Republic of South Africa

While the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures. In Sol Plaatje: A Life, Brian Willan restores to history the importance of a...

Despite their peaceful, bucolic appearance, the tree-lined streets of South African suburbia were no refuge from the racial tensions and indignities of apartheid's most repressive years. In At Home with Apartheid, Rebecca Ginsburg provides an intimate...

In September 1997, a visually impaired woman named Patty was raped by an intruder in her home in Madison, Wisconsin. The rookie detective assigned to her case came to doubt Patty's account and focused the investigation on her. Using pressure and lies, he...

Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. Displays of opposition by Africans, too indirect to counter or quash, percolated throughout the...

What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? The questions themselves are simply put, but John Edwin Mason has found complex answers after delving deeply into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956142764Author M. S. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Atikkam Media LtdPublisher Atikkam Media LtdDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 16mm

When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert...

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This is a study of the demographic trends in learner enrolments after the racial de-segregation of South African schools. The report looks at the current situation of racially integrated schools, raising a number of pertinent questions that require the...

Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780869755181Author Ken GillingsPage Count 64Imprint Ravan Press (Pty) LtdPublisher Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780869755174Author Steve WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Ravan Press (Pty) LtdPublisher Ravan Press (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456155Author Roger J. SouthallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620012072Author Tim MaggsFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Cape Town PressPublisher Juta Academic

In the 1970s and 1980s Indiana University Press published a series of books edited by Gwendolen Carter and others on economic and political conditions in Southern Africa during the apartheid era. The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa is a return to...

Nachituti's Gift challenges conventional theories of economic development, with a compelling comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and Congo from pre- to post-colonial times. Neoclassical development models conjure a simple, abstract...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620784689Author David Hilton-BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Footprint Press (NY)Publisher Footprint Press (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620700313Author Ponele R SeshaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Footprints PressPublisher Footprints PressWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615940724Author Greta BeigelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Mons Road PressPublisher Mons Road PressWeight(grams) 222g

In this gripping social history of South Africa, award-winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo Mbeki to make sense of his legacy and understand the future of the country under new President Jacob Zuma...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639829029Author Sapper SoutpielFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Michael BardsleyPublisher Michael BardsleyWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

An account of the author's grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa's remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156001335Author Breyten BreytenbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620723541Author Roger PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Roger PearcePublisher Roger PearceWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149741Author Justice MalalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204g

Fight for Democracy is a penetrating and critical scrutiny of the ANC's treatment of the print media since the inception of democracy in 1994. In this book, Glenda Daniels does not hide behind a veil of detachment, but instead makes a passionate argument...

Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in...

This much-awaited volume uncovers the long-lost pages of the major African multi-lingual newspaper, Abantu-Batho. Founded in 1912 by African National Congress convener Pixley Seme, with assistance from the Swazi Queen, it was published until 1931,...

Historian Sylvia Neame portrays, from a unique vantage point, the unfolding of the peace process in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a scholar, a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928211297Author Jackie GroblerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint 30 Degrees South PublishersPublisher 30 Degrees South Publishers

The series was created to be used in teaching South African history in the national curriculum statement grades 10 - 12. It comprises six titles and a teacher's guide, housed in a study. Each volume focuses on a dynamic and significant phase in South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919825724Author Jurgen SchadebergFormat HardbackPage Count 99Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 915g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919825397Author Karel SchoemanFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 620g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869190101Author Jurgen SchadebergFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 940g

With the demise of apartheid in South Africa and the movement towards a post-apartheid society in South Africa, questions concerning the nature of apartheid and the identities it fostered are inevitably raised. Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869190170Author Karel SchoemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869190163Author Karel SchoemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 245g

A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural history. In 1959, King Kong, an interracial jazz opera, swept across South Africa and became a countrywide...

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 9781485304142Author T.V. BulpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 505g