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Ndabaningi Sithole - A Forgotten Founding Father (Paperback): Tinashe Mushakavanhu Ndabaningi Sithole - A Forgotten Founding Father (Paperback)
Tinashe Mushakavanhu
R450 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Seismic shifts in Zimbabwe's politics since the 2017 demise of Robert Mugabe have generated renewed interest in Ndabaningi Sithole, the first president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU).

Tinashe Mushakavanhu brings this vanguard revolutionary back to center stage through a selection of his important political and literary works.

The result is an important biographical mapping of Sithole's political and intellectual contributions to the liberation of Zimbabwe.

Cleaner's Boy - A Resistance Road To A Liberated Life (Paperback): Patric Tariq Mellet Cleaner's Boy - A Resistance Road To A Liberated Life (Paperback)
Patric Tariq Mellet
R385 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R24 (6%) In Stock

'It is through that choice of taking a resistance road, the one less travelled, that I got to experience a liberated life.'

Patric Tariq Mellet took his first steps on this road at the tender age of 8 and by 13, he engaged in his first consequential and difficult political act. He organised a fast in his high school to protest the killing of anti-apartheid cleric, Imam Abdullah Haron in detention. The match had been lit. Arbitrarily classified as 'white' despite his heritage and family, he was ordered to join the armed forces. He refused as he could not take up arms against his own people. Instead he heeded the call of OR Tambo and joined resistance as an MK in exile.

Mellet's autobiography demonstrates a spirit of innate and unbridled resistance, in small and major ways, that liberated Cleaner's Boy from an unpromising and tragic early life to a life of influence driven by a deep understanding of identity. A freedom fighter, a mystic and always a firebrand.

Eric Molobi - A Legacy of Resolute Leadership (Paperback): Gaongalelwe Tiro Eric Molobi - A Legacy of Resolute Leadership (Paperback)
Gaongalelwe Tiro
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Eric Molobi: A Legacy of Resolute Leadership reflects on the life of a man who helped shape South Africa’s transformation with quiet determination and unwavering resolve. From his early activism in the Black Consciousness Movement to his imprisonment on Robben Island a longside Nelson Mandela, Molobi’s journey was defined by his commitment to social justice and empowerment.

Upon his release, Molobi played a crucial role in education during the turbulent 1980s, navigating political repression with strategic foresight. At the end of apartheid, he transitioned into business, championing Black Economic Empowerment – not as a tool for personal gain but as a means to cultivate talent, support socio-economic reconstruction and ensure economic involvement. He served on the boards of major corporations and influenced South Africa’s economic landscape while avoiding the limelight.

Written by acclaimed journa list Gaongalelwe Tiro, this biography explores Molobi’s impact across politics, business and social development. It is essential reading for business leaders, activists, educators and history enthusiasts drawn to stories of resilience and purpose-driven leadership.

Through the institutions, careers and initiatives that he helped to build, Molobi’s legacy continues to shape South Africa’s future.

The Champagne Spy - Israel's Man in Egypt (Paperback): Wolfgang Lotz The Champagne Spy - Israel's Man in Egypt (Paperback)
Wolfgang Lotz
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
God, Guts, and Gallantry - The Faith, Courage, and Accomplishments of Major James Lide Coker (Hardcover): Will Joslin God, Guts, and Gallantry - The Faith, Courage, and Accomplishments of Major James Lide Coker (Hardcover)
Will Joslin
R793 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dennis Brutus - The South African Years (Paperback): Tyrone August Dennis Brutus - The South African Years (Paperback)
Tyrone August
R370 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R28 (8%) In Stock

South African poet and political activist Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) wrote poetry of the most exquisite lyrical beauty and intense power. And through his various political activities, he played a uniquely significant role in mobilising and intensifying opposition to injustice and oppression - initially in South Africa, but later throughout the rest of the world as well. This book focuses on the life of Dennis Brutus in South Africa from his childhood until he went into exile on an exit permit in 1966. It is also an attempt to acknowledge Brutus' literary and political work and, in a sense, to reintroduce Brutus to South Africa. This book places his own voice at the centre of his life story. It is told primarily in his own words - through newspaper and journal articles, tape recordings, interviews, speeches, court records and correspondence. It draws extensively on archival material not yet available in the public domain, as well as on interviews with several people who interacted with Brutus during his early years in South Africa. In particular, it examines his participation in some of the most influential organisations of his time, including the Teachers' League of South Africa, the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement and the Coloured National Convention, the Co-ordinating Committee for International Recognition in Sport, the South African Sports Association and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee, which all campaigned against racism in South African sport. Brutus left behind an important legacy in literature involvement, in community affairs and politics in as well.

