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The Words of Desmond Tutu, Second Edition
by Naomi Tutu  Publisher Comments To coincide with the first authorized biography of Nobel Peace Prize-winner and anti-Apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a new updated hardcover edition of this acclaimed collection featuring over 100 inspiring and thought-provoking selections...
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Miriam's Song: A Memoir
by Miriam Mathabane Publisher Comments The powerful memoir of a young black woman coming of age in South Africa amid the violence of apartheid, beautifully written by her brother, the bestselling author of Kaffir Boy. Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir...
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Memoirs
by Ahmed Kathrada Publisher Comments A fascinating book about a modest man who experienced a momentous life with a forward by Nelson Mandela....
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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
by Rian Malan Publisher Comments A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor's Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South Africa after coming...
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The State Vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa
by Joel Joffe Publisher Comments On 11 July 1963, police raided Lilisleaf farm at Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela...
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Soweto Inside Out
by Adam Roberts Publisher Comments This is a book about Soweto from inside and out. It is an effort to mark a century since the first forced removals of black Africans from central Johannesburg to the banks of the Klipspruit River. It is also in recognition of the limited books available...
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People Who Have Stolen from Me
by David Cohen Publisher Comments "The true story of two elderly brothers-in-law who run a furniture business in Johannesburg. Since 1994, their lives have been a turmoil of theft, betrayal and family strife as the new South Africa helps itself to their stock...David Cohen has gone some...
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Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906
by Ian Knight Publisher Comments It was one of the bloodiest and most wretched periods in history, and it shaped the face of modern Africa. Now these great battles receive for the first time a much-deserved detailed depiction of day-to-day combat action. Reading like an adventure novel,...
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The Zulus and Matabele Warrior Nations
by Glen Lyndon Dodds Publisher Comments In the beginning was the glorious warrior king Shaka Zulu -- but this most celebrated fighter did not battle alone, nor did the struggle of the southern African nations end with his death. Lucid, authoritative, and enjoyable, this account chronicles the...
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A Burning Hunger: One Family's Struggle Against Apartheid
by Lynda Schuster Publisher Comments If the Mandelas were the generals in the fight for black liberation, the Mashininis were the foot soldiers. Theirs is a story of exile, imprisonment, torture, and loss, but also of dignity, courage, and strength in the face of appalling adversity...
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Rivonias Children Three Families & the C
by Glenn Frankel Publisher Comments Frankel, a staff writer and editor for The Washington Post, tells the story of a handful of white activists, many of them Jewish, who risked their lives to combat apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s. Their underground headquarters was in Rivonia...
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White Power & the Rise and Fall of the National Party
by Van Der Westhuizen Publisher Comments In 2006, almost a hundred years after the founding of the National Party, the unthinkable happened: the once mighty party of apartheid collapsed into the African National Congress, its sworn enemy for almost a century. While a string of blunders saw...
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Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa
by Padraig Omalley Publisher Comments The inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, told through the experiences of its unsung hero The struggle in South Africa to destroy apartheid was one of the great moral crusades of the last century, and Mac Maharaj played a pivotal role...
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Limits to Liberation After Apartheid: Citizenship, Governance & Culture
by Steven L. (edt) Robins Publisher Comments Post-apartheid South Africa has been characterized by race tensions, social inequalities, and unemployment that are contributing to widespread crises. In addressing the transition to democracy, Limits to Liberation examines issues of culture and identity,...
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Contributions in Women's Studies #21: The South African Society: Realities and Future Prospects
by Human Sciences Resea Publisher Comments Intergroup relations is a contentious issue both inside and outside South Africa, where it has dominated political thinking for the past several decades, and affected the day-to-day lives of all the country's inhabitants. In recent years scholars have...
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Mandela: A Critical Life
by Tom Lodge Publisher Comments Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic...
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Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power?
by Richard Calland Publisher Comments Politics in South Africa is alive and vibrantly so, although the media often fail to reflect this. This book's main aim is to bring that political world to life. It presents a vivid, up-to-date picture of how power works in the new South Africa and who...
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A Prisoner in the Garden
by Nelson Mandela Foundation Publisher Comments An extraordinary visual journey documenting Nelson Mandela's twenty-seven years in prison on Robben Island, Prisoner in the Garden contains previously unpublished images, documents, and diary and letter extracts, as well as some original notes from the...
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White Witch Doctor: A Surgeon's Life in Apartheid South Africa
by John Hunt Publisher Comments Dr. John Hunt has written a powerful true story of life and death, hope and despair in Apartheid South Africa. It details Dr. Hunt's fight to save his beloved country during a violent time of social unrest and political upheaval....
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The Eye of the Moon
by Shelley Davidow Publisher Comments Judith Barrington describes The Eye of the Moon as dense with fragrance, eroticism, and the poetry of recalled passion. This memoir is at once an exploration of love, identity and heartbreak against the backdrop of the changing political face of southern...
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