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A citizen's guide to crime tends in South Africa
Anine Kriegler, Mark Shaw
Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press. They are ours: we experience and report crimes and have a right to access and understand their official record. It should not take any particular expertise to ge…
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Afrikaner odyssey
The life and times of the Reitz family
Martin Meredith
In the first half of the nineteenth century, southern Africa was a jumble of British colonies, Boer republics and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. Into this frontier world came the Reitz family, Afrika…
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Almost Human
The Astonishing Tale Of Homo Naledi
Lee R Berger, John Hawks
Almost Human is the personal story of a charismatic and visionary palaeontologist, a rich and readable narrative about science, exploration, and what it means to be human.
In 2013, Wits University reasearch professor Lee Berger caught wind of a cache…
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Always Anastacia
A transgender life in South Africa
Anastacia Tomson
Anastacia has fought hard for her right to live, held back for decades by a body that didn't fit, and an identity that never belonged to her. At first, it had seemed impossible like transition was some romantic, impractical ideal that was incompatib…
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Becoming him
A trans memoir of triumph
Landa Mabenge
In April 1981, Landa Mabenge enters this world, trapped in a girl's body. From an early age, Landa is aware that he does not relate to his female form, despite being socialised as a girl. In this groundbreaking and brutally honest memoir, Landa Mabe…
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Black Tax. Burden or Ubuntu?
Niq Mhlongo
A secret torment for some, a proud responsibility for others, 'black tax' is a daily reality for thousands of black South Africans. In this thought-provoking and moving anthology, a provocative range of voices share their deeply personal stories. Wi…
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Blame me on history
60th anniversary edition
William 'Bloke' Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane (1923 - 1986) was a South African author, playwright and actor who worked on the staff of Drum magazine in the 1950s. He emigrated to Europe in 1959 and died in Dortmund, West Germany, in 1986. Feeling an exile in the countr…
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Blessed by Bosasa
Inside Gavin Watson's state capture cult
Adriaan Basson
It's easy to imagine that state capture began with Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. But you'd be wrong. Born out of the ANC Women's League 20 years ago, Bosasa has come to be described as the ANC's 'Heart of Darkness'. At its helm today is Gavin Watson, a…
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Blood brothers. To battleground smokeshell and back
Lamprecht D.
On 10 June 1980, during the Border War, the SADF's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group attacked a complex of Swapo military bases in southern Angola. A long day of bloody fighting ensued. Second Lieutenant Paul Louw led Platoon 1, in four Ratel infantry f…
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Breaking bread. A memoir
Jonathan Jansen
Professor. Pundit. Public nuisance. In his columns, books and on social media, Jonathan Jansen is prolific, and he likes to speak his mind about schools and universities, race, politics and our complex South African society. He has brought incisive …
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Breaking the Bombers
Mark Shaw
At the dawn of the country's brave new democracy, Cape Town was at war. Pagad, which began as a community protest action against crime, had mutated into a sinister vigilante group wreaking death and destruction across the city. Between 1996 and 2001…
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Bullet in the heart. Four Brothers ride to war 1899-1902
Beverley Roos-Muller
. . . it is nine months this evening since I last saw the light in my own house, when I had to tear myself away from all that is dear to me. And today is also my little son’s birthday. Oh, how I long for home.’ So wrote Michael Muller in 1901 as he …
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Children of sugarcane
Joanne Joseph
"Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth not only knowing but also remembering. " – Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, author, filmmaker and academic. Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century Indi…
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Coloured. How classification became culture
Lynsey Ebony Chutel, Tessa Dooms
Coloured as an ethnicity and racial demographic is intertwined in the creation of the South Africa we have today. Yet often, Coloured communities are disdained as people with no clear heritage or culture — ‘not being black enough or white enough. Co…
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Craft art in South Africa
Сreative intersections
Elbé Coetsee, Jac De Villiers
Much has changed since Craft Art In South Africa was published in 2002. This follow-up edition highlights the renewed sense of creativity and inspiration that is sweeping across the country against all odds.
South African craft artists proliferate in…
Jonathan Ball Publishers
Johannesburg, Cape Town,
2015,
Hardcover,
271 p,
(In English and Afrikaans)
ISBN 978-1-86842-614-0
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Jonathan Ball Publishers
Johannesburg, Cape Town,
2015,
Hardcover,
271 p,
(In English and Afrikaans)
ISBN 978-1-86842-614-0
Cuito Cuanavale
12 Months of War that Transformed a Continent
Fred Bridgland
It is September 1987. The Angolan Army – with the support of Cuban troops and Soviet advisors – has built up a massive force on the Lomba River near Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola. Their goal? To capture Jamba, the headquarters of the rebel grou…
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Don't upset ooMalume. A guide to stepping up your Xhosa game
Nqandeka Hombakazi Mercy
Returning to the family homestead in the Eastern Cape for the holidays, and worried that your city ways and less than perfect knowledge of Xhosa culture will get you a wagging finger in the face from ooMalume, the uncles? Don't Upset ooMalume! is a …
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Empires in the sun
The struggle for the mastery of Africa : 1830-1990
Lawrence James
In this magnificent work of narrative history Lawrence James investigates how, within the space of a hundred years, Europe coerced Africa into becoming subordinate to an emerging modern world. Laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers…
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Fate of the Nation
3 Scenarios for South Africa's Future
Jakkie Cilliers
What does our future hold? Will the ANC split within the next five years? Could the DA rule the country in 2024? Will the EFF form an alliance with the ANC? What should we do to make our economy grow at levels that will impact on poverty and inequal…
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Fighting for the dream
Rw Johnson
RW JOHNSON'S BEST-SELLING How Long Will South Africa Survive? was hailed by financial writer Alec Hogg as 'a masterpiece in unblemished reality'. Published at the height of the Zuma presidency, it accurately forecast that South Africa's credit ratin…
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Give us more guns. How South Africa's gangs were armed
Mark Shaw
The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called 'guns to gangs' saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa's criminal underworld. It began in 2007…
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Hani - A life too short
30th anniversary reissue
Janet Smith, Beauregard Tromp
Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s greatest political questions: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on the ANC government? On the 30th anniversary of his murder by right-wing fanatics, this updated v…
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Harry Oppenheimer. Diamonds, gold and dynasty
Michael Cardo
Harry Oppenheimer, the international gold-and-diamond magnate, presided over the corporate dynasty of Anglo American and De Beers for more than 25 years. Famed for his wealth and his companies’ economic power, he straddles the history of 20th-centur…
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