Tomboy Bride - A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West (Hardcover): Harriet Fish Backus Tomboy Bride - A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West (Hardcover)
Harriet Fish Backus; Foreword by Houston Pam; Afterword by Robert G. Walton
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Harriet Backus writes about her life as an assayer's wife and true pioneer of the West with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail. Sharing her amusing and often challenging experiences as a new bride in the high San Juan Mountains where the Tomboy Mine operated above Telluride, Colorado, she paints a poignant picture of the people, and the life centered around silver mining where most of the book takes place. It is a skillfully written account from a women's perspective in a rough and tumble mining town that has made this book a classic for women's studies. Harriet's life followed her husband George's career which took them many places beyond the San Juan Mountains including the rugged coast of British Columbia, and the mountainous mining town of Elk City, Idaho and back to Colorado's Leadville. Although both Hattie and George were from the San Francisco bay area where they eventually retired, her heart never quite left the rugged mountain trails of the high San Juans of Colorado.

Frantz Fanon (Paperback): Frantz Fanon (Paperback)
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R270 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Unique from his contemporaries, Frantz Fanon examined the dangers of post-colonial power. His monumental contribution was posing questions and explaining the `curse' which national liberation would become for the developing world. Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon gives insight into the extraordinary thought and ideas of the man hailed as the 20th century's most important revolutionary. The book includes a gripping view on his life, the period he lived in and a selection of his work; also interviews with those who fought with him in the struggle against French colonialism in Algeria and Tunisia. Fanon's daughter, Mireille Fanon, has written the Foreword to Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon, where she explains the continued importance of her father's writings and politics. Dan Watts, editor of the radical newspaper Liberator, in 1967 described Fanon's influence on the revolt of black America: `You're going along thinking all the brothers in these riots are old winos. Nothing could be further from the truth. These cats are ready to die for something. And they know why. They all read. Read a lot. Not one of them hasn't read the Bible... Fanon... You'd better get this book. Every brother on a rooftop can quote Fanon.' The Voices of Liberation series celebrates the lives and writings of African Liberation activists and heroes. By providing access to the thoughts and writings of some of the many men and women who fought for the dismantling of apartheid, this series invites the contemporary reader to engage directly with the rich history of the struggle for democracy, to discover where we come from and to explore how we, too, can choose to shape our destiny.

Intelligence or Espionage? - Memoirs of an Austro-Hungarian Officer 1904-1918 (Hardcover): Clemens Von Walzel Intelligence or Espionage? - Memoirs of an Austro-Hungarian Officer 1904-1918 (Hardcover)
Clemens Von Walzel; Translated by Desmond Avery
R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hercules (Paperback): Scott Bateman Hercules (Paperback)
Scott Bateman
R295 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government around the globe.

First conceived in the 1950s, the US-built Lockheed C-130 Hercules earned its spurs flying difficult and dangerous missions in the Vietnam War before entering service with air forces around the world. Originally designed as transport aircraft, the Hercules has been pressed into service as an aerial tanker, gunship, spyplane, air-sea rescuer and bomber.

Instantly recognisable, it became synonymous with daring special forces missions like the legendary raid in Entebbe in which dozens of hostages were rescued from the clutches of terrorists. In RAF colours it's seen action on every continent on the planet including Antarctica, flying life and death missions in the Falklands, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan and all points in between.

Former RAF Hercules Captain Scott Bateman opens the cockpit to give an action-packed insider’s account of what it’s like to fly this legendary flying machine in peace and war, and at home and abroad, paying tribute to the remarkable men and women who operated this much loved aircraft, and to those comrades in arms who, in doing so, made the ultimate sacrifice.

