Worst Journeys: An Anthology of South African travel disasters -Pat Hopkins & Bridget Hilton-Barber
R150,00
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.
Product code: 9781770071018
The Boer War - Thomas Pakenham
R200,00
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, ‘no end of a lesson’. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold-mine, the author has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel, and a history that in scholarship, breadth and impact will endure for many years.
Product code: 9780349104669
Ali: The Life of Ali Bacher - Rodney Hartman
R150,00
Ali Bacher has been described at the best-known cricket official in the world and, as such, has attracted as much admiration as opprobrium. He is considered to be the most influential personality in the history of South African cricket. It is a story that is told with pace and is not short on colour. It includes the views of people most relevant to the issues being covered, by way of example: those ANC officials who viewed Ali Bacher as an enemy, agreed to engage him in clandestine meetings and then embraced him as a comrade; insiders in and around SA cricket who have dealt with him on subjects ranging from the masterminding of Rebel cricket tours in the 1980s to dealing with the Match Fixing scandal of the 1990s; and what went into organising the biggest Cricket World Cup of all in South Africa in Feb-March 2003. It is a story that covers his more than four decades in the forefront of SA cricket, including the most remarkable years in the history of South Africa. It will draw on this historical detail but will strongly project as a story of modern-day cricket challenges.
Product code: 9780670047963
Wilson: The Authorised Life of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx - Philip Ziegler
Biografie/Biographies/ Memoirs, History/Geskiedenis, Politics & Current Affairs, Used & Affordable Books
R260,00
Harold Wilson was Prime Minister for almost eight years - the longest period spent in office this century until Mrs Thatcher. He fought five general elections and won four. While he was at Number Ten, Wilson held together the unruly elements of Left and Right in a Parliamentary party often at odds with itself, challenged the power of the trade unions, faced repeated economic crises and a devaluation, was abandoned by his own Cabinet and had to concede defeat. His period in office was one of the most momentous and controversial of the country's post-war history. His resignation took almost everyone by surprise and rumours still circulate about its cause. Philip Ziegler is the first historian to have access to Harold Wilson's personal archive, including much official documentation that will not become available for a decade or more. Although he has the blessing of his subject,
Product code: 9780297812760
Orient Express: - E H Cookridge
R120,00
The Life and times of the World's Most famous Train
Product code: 0713912715
The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress - Heidi Holland
R60,00
South Africa - The fight for freedom
Product code: 9780586206133
Pik Botha and his times - Theresa Papenfus
R260,00
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.
Product code: 9781920188344
Insurgent Diplomat: Civil Talks or Civil War - Aziz Pahad
R200,00
Long before the official negotiations to end apartheid, there were secret discussions that paved the way for dialogue between the African National Congress and the South African government. Aziz Pahad played a key role in these discussions, and in this book he provides the first account of them from the ANC’s perspective.Pahad recounts his early years in South Africa, which informed his political ideology, as well as his time in exile in London. He gives insights into the leadership of 00inspirational figures, such as Yusuf Dadoo, Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki, and describes the central role played by the ANC in rescuing the country from the brink of disaster. There are also important lessons for governments still resorting to military aggression to resolve conflicts by showing that honesty, mutual understanding and compromise are essential to bringing an end to instability.
Product code: 9780143538851
Methods of Barbarism? - S B Spies
R400,00
Roberts and Kitchener and Civilians in the Boer Republics, January 1900-May 1902
Product code: 9781868421039
The Long March - Ian Liebenberg, Fiona Lortan, Bobby Nel, Gert van der Westhuizen
R250,00
The story of the struggle for liberation in south Africa
Product code: 9780798632379
Cyclone Blues - Chris Cocks
R160,00
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.
Product code: 9780620254380
No Place to rest: Forced removals and the Law in South Africa - ed Christina Murray & Catherine O'Regan
R1090,00
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.
Product code: 9780195705805
Stones against the mirror - Hugh Lewin
R150,00
A brave and moving memoir which is both a family history and a story of friendship and betrayal between people caught up in the wrenching forces of the South African Struggle. It is framed as a journey between two railway stations. The departure is from Park station Johannesburg and the destination is York station in Britain. It is an actual journey and the arrival at York is a real event, but it is also a symbolic journey in which Lewin describes his progress towards a meeting with Adrian Leftwich, the man who betrayed him to the Security Police in 1964. Park station is the point of departure because it was the site in 1964 of the station bomb planted by John Harris who was associated with the cell in which Lewin operated. The book therefore has a quest structure. After 40 years, Lewin is determined to meet with his long-term friend Leftwich both to find out what happened at his trial and to deal with the emotions of anger and bitterness that have assailed him ever since. Lewin’s subject is the culpability of betrayal.
