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Knowing Mandela - A Personal Portrait (Paperback): John Carlin Knowing Mandela - A Personal Portrait (Paperback)
John Carlin
R372 R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Save R69 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.

As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela during the post-apartheid years when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his greatest triumphs. Carlin witnessed history as Mandela was released from prison after twenty-seven years and ultimately ascended to the presidency of his strife-torn country.

Drawing on exclusive conversations with Mandela and countless interviews with people who were close to him, Carlin has crafted an account of a man who was neither saint nor superman. Mandela's seismic political victories were won at the cost of much personal unhappiness and disappointment.

Knowing Mandela offers an intimate understanding of one of the most towering and remarkable figures of our age.

Die Verhaal Van Elandskloof (Afrikaans, Paperback): Tobie Wiese, Ricky Goedeman Die Verhaal Van Elandskloof (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Tobie Wiese, Ricky Goedeman
R89 Discovery Miles 890 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Bulletproof - Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Paperback): Jennifer Wenzel Bulletproof - Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Paperback)
Jennifer Wenzel
R175 R137 Discovery Miles 1 370 Save R38 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet's command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements - such as the Ghost Dance in North America and the Birsa Munda uprising in India - these actions were meant to transform the world and liberate the Xhosa from oppression. Despite the movement's momentous failure to achieve that goal, the event has continued to exert a powerful pull on the South African imagination ever since. It is these afterlives of the prophecy that Jennifer Wenzel explores in Bulletproof. Wenzel examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing-harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation - to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Widening her lens, Wenzel also looks at how past failure can both inspire and constrain movements for justice in the present, and her brilliant insights into the cultural implications of prophecy will fascinate readers across a wide variety of disciplines.

Mens Dier Ding (Afrikaans, Paperback): Alfred Schaffer Mens Dier Ding (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Alfred Schaffer
R300 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R42 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In dié vertaling van Alfred Schaffer se bekroonde Nederlandse bundel, Mens dier ding, ondersoek die digter die mite van Sjaka Zulu deur dagboekinskrywings, monoloë, briewe en dagdrome. Die mites rondom Shaka se geskiedenis word op die kop gedraai en ondermyn. ’n Poëtiese kragtoer, vertaal deur Zandra Bezuidenhout.

White Gold - The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves (Paperback): Giles Milton White Gold - The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves (Paperback)
Giles Milton
R476 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Radelose Rebellie? - Dinamika Van Die 1914-1915 Afrikanerrebellie (Afrikaans, Paperback): Albert Grundlingh, Sandra Swart Radelose Rebellie? - Dinamika Van Die 1914-1915 Afrikanerrebellie (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Albert Grundlingh, Sandra Swart
R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In 1914 het ’n groep Afrikaners in verset teen die Unieregering gekom, aangevuur deur “Siener” van Rensburg se visioene wat vertel het van die ondergang van die Britse ryk.

Toe Louis Botha net ná die aanvang van die Eerste Wêreldoorlog aankondig dat die Unie Duits-Suidwes-Afrika sou inval, was die vet in die vuur en het honderde opstandige manne die wapen opgeneem. Volgens die joernalis L.E. Neame was dit “one of the most curious and dramatic incidents in the Great War”.

Naas die Groot Trek en die Anglo-Boereoorlog het die rebellie ’n prominente plek in Afrikanergeskiedsbeskouinge ingeneem. Dit is derhalwe nie verbasend nie dat daar reeds heelwat navorsing oor die opstand gedoen is, maar met Radelose Rebellie? ondersoek prof. Albert Grundlingh en dr. Sandra Swart aspekte daarvan wat tot dusver grotendeels verwaarloos is.

Was dit inderdaad so ’n vae, ongestadige verskynsel soos talle kommentators beweer? Was dit ’n redelose, radelose rebellie? Of het meer daaragter gesteek?

Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism (Hardcover)
Various
R135,557 Discovery Miles 1 355 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism is a 51-volume collection of previously out-of-print titles that examine the history, practice and implications of Western colonialism around the globe. From the earliest contact by European explorers to the legacies that remain today, these books look at various aspects of the topic that, taken together, form an essential reference collection. Two of the titles study colonialism in Southeast Asia by non-Western states, and provide a counterpoint in the European-focused study of worldwide colonialism.

