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Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
by Martin Meredith  Publisher Comments Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempt to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented took into the key cases presented to the commission -- both those...
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Making a Voice: Resistance to Segregation in South Africa
by Joyce E Kirk Publisher Comments Since apartheid’s dissolution in the early 1990s and its formal abolishment in April 1994, there has been increasing interest in the early history of African struggles against segregation and apartheid. This book focuses on the resistance to...
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A Life in Transition
by Alex Boraine Publisher Comments Alex Boraine's life is a fascinating story of fighting injustice and turning dreams into reality. A child of the Great Depression, he rose from lowly beginnings in a working-class family to become head of the Methodist Church, an MP for the oppositional...
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South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation
by Richard W. Johnson Publisher Comments Africa is the cradle of mankind, and the first traces of modern man come from South Africa. From earliest times, the country has experienced waves of inward migration, and the turmoil and wars that accompany them. In this superb study, R.W. Johnson...
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Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
by William Merv Gumede Publisher Comments Revealing the political and personal tensions behind the scenes, Gumede explains the forces that have created one of the world's most powerful and enigmatic leaders....
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South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict & Identity in Selected South African Novels
by Jane Davis Publisher Comments South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major...
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Essential Histories #56: The Zulu War 1879
by Ian Knight Publisher Comments The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorke's Drift...
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The Boer War 1900: Ladysmith and Mafeking
by Tim Coates Synopsis A snapshot of events in the Crimea, focusing on the Charge of the Light Brigade and the inadequate provisions made for the care of the sick and wounded, as told through government papers published in 1855 and 1856....
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Total Onslaught: Apartheid's Dirty Tricks Exposed
by De Wet Potgieter Synopsis Never-before-published information on the behind-the-scenes machinations of South Africa's security apparatus...
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The Assassin: A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid
by Henk Van Woerden Publisher Comments The untold and heartbreaking account of the man who killed South Africa's architect of apartheid, one of the most dramatic political assassinations in modern history. If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri...
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Mandela: A Critical Life
by Tom Lodge Publisher Comments This new and highly revealing biography draws on a range of original sources, it presents a host of fresh insights about the shaping of Mandela's personality and public persona, from his childhood days and early activism, through his long years of...
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Rivonia's Children
by Glenn Frankel Synopsis This is the story of three families: Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, longtime communists so deeply committed to the cause that even the threat of life imprisonment did not stop them; Ruth First, a fiery activist arrested and held for months without charge...
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Reaction and Renewal in South Africa
by Paul B Rich Publisher Comments This volume is a timely survey of the changes that have been occurring in South African politics and society since the unbanning of the exile liberation movements in 1990. It brings together a collection of seasoned scholars who examine a variety of...
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Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost
by Dugmore Boetie Publisher Comments The autobiographical novel of a black thief in South Africa. "There are images in this book that burn the mind." — Publishers Weekly....
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Alan Paton: A Biography
by Peter F Alexander Publisher Comments Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, a classic of modern literature still read by thousands of people every year, brought international attention to the political turmoil in South Africa and its repressive system of apartheid when it was published in...
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The Apartheid State in Crisis: Political Transformation of South Africa, 1975-1990
by Robert M Price Publisher Comments Despite the considerable attention paid to South Africa in recent years, this text is unique in providing a comprehensive analysis of South Africa's politics through the 1980's. Robert Price argues that the apparent stability of South Africa's apartheid...
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The Struggle, a History of the African National Congress
by Heidi Holland Book News Annotation In this popular history of the ANC, Holland chronicles the organization's evolution from 1912 to the present, with a special focus on the personal experiences of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews...
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Education in a Future South Africa: Policy Issues for Transformation
by Elaine Unterhalter Synopsis Explores some of the key problems posed by the transformation process in education while simultaneously highlighting the choices open to democratic movements....
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Hope and Despair: English-Speaking Intellectuals and South African Politics, 1896-1976
by Paul B Rich Publisher Comments The Soweto crisis of 1976 marked a watershed in South African political and social history. It focused the attention of the world on the injustice of South African society and started the long and tortuous process that has led to the dismantling of...
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Restructuring South Africa
by John D Brewer Book News Annotation Revised versions of papers presented at a workshop at the annual conference of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom, held at the U. of Stirling in 1992. They do not discuss what the state in the new South Africa should do, but what it...
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