Prester John was a postulated Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. Wikipedia
Doyle: A Study in Scarlet; Mansfield: The Garden Party; At the Bay; Life of Ma Parker;Wilde: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Sphinx without a secret; The Model Millionaire
The Rhodesian Special Air Service, one of the most formidable fighting forces in the world, operated almost exclusively across the borders during the long bitter bush war,undertaking deep-penetration missions against insurgents being harbored inside neighboring Mozambique and Zambia
The Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency War 1962-1980; The Counter-Insurgency War in Southwest Africa 1966-1989; The First Angolan Civil War 1975-1991; The Mozambican Insurgency 1975-1992; The Second Angolan Civil War 1992-1995, etc
For millions of readers worldwide, Alan Paton's books have described life in contemporary South Africa. Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful revolves around the everyday experiences of a group of men and women whose lives reflect the human costs of maintaining a racially divided society. Writing at the peak of his powers, Paton delivers again a masterpiece.
What questions would you ask if you had a chance to meet Raymond Ackerman, Donald Gordon, Adrian Gore, Koos Bekker, Herman Mashaba or Pam Golding? What would you want to know about how they started out; how the spark of an idea kindled into an empire? What drove them to become the success they are today?Written by some of South Africa's leading journalists, writers and academics, and edited by Moky Makura, whose 2008 book Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs shed much-welcomed light on entrepreneurs on the continent, these are the stories of how the country's top businesses were created, as told by the people who created them.
Spanning more than a millennium, this unique study follows the development, expansion, and impact of the world's largest religion on the European continent Beginning with the initial transmission of Jesus's teaching throughout the Roman world, this expansive history follows the astounding development of Christianity within Europe. From the religion's earliest days through the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, its development in the scientific age of the 17th and 18th centuries on, and its place in the modern world, Christianity's role in transforming and shaping the cultural, social, political, and intellectual progress of the continent is traced. The accessible and informative narrative is complemented by boxed texts highlighting key events and concepts, such as monastic life, the development of icons, the impact of Darwin's "The Origin of Species," the rise of prophecy, and the influence of psychology.
Colin Eglin was at the front-line of the making of South African history for the second half of the 20th Century. He served in parliament through the terms of seven successive prime ministers and presidents. This title recalls an active life well lived, from childhood in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s to fighting his way through Italy.
Eerste liefde, jaloesie, hebsug en die mens se stryd teen die elemente om sy voortbestaan, word in hierdie novelle van C.M. van den Heever tot 'n spannende klimaks gedryf. Dit is hoogsomer en tyd om die koring te oes op Oom Tom se plaas voor die hael dit afslaan. Die plaas het eers aan sy voorsate behoort, maar nou besit hy 'n deel, sy broer Frans 'n deel en 'n buitestaander, Faan, 'n ander deel. Faan het die stuk grond gekoop van Tom se ander broer wat uitgeboer het. Faan se seun, Hannes, het 'n ogie op Tom se pragtige sewentienjariger dogter, Linda. Maar toe kom die swerwer-koringsnyer, Wynand, op die plaas aan en Tom huur hom summier om met die koring-oes te help. Linda raak verlief op hierdie stil, hardwerkende swerwer met die onbekende verlede en dit dryf Hannes tot raserny. Intussen probeer Tom sy broer, Frans, uit 'n finansiele verknorsing help, terwyl Faan sy oog op Frans se grond het, indien Frans nie sy skuld kan delg nie.
At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps and 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex. Criminal syndicates from Buenos Aires to London and from Cape Town to New York were able to organise the seduction or rape of women in under-developed parts of Europe and their 'export' as prostitutes to meet an insatiable demand for sexual services. For three turbulent decades before the First World War, Joseph Silver - brothel-owner, pimp and trafficker in women on four continents - was central to this hidden world of betrayal, intrigue, lust and sexual slavery. Burglar, gun-runner, jewel-thief, rapist, safe-cracker and sodomist, Silver's notoriety was captured in the most confidential correspondence of a dozen countries in the western world. What those in charge of law-enforcement agencies kept to themselves, however, was how their officers had attempted to use Silver as an informer to infiltrate syndicates built on 'vice', only to have him outwit them as he moved in the dangerous space between police and prostitutes. A disturbed adolescent, youthful predator and adult misogynist driven by dark biblical and medieval obsessions, Silver's mental universe remained largely hidden from his family, other gangsters and police handlers. In this first reconstruction of the life of a dangerous psychopath, Charles van Onselen situates the private life of one man amidst the demi-monde of the Atlantic world to identify the most infamous serial killer of all time - for Joseph Silver's darkest secret of all lay in London, in Whitechapel, in the autumn of 1888.
Worst journeys is an anthology of travel disasters that have befallen some of the world's best-known writers, from the past to the present. The anthology will feature, among others, authors as diverse as Sol Plaatje, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Charles Bosman, Tim Couzens, John Matshikiza, Denise Slabbert, Don Mattera, and even Mahatma Gandhi. From the hilarious accounts of Trinity Crimp's mampoer-tasting exploits, to the tragedy of the Birkenhead and flight SA295, to the holidays that turned into nightmares, these stories are uniquely South African in flavour. Each and every one will grip and enthral the reader.
A biography of Pik Botha, one of South Africa’s most colourful public figures, and at a stage the longest serving Foreign Minister in the world.This biography reads like a novel: exciting, moving and humorous.
Mike and Phoebe, the die hard Rhodie and the hard-nosed hooker, meet in the squalor of Beira. They know instinctively that they are right for one another, but with so many outside forces playing on their lives, will their love ever be requited? Cyclone Blues - set in present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique, both still suffering from the aftermath of civil war - is the story of love across the color bar, murder, vengeance and forgiveness. The plot whirls with surprises and revelations and is used as a means of investigating the more profound matters of interracial relations and attitudes and the problems of a troubled southern Africa. A beautiful love story and an historical tour de force.
The South African government's policy and practice of forcing communities to move from one area to another--in some cases, hundreds of kilometers apart--has resulted in untold misery for thousands of people over the years. This collection of essays by a distinguished group of contributors examines the government's past and present policies and practice of forced removal. Contributors include Colin Bundy, Aninka Claasens, Geoff Budlender, Michael Robertson, Alan Dodson, Catherine O'Regan, and Dave Unterhalter.