Product code: 9781415201480
Sunset at midday - Govan Mbeki
R350,00
"This book compels us to revisit our history and critically assess the role of the ANC in the liberation of our country."Â Cyril Ramaphosa
Product code: 9781875048403
Commando: Of Horses and Men - Deneys Reitz
R350,00
A Boer Journal of the Boer War & The Aftermath of War
Product code: 9780956774552
Humphrey Gibbs Beleaguered Governor Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69 - Alan Megahey
Humphrey Gibbs was born into an Edwardian upper-class family in 1902. After Eton and Cambridge he emigrated in 1928 to Southern Africa, eventually deciding to farm in Southern Rhodesia. He was a prominent churchman, and was active in organizing the country's farmers. He promoted conservation before it was fashionable to do so. A reluctant MP, he welcomed the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and supported the cause of multiracialism. Gibbs became Governor of Southern Rhodesia in 1959, and six years later was faced with the problem of UDI. He remained at Government House and was a conduit between the British government and the rebel regime, stepping down only after the country declared itself a republic. In retirement he watched civil war ravage the country he loved and he welcomed its evolution into Zimbabwe. He left his farm only when the dissident troubles in Matabeleland became too severe. His funeral took place in Harare Catherdral in November 1990.
Product code: 9780333721582
Black and White - Blagden Chambers
R350,00
The story of a massacre and its aftermath.
Product code: 9780947319014
Sam Jonah and the Remaking of Ashanti - A A Taylor
R250,00
Sam Jonah and the remaking of Ashanti recounts the inspirational life of one of Africa's most prominent black businessmen. From working underground as a shovel boy to his appointment as the CEO of the trailblazing African gold mining company, Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Sam Jonah's determination to surmount every obstacle in a career strewn with hurdles makes for compelling reading. Frenzied deals, boardroom cliffhangers, political scandal and private battles punctuate this unique account of the challenges of conducting 'First World' business in the 'Third World'. Through Jonah's corporate leadership we explore the paradox that a continent so richly endowed with gold and other minerals should find itself in such dire poverty. It is a hopeful story about breaking the confines of one's circumstances, not just for Africans but for individuals the world over.
Product code: 9781770100244
A Diplomat's Story: Apartheid and Beyond 1969-1998 - Pieter Wolvaardt
R200,00
Essential reading for every South African
Product code: 9781919854151
Battle Cries - James Inglis
R150,00
The most stirring speeches from history's greatest warriors, activists, and revolutionaries.
Product code: 9781435110908
Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary - Stephen Clingman
R260,00
Born into an eminent Afrikaner family, Bram Fischer defended Mandela and Sisulu at the Rivonia trial and was imprisoned himself for his membership of the Communist Party. "It is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of modern South African History." Thomas G Karis
Product code: 9780864863188
Armed and Dangerous: From undercover struggle to freedom - Ronnie Kasrils
R250,00
During the years of apartheid rule in South Africa, the auhtor was actively involved with the banned ANC, its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe and the South African Communist Party. Hunted by the security police, he was described by them as "Armed and dangerous." This is his account of the tense and dramatic years of the liberation struggle followed by his role in the first ten years of a democratic South Africa in which he first served as Deputy Defence Minister (1994-1999) and then as Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry (1999-2004).Originally published in 1993, Kasrils has added eight new chapters and many new photographs for this updated edition.
Product code: 9781868420636
The Corner House: The Early History of Johannesburg - A P Cartwright
R400,00
Purnell & Sons (SA) (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town, Johannesburg, 1965. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Signed copy. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 293 pages (complete). A very smart copy. The dustjacket is slightly worn and scuffed. It is intact and sure. The boards are very handsome and smart. The contents are as new throughout.