British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914 - A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources (Hardcover): Mahmud Modibbo Tukur British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914 - A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources (Hardcover)
Mahmud Modibbo Tukur
R1,894 Discovery Miles 18 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.

Biko: A Biography (Paperback, Anniversary Edition): Xolela Mangcu Biko: A Biography (Paperback, Anniversary Edition)
Xolela Mangcu
R305 R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Save R43 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

“A brilliant biography that will transform your understanding of this young, charismatic leader” — Joseph Nhini, BooksLive, Sunday Times

“Deeply thought-provoking” — Tyrone August, Cape Times

“Makes a good job of weaving together a number of strands that make the totality of the powerful persona Biko became ... Sheds new light on more than just Biko” — Sam Mkokeli, Business Day

Interest in the iconic Steve Biko has strongly revived, as the current generation of activists calls on his legacy and thoughts. Biko is cited and disputed particularly in the #RhodesMustFall and decolonisation movements. This comprehensive biography, shortlisted for the Alan Paton award, explores Biko's life, the people and ideas that shaped him, and his part in Black Consciousness and the struggle. Updated in an affordable new edition, Biko: A Biography presents a new generation with nuanced insights into the life and thought of a South African hero.

Die Suidhoek Van Afrika - Geskrifte Oor Suid-Afrika Uit Die Nederlandse Tyd, 1652 1806 (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Karel Schoeman Die Suidhoek Van Afrika - Geskrifte Oor Suid-Afrika Uit Die Nederlandse Tyd, 1652 1806 (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Karel Schoeman
R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Schoeman het nie net elke teks in Afrikaans vertaal nie, maar voorsien dit ook van onontbeerlike voetnotas en insiggewende redakteursnotas waarin konteks, geskiedenis en betekenisverklarings gegee word. Schoeman het hom veral toegespits op tekste van plaaslike inwoners en boorlinge, eerder as die van besoekers of reisigers, en wys in sy voorwoord daarop dat hierdie bloemlesing dus die vroegste geskrewe letterkunde van Suid-Afrika bevat. Die tekste (telkens deur Schoeman in Afrikaans vertaal) gee 'n beeld van die Nederlandse koloniale tydperk in Suid-Afrika.

British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914 - A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources (Paperback): Mahmud Modibbo Tukur British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914 - A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources (Paperback)
Mahmud Modibbo Tukur
R1,246 R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Save R89 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and, contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule", or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored the health and welfare of the people in famines and health epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking access to western education for the masses in most parts of northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today.With an Introduction by Prof. Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

One race, the human race, now! (Paperback): Neil Wright One race, the human race, now! (Paperback)
Neil Wright
R269 R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

“How did we move from the inspiring moments of Nelson Mandela’s release after 27 years of incarceration, and the euphoria of our first democratic elections in 1994, to State Capture and the disaster of Jacob Zuma’s reign – a controversial President with over 800 charges of corruption pending? More importantly, what can we as a nation do about it? These are big issues – but Neil Wright does not pull any punches in bringing them out in the open and is not shy to give his opinions and possible solutions. His core message is that for true transformation to happen, it has to happen from the inside out, not imposed from the top down. By embracing the concept of “One Race, the Human Race, Now!” South Africans have the chance to emerge from present challenges and finally shake off the shadow of our divided past.”

From protest to challenge - Nadir and resurgence 1964 - 1975 (Paperback): Thomas G. Karis, Gail M. Gerhart, Clive L. Glaser From protest to challenge - Nadir and resurgence 1964 - 1975 (Paperback)
Thomas G. Karis, Gail M. Gerhart, Clive L. Glaser
R495 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R108 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
Ramesses, Loved by Ptah - The History of a Colossal Royal Statue (Paperback): Susanna Thomas Ramesses, Loved by Ptah - The History of a Colossal Royal Statue (Paperback)
Susanna Thomas
R708 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R64 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
History of South Africa - 1902 to the Present (Paperback): Thula Simpson History of South Africa - 1902 to the Present (Paperback)
Thula Simpson
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi, Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson's history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to 'New Dawn'. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of sport; the nation's economic travails; and painful pandemics, from the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.

