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Country Of My Skull by Antjie Krog
RRP: $25.33$17.73The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It... -
The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881 by John Laband 9781911512387
RRP: $38.90$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512387Author John LabandFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Rorke's Drift by Adrian Greaves
RRP: $25.33$16.77The story of the bravest battle ever fought.On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles by Ian F. W. Beckett
RRP: $25.33$17.73This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu... -
Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez by Craig Bartholomew Strydom
RRP: $25.33$17.73In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the same music. It... -
The Train Driver and Other Plays by Athol Fugard
RRP: $29.23$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363860Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Two Years on Trek: the Royal Sussex Regiment in the Second Boer War, 1899-1902 by Louis Eugene Du Moulin 9780857065339
$24.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065339Author Louis Eugene Du MoulinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 349g -
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
RRP: $25.33$16.69"A beautiful, wise book. It deals with the some of the grimmest aspects of human experience, but it is also one of the most genuinely up-lifting works I have read in years. Emma Brockes' superb, clear-eyed narration is an object lesson for any aspiring... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: $25.33$17.73WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand... -
Unfair Game: An investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry by Michael Ashcroft 9781785906114
RRP: $29.23$21.70In April 2019 Lord Ashcroft published the results of his year-long investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry. Over eleven pages of a single edition of the Mail on Sunday he showed why this sickening trade, which involves appalling... -
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall 9781847013743
RRP: $50.68$42.30Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens". ... -
The Caliban Shore by Stephen Taylor 9780571210725
RRP: $25.33$16.69The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways... -
The Impostor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: $19.48$13.07FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEShortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best BookA gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man... -
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation by Justice Malala
RRP: $48.75$31.67'Superbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that time' Financial Times'Gripping and important' Observer __________________________________________________________________________ Nine days that set the course of a nation..... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid Thomas Grant 9781529372861
RRP: $48.75$32.72'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us all' David LammySydney Kentridge carved out a reputation... -
Legends: Twelve People Who Made South Africa a Better Place Matthew Blackman 9781776391066
RRP: $27.28$17.94We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it's easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen... -
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: $35.10$22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948786Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Boer War: A History by Denis Judd
$40.89The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of... -
Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The South African Tour of 1970 by Colin Shindler 9781785316340
RRP: $38.98$29.29Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches is the compelling story of a cricket tour framed in a landscape of turbulent social history. Cricket, England's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing... -
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
RRP: $37.03$24.86Apologies 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 -
Call Of The Litany Bird: Surviving the Zimbabwe Bush War Susan Gibbs 9781907991004
RRP: $35.08$31.08As a trained nurse, newly married to the son of the Governor of Rhodesia during the UDI years, Susan writes compellingly about bringing up a family on their farm in Matabeleland in the midst of the unfolding terror and growing number of atrocities. ... -
Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa Martin Meredith 9781416526377
RRP: $21.43$13.40The prize was great -- not just land, but the riches it held, in the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South Africa was, until 1910, a vast and untamed land where great fortunes could be made (and lost); where great battles were... -
From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902-1914 by Spencer Jones 9780806144153
$37.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806144153Author Spencer JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 408g -
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson
RRP: $42.88$37.13On 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 outside... -
South Africa - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Isabella Morris 9781857338720
RRP: $17.53$13.34South Africa has been described as "A World in One Country" and a "Rainbow Nation." Its landscape ranges from miles of glorious beaches to the inland desert of the Karoo, the sweeping grasslands of the Highveld plateau, and the subtropical bush of the... -
Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam by Julia Blackburn
RRP: $39.00$27.87A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn... -
How Long Will South Africa Survive?: The Looming Crisis by R. W. Johnson
RRP: $31.18$28.22In 1977, Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be... -
The New African: A History: The Radical Review by Randolph Vigne
RRP: $25.33$23.30The New African was first published in 1962 and survived in Cape Town and in London for 53 issues, (www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/newafrican). The radical monthly introduced to South Africa new writers such as Bessie Head, Lewis Nkosi, Ngugi, Can Themba, Dennis... -
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space by Derek Owusu
RRP: $19.48$13.26'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and... -
More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid by Prof. Chuck Korr 9780007302994 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58$3.80The most important football story ever told. `It is amazing to think that a game that people take for granted all around the world, was the very same game that gave a group of prisoners sanity - and in a way, gave us the resolve to carry on... -
How Can Man Die Better: The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed by Mike Snook
RRP: $29.23$23.42Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host attacked the 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana, a distinctive... -
Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies by Ernesto Sirolli 9780865713970
RRP: $48.75$24.39Not 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... -
The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks
RRP: $38.98$24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476725277Author Eve FairbanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Copper Wings: British South Africa Police Reserve Air Wing Volume 2: 1974-1980 by Guy Ellis 9781804513620
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513620Author Guy EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
RRP: $54.58$47.31Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years... -
The Zulu War: Then and Now by Ian Knight 9780900913754
RRP: $48.65$39.99This work is one of the most widley known military campaigns of the Victorian era. The story is presented through the "After the Battle" series "then and now" photographic theme and contains graphic eyewitness accounts from both sides which aim to convey... -
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
$24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618446599Author Pumla Gobodo-MadikizelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Academic)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams)... -
Prison Letters Nelson Mandela 9781631495960
RRP: $27.28$23.89First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe. Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark collection, as well as new introductory material and six new... -
Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases by Howard Phillips 9780821420287
RRP: $25.33$22.95This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incredible year in...