Product code: PS001
Multistan: A Way out of the South African Dilemma - Malherbe Paul N
R200,00
David Phillip. Condition: Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. Clean copy in original cloth with dustwrapper. . . . . Books ship from South Africa
Product code: dp001
Taken at the Flood: The story of Harry Struben - Roy Struben
R150,00
 Longmans, Cape Town, 1968. Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. NEAR-FINE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.
Product code: long61647
The Indian South Africans - Arkin AJ, Magyar KP, Pillay GJ
R250,00
 Owen Burgess Publishers, Pinetown, South Africa, 1989. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. boards are slightlyshelf rubbed and a bit edge worn. mild tanning. light marks. well bound. good copy
Product code: 9780947446116
Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede - Leon Wessels
R160,00
In die boek Some Afrikaners Revisited van David Goldblatt, is daar 'n foto van 'n berede jong Afrikaner, geneem by 'n Nasionale Party-viering in 1964. Daardie jong man was in 1990 die eerste lid van die NP-regering wat verskoning vir apartheid gevra het, en in November 2009 het hy uitgetree as Menseregtekommissaris. Watter pad het hom tot hier gelei? En watter pad het Suid-Afrika in dieselfde tyd geloop? Wessels vertel pakkend van die groot politieke veranderings wat hy beleef het, as minister in die laaste apartheidskabinet, as grondwetonderhandelaar en menseregte-kommissaris. Maar dis 'n groter verhaal wat hy vertel. "Dit maak my vies wanneer apartheid die skuld kry vir alles wat skeef loop," se hy. "Dit maak my net so vies wanneer mense maak asof apartheid geen impak het op hedendaagse vraagstukke nie." Met sy vertrekpunt dat die nuwe Suid-Afrika se grondwet op die aandrang van Nelson Mandela by Vereeninging onderteken is, waar ook die Vrede onderteken is wat die Unie tot stand gebring het, vra hy die vraag hoe ver ons op die weg van vereniging gevorder het. Hy beantwoord dit aan die hand van vyf groot temas: die regstaat, menseregte, rassisme, versoening, en armoede. Wessels, wat 'n ver pad gekom het sedert sy berede dae, praat oorredend en met ontwapenende eerlikheid oor nasionale en eie dwalings.
Product code: 9781415201213
Emma en Nella (Roman) - Ekm Dido
R95,00
Emma maak 'n lewe vir haar en haar optelkind Nella in Blackheath. Lank gelede sou sy met Gert trou, maar sy pa laat hom uit die kerk storm en die mislukte troudag maak haar hard en onverskrokke. Daar is nie keer aan haar toe sy besluit om later vir Nella aan te neem nie – 'n baba met Fetale Alkoholsindroom wat sy langs 'n snelweg kry. Nou is Nella twaalf en met tik deurmekaar. Maar tussen Nella en die afgrond staan Emma. Na 'n hellevaart waarin die kind vir sewe dae spoorloos verdwyn het, neem Emma en Gert haar na 'n reabilitasiesentrum in Port Elisabeth. Op pad terug kom Gert se verlede aan die lig en slaan Emma se verhaal 'n heel nuwe koers in.
Product code: 9781415201206
More Drops: Mystery, Mercy, Messiology (Paperback) - George Verwer
R150,00
This new book by George Verwer reflects his heart and continuing passion for mission, for his fellow believers, and for God's grace and mercy to be shown and experienced throughout the world. George bears his heart in his usual honest way, sharing life lessons, learned over many years, about the challenges and complexities of life and how easy it is to get into difficulty. Each of the 14 chapters cover valid, standalone topics, covering George's thoughts on: * unity * paradox * mission * mistakes * mercy * leadership
Product code: 9781782594871
Why Pro-life? - Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers - Randy Alcorn
R95,00
This completely revised and updated edition of "Why Pro-Life?" offers factual answers to the central issues of the abortion debate in a concise, non-abrasive way. Infused with grace and compassion, and grounded in medical science and psychological studies, Randy Alcorn presents a solid case for defending both unborn children and their mothers.Chapters such as, "What Makes a Human Life 'Meaningful, '" "Is Abortion Really a Women's Rights Issue," and "How Can I Help Unborn Babies and Their Mothers" help readers to look at the many sides of this polarizing issue. For those on the fence in the midst of the abortion debate, this book will be a great resource as it clearly and thoroughly examines the pro-life position. For those who are pro-life already, this book is an encouragement to be intelligently and graciously informed.