Blessed of God; a Christian Mission Couple's Journey (Paperback): Manuel Evans Blessed of God; a Christian Mission Couple's Journey (Paperback)
Manuel Evans
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is more than family history. It will open your eyes to how the British subjugated their colonies and Christian missions were used to promote British trade. It also deals with the fallouts from the clash between Christianity and local (Igbo) customs. It derives from the handwritten personal account of one of the early Nigerian Christian missionaries and explains some of these and more. Feed your curiosity!

My own liberator (Paperback): Dikgang Moseneke My own liberator (Paperback)
Dikgang Moseneke
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In My Own Liberator, Dikgang Moseneke pays homage to the many people and places that have helped to define and shape him. In tracing his ancestry, the influence on both his maternal and paternal sides is evident in the values they imbued in their children - the importance of family, the value of hard work and education, an uncompromising moral code, compassion for those less fortunate and unflinching refusal to accept an unjust political regime or acknowledge its oppressive laws. As a young activist in the Pan-Africanist Congress, at the tender age of fifteen, Moseneke was arrested, detained and, in 1963, sentenced to ten years on Robben Island for participating in anti-apartheid activities. Physical incarceration, harsh conditions and inhumane treatment could not imprison the political prisoners' minds, however, and for many the Island became a school not only in politics but an opportunity for dedicated study, formal and informal. It set the young Moseneke on a path towards a law degree that would provide the bedrock for a long and fruitful legal career and see him serve his country in the highest court. My Own Liberator charts Moseneke's rise as one of the country's top legal minds, who not only helped to draft the interim constitution, but for fifteen years acted as a guardian of that constitution for all South Africans, helping to make it a living document for the country and its people.

The Mission - A Life for Freedom in South Africa (Paperback): Denis Goldberg The Mission - A Life for Freedom in South Africa (Paperback)
Denis Goldberg
R954 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R422 (44%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Nelson Mandela's comrade in the struggle, Denis Goldberg, spent 22 years in an Apartheid South African political prison from 1963 to 1985. In this memoir, Denis, the perennial optimist, writes about the human side of the often painful road to freedom; about the joy of love and death, human dignity, political passion, comradeship, conflict between comrades...and a very long imprisonment. These memoirs offer the reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades and colleagues. That segregation denied him both the companionship and the counsel of his fellow accused. His was consequently an exceedingly lonely sojourn. But, true to himself and the cause he had espoused from his youth, he bore it with courage and immense dignity.

African Europeans - An Untold Story (Paperback): Olivette Otele African Europeans - An Untold Story (Paperback)
Olivette Otele
R320 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R70 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

As early as the third century, St Maurice-an Egyptian-became leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since, there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as 'Africans' and those called 'Europeans'. Yet Africans and African Europeans are still widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe. Olivette Otele traces a long African European heritage through the lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary. She uncovers a forgotten past, from Emperor Septimius Severus, to enslaved Africans living in Europe during the Renaissance, and all the way to present-day migrants moving to Europe's cities. By exploring a history that has been long overlooked, she sheds light on questions very much alive today-on racism, identity, citizenship, power and resilience. African Europeans is a landmark account of a crucial thread in Europe's complex history.

From protest to challenge (Paperback): Thomas G. Karis, Sheridan Johns, Gail M. Gerhart From protest to challenge (Paperback)
Thomas G. Karis, Sheridan Johns, Gail M. Gerhart
R495 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R108 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From protest to challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict, protest, and political mobilisation by South Africa’s black majority. Completely revised and updated, with the inclusion of photographs and with the previous volumes re-formatted to unify the series, this second edition of From protest to challenge revives the classic work of Thomas Karis and Gwendolen Carter and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of African history, race and ethnicity, identity politics, democratic transitions and conflict resolution. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance and generosity of all those who helped to make this book possible. During two extended periods of pioneering field research by Gwendolen Carter, Thomas Karis, and Sheridan Johns in South Africa in 1963 and 1964 – a period of growing political tension – dozens of South Africans gave them documents or loaned them material to photocopy, often in the hope of preventing irreplaceable records from falling into the hands of the police. In addition, lawyers for the defendants in the 1956–61 treason trial contributed a complete set of the trial transcript and the preliminary examination, as well as a set of virtually all the documents assembled by the defence in preparation for the trial. Added to the materials that the team was able to photocopy from archival collections at several South African universities and at the South African institute of race relations, these months of fieldwork provided the initial foundation for what was to become the first four volumes of From protest to challenge.

