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Govan Mbeki by Colin Bundy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Govan Mbeki (1910-2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was... -
Reassessing Mandela by Colin Bundy 9780367507176
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination. Internationally, Mandela's renown seems intact and invulnerable. In South Africa,... -
Poverty in South Africa: Past and present by Colin Bundy 9781431424122
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69Along with inequality and unemployment, poverty is seen as South Africa's biggest challenge with over half of South Africans living below the national poverty line. When South Africa finally held its... -
Govan Mbeki: A Jacana pocket history by Colin Bundy 9781431404872
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69This biography of Govan Mbeki (1910-2001), activist and intellectual, goes beyond the narrative details of his long life. Drawing on lengthy interviews with 'Oom Gov', it analyses his thinking,... -
Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry by Colin Bundy 9780852550472
Booksplease Price: £34.29With a Preface reviewing some of the debates prompted by the earlier edition of this book. The first edition of this book was hailed as a major reinterpretation of South African history. It... -
Short-Changed?: South Africa since Apartheid by Colin Bundy 9780821421550
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.68What have been the most significant developments-political, social, economic-in South Africa since 1994? How much has changed since the demise of apartheid, and how much remains stubbornly the same?... -
Learning from Robben Island - The Prison Writings of Govan Mbeki by Govan Mbeki 9780852553565
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.93With an Introduction by Colin Bundy. Published in association with the UWC Historical and Cultural Centre Project, Govan Mbeki's essays formed part of the political education programme that was... -
Class, Caste and Color: A Social and Economic History of the South African Western Cape by Wilmot James 9781138520578
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This volume is the first general social and economic history of the Western Cape of South Africa. Until recently, this region had been largely neglected by historians because it does not occupy a... -
The Colonial Epoch in Africa by Gregory Maddox 9781138482203
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The articles collected in this study, first published in 1993, concentrates on the transformation and continuities in African societies during the height of the colonial era, and explores the... -
From Comrades to Citizens: The South African Civics Movement and the Transition to Democracy by Glenn Adler 9780333774571
Booksplease Price: £46.28In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that collectively became known as the civics movement. Ironically the movement has... -
Learning From Robben Island: Govan Mbeki'S Prison Writings by Govan Mbeki 9780821410073
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In the late fifties and early sixties, Govan Mbeki was a central figure in the African National Congress and director of the ANC campaigns from underground. Born of a chief and the daughter of a... -
Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa by Jeremy Seekings 9780300108927
Booksplease Price: £67.63The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli... -
South Africa: An Historical Introduction by Freda Troup 9781032322841
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49Originally published in 1972, this book covers South African history from the earliest times up to 1968. After portraying the land itself, its people and their migrations, it describes what early... -
After the TRC: Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation by Wilmot James 9780821413852
Booksplease Price: £26.35Has South Africa dealt effectively with the past, and is the country ready to face the future? What are the challenges facing both government and civil society in the years ahead? These and other... -
Do South Africans Exist?: Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of 'the People' by Ivor Chipkin 9781868144457
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Do South Africans Exist? addresses a gap in contemporary studies of nationalism and the nation, providing a critical study of South African nationalism, against a broader context of African... -
Mandela's Kinsmen: Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan by Timothy Gibbs 9781847011565
Booksplease Price: £25.72A novel study of the complex connections between Nelson Mandela and the nationalist leadership in the ANC with their kinsmen inside the Transkei Bantustan state, that reveals the significance of... -
Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity by Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner 9781793631268
Booksplease Price: £103.41In Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity, Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner provides the first holistic study of the Bantu Authorities (BA) system that implemented rural apartheid. The...