Smeul: Drie Vroue, Een Kombuis - Riana Scheepers, Marietjie Koekemoer en Leonie Scholtz
R350,00
Braaisnoek op die kole, swartmossels met ‘n lekker brosbrood, ontbeende gevulde skaapkop, sampioenrisotto, nastergalkaaskoek, beesstertsop met ’n Thaise kinkel en oondgebakte kwartels is net ‘n paar van die verruklike resepte uit Smeul – die resultaat van drie vroue, laatnagkuiers in die kombuis en hul gunsteling resepte.
Product code: 9780799382754
Nie vir ma's nie - 'n Kookboek vir pa's en kinders - Karin Behm-Joubert en Daleen van der Linde
R295,00
Met die boek word ma’s tydelik uit die kombuis verban, want jou wederhelf en kinders is van plan om jou te bederf met heerlike kos wat hulle sonder hulp of te veel moeite voorberei het. Nie vir Ma’s nie se resepte is maklik, beproef en het stap-vir-stap aanwysings wat enige groentjie gemaklik sal laat in die kombuis. Die boek verskaf ook die nodige omskakelingstabelle en wenke en laat kinders toe om meer te leer oor die doel van kombuistoerusting. Hierdie boek bevat heerlike resepte vir ontbyte, ligte etes, voorgeregte, kitskos, aandetes, bykosse, braai disse, nageregte, teetyd-versnaperinge en smulgoed vir smulpape. Buiten heerlike resepte, is daar ook ‘n hele hoop wenke wat kosmaak sommer kinderspeletjies maak.
Product code: 9780799384550
Ek! Ek! Ek! Herken en hanteer narsiste - Riette Rust
R285,00
Hy is aantreklik, sjarmant en intelligent. Hy dra jou op die hande en julle hang aan mekaar se lippe. Maar dan begin dinge verander. Hy vereis voltyds aandag, goedkeuring en bewondering. Vir jou gevoelens en behoeftes voel hy vere. Trouens, hy beheer jou ten volle. Hy het selfs jou drome by die venster uitgegooi. Niks is ooit sy skuld nie en hy sê ook nie hy is jammer nie. Waag jy dit om hom teen te gaan, of te kritiseer, gooi hy ’n woedebui wat ’n tweejarige sal laat skaamkry.Riette Rust ondersoek die narsisme-epidemie; hoe om narsiste te herken en te hanteer. Dit sluit in vroeë waarskuwingstekens, al die eienskappe, asook ’n kontrolelys, sodat jy kan kyk of jy met ’n narsis te doen het. Of dalk self een is.
Product code: 9780799367447
Tell my sons - Lt Col Mark M Weber
R120,00
At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the next two years, he would fight a desperate battle he wasn’t trained for, with his wife and boys as his reluctant but willing fighting force.When Weber realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him—about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and viewing life as a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration.
Product code: 9780345549440
The Turk who loved Apples - Matt Gross
R100,00
While writing his celebrated "Frugal Traveler" column for the New York Times, Matt Gross began to feel hemmed in by the focus on what he thought of as "traveling on the cheap at all costs." When his editor offered him the opportunity to do something less structured, the "Getting Lost" series was born—a more immersive form of travel that allowed Gross to "lose his way all over the globe," from developing-world megalopolises to venerable European capitals, from American sprawl to Asian archipelagos.
Product code: 978006821158
Blood Brothers - Ernst Haffner
R199,00
Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of the Second World War. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.
Product code: 9781846558641
One Hundred and Four Horses : A Family Forced to Run. - Mandy Retzlaff
R195,00
'A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belongs to the crowd on your doorstep. Then the drums begin to beat.' As the land invasions gather pace, the Retzlaffs begin an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facing eviction after eviction, trying to save the group of animals with whom they feel a deep and enduring bond - the horses. When their neighbours flee to New Zealand, the Retzlaffs promise to look after their horses, and making similar promises to other farmers along their journey, not knowing whether they will be able to feed or save them, they amass an astonishing herd of over 300 animals. But the final journey to freedom will be arduous, and they can take only 104 horses. Each with a different personality and story, it is not just the family who rescue the horses, but the horses who rescue the family. Grey, the silver gelding: the leader. Brutus, the untamed colt. Princess, the temperamental mare. O
Product code: 9780007477562