The Inheritors - An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning (Paperback): Eve Fairbanks The Inheritors - An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning (Paperback)
Eve Fairbanks
R502 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R128 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Innocence Of Roast Chicken (Paperback, Updated Edition): Jo Ann Richards The Innocence Of Roast Chicken (Paperback, Updated Edition)
Jo Ann Richards 1
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Innocence of Roast Chicken focuses on an Afrikaans/English family in the Eastern Cape and their idyllic life on their grandparents’ farm, seen through the eyes of the little girl, Kate, and the subtle web of relationships that is shattered by a horrifying incident in the mid-1960s.

Scenes from Kate’s early life are juxtaposed with Johannesburg in 1989 when Kate, now married to Joe, a human rights lawyer, stands aside from the general euphoria that is gripping the nation. Her despair, both with her marriage and with the national situation, resolutely returns to a brutal incident one Christmas day when Kate was thrust into an awareness of what lay beneath her blissful childhood.

Beautifully constructed, The Innocence of Roast Chicken is painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing.

The Voice of the People (Paperback): The Voice of the People (Paperback)
R535 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Veldsmanne (Afrikaans, Hardcover): J von Moltke Veldsmanne (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
J von Moltke
R96 Discovery Miles 960 In Stock

Die Angola-Boere was afstammelinge van die Dorslandtrekkers wat vir sewe jaar deur woeste en onbekende lande moes swerf voordat hulle die “beloofde land” bereik het. Hier vertel die ou Boerepioniers op hulle eie, ongekunstelde manier van hulle jagvernuf en krygsvernuf – en hoe hulle in Angola geleef en die land help tem het. Willie Meester (Opperman) vertel van die kaalvoetjagter Larssen (“die knapste olifantjagter wat seker ooit geleef het”), die jagkonings van die Shimborro, die kwaai olifant van Catengue, petaljes met seekoeie, leeujag en slawerny in Angola. Oom Willem Grobler (’n Voortrekker-afstammeling) vertel van oom Paul Venter en sy viool en die veldtogte teen Maranga, Ndoendoema en Huambo. Oom Peet van der Merwe (skrywer van Ons halfeeu in Angola) vertel van die Vlugekspedisie (1906) en die Wenekspedisie (1907).

Nuwe Geskiedenis Van Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Hermann Giliomee, Bernard Mbenga, Bill Nasson Nuwe Geskiedenis Van Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Hermann Giliomee, Bernard Mbenga, Bill Nasson 4
R450 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R63 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Dié nuwe, opgedateerde uitgawe van die topverkoper Nuwe geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika sluit bydraes in deur gerekende nuwe skrywers, wat die storie van ons land en mense reg tot op datum bring.

Onder redaksie van Bill Nasson word nuwe insigte uit die geskiedskrywing en die argeologie ingeweef. Die boek begin by die onstaan van die mensdom, vertel dan die storie van die Khoikhoi, slawe en burgers, die groot migrasies van die pre-koloniale tyd en later trekboere en Voortrekkers. Dan kom die ontdekking van diamante en goud wat die gang van die politiek radikaal verander. Oorlog breek uit in 1899; ook oorloë in 1914 en in 1939 in Europa laat plaaslik nuwe kragte vry. Die boek vertel van segregasie, politieke organisasie en verset, en uiteindelik die oorgang. Hierná val die soeklig op die demokratiese presidentskappe en die onverwagte en onvoorspelbare onlangse geskiedenis, wat staatskaping -- en beurtkrag -- insluit.

Met die nuutste inligting en invalshoeke word die volledige storie van Suid-Afrika en sy mense gesaghebbend dog leesbaar vertel.

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