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Ratels On The Lomba
The Story Of Charlie Squadron
Leopold Scholtz
Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (61 Mech) – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle between the South African Defence Force and the Angolan forces on the Lomba River in southern Angola. Ratels On T…
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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…
61 USD
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The White Africans
From Colonisation To Liberation
Gerald L'Ange
The negotiated transfer of power in apartheid South Africa was the last act in the dismantling of white supremacy on the African continent. While opening a new era for the whites in Africa, it closed an earlier one that contains some of the most col…
175 USD
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Craft art in South Africa
Сreative intersections
Elbe 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
97 USD
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Jonathan Ball Publishers
Johannesburg, Cape Town,
2015,
Hardcover,
271 p,
(In English and Afrikaans)
ISBN 978-1-86842-614-0
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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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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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…
65 USD
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Lawfare
Judging politics in South Africa
Michelle Le Roux, Dennis Davis
What happens when South Africa?s tumultuous political life becomes entangled in the courts of law? Throughout the past 50 years, the courts have been a battleground for contesting political forces as more and more conflicts that were once fought in …
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Make your money work for you
Think big, start small
Anthea Gardner
Do you dream of a future free of financial stress? One where you can afford to start your own business, travel or retire comfortably? In Make Your Money Work For You, investment specialist Anthea Gardner shows you how to 'sweat your assets' and grow…
59 USD
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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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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…
60 USD
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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…
63 USD
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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…
60 USD
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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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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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Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in Kleur
Tinus Le Roux
Друге видання, доповнене. У книзі першій колективної монографії подано дослідження буття людини в умовах сучасних ґлобальних викликів, зокрема в ситуації інформаційного суспільства й технізованого, нестабільного світу. Запропоновано визначення ключо…
175 USD
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The Boer War in colour
Tinus Le Roux
Infused with colour, scenes from the Anglo-Boer War suddenly come to life in this striking collection of colourised photos from one of the biggest conflicts on South African soil. The Anglo-Boer War, or South African War, pitted the two Boer republi…
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How to fight a war
Mike Martin
Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decisionmaking, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only waste…
173 USD
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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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The other side. Journeys into mysticism, magic and near death
Sarah Bullen
What happens when we die? How are some people able to see or communicate with spiritual worlds beyond our own? Can they offer answers to some of our most burning questions about life and death? Sarah Bullen, who has had a life-altering near-death ex…
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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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