Creative Leadership - How to Design the 21st-century Organisation (Paperback): Rama Gheerawo Creative Leadership - How to Design the 21st-century Organisation (Paperback)
Rama Gheerawo
R295 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The old, top-down approach to leadership doesn't work any more. What we need is a more flexible, creative approach – one that empowers people to do their best work, rather than tells them to do so.

In Creative Leadership, Rama Gheerawo applies the mind of a design expert to the twenty-first-century organisation. In particular, his book shows how success in the future will increasingly be dependent on a mastery of three basic principles: creativity, clarity and empathy. Drawing on his own experience in leading over 100 design projects with government, business and the third sector, it sets out a blueprint for engagement and success that applies to everything from small enterprises, to large multinationals.

Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society - Volume39 (Hardcover): ATF Press Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society - Volume39 (Hardcover)
ATF Press
R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume focuses on Catholic Church history in Australia by lookimg at certain figures (Archdeacon John McEencroe, Lwesi Harding, Bishop Chalres Henry Davis, Cardonal Gilroy) as well as themes: Catholc Social Justice and parliamentary politics, humanae vitae and Tridentine clericalism, and the emergence of Catholic education offices.

The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to... The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) (Hardcover, New)
T.W. Moody, R.B. McDowell, C. J. Woods
R1,554 Discovery Miles 15 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the two-volume Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. ..written by himself that was edited by his son William, and published at Washington in 1826. It consists mainly of Tone's correspondence, diaries, autobiography, pamphlets, public addresses, and miscellaneous memoranda (both personal and public); it is based on the original MSS if extant or the most reliable printed sources.
Tone's participation in Irish politics in the early 1790s and his presence on the periphery of the ruling circle in revolutionary France from February 1796 to September 1798 would be sufficient to make his writings a major historical source. The literary quality of his writings, diaries, and autobiography enhances their importance. The unique quality of Tone's writings is that they are the production of a gifted and convivial young Irishman who moved widely in intellectual and political circles.
This volume - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly, and the Death of Tone - completes the edition, following the last part of Tone's life, until his death following the abortive Irish uprising of 1798. It includes addenda, corrigenda, an iconography, a bibliography, and a complete index to all three volumes.

I was no. 20832 at Auschwitz (Paperback): Eva Tichauer, Nicki Rensten, Colette Levy I was no. 20832 at Auschwitz (Paperback)
Eva Tichauer, Nicki Rensten, Colette Levy
R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eva Tichauer was born in Berlin at the end of the First World War into a socialist Jewish family. After a happy childhood in a well-off intellectual milieu, the destiny of her family was turned upside-down by the rise of Hitler in 1933. They emigrated to Paris in July of that year, and life started to become difficult. Eva was in her second year of medical studies in 1939 when war was declared, with fatal consequences for her and her family: they sere forced to the Spanish frontier, then returned to Paris to a flat which had been searched by the Gestapo. Eva was then compelled to break off her studies due to a quota system being imposed on Jewish students.

Troep (Afrikaans, Paperback): Bun Booyens Troep (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Bun Booyens
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In Troep! vertel meer as ’n honderd oud-troepe wat hulle onthou van diensplig: om op skool opgeroep te word, te gaan oorlog maak en twee jaar later weer huis toe te kom. Tussenin lê stories van varkpanne, tiekiebokse, twee-komma-viers, boeliebief, die DB, ryloop, pakkies, bosbussies, naweekpas, ratpacks, stof, Buffels, landmyne en skrapnel – en ook herinneringe van vriende, seuns en broers wat nie teruggekom het nie.

Bun Booyens voeg al hierdie stemme saam tot die verhaal van die uitsonderlike dinge wat duisende gewone seuns beleef het. Hierdie stories sal ’n snaar by veterane roer, en hul naastes help om te verstaan watter dinge hierdie mense vandag steeds met hulle saamdra – dit wat hulle onthou, maar ook dit wat hulle nie kan vergeet nie.

Embracing Hope - On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life (Paperback): Viktor E. Frankl Embracing Hope - On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
Viktor E. Frankl; Translated by Joelle Young
R295 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R45 (15%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

An inspirational new collection on turning tragedy into triumph by Holocaust survivor and multi-million copy bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning.

