Republic of South Africa

South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South...

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various...

What role should universities have in revitalizing rust-belt motor cities left to decay by economic and political transformation? In City of Broken Dreams, author Leslie J Bank addresses this question through a detailed case study of East London, a city...

As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South.This richly illustrated study offers detailed...

Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the...

While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties and potential help to...

Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting...

To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, from the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946368Author Mxolisi McHunuFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction offers an in-depth view of the secret development and voluntary disarmament of South Africa's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons program, Project Coast. Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess explore how...

How did South Africa, a former pariah of the world, come to host the 2010 World Cup? Laduma! answers this question by telling the story of football in South Africa and how it was transformed from a British colonial export into a central aspect of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789982240529Author Mutumba MaingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bookworld Publishers LtdPublisher Bookworld Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 374g

Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and above all a humanitarian. She worked tirelessly for the disadvantaged and, in the case of the South African...

Much of the South African government's response to crime-especially in Johannesburg-has been to rely increasingly on technology. This includes the widespread use of video cameras, Artificial Intelligence, machine-learning, and automated systems,...

How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violence that shows why this question needs to be recast. He examines an incident that occurred at a South African...

Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government's policies, and they had limited time for entertainment. Still, they closely engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in...

From the ongoing war in Angola, to sporadic instability in Zimbabwe and Lesotho, to the conflict in Congo, to issues of land reform and the ravages of AIDS, southern Africa faces varied and complex threats to its peace and security. The authors of From...

Divided Country explains how segregation and apartheid became entrenched in a unique way in cricket in South Africa between 1915 and the 1950s. While the rest of the cricket world increasingly rubbed out old dividing lines, South Africa reinforced them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512028Author Lindsay O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155400Author Hilda BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 139mm * 32mm

This book, the first of its kind, compiled over six years, provides a wealth of information that opens up a new world of understanding for all plant lovers. For anyone with an interest in botany or wondering what a plant name means, this remarkable book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982284Author Lt. Col. Douw SteynFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and...

'1879, the year in which I grew up faster than I could shout my name. That year was the one in which we experienced events and encounters that no one, particularly a child, should ever witness. It was also the year my people lost everything - their land...

An award-winning investigation that has been called the most important piece of journalism in post-apartheid South Africa, Murder at Small Koppie delves into the truth behind the massacre that killed thirty-four platinum miners and wounded seventy-eight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724469Author Elizabeth Marshall ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485307549Author T.V. BulpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea Boekhuis

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604880939Author Harry VillegasFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press

For 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...

This collection of Biko's writings is a testament to the passion and insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The selection contains writings from 1969 to 1972 while Biko was president of the...

When 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...

In Imagining a Nation, Ruramisai Charumbira analyzes competing narratives of the founding of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe constructed by political and cultural nationalists both black and white since occupation in 1890. The book uses a wide array of...

Provides 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 ...

Apologies 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

The Later Zulu wars of the 1880s were a last-ditch resistance to colonialism combined with bitter civil war, and their consequences proved more devastating for the Zulu people than the famous Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. They took place at a time of changing...

This 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...

Drum was launched as a popular magazine in the 1950s and quickly came to reflect the image and interests of the urban African. Its reports of the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and the Treason Trial shared column-space with stories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987043726Author Alexander ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MercuryPublisher Burnet Media

Apologies 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...