartheid that led to South Africa's first democratic elections.Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485622840Author Wendy WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485304654Author Karel SchoemanFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485304623Author Karel SchoemanFormat HardbackPage Count 652Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 168mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431424108Author Mary Ingouville BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

Today, some years after the first democratic elections in South Africa as well as the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), it is clear that reconciliation is still needed on all terrains of South African society. More and more...

"This is the most unusual history of Africa... it compares three religious systems: Christianity, Islam and indigenous African religions, in their influence on the history of the continent. Mavimbela seeks to demonstrate that all these religions...

A kaleidoscope of human-interest stories exposing long-kept secrets, mysteries and heroics for the first time. Wars always generate stories and everybody loves a story. Rob Milne has compiled this selection of Anglo-Boer War stories from all over South...

How 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485305507Author F.A. MoutonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea Boekhuis

The history of the ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, is one that has generated a great deal of interest amongst historians in recent years. Gone are the days when the history of African nationalism could be relegated...

Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The book addresses key ethical issues, normally addressed from within...

Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The book addresses key ethical issues, normally addressed from within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592216291Author Dan ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 224g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210947Author Olufemi VaughanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 302g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210923Author Horace CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 605g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210909Author Erik DoxtaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569025086Author Sihle MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569025062Author Busani NgcaweniFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and...

This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history-one often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this current of thought from nineteenth-century disputes over Dutch liberal...

The history of the ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, is one that has generated a great deal of interest amongst historians in recent years. Gone are the days when the history of African nationalism could be relegated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865439290Author Christopher M. PaulinFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

Botswana 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899718164Author Ryota NishinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 406g

A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies, this concise and forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the "Mandela phenomenon." Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges...

A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies, this concise and forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the "Mandela phenomenon." Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges...

Botswana 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...

Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based contributions to the understanding of this system which was without...

This is the fascinating social history of a remote chiefdom in Zimbabwe. The book focuses on the religion and politics of the area, describing how the Hwesa people adapted the Christianity that the missionaries brought to found their own popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947358Author Assistant Professor Jochen S ArndtFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia...

A survey of South African history from the formation of early human communities to the present. The Making of South Africa provides a detailed understanding of all the forces that have shaped South Africa to date. It represents a valuable and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869191023Author Vivien AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 1000g

This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213085Author Bizeck Jube PhiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 471g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928257356Author David BloombergFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint BookstormPublisher Bookstorm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702234385Author Margaret ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland...