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No Future Without Forgiveness
by Desmond Tutu  Publisher Comments The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving...
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Long Walk To Freedom (94 Edition)
by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his...
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When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race
by Judith Stone Synopsis Drawing on a wealth of research, including extensive interviews, this is the true story of Sandra Laing, a woman whose life was torn apart by prejudice in South Africa and healed by love....
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Biko
by Donald Woods Publisher Comments Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to...
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A History of South Africa
by Leonard Thompson Synopsis An exploration of the history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the end of the 20th century. For this third edition, the author adds two new chapters on the transfer of power and South Africa under the...
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Part of My Soul Went with Him
by Winnie Mandela Synopsis Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one...
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Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African
by Liz Mcgregor Publisher Comments The central question raised by this timely and compelling biography is why Fana Khaba, aka Khabzela, a popular South African DJ and youth icon who succumbed to AIDS, did not take anti-retroviral medication to save his own life. The answer reveals a lot...
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
by Antjie Krog Publisher Comments Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid...
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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love
by Jim Wooten Publisher Comments Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a...
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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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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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Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
by John Allen Publisher Comments To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for human...
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark Mathabane Publisher Comments The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage...
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I Write What I Like : Selected Writings ((Rev)02 Edition)
by Steve Biko Publisher Comments "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to the passion, courage, and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa's...
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Mamphela Ramphele: Challenging Apartheid in South Africa (Women Changing the World)
by Judith Harlan Publisher Comments Now there is a series designed especially to introduce young people to women whose heroic lives have helped to shape our world. Informative, inspiring, and engaging, the series tells of extraordinary achievements women have made throughout the world and...
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Mandela: The Authorized Portrait
by Kate Parkin Publisher Comments Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela has dedicated his life to fighting racism, segregation, oppression, and exploitationand championing democracy, equality, and education. Mandela: The...
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Return to Paradise (Harvest Book)
by Breyten Breytenbach Publisher Comments Breyten Breytenbach is one of South Africa's foremost but for years he has had a complex and painful relationship with his home country. In 1973, after thirteen years in exile, he was permitted a three-month visit there. A Season in Paradise, the first...
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Letter to Daniel :despatches from the heart
by Fergal Keane Synopsis This is a collection of Fergal Keane's works, which includes the "Letter to Daniel" and a similar despatch he wrote to his now deceased father. The book also features articles written for "The Spectator", "The Guardian" and "BBC Worldwide" magazine....
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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love
by Jim Wooten Publisher Comments The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American...
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From Jo'burg to Jozi: Stories about Africa's Infamous City
by Heidi Holland Synopsis The authors approached about eighty journalists and writers based in Johannesburg and asked them to write short pieces about the city in which they work and live. They did not specify form or style-the contributors were free to express themselves however...
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