During his lifetime, world renowned psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl had an unshakably optimistic outlook on life. He believed that regardless of circumstance, we can all find meaning and fulfilment in our lives, even in the face of great adversity.

But how much influence do we have on shaping our own lives? How do we seize opportunities and create a meaningful life? And in doing so, can we still respect the dignity of others and tolerate all views?

Published in English for the first time, Embracing Hope shows that by exercising our freedoms, we have a duty and responsibility to ourselves, to others and to the world around us. This collection of timeless lessons offers hope and consolation, admonition and warning, and reveals how to turn tragedy into triumph and lead a fulfilled, purposeful life.

Vosburg To Washington (Paperback): Franklin Sonn Vosburg To Washington (Paperback)
Franklin Sonn
R320 R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Save R31 (10%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Dr Franklin Sonn is a struggle icon, diplomat, educationalist and business leader.

He was born in the Vosburg district of Victoria West. As a civil rights campaigner, he was arrested for leading a protest march in 1989. He later served as rector of the (Cape) Peninsula Technikon and as head of the Cape Teachers' Professional Association. He was a good friend and confidant of Nelson Mandela.

In 1995, Madiba asked him to be South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, USA. Sonn celebrated his 85th birthday on 11 October 2024.

The Nine - The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany (Paperback): Gwen Strauss The Nine - The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany (Paperback)
Gwen Strauss
R492 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Robert E. Lee and Me - A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause (Paperback): Ty Seidule Robert E. Lee and Me - A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause (Paperback)
Ty Seidule
R468 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron Chernow In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy--and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy--that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans--and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. Through the arc of Seidule's own life, as well as the culture that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies--and how they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day. Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the deeply-held legends and myths of the Confederacy--and provides a surprising interpretation of essential truths that our country still has a difficult time articulating and accepting.

Dancing on a Powder Keg - The Intimate Voice of a Young Mother and Author, Her Letters Composed in the Lengthening Shadow of... Dancing on a Powder Keg - The Intimate Voice of a Young Mother and Author, Her Letters Composed in the Lengthening Shadow of the Third Reich; Her Poems from the Theresienstadt Ghetto. (Hardcover)
Ilse Weber; Translated by Michal Schwartz
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hitler (Hardcover): Michael Lynch Hitler (Hardcover)
Michael Lynch
R3,892 Discovery Miles 38 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a subject of perennial fascination.

Balancing narrative and analysis, this biography employs a chronological approach to describe the main features of Hitler s career. Set against the background of developments in Germany and Europe during his lifetime, the text tells the extraordinary story of how an Austrian layabout rose to become F hrer of the Third Reich.

The chapters incorporate into their narrative the major debates surrounding Hitler s ideas, behaviour and historical significance. Particular attention is paid to his experience as a soldier in 1914 -18 and to the reasons why his original left-wing sympathies transmuted into Nazism. Arguments over the real character of Hitler s dictatorship are analysed and a measured assessment is offered on the disputed issues of how far Hitler initiated the Third Reich s domestic and foreign policies himself and to what extent he was controlled by events. His destructive leadership of wartime Germany is now a subject of close scrutiny among historians and the book s final chapters deal with this theme and offer a set of reflections on Hitler s relationship with the German people and his legacy to the German nation.

Michael Lynch provides a balanced guide to this most difficult of figures that will be enlightening for students and general readers alike

Honoring Anna - Book Ii: the Winds of Time (Paperback): Douglas Hoff Honoring Anna - Book Ii: the Winds of Time (Paperback)
Douglas Hoff
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
James Garfield and the Civil War - For Ohio and the Union (Paperback): Daniel J Vermilya James Garfield and the Civil War - For Ohio and the Union (Paperback)
Daniel J Vermilya
R669 R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
George Washington's 1790 Grand Tour of Long Island (Paperback): Dr Joanne S Grasso George Washington's 1790 Grand Tour of Long Island (Paperback)
Dr Joanne S Grasso
R564 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Inspiring Life of Texan Hector P. Garcia (Paperback): Cecilia Garcia Akers The Inspiring Life of Texan Hector P. Garcia (Paperback)
Cecilia Garcia Akers
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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